MadMonkey: I had many problems this morning before work (around 6:30AM Eastern US) but I visited the site a few times through the day during breaks at work and had no problems, and haven't had any problems all evening.

Fencer, I notice that the BKRs for teams in the site Team Tournaments are still the average BKRs of all the members of the teams.

Is that what you intended? I just wondered, now that teams do get BKRs from team vs. team challenges.

Personally, I think I'd like the site Team Tournaments to reflect the same BKR as the team vs. team ones.

Fencer, I'm curious, when was the last time there was no one at Brainking? (Not meaning times when there was a problem with the site, of course.)

I'm guessing it was sometime in 2003.

Just wondered if that was a statistic you had.

The Usurper: Highlighting the area where the text would be, should at least show the message. Not the best solution, but it's SOMEthing. (Highlighting it as though you are going to copy and paste it)

Pbarb2: I believe, once you sign up, nothing changes the team in that Team Tourney. You will need to exit the tournament and get someone else to join the team. I'm not sure though, maybe the person can still play, since you already signed up before they became a pawn.

Pbarb2: Just click "edit" next to your name on the team. Change yourself to Captain.

Czuch Czuckers: Some of them are pretty unique

emmett: Sorry about the misunderstanding. I was addressing my comment towards Purple, as he says it can't be used with WebTV. I used WebTV for years until recently, and used PayPal all the time.

Eriisa:

Purple: I don't understand why you say paypal can't be used. I think I will hook my webtv back up this afternoon and check it out. I'll buy some brains with it or something. (No comments!, lol)

Purple: Did this change recently??? When I had WebTV I used PayPal ALL the time.

Fencer: I think if we get more frequent, small batches of Team Tournaments it will come closer to pleasing everyone. As we all know, it is impossible to please everyone. Personally, I have no complaints about this batch!

Team Tournaments have been posted.

coan.net: I agree! The last batch KILLED me... I had more games than I could handle! A monthly or quarterly revolving list would be great.. split them up so there's an equal amount that would start each time..

Mmmm... true...

Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing the bad guesses stay highlighted on the board, in some way.

coan.net: I like being able to choose how many lines of game notation are shown, too. However, I wish there was a way in that area to choose to show the entire game notation.

I always have the game notation hidden. However, there are some games where I find it necessary, and I turn it on to see, then Hide it again. The problem is, there are also games where if I'm going to look at the game notation, I need to see the whole thing. (Frog Finder comes to mind, since there is no other way to remember what squares you have "guessed" and been wrong. MOST games however, when I check the game notation, I am only interested in the last one or two entries. SO, when I come to Frog Finder, I have to go to Settings and change it to show the entire game notation, then go back to the game. THEN go back to settings and change it back to showing 2 lines.) SO, I would like to have a way right in the game notation area, to switch back and forth between ALL entries and 2 entries.

TexasToest: Fencer told us Global Moderators when he was implementing this, that the HTML validator only allows tags linking to YouTube. Unless this has changed since he told us about it.

Family Man: it was probably part of a multi game match. Or it was the first move...

Dolittle: The other possibility is that earlier in the day, they already "timed out" on other games and the vacation day has already been taken. (At midnite Czech time). So of course an additional vacation day isn't taken for each individual game.

rod03801: Ahh. So they didn't ACTUALLY time out then? I misunderstood ya. I don't know then.

Dolittle: Well, if they timed out, they didn't use a vacation day. Otherwise, if they hadn't timed out, a vacation day would have been used. Unless I'm misunderstanding you.

BIG BAD WOLF: THank you Thank you Thank you!!! that worked.

pauloaguia: Maybe it's just BBW's style, because I saw him mention it too. It seems to slow down my cursor in these text boxes too.
Please give us a way to shut it off!

pauloaguia: Ahh.. it probably matters which style you use. The style I use has the links starting right at the top of the page where the dragon flies. Every single one it crosses, stops working after it crosses it.

I don't think I like the dragon! I thought it was neat the first time I saw it. (Of course, I at first thought I was losing my mind, lol) But yeah, it seems to stop the links it crosses from working. I DEFINITELY don't like it on the game pages! Maybe if it was only on the log-in page, or AT MOST the "Main Page".

ZZZ0100: Not all rumors are necessarily true. The only potential problem was the "new look" not working with webtv. Fencer has been working on a webtv-friendly "skin" for the new look so that it will still be viewable by webtv users. So, don't be so negative!

Press_Play: Ahh.. good luck then. I forgot that javascript was only for paying members. If you ever do become a paying member and are still a MSNTV2 user, remember to shut off javascript. (Though, it might not cripple the "2" model like it does the original MsnTV)

Press_Play: The problem is actually that you probably have java script turned on. Go to your Settings page, then click on the Java scrip tab, and make sure nothing is checked. Shut it all off. I bet your problems will disappear then.

WellyWales: The rules should be coming soon..

1's through 6's : the total of these particular dice in your "hand"

3 of a kind: total of dice in your hand
4 of a kind: total of dice in your hand
Full House : 25 points
Small Straight: 30 points
Large Straight: 40 points
5 of a kind: 50 points
Chance: total of dice in your hand

I think I got that right!

emmett: If it is a red date, it means you are no longer listed in the rankings. (You may have the #1 BKR, but you don't show up on the ranking charts!)

Records of games never delete.

Fencer: Halma, please!!! (both versions if possible, but at least 8x8)

And I just checked, you can see what blocked people are doing, by looking at your blocked list.

I do notice that it says at the top of the blocked users list that blocking someone keeps them from adding you to their Friends list, but this is not true. When I noticed they had blocked me I successfully added them to my Friends list.

Czuch Czuckers: Correct, you can NOT see someone who has you blocked on your Online Opponents List. I discovered that recently. (ME on someone's blocked user list???? I was shocked! lol)

Yes, you can see those people in your Friends list, however, if you have made them a "Friend".

And I just experimented, if they have you blocked they CAN still see you in all the normal places. You can counteract this by adding them to your blocked user list, I suppose. But of course they can still see you on their Friends list if they have you there. (Or maybe they can already see by looking at their blocked user list)

Dolittle: Sure ya can.

california man: Brainking is very compatible with WebTV! :-D

Click on "Settings" in the main menu. Then go to the "JavaScript" section. (3rd tab, I believe) Be sure everything in that area is shut OFF. If any of it is currently on, that would most likely be your problem.

If that also doesn't help, then go to the part of settings where you can turn off the banner ads, and shut them off. (I believe this is in the first section of Settings).

I will also send you an invitation to the WebTV fellowship!

Unfortunately there is no removal of inactive players on stairs, yet. I would imagine Fencer will take care of this at some point.

In the mean time, maybe there should me a message on the stairs recommending people check the profiles of people they plan to challenge to see if they are active players first...

jessica: Try the Missing people discussion board.
This board really isn't for that. :-)

"Have Fun": Actually, no, there is no way to enforce a "1 hour and 9 minute" game either, with the current time constraints available. 2 hour total time is the lowest possible to enforce.

I never said I didn't like them, and no I generally don't play them.

And the only times I have ever had anything to say about your feature requests are when you go off topic. Let's not twist things around. Try and have a good evening! :-D

Well it really is simple. There is currently no way to set up a 1 hour game! Just because the creator calls it a 1 hour game, does not make it so. They are mistaken when they call it that. The lowest time constraint currently possible at brainking is Fisher clock: 1/0/x. This means each player has 1 hour to make their moves. The only way to make a 1 hour game would be if there was the possiblity to use .5/0/x. That would be a half hour for each person. (Even then there is the possibility of it going over the 1 hour by 9 minutes. That is because Brainking checks for time outs every 10 minutes. That's just the way it is! Try requesting that Fencer add the possibility of the .5 on the Fisher clock.

How long will the time outs be shut off?

just wondering, because I wasn't going to be online until late tonight, and my plan was to get lots of moves made thursday night so that I would stay caught up... Obviously I couldn't do that with the site down.. So I'm just curious if I have to cancel my plans tonight.. (LOL, people will laugh at me if I say I can't go because of my games!) And, I'm going to be gone for the next 14 hours because of work.. so can't do it now..

Just curious!

:-)

The position (ranking) takes a little bit longer to update. It will.

volant: Why not offer the draw with your move?

I believe your opponent gets a message in their message box that you have offered a draw. I could be wrong, though.

It is true, this board is not to be used for asking computer questions, regardless of what boards can/cannot be visited.

Let's move on, please. :-)

Fencer: Me! Me! I have another question tonight about secret points! Does "all browsers" include WebTV??? :-D

I'm not seeing many ads anymore either. (Ever since Aug. 1 it seems..)

Shouldn't there be SOME limit on the secret points? 15,000 or so in 2 days seems a bit much! lol..

Not that I had a chance of getting even in the top 500 action points, but if I did, it seems to take all the fun out of it if it simply becomes a contest between the few who found the secret, who just keep claiming the points over and over and over again..

Just seems like there should be SOME sort of cap on it.. but I'm sure those getting the points would disagree.. :-)

This chatting belongs on General Chat, Members Only, or PM please!

As BBW said, let's get back on topic. Last friendly warning... :-)

actionpoints: The Ludo discussion board ( http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=115 ) would be the more appropriate board for such an announcement. :-) Thanks.

Summertop: I posted a bug report to bug tracker a few days ago about this. I haven't heard anything back about it yet. :-)