MadMonkey: Please don't mix fellowship ranks and team ranks. Every team can have only one captain.

Fencer: The Big and Little Boss can set up tournaments in the fellowship, can it be possible that either boss could edit the tournaments set up by the other Boss ?

Fencer: You asked, Monkeys on form today

My definition would be:

Big Boss: Every Fellowship option should be possible, though this is not yet possible in one. Even as a BB i can not enter Teams in Tournaments unless i am Captain of it. It is a pain, for whatever reason, having to keep swapping Captains, just to make a Team change.

Little Boss: Every Fellowship option APART from the ones already stated, replacing the BB or deleting the Fellowship.

Now as for Manager / Captain as in essence you can not be one without being the other, they should become one, so just use one.
I think Manager should be used, as Teams in life have player-managers (i often manage Teams here that i do not play in). So get rid of Captains, and replace them with managers.
Well, which ever is chosen they should have all power relating to Teams, Team Tournaments & Challenge Matches, Removing players from Teams, picking Teams and setting challenge matches.

(Of course ALL these option should Automatically be available for Big / Little Bosses)

And while i am here , a couple of things that urgently need looking into.

1. The ability to have substitutes. If a Team player has not yet made a move in a Team Tournament game or Challenge match, they can be replaced. Another one started this week, just for me to find out a player is no longer going to stay at BrainKing, so the Team has lost all those games, and renders the Tournament a loss already.
This has happened many times now and is getting disheartening for Bosses, Captains & the Players left in the match.

2. The ability to put challenge Matches in a Team Challenge waiting room, so Bosses & Captains from all Fellowships can look through and except or get Teams for them.

3. That Team BKR's should be based on Team results, not players overall BKR added and meaned. Players BKR's can be shown in Teams and used for ranking purposes for the draw. At the top of the Team in the Fellowship the Team BKR should be shown.

They are mine (and a few other i know of) Main issues that need addressing

I remember that there was a discussion in the past about possible new functions for the managers (to allow some of them to create tournaments or challenge other teams etc.). However, after introducing the Little Boss rank, I am not sure if it's still necessary.
Any fresh ideas about that? Or just remind me the former ones.

coan.net: Thanks for the Pente Tournament - I am already rallying the troops!!!! Ive also got the link to the team tournament page posted above - case yours gets buried!

There are 6 new team tournaments set to start in March 2008 - all of the games were requests game. (4 of the 6 never had a team tournament before!) So feel free to send me a message with what you would like to see - I keep track of the requests and try to fit them in when I make more tournaments.

http://brainking.com/en/TeamTournaments

Pente
Battleboats
Sphere Froglet
Frog Finder
Small Espionage
Grasshopper

Good luck to all, start getting your teams together, and HAVE FUN!

srnity: Thanks , now fixed ;)

Jason: Invalid request
brainking.com/en/Tournaments

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I am coming back slowly into the fellowship. Anyone wanting to join.. please send message so nstre or myself can let you in. Want to try to get more things
started there.
Devotions never stopped while I was gone...Thanks to nstre.
God Bless
BARB
http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=2174

Jobsworth: Settings / Allow other users to send fellowship invitations
And turn it off.

i just arrived and found 10 fellowship invites
is there a way i can turn these of

sent invite to bishops and knights...so many rooks I cant invite with a message so I post here...plz join and have fun ty

Mike

Nirvana: No problem if someone tells me which fellowships they are and who wants to be a little boss.

Fencer: what about those fellowships where the Boss is now a pawn or absent and can't appoint a Little Boss. There are a few of those. Could a Little boss be put on by you and then the fellowship be given back to the Boss if he or she comes back again?

MadMonkey: 2) Yes. That's why there are Big.

Fencer:

1) Up & working already
2) Big Bosses will have to add them

MadMonkey:
1) Yes.
2) No.

Fencer: Sorry, i was just compiling a message for you

Tested, and everything seems fine now

Only things i can pick up on are ability to:

1. Invite members to the Fellowship. In fact, if someone applies can they accept them as in the normal way or is that only for Big Boss still ? (should be both as Little Bosses can remove members)

2. Even if the Little Boss is not a Moderator on the DB, they should be able to edit / delete posts on board.
Maybe Little Bosses should be automatically added to boards like Big Bosses, makes sense


Thats it from me (for now lol)

MadMonkey: Please try it now.

Hey, pesky little bug, glad i helped

MadMonkey: Hell, someone is not using it correctly, it should not allow more than one little boss at the fellowship.

MadMonkey: In fact, i can see no difference in anything i can do as a Little Boss

Could you check the user scripting Fellowship please (you are a Little Boss there as well), i do not have any extra options at all

One of the ideas for Little Bosses was to be able to invite players to Fellowships

Could this be added please Fencer

(let you know if i find anything else lol)

Fencer:

Just my two cents worth, but this would be a good idea if both parties agree to it and if the Big Boss were to come back after their absence they would have the option to regain control of the fellowship if they choose.

rednaz23: I will think about it.

Fencer: Works now! ;-)

Thanks!

Very cool stuff by the way, I think this will add a lot to the fellowships!

A question for you, can you make it so the little boss becomes the big boss if the 'first' big boss goes inactive for a period of time? Say 30 days?

Fencer: Thanks! Im getting reports of success!!!

redfrog: Please try it now. There was a typo at one "if" condition.

Fencer: Its working great for me as the Little Boss at All Lines - but rednaz23 cant seem to do anything as the Little Boss of Plente o Pente.... hmmmmm

wellcome all to my fellowship....plz join and have fun

Mike

Fencer: Thank you

Since mine has been one of the 'dead' fellowships for quite awhile ... I'd just like to say that I've come back and would like to let any interested parties know that there is plenty of room for new members. It seems I have lost all my teams.

Fencer: Is there a limit to how many fellowships someone can be the little boss in?

Fencer: Then my only question would be if the little boss becomes the big boss if the first big boss is inactive for 30 days (or another set period of time). Is that a possibility?

Of course it is a tough subject, but people pass on or simply stop playing at BK and leave a fellowship to fade a way, this would keep fellowships alive instead of having a multitude of 'dead' fellowships like our fellowship list contains. Hope this option is possible. ;-)

rednaz23: Actually, you can do everything like the Big Boss, but you cannot edit or delete the fellowship.

Fencer: How are you so fast on the replies!? ;-) Wow... just over a minute...

I look forward to reading about the new F/S position.

rednaz23: But I will white something to the blog.

Fencer or others in the know: Will there be any discussion about what the little boss can or can't do? Is it just a glorified manager position?

Also, is there any word on if the little boss takes over for the big boss if the big boss goes inactive for a period of time?

I'm currently trying to discover glitches/bugs with Fellowships so that I can report them, so for testing purposes I'd like to request that 3 others form a team with me in any game in my fellowship: Ninja Command

Jason: sorry. I didn't mean to suggest what you said wasn't correct. You are right. If you manually put in the codes, the boards work the same. I just wanted to point out that in a fellowship you have the option of just removing someone, which is something you can't do on a public board.
For me, that just seems the best way to be done with someone who you don't want posting, or copying and pasting, etc. So if they are a problem, then you just remove and problem is gone.
But yes, everything you said is correct.

baddessi: If you know what to do you can work the fellowships EXACTLY the same as a public board
( just making sure people dont think my previous posts are wrong because they are correct)

Czuch: yep- that's the only way I know of...and if you just remove them, then you don't have to worry about any of the rest of it, right?

baddessi: Thanks! I wasnt actually sure how it worked, since most of the time if you want to ban someone in your fellowship, you simply remove them all together!

Czuch: private fellowships work differently from public boards. The BB of a f/s can only hide the posts from his view, but everyone else can see the posts.....on a public board, when a mod hides posts, only the mods can see it, not everyone else. You probably know this, I just mean to be helpful.
This may be obvious as well and not quite the point, but can't a BB just remove anyone from the fellowship that they want to? That way you don't have to worry about hides or bans...just remove them...A BB of a fellowship has a right to remove anyone they want from their fellowship

srnity: Has there been injustice?

Jason: okay, thanks!

Czuch: yes as far as i can think that is correct , public board mods functions work correctly , the codes have to be put in manually ,differnt codes for every board and players ect. for a hide (so no one can see them) or for a ban (the player cannot post there or edit or delete posts)