BrainKing - Forum di discussione (Feature requests)

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naughtypawn:

I second the conditional moves, for all games where dice (or hidden pieces like dark chess) are not involved.

20. Novembre 2005, 03:00:12

Argomento: Re: Conditional moves in Chess

naughtypawn: What's a conditional move?

How would the analysis board work?

20. Novembre 2005, 03:04:59

Argomento: Re: Conditional moves in Chess

Modificato da grenv (20. Novembre 2005, 03:06:23)

playBunny: Conditional moves are where after your move you propose what the next few moves should be. The opponent can accept or reject them. It is very useful in speeding up the game when there are a few forced or obvious moves.

An analysis board is a board where you are able to move the pieces around while analyzing the position, presumably it would start in the same state as the actual game board.

20. Novembre 2005, 08:13:52

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naughtypawn: All of this is planned.

20. Novembre 2005, 13:29:10

Argomento: Re: Conditional moves in Chess

playBunny: It is exactly like grenv has explained.

20. Novembre 2005, 13:29:58

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Fencer: Ok. Thanks for the answer.

20. Novembre 2005, 13:46:25

Harassed

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naughtypawn: conditional move can be also in backgammon - "when I have no valid move, my choice is pass" (of course I don't mean a case when some dice rolls might result in valid move, only when no rolls help)

* this is not an autopass provocation :)

20. Novembre 2005, 13:58:48

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fungame: Well, I have asked for the conditional rules of standard chess and some variants (I think they aren´t good in antichess...). Maybe it is possible in backgammon, but I don´t know it because I don´t play it and don´t know the rules. Anyway, conditional moves will speed up the games.

20. Novembre 2005, 14:04:02

By the way,

20. Novembre 2005, 16:35:26

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naughtypawn: they would be great in anti chess, often long chains of moves are forced for one player.

20. Novembre 2005, 16:59:04

Geo

Argomento: Getting Bck To English

When Are You Going To Change My Site Back To English So I Can Understand What To Click Onto If I Wanted To Play More Games

20. Novembre 2005, 17:03:03

Rose

Go up to the top right of the page and click the UK flag

20. Novembre 2005, 17:04:10

Argomento: Re: Getting Bck To English

Geo: Have you clicked on one of the language flags by some chance? If so, click on the British flag to revert to English.

20. Novembre 2005, 20:48:58

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fungame:A conditional move could also be designed to operate after the system automatically generates a dice roll. Then we would have the autopass feature whose lack is so much lamented in some quarters.

20. Novembre 2005, 20:56:19

Argomento: Re: *That* word

alanback: As I understand it one of the problems with Auto-SHHHH!! is that the dice aren't generated until the player goes to the page - ie it's manually triggered. For automatic rolling that procedure would have to be repositioned so that it rolls at the first possible opportunity rather than at the last moment, and that's presumably pretty tricky.

20. Novembre 2005, 21:56:45

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grenv: Maybe you are right. Let´s see when we have them.

20. Novembre 2005, 21:57:47

Argomento: Re: Getting Bck To English

playBunny: Yes, that is the problem with the flags, it isn't obvious what they are for. Probably a "Choose Language" header? On the other hand if that was in another language it may not be obvious anyway. lol.

21. Novembre 2005, 00:37:06

Thad

Argomento: Re: Getting Bck To English

grenv: The flag problem is easily solved with a confirmation screen.

21. Novembre 2005, 16:48:54

votacommunista

Argomento: google ad sense and timeouts

it would be nice that google ad sense would not lead to a longer waiting time ... if the responsible page could not be reached you have to wait and in some time a timeout occur.

21. Novembre 2005, 18:11:55

eagle eye

Argomento: Re: google ad sense and timeouts

votacommunista: I guess nothing can you do about, google ads are from google and BK just displays them...

21. Novembre 2005, 18:16:47

Argomento: Re: google ad sense and timeouts

eagle eye: There is one thing that could be done, which is to remove the link.

21. Novembre 2005, 18:40:26

Argomento: Re: google ad sense and timeouts

Modificato da Fencer (21. Novembre 2005, 18:40:46)

votacommunista: Paying members can disable Google ads, click on the "hide" link.

21. Novembre 2005, 19:01:39

Argomento: Re: google ad sense and timeouts

Fencer: This apparently does not apply to the Google ad under "Logout" in the menu bar.

21. Novembre 2005, 19:13:16

Jason

Argomento: Re: google ad sense and timeouts

Fencer: where is the hide link ?

21. Novembre 2005, 19:19:48

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alanback: Now it does.
Jason: Just below the banners.

21. Novembre 2005, 19:25:24

Jason

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Fencer: lol i have never seen that link before or now even ..... but its ok the google ad thing has just vanished from my page . spooky

21. Novembre 2005, 19:28:09

Argomento: Re: google ad sense and timeouts

Fencer: Thanks :-)

I will let you know if performance improves. I have not seen very many delays that were traceable to the Google ad, but there have been a few.

21. Novembre 2005, 20:25:48

coan.net

Argomento: Re: google ad sense and timeouts

Jason: In settings, as members you can also places the ad's at the bottom of the page. I do that - that way every once and awhile I can go click on them to help Fencer make a few extra cents here and there - and the ad's are not in my way on the top of my screen. (Again, only a member option I believe.)

About a week ago, there was a time when the google ad's were both not loading - would get an error about not being found, but everything else loaded fine.... and only laster about 5 minutes. Other then that, I have had no problem with the google ad's. (Think I will go click on it again to help Fencer out!)

21. Novembre 2005, 22:00:26

Argomento: Re: google ad sense and timeouts

BIG BAD WOLF: Of course, even a lowly Pawn can eliminate ads, by using the right ad blocker :) However, I elected to keep them displayed, for the sake of Fencer ;)

21. Novembre 2005, 22:04:19

WellyWales

Argomento: Site connection problems

Modificato da WellyWales (21. Novembre 2005, 22:04:58)

Fencer, is it possible to have a fault page that clicks in, as other sites like IYT, Daily Gammon, Gold token etc, that tell you there is a site fault, "please try again later", other members must have seen these, it is better then nothing at all, sometimes you don't know if it is your own computer at fault.

21. Novembre 2005, 22:07:52

Argomento: Re: Site connection problems

wellywales: If there is a network or a connection problem, you couldn't reach the fault page anyway. It would make no sense.

21. Novembre 2005, 22:10:29

WellyWales

Argomento: Re: Site connection problems

Fencer: I understand that but these other sites seem to be able to do it, perhaps a sister site, I don't know

21. Novembre 2005, 22:11:28

Argomento: Re: Site connection problems

wellywales: No site is able to do it if it's unreachable due to a network problem.

21. Novembre 2005, 22:13:11

Argomento: Re: Site connection problems

wellywales: Yes, but they don't "do" faults. What they do do is display a page notifying users of essential maintenance, like database backups etc. This is not a fault, but a regular feature, while the game server is still working fine.

What BrainKing has is another domain, BrainKing.info, for such faults and other cases, but it seems to have been forgotten for a year and a half - Fencer, any comments? :)

21. Novembre 2005, 22:14:25

Argomento: Re: Site connection problems

wellywales: wellywales: Those sites have such a page when you can reach the server but it's not providing the usual service. Brainking's server is providing the usual service nearly 24 hours of the day. If you were in the Czech Republic there would be no outages or anything. The problem is the "trunk" line from there to certain other regions. Either the page request doesn't get to BrainKing, or it does and BrainKing gives the correct page in return, but that gets lost on the way back out.

21. Novembre 2005, 22:17:28

Argomento: Re: Site connection problems

playBunny: Darn trunk lines :P

21. Novembre 2005, 22:24:16

Argomento: Re: Site connection problems

playBunny: And on the topic of normal service.. I think it's great that Filip doesn't have to take the site down for a period every day to do his backups, that the upgrades are so quick to install and that major downs, like the BKR recalulations, are so rare.

WhiteTower LOL.

21. Novembre 2005, 22:28:05

Argomento: Re: Site connection problems

playBunny: Did you just answer to yourself there or wha'?!? [sideways glancing with one eyebrow higher]

On the other hand, if somehow he decides to introduce game group ratings (by which, BTW, I actually meant separate rating SYSTEMS for game groups, but you can also have some averaging done foe eligible members of the game group) then some further delays may occur - but let's leave the operational aspect to Fencer, our Brain King (of the white variety)

21. Novembre 2005, 22:47:11

pauloaguia

Argomento: Re: Site connection problems

Fencer: If there is a network or a connection problem, you couldn't reach the fault page anyway. It would make no sense.
Yes, but it would allow us to know the difference between a "programmed" downtime or server maitenance or something like that (BK error page kicks in) and a network problem (standard "cannot display page" error)

21. Novembre 2005, 22:56:24

LuckyCat9

I think IYT had a horrible crash not to long ago and they had a page with constant updates regarding getting fixed, even started a blog.

21. Novembre 2005, 23:49:06

ScarletRose

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LuckyCat9: yes.. it was down for what.. almost 2 weeks.. OMG

22. Novembre 2005, 00:02:49

LuckyCat9

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ScarletRose: Yeh, they almost kicked the bucketed!

22. Novembre 2005, 00:36:05

Thad

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Yes, a page that displays during scheduled (or unscheduled when possible) downtimes would be a big benefit. We'd at least know that our connections, etc. were good.

22. Novembre 2005, 02:56:35

ColonelCrockett

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ScarletRose: the IYT downtime was awful! however, everyone got to see a side of Pat Chu we never expected.

22. Novembre 2005, 11:27:47

diogenysos

Argomento: elimination

hello, now we have "normal games", "tournaments" and "stairs"... . how about classical knock-out-tourneys where the winner heads into the next round and the one who loses is eliminated. with quarterfinals, semifinals, finals and so on? this would be a special thrill for some special tournaments! ;-)

22. Novembre 2005, 12:41:32

Argomento: Re: elimination

diogenes: That would be a certain 2ndment from me!

22. Novembre 2005, 12:41:38

BlitzMe

Argomento: Re: elimination

diogenes: I like that idea :) Another system that could be used is a "League" system. Much like the NBA and MLB in the USA, with regular season and post season (playoffs, knockout) play. The top players of the regular season would qualify for the post season. This system would be using mandatory games that would start automatically according to the schedule. There could be 1 league for every main game or even every game.

22. Novembre 2005, 12:56:38

Czuch

Argomento: Re: elimination

Socrates: I like both ideas!

22. Novembre 2005, 14:04:45

furbster

Argomento: Re: elimination

diogenes: yeh think that would be a fun idea

22. Novembre 2005, 15:50:03

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