To upload an own flag, for example of a rather free federal state, could be a brain rook feature, but users still should be able to see the country. What about that ?

This is a really big offtopic gentleman

Dresden: the flags are great, the more the merrier

Brian1971:
Banned

<People seem to like that, extra flags are cool. To be able to upload a very own flag could also be a brain rook feature. People joining must read in the right time order row, just to not get an upside down impression what people think. ;-) Let Brian live, often interesting people are banned just because of only one of their probs. >;-)

Vikings: banned for one word??? talk about thin skinned and afraid of a popular word among the masses. lol

Don't be ridiculous. No-one has been banned. Several posts were deleted yesterday however for being way off topic. Posts on climactic conditions of the USA and other regions do not warrant an appearance on Feature Requests.

For the last time, autopass (or any other word(s) you care to use to describe it) is NOT going to happen yet. Deal with it. Most people have. Constant whining isn't going to make it appear. It'll happen if and when Fencer says so.
Further posts on the subject will be removed and the member responsible hidden or banned.

red dragon:
do you understand the joke now, you say don't be rediculous, and in the same post, you threaten to do so.

Could there be a button "Delete after Reply" or something like that? When you hit that button you'd go to the normal Reply form. After sending the reply the original message would automatically be deleted...

Something like the option "Delete After Sending Invitation" that now exists for game over notifications.

must be nice to have the "modpower": "Mention autopass and get hidden or banned"...did anyone say ridiculous?

shhh ... i think she is about right .. it is mentioned .. it has been discussed .. it is in the freezer .. maybe in a freezer deep down the ocean .. when i was a little kid (hmm even still now when i ask my gf ;)) .. the more i asked for candy .. the less i got ;)

Hrqls..I have no expectations to get autopass, "wrong" people has asked for it ..My point is that it must be a nice feeling for one paying member to tell other paying members what they are allowed to say

heh .. thats what the mod position is all about yet .. hmm not really .. the mod position is to keep the boards balanced .. they are the real wizards .. trying to keep the good and evil (fun) balanced in this world ;)

Hrqls: we dont need moderators if the hidefeature works

eh ? only mods can do a hide isnt it ?

of course we can all set our personal hides .. but that doesnt help if something naughty is posted on here

we can "prevent" by hiding those we dont went to read posts from. A lot of naughty things stay a while anyway, not always a mod is on line

the reason for mods is because the owner cant be online 24/7 and mods could be able to cover the times he isnt .. and to split the work load :)

i can hide someone who is posting something naughty .. but there are children on here as well .. who might not hide anyone and still read it all

pauloaguia: Try it now.

Fencer: great! can the checkbox be checked by default ? (or via settings ?)

Hrqls: Not yet. I don't want to make any more complicated changes when I am ill.

ok

Fencer: stay ill. the results when you are are great

Fencer: What is it that is different in the Message Box, fencer?

if you reply to a message in your message box underneath you now have the option to "Delete the original message after sending this reply"
i think thats whats been added

Fencer:Thanks. It'll be easier to keep my Inbox clean from now on.

[The quality of service here at BK is just great ]

Ok I can understand removing posts that are way off topic for a certain board. I have absolutely no problems with that. I think that is a good thing so we dont have a bunch of pointless rambling going on that has nothing to do with the purpose of the board.

However a game request did come from yesterday's off topic chat. I suggested the the game of Risk or some variation of it. You could have different versions for differnet parts of the world such as a game just for Europe or North America or you can have the classic World domination style game. this would also advance of the idea of more than 2 players playing a game like the ponds idea.

Also it must be nice to threaten banning a paying member for keeping the autopass issue alive. Now I am not going to get on my soapbox about this. However I dont get why Fencer doesnt just outline a solid case against it for all of us or if he doesnt wish to do a public posting, he can just send out private messages to those who wish to ask for it. Make an outline, save it and when someone asks about it, just cut, copy and paste the outline to the asking party. I am looking at it from a customer service angle. Until the majority of masses who wish for this feature get a real answer for not having it, the subject will never be dead and buried. I would think if Fencer wants it dead and buried he would step up and lay it to rest once and for all. Ignoring it wont make it go away. Like I said I would accept a private message from him stating why he is against it. That way if I wanted to debate it with him I could in private and it wouldnt play out on the various boards. Now if I am banned or hidden for making this statement so be it but that is all I have to say on it for now.

Finally, since this is a request board, I have one regarding ponds. Is there a way we can have a section on our main page listing the ponds that we have signed up for but havent started yet. As a brain knight I have a limit of 50 games and like to know the total of outstanding games I have yet started. We could have a similar thing on our main page for tournament signups. It would help in planning my game spaces. Thank you. Now lets have fun playing games.

For ponds, it is pretty easy to look at the main Ponds game and find the red "you are signed up" next to the tournament name to see how many you are signed up for.

To have the same, or something like that for regular tournaments would also be nice.

Autopass - it is a good feature request, but since it has already been discussed and rejected at the moment, then there is no reason to keep bringing it back up. This board is "Feature request", not "Harp on rejected feature request" board.

BIG BAD WOLF: It is easy for you to say BBW. Fencer does many things that you ask for and doesnt ignore your ideas. You dont have to fight to be acknowledged. All I have asked for is soem kind of response from the head honcho about the subject I have brought up recently. I dont think that is asking for very much. If he can answer my request sufficiently sighting good reasons then I wont bring it up again. I am a paying member and thought that counted for something. I hear responses from everyone else but the man who can lay the issue to rest. Please Fencer respond in kind. It will put a quick end to the madness.

Games I play I would like to save as Text file format... Example... Spider line4... I would like to download previous games to have and to study with... Is it hard to program this?

Brain1971: Actually I fought for the same autopass feature also for awhile, and it also took me awhile to get over it without, as you say (and I do some-what agree) a good answer as to why not. There are many things that I have suggested that does not get done, like being able to hide yourself from the online lists and such. I just don't harp on the issues over and over and over again because it does not help.

Brian1971: My understanding of "good reasons" can be far different from yours. However, let's show a good will and describe them for the last time:

1) Autopass disproves the basic meaning of rolling the dice. In order to simulate this event, the dice are rolled when the player to move visits the game page for the first time. Autopass would mean that some background process without any user interaction is used instead - BAD.
2) Less experienced users might be very confused when they see a new position after, say, 8 autopasses. They would send me many complaints "hey, the position is bad, the game must be corrupted!" - BAD.
3) Autopass lessens the interactivity of players because they cannot continue with the in-game conversation when such event occurs - BAD.

IMPORTANT! This post is NOT to start a new argument about my points, at least not on this board. There will be no more warnings.

Daniel Snyder: There is already a pgn/pdn support for chess/checkers games. I am not aware of similar formats for other game types.

I would like to see the discussion boards expanded. On some of the busier one (Brainking.com and Feature requests), there is often LOTS of posts that tend to hide other posts. Especially if the "New" posts don't all fit on one page.

Each discussion board needs to be threaded. That is, all of the posts for a specific topic are grouped together. You can collapse/expand individual topics. This would be similar to a real forum. Here is a freeone. You can see it in action here.

Fencer: Your "reason 3" doesnt make much sense if you read YOUR BK guidelines

This is a game site, not a chat site.