good idea

Sounds like a great addition.

Fencer: would acey-duey be a great addition to Backgammon...

i know this subject has been mentioned numerous times but is it possible to make it so you can see if someone is on auto-vacation and how many vacation days they have left as i am in a tourney wich is being held up by one person who is on auto-vac and hasnt made a move yet and im wondering how many more days this will go on for. Is this at all possible??

there's another difference, you have to roll 1-2 or doubles just to get on the board

Vikings: you do?, i've never heard that rule.. i've always played it where you get to move pieces on with any rolls.
I love this game though, gets irritating when a combination like this happens though 1-2, 6-6, 1-2 6-6, 1-2, 6-6 5-6 lol

furbster: the version I've played for bout 25 years, is you lose your turn if you get a third acey-duecy in a row, same goes for just playing regular rolls, if you roll doubles you play them, roll, get a second set of doubles, then play...but if your third roll is another doubles, it's your opponents turn.....

yup, thats the way I remember it

Zorro: thats a good idea would resolve a lot of problems.

Fiona: you can now see how many vacation days someone has left when you look at their profile

I'd like some acacia trees, then when I look at players online and find them browsing, I can imagine they're giraffe strolling tropical plains silhouetted against the setting sun.

i would love a deep sea theme ;)

or a 'zandbak' .. why isnt there an english word for 'zandbak' ?

can this be considered 'not burying' ?

Please don't bury the recent legitimate requests.

Hrqls: there's no english word for "irie" either. kinda says something about our culture, don'tcha think?

my legitimate request (which someone may have made already) is that, when we lose a game of dark battleboats, we see the positions of our opponents' boats. it's a little frustrating to have the game end and to not thereby discover where that damn boat was that i'd been knocking myself out trying to find. :)

zandbak: Sand Barge?
irie: ??????

Fencer, for the gammons, ESPECIALLY HYPER, instead of seeing the win ratio stats for white/black, could we see the wins based on the player moving first vs. the player moving second? The way it's currently set up, black and white are irrelevant because they have no bearing on the order of play, which is determined randomly.

grenv: irie is a word used by the Rastafari (which would make it a Jamaican word, i guess?) that, as i understand it, means "feeling the best you can possibly feel." i think it says something about our culture that we have no word for that concept.

(sorry, Ms. Dottie - i'll shut up now. for the time being, at least. :)

i think it would be nice if choosing "Inbox" or "Outbox" from the popup menu at the top of my message box page would switch me to the chosen box by itself. having to click the "Show" button seems to me an unnecessary extra step. thanks... :)

plaintiger: do you mean eerie?

nobleheart: Um, eerie is an english word already, no need for a translation there.

Please.. this is

grenv: duh..of course,but he wrote "irie"
...follow the link back,see what the conversation was about.

Ok... sorry, but further posts on this subject will be deleted.

on occasion,are pawns allowed to try a pond?

Yeah, when they become a knight/rook! :-D

It would be nice to be able to prune the waiting games page by days per move.

Once again I have opponents timeout and get autovacation while they are online!!!! Autovacation should not be intended to protect players who can't keep up because the started too many games, only players who cannot log in for some reason.

My feature request is: Autovacation only kicks in for players who have not been online for at least the last 24 hours.

grenv: Good idea.

Fencer: I have been on this bandwagon before, but here is an example:
A Hyperbackgammon Tournament with 4 days per move (I can't IMAGINE why anybody would need to think for 4 days to make a hyper move!) began on 13/02/05. I am playing TWO games against one player, whio has made ONE move in ONE game, and NO moves in the other - although her last signon was 12/03/05. She currently has 326 unfinished games, and in 289 it is her turn.
Now I am not a young man, and I figure on being about 5 years older before these games are completed. What I want to know is, if I don't live for another five years, do I get 3 months autovacation after my funeral before the tournament can proceed? Or do I need to rely on GRENV to alert you to my demise so that the tournament can proceed?

pgt: hahahaha OMG...you are so funny, and I think we all know to whom you are talking about....but you are right....too many laxative rules that can be manipulated to suit :(...SORRY...pgt..but is is sort of funny :)
***EDIT***....hmmmmmm change laxative to LAX
but it does give ya da poops LOLOL

pgt: Maybe you could play by seance? In fact you could seek divine assistance with your moves. We wouldn't know.
Maybe Fencer could arrange a 'discount for the deceased' membership? Brain Angel or something.
Maybe you could persuade God to join BK? There again, He's omnipotent and omnipresent so Fencer would probably ban Him for having multiple accounts.

pgt: Such users will be always here and you know it. It's not nice to blame anybody else for it.
And everybody knows that I want to introduce certain changes to both auto vacation and tournament system but it simply cannot be done quickly. Patience is what I ask for.

Fencer: wooohoooo a card game LMAO

I know I know..taken out of context ;o) ;oÞ

"chuckles to ones self"

Often, when a feature is presented a lengthy discussion occurs about how members want to see it implemented. These iscussions often "hide" other features. So...I have created a fellowship to allow these lengthy discussions. Anyone and evyone is invited. For the Pawns, I appologize. But, a upgraded membership is quite cheap.

So, Do you want to discuss features in detail? come on and Join the Feature Discussion Fellowship.

For the mods on this board...sorry if you feel this post is out of line here. I felt this was the place.

maybe a link to the FS could be added to the description of this DB? Just a thought...

Summertop: Nice idea.

As for adding it to this db description it's bumble's decision and he's in Argentina at the moment. He should be back here on Thursday.

grenv: Yes, and no autovacation for games on which the timing out player hasn't moved yet. Or on which no 2 moves have been played yet.

When I create a new "News" post in one of my fellowships, it shows on the main fellowships page. Could we also have it show on the regular discussion board for that fellowship?

Summertop: The whole fellowship system is to be changed.

Fencer, cool. Can/will you give us some teasers? I hope we don't lose any of the cool features we've come to love.

I am not sure how long till the new fellowships are done. But, if it is going to take a while...could you look at this again? Not knowing your development environment and program layout, I would hope that it could be a simple cut/paste to add new to the general discussion board. If not...Oh, well. COuldn't hurt to ask

Summertop: The easiest work-around for the time being, is to just copy and paste the news item into the "EDIT" link on the top of the discussion board

i'd like clicking the red number next to the "Message box" link to take me to the oldest unread message in my box instead of the newest one. sometimes i have several new messages whose order of arrival is significant and if i click the red number and see the last one first it doesn't make any sense. so i don't click the red number any more because i find using it more confusing than convenient.

and it's a minor thing, i suppose, but i still think the name of the "enemies" list should be changed to "blocked users" or something. "enemy" is too strong a word for the purpose - calling blocked users "enemies" is akin to calling the "friends" list "lovers". it's inappropriate, and kind of off-putting (in my opinion).

Right.

plaintiger: Interesting idea - I have only one "enemy" for that very reason, but I'd love to block a couple of others for whom "enemy" is just TOO strong and lover is inappropriate

and this has probably already been suggested - possibly even by myself - but i'd like to be able to add notes to my blocked users so i'll always remember why i blocked them.

and speaking of adding notes to our people lists, the means of adding a note to an entry on my "friends" list is unintuitive. i didn't even know what it was for until someone told me - largely because there's a "submit" button, but noplace to enter anything to submit. so i didn't know what i would be submitting by clicking it.

i think it should say "change description for" followed by the popup menu from which you choose a person's name, then by a field in which you type your notes, and then by the Submit button (this would also turn what is now a two-step process into a one-step process).

you shouldn't be presented with a button that says "submit" until after you've been given an opportunity to present something for submission (i.e., type something).

can you tell i used to be a software test engineer?

And since we're talking about little red numbers, can the number of new posts by the DB name be made as a link to the first unread post?
Nowadays, I have to do it by hand - I copy the link of the db name, see how many new messages there are (the red number), paste the link in the address bar and add the text "&bms=XXX" (being XXX the largest multiple of 5 below the number of new messages - I have 5 messages per page).
If the link was added automatically when building the page, it would be swell

pauloaguia: nice work around! thanks :)