Please keep things positive. Best advise I believe is to try out different sites. Find what works well for you. If you don't like it, don't go back and try another site. Nothing says you only have to play on 1 site. At one time, I played on about 6 different turn-based game sites.
volant: Make sure you have greasemonkey installed, go to IYT, then right click on the little greasemonkey icon. In there it should say 4 scripts available for IYT, just open that up and it shows you the ones there are I have not actually used either of them, the Menu one would be handy there, but we already have it here, and the Halma one i have not tried as i can not be asked to start a game just to see what it does lol Doing my head in trying to learn greasemonkey, but i want to do it
MadMonkey: In reply to myself, i had a look at IYT, and they have 2 greasemonkey scripts available for the site. One adds different selections on the games menu (as in Move and goto .... ) a bit like hexkid created for here a couple of years back. The other is a simple one that helps people score Halma games, and hopefully learn by how well they are doing. by giving values to the diagonal rows as you make your way across the board, wonder if that wold work here
I know Facebook is a Social Networking site and not a games site, but for those that play there hopefully would know of PackRat (probably the most addictive game on Earth)
A major update of PackRat is being released today sometime (about midday Texas time i think) and boy is it causing shock waves over there. Even with the main application itself off line at present the Discussion boards are going mad with anticipation.
Going to be a hectic evening for the players, and the code writers........................ just hope all works out there will be many thousands of unhappy people
I have been playing a dutch lady at logic there and she told me about that site as well
On BugCafe as well, just a side note, they released a Newsletter last week, guess it is still there, and this year they are addressing several of the major issues about the site, the size & set up of the Main Manager page being one
Like the set up, but have to find my way about yet. Just played a practice game against the computer there at Guess the Code (Logik here) and love the colour selection process. Maybe we could have drop boxes with colours instead of words
Will pop back there later to have a look and maybe play a game. Found coan.net, my first friend their lol, added you, but not found out how to find if you are online or not yet lol
coan.net: Been playing the boats more & more there now
Those diagonal ones make it a great game as the board is based on squares, therefore boats can go across each other (A1, B2, C3, D4 & D5) and the other (D1, C2, B3 & A4) for example.
You can set the games to include diagonal boats or not, and also have boats that just use ONE space, would be like having one Frog in the game OR we could call it Life Raft (great idea monkeyboy lol)
In fact what is great about BugCafe, well a few of there games, is you can create your own rules as such, like design your own Scrabble boards, any size you wish, and set bonus squares anywhere you wish them, how ever many tiles you want.
Would be great if we could do that here with Boats here, decide how many of which boats we use in a game
In fact be great if we could do it for any game here that Fencer can not find time to make even the smallest changes for
BugCafe has come along way since it first started with just Scrabble.
It has now introduced Mancala & Dice Poker (Bugzee as they call it), so now has all types of games & more than BrainKing does, just not all the variations.
Its a lot more basic than here, but very playable
We had a burst of new games at the start of 2007, BECAUSE of all the Black Rook memberships.
When will we get something new now, even the most basic sites are leaving us behind now