Not a floosie: Hi :-),only me lol, i put the same thing to Fencer a while ago and he responded as follows:

MadMonkey Drop down list 18. April 2003, 09:21:50

I had a thought when playing through some games (strange eh lol).
I often getting messages sent to me about all sorts of stuff, but have to go to main page then message box to get there.
I was going to ask Fencer if there is a chance at the end of the game we are in to add one more box to say Move and go to Message box :-) BUT....
then i thought it may be better to have them all in one drop box
i.e. have Move and go to next game as default then
some others incuded in a drop list, so we could make a move and basically go to most the important places we need to on the site :-)


Fencer Re: Drop down list 18. April 2003, 09:46:49
MadMonkey: That's really cool idea :-) Maybe I could reduce all buttons to just one associated with an action combo box.

How about Scrabble for a new game?

sometimes when i see a board and look at it i can't think of anything to do right awy and want to come back to it later... but want to be able to move onto the next game or some other game...

so how about a drop down menu offering to "skip and move to" option?? i don't know how hard this would be to implement, but all it would it take would be to add the exact same drop down meny that normally appears AFTER you make a move (for paying customers that is!)... and have it appear BEFORE you make your move.....

Thanks MM. That must have been before my time! LOL

this is a good opint. I too have a tendency to come to a game that I want to ignore for awhile because it is difficutl fo figure out my next move. But, that means I cannot use the "move and go to next game" function because it keeps going back to it. It might help if there were a way to demote the game to the bottom of the list, which is pretty much what scooter was suggesting. But, this should be low priority until the more important matters are taken care of.

Also, I like to play all games of the same type at once, in order to keep my brain from exploding. How about a "Move and go to next game of same type" button (maybe we could shorten the message but you get the idea).

Would it be possible for an automated message to be sent out when a new tournament round starts, and also for our game page to show which round it is?
Also if a tournament starts off as a 1 game per player, not 2, that it has to stay that way for all rounds, until the final playoff? I just had a round 2 start which was 1 game per player in round 1, now we have to play 2 games per player, once a tournament is started, shouldn't the settings stay the same the whole way through?

I just signed up for a tornament
I am ging on vacation at the end of the month
My question is How do youextend your time while you are gone so you do Not time out??

runningwolf: Go into "Settings" - then pick the tab that says "Calendar" - Here you can set your Vacation Days & change your weekend days if you need to.

Hope this helps!

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

On my "Main page", I have for the total number of started games as: 149 + 1

Now I know the "+ X" number is the games that are just waiting for the tournament creater to start - and with it just being a "1", I'm guessing it is a 2nd round where only 2 players have advanced (meaning only 1 game)

My problem is that it has been on there for about a week now, I have looked to see if there are any waiting tournament for me, and there are none. I have also looked through the running games, and have found nothing.

Is there any way I can find out what this "+ 1" game is?

Thanks in advance!

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

BBW: There was a bug, the 1 should be removed now.

I think runningwolf may need to be at least a knight to get vacation days.

pawns get 5 days

I just thought of something and wanted to toss it out. This is so much of an international site, I think it would be cool to have posted somewhere all the different translations of "good luck" etc. What do you guys think?

Eriisa: I know a few (although they're open to correction!)
Strarting with my own language of Welsh, i personally, use
Lwc dda, Pob lwc or Hawddamor.

Greek - kali tihi

Italian - Buona fortuna

Spanish - Buena suerte

French - Bonne chance

German - Viel Gluck

Swedish - Lycka till

Norwegian - Lykke til

i'd like to see the doubling cube added as an optional feature for backgamon and it's variations

Cariad, the spanish is:

buena suerte

:)

I was just going to say the same thing dizave :-) lol

Just being testing the (ban) facility as i didn't know what it was, so i banned harley LOL - seems to work fine Fencer, should be a huge help to moderators. ( have put her back now lol )

The drop box is great, one of my better ideas, but as you sorted it out i won't take all the credit LOL - great stuff once again Filip

THanks and if you [or anybody else] have requests for more actions at that dropdown box, just let me know :-)

i dont know if its possible, but how about go to fellowship, the only problem i can see is that most of us are in more than one, myself i would obviously go to my own one nearly all the time :-)

on that subject, there seem to be a few people now who are not getting the new red message number beside fellowship boards ??

Could we have a "filter" option at the bottom of each message that would allow us to see only
that message, replies to that message, and replies to replies to that message etc...?

When it was first talked about making the dropdown box, I did not think I would like it - but since you can make it a "default" for the option you like the best - I like it! :-)

ONE SUGGESTION: Is there a way to make the submit button that is next to the drop down box bigger? I would say at least the same size as the "Move and go to:" button.

dizave - Oops - typo! Thanks!

Fencer ...is there anyway now.. that since we now have a Move to next game... Is there anyway to have the Move and Go to box .. sorted by time left rather than last time a player moves... ??.. would save one click and waiting for that main page to load... thanks for all you do.. :)

or sorted by however way you have them set on your main page.. ??

On the suggestion of another player, I came looking. I answered open invitations, left offers myself. Allwere deleted by players simply because I was not on-line when they were! (I asked two!) I have a paging system linking computer to mobile, so I dont keep people waiting too long, I am battling serious illnesses, and side effects to drugs involved, and so am a little slow sometimes, but the time-limit was totally ignored by players here. I was never given a chance. If this is typical I wont bother again!

can we get that drop box in our profiles for the tourney ganes?..even with that default button for which setting we want it..this way if i wanna set it for toruneys i signed up for i could have that as my default..thats a neat idea the drop down box...

Fencer, I was allways thinking to get the game with the shortest time limit first by clicking on the red number of games on the left site of the screen. Now I found out the hard way that this is not so. I played a move in a few games (with enough time limit) and then clicked on the next. While I was studiing the game for 2 minutes i got the message: white ran out of time!!!!
Can you fix that bug, so that the game with the shortest time limit appears first?

I think Fencer had said it is on his to-do-list to order the games by time, but it takes some extra processing power, so he was either going to updated things first, or try to find out how to do it without slowing the site down anymore.

How I get around it when I have a few games that are close to timing out - is I will open each of the games I'm short on time in a new window (so I'll have 5-6 windows open - each with games that need played quickly.) Or if you don't like to do that, just always submit and go back to main page - and pick the next game according to time... (Until Fencer can get this implemented.)

Hope this helps!

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

I don't understand all this fuss over timing out in games. I have completed close to 2000 games on IYT and this site, and I have timed out in 6 of them, all 6 were on one occasion when I was out of town for a week without computer access.

It is not difficult to avoid timing out-- choose games with at least 3 days to move, and don't let the timer get so low that tewchnical problems can result in a timeout. Also, don't start so many games that they can't all be gotten to in time because of the sheer volume.

I have just timed out on games because I could not get into this site, I am limited to dialup at the moment, and find my game sheet takes an inordinate time to load or just will not load at all..has this been a site wide problem or is it just happening to me? I know dial up is slower than cable, but none of the other sites seem to be affected

I have found between about 8:30 to around midnight GMT is very slow, and sometimes won't load at all. But all other times (at least when i try to log on) it works great! :-)

It's hard to say what is to blame. I have a cable modem and I have not had any trouble making moves tonight. The dialup should be slower, but not so dramatically slower. It could be a combination of things.

Uil, if OK by you, let's ask Fencer to re-instate the game.

Fencer, could you please resinstate game 84458, a Loop Chess game between Uil and myself whereby Uil timed out on 5th May.

Many thanks,

Blaze

I had another request by someone asking it it was possible for Big Boses to send a blanket message to all members of there fellowship, to keep them up to date & with new tournaments etc...
Would there be any way to do that or a way that what the Boses write on there news board to be sent to there members as messages.
It was also suggested that maybe there was an (XX new) number beside the Fellowship board to let people know.
I have explained the problem that a few people are having at present with new messages not being shown beside boards at the moment at all.
I think you probably have these on your list already Fencer, could you give us any news when possible.
Thanks
MM :-)

If you have a message alert system on your computers and a favourites button as well, it is possible to flit from one site and the choices on each site easily. MSN do it, vodafone do not charge unless you use mobile to reply, I think this may help some of the other queries too.

It is an idea, I never timed out, normally playing at least once a day, but this game was a game with a 1 day time limit. It is all my mistake, i don't blame anyone else. It is just a feature request.
Uil

I wonder if we could turn off the auto refresh after actually clicking on a piece, or clicking the "resign button". That way the page wouldn't refresh in the middle of writing a note to the other player. Thanks.

grenv, why not just turn off the autofresh altogether? You can just hit F5 to refresh, or hit the refreash buttton on the toolbar.

Because this way I can watch TV or read a book(!) and just glance up from time to time to see if it's my turn. I'm basically lazy. Also I can have the window open in one corner and be working somewhere else on the screen and see when it's my turn. etc etc.

well this is the first time today I have been able to get into this site, the site would not load at all this morning, if this keeps up I will use up all my vacation days because its the only way I can avoid timing out...other people are saying they are having problems either getting in, or the site being very slow... If this is a widespread problem shouldn't the timeout clock be stopped?

I will stop the clock soon because we will be adding a second server and making some changes.

Is there any reason I havent been able to get into the site Fencer? If not, then I think I will have to consider not playing here anymore, as I am finding it very frustrating not being able to load the site and play when I have the time

Please read the BrainKing.com board for more information.

Fencer, when we resign a game is it possible to have a 'resign and go to next game' button? Right now we are taken to the main page and when you're in the middle of a lot of games its off-putting!

How about a "resign and insult the opponent" button. That would save me some typing. ;-)

Insult the opponent? Man you are harsh grenv. Of course I noted the sarcasm of the statement. LOL

Has anyone noticed that while the 'move and go to main page etc' box works, the other one 'move and go to game#' does not? No matter which game I select, it goes to the 'next game'

Is there a way that if you have someone on your enemies list, it will also block having to read their messages on the message boards?

Sometimes there are people who post "garbage" that would be nice to be able to skip - and not have to wait for a moderator to come along and delete it.