pauloaguia:

I DON'T SEEM TO BE ABLE TO DO WHAT YOU SUGGEST ON WEBTV UNFORTUNATELY! 8^(
WEBTV IS A REMOTE INTERNET RECEIVING DEVICE THAT DISPLAYS ON THE TV SCREEN (COMPARABLE TO YOUR PC MONITOR). THERE
IS NO HARD DRIVE, AND NO WAY TO DOWNLOAD ANYTHING TO IT AS A RESULT.
I WILL CONTINUE TRYING TO NAVIGATE THE
BK TOOLBAR AND MENU LINKS HERE IN THE MEANTIME. MAYBE SOMETHING WILL CROP UP THAT WILL HELP ME OUT. I SURE COULD USE A
TOOL THAT WOULD ENLARGE THE TEXT HERE!!!
THANKS AGAIN FOR THE INPUT, PAULOAGUIA.

joshi tm: i dont think its implemented yet :

In order to prevent a panic, nothing like that is planned for BrainKing. At least until a balanced and useful version of this idea is worked out and we are sure that we really need it.

ellieoop: there is a difference though :

suppose a game time outs the day after tomorrow, it is set as a automatic vacation day when the game tries to time out, it tries to time out again a day later, it is set as an automatic vacation day as well, then the day after that it tries to time out again.

now if you had set those 2 days (day after tomorrow and the day after that) as fixed vacation days and you would have moved today, then the time calculation would notice that those 2 days are vacation days and those 2 days are added to the time which wont make the game time out on the day after the day after the day after tomorrow, but 2 days later

so setting fixed vacation days really adds the time to the timeout .. while automatic vacation days first let the game use up their time, and then add a day when needed .. leaving it with 1 day max at the end after the automatic vacation days (where fixed vacation days might leave you with more days after those days)

Interesting, a friend of me already wants me to ake his account for a while, but now I can't be his agent/delegate/substitute/representative/proxy/assistant, for it won't be allowed to have a clone account or anything like that.

great, i'll make sure i can play those few games each day.
ty.

ellieoop: that is correct, except on games that do not allow vacation

i have automatic vaction activated. i want to make sure that i understand it correctly, does that mean that i do not have to take vacation days?
thx. in advance:)

Where do I find an explanation of what Auto-pass is? I see the option to enable auto-pass on the gammon games in my Settings, but while it seems to me the phrase "auto-pass" on that page should be a link which would take me to an explanation of what it is, it isn't. And it isn't explained in the rules for Backgammon either, so I gave up and came here.

Do we have a glossary of site features somewhere or something, so that everybody who wonders about this kind of thing doesn't have to bug people on the discussion boards about it?

Many thanks...

tiger

When there are games in the fellowship waiting room, I don't get this message now, so can't set up new games


There are no public waiting games here at the moment. You can create New game that will be added to this area for other players.

sonar: right after you make your move, the dice are rolled for your next move .. if those dice will make you pass at your next move, then you will automatically pass after your opponent moved

(at least thats how i think it works?)

sonar: not sure if this is the info your looking for but
click on waiting games
at the top of that page click on change the game filter
near the bottom of the new page it says select games which you want to play with the auto pass feature
choose the games you want
click on save and finish

can someone talk me thru the autopass feature - i don't expect it to soul shattering but was offered it now after 3yrs of BK...

SEAWOLF2: I don't know the first thing about webtv or anything. But if you say the pieces appeared larger before, maybe your browser is shrinking the board to fit on the screen? Try removing the left menu bar (at Settings page) and the notation column and see if that helps.

Again, I'm just guessing here, don't know if it has anything to do with it.

MadMonkey: No, it's not possible.

Fencer, what happened to the Firefox button you had at the bottom of the left column ?

Is it possible for us to add a button anywhere, like in a Profile or top of a Discussion board.

I HOPE THIS IS THE APPROPRIATE BOARD TO REQUEST HELP HERE ON BK?
I AM A NEW PLAYER AND I AM ALSO VISION IMPAIRED AND USE WEBTV TO ACCESS THE GAMES HERE. CAN ANYONE TELL ME IF THERE IS A GAME SETTING TO ENLARGE THE SIZE OF THE GAME PIECES FOR THE ESPIONAGE GAMES AS THERE IS FOR THE CHESS, CHECKERS, AND OTHER GAMES HERE? I CAN'T SEEM TO FIND ANY SETTTINGS TO ENLARGE THE SIZE OF ESPIONAGE GAME PIECES ON MY OWN. THE NUMBERS OF THE GENERAL PIECES ARE JUST WAY TOO
SMALL TO SEE ON THE ACTUAL GAME
BOARD. WHEN I WAS SETTING UP THE BOARD THE PIECES APPEARED TO BE MUCH LARGER, BUT ONCE THE GAME
PLAY ACTUALLY BEGAN THE NUMBERS ON THE PIECES SEEMED TO "SHRINK"
DOWN?! HELP PLEASE!!!

TIA FOR ANYONE WHO CAN HELP ME

8^)

SEAWOLF2

Medal table Brainking World Championship after Jarmo

1. Dominika 1 - 0 - 0
2. Uganda 0 - 1 - 0
3. Slovakia 0 - 0 - 1

MadMonkey: ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, now I understand!

Eriisa: oh, got ya, i never used that so i had not noticed, but you are right
Any, open box (as in not surrounded like the box one) can be resized

MadMonkey: You know how at the bottom of a message it says "Reply (box)"? If I click reply, the text box is resizable. If I click box, the text box to type in is not resizable.

TexasToest: Some of the smaller extensions for Firefox are the best one
Duplicate Tabs & Searchbar Autosizer, are both great ones as well

Eriisa:It should do if you mean when reply to a message as it does even when you are editing
Sometimes it does not always work on the line/corner, sometimes you have to move the cursor about a bit

MadMonkey: oh WAY cool! Thanks for finding that.

I see that it works in the text box up top, but not on the reply 'box' inside the message. hmmmmm

That works really well.  I don't have time to read about 2,200 features, so I let other people tell me what's good.  You did a great job.  That really helps with entering things in the plain text editor box.  That lil thing is dinky.  But, don't tell Fencer I said that.

plaintiger: Sorry my friend Tiger, Firefox has Resizeable Textarea for ages, well since version 1.5 was released, its just another of there 2200+ extensions
Gordon (or was it BBW) told me about it, great & very useful

See if i can find, i use it

Here it is Resizeable Textarea

Oooh, I just discovered a very cool feature in the Safari 3.0 public beta (also available for Windows, in case anyone didn't know) that isn't in Firefox: these text fields we type our messages into on brainking? They can be resized - along both the X and Y axes - by dragging the little zoom lines in the lower right corner of the field, just like a window. Very cool indeed.

Okay, I'm done.

So, can I send Fencer a message each time I collect 25 seeds in Mancala and my opponent keeps on playing? ;-)

OTOH, that situation is much easier to program than a Go endgame.

srnity: Ive seen tougher on here, just not on this board LOL

Wow, y'all are one tough crowd tonight

coan.net: nah, make it even better, don't write down the random number & leatters! Just close your eyes and hit some keys.

jadarite: When you are finished picking up all the games from the waiting room and then resigning them, of course.

jadarite: Just don't visit http://brainking.com and your account will go old and not be used again.

If you need help not visiting the site again, here are some fun steps:

1. Get a piece of paper.
2. Write down 10 random letters & numbers
3. Go to "My profile", and near the top - click on "change password"
4. Put those 10 random letters & numbers in as your new password
5. Save & log out
6. Destroy the paper before you have a chance to remember the password.
7. Ta-Da, can't sign back on!

jadarite: Just log out, surf on to your cool and hypermodern chat'n'play sites and forget about it.

How do you close your account on this server?

PLEASE NOTE: I have continued this discussion over on the http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=52 Discussion Board, in case anyone wants to follow it over there to continue the discussion.

kirsten: I use Firefox & have virus protection through a major University & it still gets me too

coan.net:
Unfortunately, I'm not sure that the the site is completely clean. Yesterday I pulled up brainking.com with internet explorer on a different machine (this time at work... one with commercial virus protection) , navigated around to my messages and back, and eventually was hit with ErrorSafe and WinFixer.

TheJazzCafe: Thank goodness, I thought it was just me. When I check my cookies I see one from PC turbo Pro. When it happens it tries to download an .exe file and tries to loop so that you cannot avoid it. It's becoming very annoying.

Thanks :O) I just wasnt going far enough...

JadiesMomma: Hello and welcome. If you look at the left u will see a list Click on" new game" link then u can create a game from there, or go to "waiting games" and u can pick up a game from there.

Enjoy!!

Just click on 'new game' under the games menu (it should be the near the upper left hand of your screen).

Select the game and then you'll be presented with a lot of options. Just hit 'continue' (it explains this on the page as well) and your game will go into the waiting games pool for others to see.

Hi, I just joined and cant figure out how to start a new game for anyone to play. Can someone please help me???

I've done that, and I've installed the ad on. Puffins rule, ok!

TheJazzCafe: lol .. shh .. dont tell anyone .. but i am helping the puffins to take over the world :)

have a look at fencer's blog (brainking.info) to see what he writes about adblocks

I do have good virus protection, and I never download links, but this thing is persistent, and is even bugging me when I'm on my Mac. It won't allow me to close it down. Is it coming from one of the banner ads? It's just happened again in my game with Hrqls. Maybe it's him.

srnity: i think rook members can disable all banners and ads on this site .. i think they shouldnt have a problem anymore then

(i just disabled all yesterday, so its too early for me to be sure :))

not sure if pawns can disable anything

Thanks for the info MM & Jason

srnity & TheJazzCafe: There has been a conversation on the Feature Board (until they were asked to take it elsewhere(Computer Board)) last couple of days. Could be linked to the same problem, sounds like Spyware, something called Errorprotector there though & also banner ads that have been showing up.
If you have a decent Virus protector, Firewall and pop up Blocker you should be fine. I know AVG (grisoft.com) do some good free stuff & if you use Firefox you can get an add-on called Add Block Plus.

srnity: If you use norton or other anti virus software then you shouldnt have any problems , dont download what the links send you too though because it is just a scam

TheJazzCafe: Yup, your not alone...the Drive Cleaner hit me twice as I was logging onto BK just now...this is the third time for me in about five days Only happening here tho - anyone know how to make it go away for good?

Four times in the past few days my browser (firefox) has been hijacked by something claiming to be called Win Anti Virus Pro trying to make me download something. It is always when I've been making a move in backgammon. Is this happening to anyone else?