particulary blunt that remark about non-paying members.
almost gothic style after that thief embezzled the money.

I have only problems with fiddlers and cheaters.
Enough thus cannot be worse here.

please stop this buskvibes/taurec, it really is no fun for us to read.. and only causing more problems for yourself...

LMAO I do things like that in games Fencer, normally submit instead of undo LOL

well we knew he is no man.

Sorry, I clicked on "hide" instead of "ban".

Wouldnt be the first time would it Chatty LMAO

you talking to yourself steve.. i see 10 messages to read.. get here and only 2!!! hhhmmmmm lol

I would agree.
Do you not think this is just making you lower to the level of cheaters though? I reckon best action would be to lay off Fencer because he has made the right decision about the "cheater", which being a pawn, you havent seen.
Then by doing this you will show you are adult and on a higher level, and you will get the respect you probably deserve :o)

deliberately that is.

every honest player would be angry
at a webmaster harbouring cheaters while
stealing paid memberships and won games. :-(

Taurec, this is getting you no-where :o( You are directing your anger at the wrong person :o(

Join Brainking. Ah Blah.

the singing cheateres at the gothic board might feel disturbed else.

your visa at brainking are prolongued. :-(

else Filip would not be daring to leave his hideaway this year.

that remark even contains a cheat - again.

surely won't change anything. :-(

What is planned is planned and no complaints from non-paying members can change it.

Protection from cheaters is not planned yet, I see.
Guess you don't want to attract serious players. :-(

BBW: Lots of your proposed features are already planned :-)

A suggestion could be that there could be a few "global moderators" - which are able to edit/delete messages that may need it (and not have to wait for the main moderator or Fencer to get on to deal with it.)

At the same time, there should be someway to track what the global moderators do that way if there are problems, it can be tracked.

(For example - make a "bad stuff" board which can only be seen by Fencer, and whenever a moderator edits or deletes a message, it first gets copied to the "bad stuff" folder with the information of who deleted/edited which messages. That way, if a another moderator gets too big of a head, they can be tracked and delt with.

Monitoring the moderators should be higher priority.
Disappearing messages and provocations summon reactions.

I suggest to change the way how discussion boards are moderated. The new messages should become visble to everybody only after group moderator approves them. This will protect us from spam messages like we see currently on Gothic Chess discussion board.

Hey... you... the mall is open, why don't you go buy that last minute gift for that last minute invisible child ?

(Don't you just love those off-topic foolies?...me neither!)

I asked Fencer a while ago about the system automatically determining the winner of a section before all the games are complete (like it does on GoldToken, if any of you are familiar with that - it marks people as "eliminated" when they can no longer win, and marks player(s) as "winner" possibly even before all the games are complete, allowing future rounds to start with games from the previous round still in progress). Fencer said it was planned, but something like that would have to be tested heavily to ensure it works perfectly before he'd add it to the site, and that's the last i heard from him about it :-)

I'm not sure a Christmas amnesty won't be granted by Fencer for all those banned but there's no way of knowing. He may not have even thought about it. :)

Yea, it would still be nice for the tournament creator to still have the option to start the next round. I know for one of my tournaments, Danochek was the winner and getting ready to move to the next round - which I was waiting on an answer from Fencer to know if the ban was perminate or just temporary, but never got an answer.... which I did not want to start it if he was going to be back. But actually now that I look, the other player has not been on since Nov 10th, so I guess I'll start the last round and just let the games time out. Since they are 2 games per player, it should end as a tie which I believe is fair! :-)

Maybe you are right BBW. But I swear I'm remembering it correctly. I'm not saying the person with the lower score ended up winning the tournament, but tying it.. I COULD be remembering the situation all wrong, certainly..

I agree it would be nice if the program would be able to decide the winner earlier on, in the situations when the outcome of games still going on won't matter.

I had also been thinking about a feature where the creator can have an option when creating the tournatment, to have future rounds start automatically. (and the option to have it the way it is now..)

EDIT: I just went and looked at what the S-B exactly is.. And I see you are correct. I wonder what I was remembering....
I work at a nursing home, maybe it's affecting me.. LOL..

I think Rod03801 meant lower BKR but same score. Its happened to me too

Actually if someone has a lower score, they should never go to the next round. The only time the S-B comes into play is when 2 (or more) players have the same score.

But to have a smarter game engine that could determine when the winner is first noticed would be nice, and also where the next rounds start automaticly without the tournament creator having to do anyting would also be good.

Great idea Caissus..

The only potential problem comes when the winner isn't totally obvious. I have run into tournaments where someone's score was lower than mine, but at the end when the "S-B" was figured out, they actually tied me. If the tournament creator didn't know how to figure out the "S-B", or did it incorrectly, that other person wouldn't have been included in the next round...
It probably doesn't happen very often, but it certainly does happen..

EDIT: In reading your post again, I'm now thinking I may have misunderstood what you were suggesting... so excuse me, if I'm totally off..

In the tournements sometimes all games are ready except one or two less important games.Perhaps it would makes sense,that the tournement creator can start the next round if we have the winners of each group? Otherwise there is a long time until the next round begins and the most players perhaps have forgotten this tournement.:)

Yes, all of this is planned. There is still an unused "Search" menu item :-)

I agree that the letters for the "description" of the tournaments are too small..

Would it be tiresome to introduce a facility whereby it would be possible to search for any particular member's posts by page on a chosen board?

I think Fencer was looking into letting us use colours wasnt he BBW ?

Well a couple of things that could be done is PUT IT IN BOLD - or do something like this: = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = IMPORTANT RULE - PLEASE READ! = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

But I think it would be even better if we could change the color of the fonts and such.

Could the description on a Tourny page be larger fonts than the rest of the page or made more obvious than the rest, or even an extra box for us to add impotant rules etc, (and maybe even be red) because it is obvious that some people dont read the tourny description and just sign up . So if an important note hits them in the face then they will know if they shouldnt be signing etc more obviously.

Steve

Or you can post your pics at the yahoo group!!

yahoo group

Click on 'photo's' and post your own!

Right, but it is a simple work-around to make a quick basic webpage of your pic...
It was simply a suggestion.. :-)

Well, you're assuming that people have their pictures already posted on some web page. If I just had a picture on my desktop that wouldn't help.

I think grouping the games in the waiting room according to game type, instead of alphabetical, would be a great idea. But I personally like being able to see all the available games on ONE page.. Or maybe an option to check off the specific games you want to see everytime you enter the waiting room, (with the option to "see all games").

OH, and I don't know what "rollover unfolding to submenus" means, but maybe if someone describes them, we webtv users can tell you if we have seen that sort of thing working for us. A lot of times things don't work exactly the same for us, but do, in a modified way. One example is when on a computer you click something and it brings up a new "window", on webtv, some of these are handled by putting this new "window" at the bottom of the page.. and the screen scrolls down to it, and if you scroll up, you see the original page you clicked off of. (Not that any of that has ANYthing to do with the "rollover unfolding to submenus" thing, just an example as to how things sometimes work differently for us.. lol)

Well, you can certainly use HTML and post a link to your picture in the "description" area of the profile... Or am I misunderstanding?

Not yet.

is there a way to add to our profiles a spot to post our piccy's if we wished to?

I also don't like the idea of "rollover" menus and such - making things too fancy can make it harder for some players to play.

I don't use the waiting room, but an idea - how about orginizing the waiting room by game type. For example:
CHESS GAMES:
chess game #1
chess game #2
Loop chess game #1
anti chess game #1

BACKGAMMON GAMES:
backgammon game #1
backgammon race game #1

etc......

I think possible orginizing it like that might be better then just alphabetic.

Ah-ha! Something like on ICQ :-) No, I am afraid that web applications are not designed for it.

I used to be on a "chatprogram" Paltalk ..(Paltalk.com) there you can click a users name and chose file transfer.
I have no idea how it works :) Just a thougth/idea.

I don't understand what you mean by "file transfer". How do you want to "transfer" them, upload to BrainKing and let someone else download them?