I am sure this was asked for a while ago (BBW or Tigger i think).
Could we have the option to change our icon (and pictures as well i guess) back to one we have already used, without having to re-submit it again.

I just wanted to go back to one i used a while ago, but no longer have it on my PC. If i right click on the icon stored here (brainking URL of course), i have to re-submit it to be approved.

Seems rather silly as it has been approved already and a waste of time for Fencer (or who ever does it).

Surely a small bit of code to pick up the fact it is a brainking URL and been used before it could change it automatically (until if/when we have a better way to change them over)

MadMonkey: Yes i agree, or maybe have an album where we could store previously used pics, and where members could view them, instead of having to keep changing the pic all the time

In Frog Finder you have generally two options: shoot or guess. I know that it is caused by my own stupidity, but today I guessed two times when I wanted to shoot and I shot one time when I wanted to guess. Very annoying ;)

So what I am suggesting is to have a different marker for the field when guessing. Maybe a flag, similar to the well known Minesweeper. So I would notice that I did click the wrong link before hitting the submit button.

This game is pretty interesting to play. But due to the border I can't easyly see it IS an Extinction Chess game. This game requires a total different strategy, and it is the 103,768,761.5 th time I played a foul move what should have been a normal chess move, but caused trouble or a directly game loss. Please help me by adding a border color for this game.

Gordon Shumway: I know someone else who does that a lot

I agree, it is very irritating and a flag would help alot, even though it is our own faults

MadMonkey: It would even help if there was something on the last page before submitting that would indicate that you're guessing. Now I started to hit the back button and look at the little red sentence over the board, which tells me wether to shoot or guess. But a graphical indicator is always preferred ;)

joshi tm: This is a very old discussion, which we had several times. But I still think you're right, and that unambiguousness goes over habit (edit: I am everything but sure that this is the right word ;).

Gordon Shumway: Well it's almost the same graphics problem as the Frog Finder game.

I go to a user's profile. Select the "Finished games" tab. Then click "only show games against me". And then I can see how many games I have won/draw/lost against that particular player.
Could a total of these numbers be added to the table in this situation? There are some players against who I play many different game types and it gets kind of hard to find out who is the overall best...

pauloaguia: Yes.

Fencer: Thank you very much.

While you're at it, why not add a few columns to that page:
Total games as first color (or just named "first color")
Total games as second color (or just named "second color")
Total rated games
Total games (not particularly important, anyone can add two numbers)


(this post isn't intended to be as rude as it may sound)

I am totally fed up with having to roll dice, when my piece off the board has no way of coming back on. Why does my opponent have to agree before I can get an Auto pass?

tonyh: Absolutely! I have a game like that which has been going about 7 weeks in just this situation (in reverse - I have to wait for a couple of days for my opponent to pass, when he has no option.) It is time something was done about it. The tournament I am in will probably finish about 3 years after my funeral at this rate.

Fencer: Could the auto-pass feature be turned on by default, when a user is new to Brain King?

joshi tm: Yes.

joshi tm: Nice idea. Unfortunally, the majority of the games I play are against people who aren't new, and don't have autopass turned on.

Now, I can't prove it, but I think most of them don't have autopass turned on because they either don't know about it, or don't care (and then won't take the trouble to turn it on).

Oh well. I recently played my first game where autopass was actually used. (And I now have a couple of games that drag on because I have a pass and I'm not passing until the game is about to time out - if my opponent doesn't want autopass, he'll just have to live with loooooooooooooooong games)

Fencer: Are there any statistics how many users use auto pass?

Fencer: and when you turn it on by default, could it be even if a game is in progress? Also, does it have to be for new users? Could not it be in default for everyone?

In Chess there is a new name in top position (kpaba), have invited her but she has declined. It's OK that everybody can invite and decline whenever he wants, but the case that a player takes the top position from another without playing with him needs IMHO an exception. In this case the former one should have a right to play with the new one for the top position, and a declination of the new one to play should be regarded as resigning the game.
(Of course, not only for Chess, but for all games).
Fencer: Can you implement in the ratings ladder an
automatic function that makes this feature possible?

Hi all....love this site and I love meeting people from around the world...would it be possible to have a page where you can see all the flags and the name of the country beside it ....it would limit asking each person in game chat each time you dont recognize their flag ...I only ask because some get offended if I dont know their flag...so maybe we can avoid this ty ..looking forward to your response

Mike

ScorpionOct64: HI Mike,

Did you know that if you place your mouse over the flag, it will tell you the name of the country and the number of players on the site that display that flag?

Also, if you click on the flag, it will open up a new windwon with the list of players from that country, along with the name of the country.

Eriisa: ok ty so much

We should be able to leave notes for ourselves in pond games just like we can in any other game. This feature is missing!

joshi tm: Yes, not enough. ;-)

ScorpionOct64: you can also hover your mouse over their player piece and it will tell you their country as well as their sex

Thad: thats deffinatly needed and already been asked for

Vikings: ty that makes things easier

Is it possible to enter a 'tournaments entered' column on the finshed games page next to the 'tournaments won' (WT) column?

It would be nice to see what games a player enters tournies into as well as how often they win when they enter!

Vikings: hexkids grease monkey script did this. Not sure if it works with the new layout.

I would like to see dominoes in Brainking. I think it is a wonderful game.

joshi tm: Actually, I don't think it should be turned on by default. New users may become confused when all of a sudden a game gets passed back to them with a completely different configuration and don't know what's going on.

What I do think is that AutoPass should be a one side feature. If I want to automatically pass when it's my turn, the system should do so, weather my opponent chooses the same setting or not. Weather I pass or AutoPass has absolutely no impact on how my opponent plays the game on his/her side.

inpassant:

When a game in a multi games is finished, could the running score please be shown in the Message box

pauloaguia: Totally agree with you; please let us have this feature.

How about this for an idea.

Lets say a game is sent to you where you have to pass, have a prompt that says "Do you want to continue to pass until you can make a move?" yes/no

If you choose yes - it will continue to pass until you have a move to make. If you say no, the game will come back to you the next move.

If the player says yes, then have a small note go along with the game to the opponent which says "Your opponent choose to automatically pass his moves until he has a move to make. So any messages you write them may not be read until they have a move to make." That way the opponent knows the message isn't being read AND it gives each user the CHOICE to use or not use autopass.

WellyWales: Yes, good idea.

BIG BAD WOLF: Very good idea!

BIG BAD WOLF: that is how pocket-monkey does it I believe

BIG BAD WOLF: Even better would be a "yes, but only for "n" moves", that way you could make series of auto-passes, just to take a look at the game once in a while

El Cid: BBW's proposal is already very fine with me, I don't think we need to make it more complicated to implement (hence less likely to be implemented at all).

SafariGal: yea, that is how that site does it. Just about anything will be better then how the autopass is working on this site now... which is in my opinion is basically useless in it's current form on this site.

BIG BAD WOLF: this is also the slowest for playing at too. I have an extreme cable connection and still I am twiddling my thumbs on this site.

In Logik, when you click on a color, you can place it multiple times on the board until you click on another one.
Can the boards for Espionage / Chess / Battleboats work in a similar way? There are 5 Sappers, 8 Pawns, etc to place on the board. If we didn't have to keep selecting them it would be much faster to place the pieces on the board...
How about: as long as a similar piece is available to be placed, the selection will remain on that type.

pauloaguia: good idea

The top of the Tourmant pae looks like this

Tournaments(discuss)
Show tournaments created by me only
This page contains a list of all defined tournaments. You can either browse running tournaments or join a new tournament waiting for players.

How about an extra link: Show only tournaments where I'm signed up?

joshi tm: http://brainking.com/pt/Profile?trnst=0&submit=Mostrar&u=17053&p=3

How about an option to show only the last 10 moves played?

joshi tm: Yes, it will be useful when the rest of the notation column is occupied by a banner ad.