New game for Battle boats... Outline... Outline the boats instead of hiiting them... Give each person 5 hit chances... I play this at home alot...

Here is an idea that I came up with in a flash last night. It's a tournement format for backgammon, called "Duplicate Backgammon". It is similar in concept to Duplicate Bridge, where all teams play the same cards.

It would work like a double RR, but each game has the same rolls, but with each player playing different colors, hence, the rolls are "opposite". This would add much more skill to the game, as a player must play both sides of a rollout simultaneously.

Of course, some precautions would have to be taken to prevent a player from "looking ahead" in the rollout, but hiding the next roll until both games have moved should be relatively simple to program.

How about a graphic arts, sculpture, drawings, etcetera board? Further to that, how about a dissatisfaction board, on which we can say "food for free", "air travel, get a grip on proportion" and other human issues that fall outside the gangsterism of politics.

Outline battle boats is fun and also a very fun time... Trying to out line the boats instead of hitting them... 5 chances only for hits... This variation is hits in my house...

Now big bosses receive a message when we leave a fellowship, could we have a small text box to send a message as we leave? It would be nice to be able to send a small explanation about why we left.

but do we need to explain really?

No, we don't need to, just if we want to. Like we get the option to send a message with a request to join a fellowship. We don't have to, but its nice to have the option.

for sure

I hate it when users leave one of my fellowships because I don't know why. I mean if it's just because they don't like it, or something like that - that is fine. But lets say if it's because we don't do this, or we need to do that - things like that helps.

For example, someone not too long ago left one of my fellowships but was nice enough to tell me why. It was something I could fix right away, and was able to re-invite him back.

So I think to have a box for a "reason you are leaving this fellowship" when a person leaves is a good idea, of course they can always leave it empty if they want.

How about being able to click somewhere (Maybe the fellowship name, maybe the picture, maybe somewhere else) to display a page with all of that team's tables against the other teams - just like clicking on the "-", "1" or "0", except it would display them all for that team.

And maybe also from the "Player results" page being able to view all of that players' games (in progress and completed) from that tournament.

All right.

cool, thanks :-D

Kevin: The "all right" was to leaving fellowship features :-) But your idea is interesting too.

Fencer, when creating a tournament, how about an option to include all games and/or all from a certain category (per the way the discussion boards are cateogized, that way we wouldn't have to manually check every box.

also, are Korean/Chinese Chess still on the block?

Yes.

Still: cool, thanks :-D

lol

I know this has been mentioned before, but how about at least one single player game for those that have games running but no one moving while they are here, then players may stay logged on and play for a while, rather than trying to start more new games without people moving.
Also mentioned before was working on a multi-player game.
Neither of these seem to ever appear on the Features in development (sorted by priority) list, but would both help BrainKing get even better.

I second that concept Monkey Man. I would like to see some card games here. maybe not necessarily against people though that could happen to. However playing the computer in hearts, cribbage or playing solitare while waiting for moves. As it has been said before this is a GAME site. Discussion boards are great but there are some who just come here to play games and not use the boards. Why not have some individual games they can play while waiting for games to be moved on?

Its a turn based game site. LOL
As long as it stays compatable with WebTV :)

Iknow Chucky. You could still incorporate solitaire games. Non rated and just for fun. Some people dont care about ratings and just enjoy playing too. lol.

The quickest way to add solitaire to BrainKing: add a link to games.yahoo.com :)

Yeah but webtv people cant play games on yahoo. Besides i am sure he has to have special permission to use that link.

excuse my ignorance, but why do people choose webTv? This really is ignorance, I have never seen it.

i have a better idea: buy a deck of cards. :) why do you need a computer(or webTV) to play solitaire?

I know webtv is limited in its capabilities but it for those who dont want to sit in front of a computer all the time or those who are computer illiterate and want to do e-mail and the basic internet stuff. I like sitting on my couch with a small table for my wireless keyboard and using the internet on my 19 inch TV. I use mine for e-mail, playing games, chat rooms and discussion boards and keeping up on my favorite sports teams. If I need something with more capability, I go to the library and do more.

A computer saves all that dealing and setting up LOL

They various payment situations and there are different types of webtv machines. The most classic version like I have costs me 19.95 a month. The only thing I really miss having is the ability to use java related stuff. I dont use the internet for much more than I mentioned before. If I want to use yahoo games or something with java, the library is a few blocks away and I use their cable modem computers.

that is way more expensive than I would have guessed.
wow

Brian1971: do you have to pay for equipment?

It runs around $25 a month. But the equipment is much more affordable than a computer. The entire unit can be purchased for around $100.

If all a person does is basic web browsing & e-mail, WebTV can be a good option. You don't have to worry about slow computer, computer crashs, and the biggest - you do not have to worry about Viruses!

But I would suggest any more talk on this should be moved to the Computer Board

The idea for any sort of solitaire game would be to keep players within the structure of BrainKing and not to send them to Yahoo.com or Pogo.com where they may end up finding other turn based games or multi-player games that they prefer, then not bother to come back.
Personally i think a Feature that should be in development are multi-player games (Froglet is a great example of one).
The idea is to improve BrainKing, not help other sites :o)

On a profile would be good so at a glance you could see if the player has auto vacation set.

You could be watching a game time out and feel happy etc for a tourny win maybe, then bam another 24hrs added. so with this marker highlighted on the profile of the player..you wont get too excited LOL

actually, it is almost pointless now to set vacation days as you may waste them by playing on those days anyway but because they were set, they are gone when the date is reached.
Under the new systems, may as well never setvacation days and just have the auto thing working for you all the time, in which case it would be handy to see a little number showing how many vacation days someone has left.
I, like Steve, would be a little disappointed thinking I was about to win and then bam, another 24 hours.

I thiink a maximum limit of extensions should be set. maybe can only happen once or twice at tops

Just like what happened yesterday to me LOL

sort off, but that was due to being weekend

ok, I've returned from basking on the beach... I see the stuff about the new time system, but I'm a little confused. Is the system finished being sychronized? When a vacation time or day off kicks in, does the clock stop or does it add 24 hours to the time system. I had one game this morning that showed 7 minutes left. I went to settings to make sure the vacation day was set for today, and when I returned to the main page, the game was not showing there anymore. Unfortunately, I don't remember what the game was or who with so I couldn't figure where it went......

Eriisa: It's not about the system but particular games with wrong initial time left value. Once a new move is performed, it should be okay. A game cannot just disappear, it is either displayed with normal time left, or with negative time left (in red) or timeouted (followed by a message in the message box).
On the other hand, I fixed one bug today so it's possible that several games were still wrong in the morning.

That makes more sense. I did not get a time out message, and it did not go to negative time, so I think the time value on it changed. Good thing tomorrow is a day off for me, cause its taking me too long to work my way through the games. They were all 4 or 5 days left when I went on vacation (I thought), but they are all 8 or 9 hours now........

I wish I have more time to write a description of how the system works :-)

LOL, I hear the people at CDW love that sort of thing!

Fencer, there are a lot of programmers playing on BK. I am sure some of them will be happy to do some coding for BK. Have you ever considered that opportunity or do you prefer to keep it to yourself? Just curious.

"too many cooks" comes to mind

A 5-star restaurant has many cooks, but only one chef........

sort of.

vitalik: The problem is not with BK programming itself but with other additional tasks. For example, writing an user guide for beginners, adding more entries to FAQ and Help pages to cover all important BK features, making a detailed description of paid membership advantages etc.

What about translating BK to other languages?

how about czech? :-)

or CF? ;o)