BrainKing - Diskusjonsforum (Feature requests)

Emne: Re: mobile brain king

mctrivia: I am typing this response on my HTC Kaiser (320x240 screen) sitting in a train, so I guess BrainKing can be used with mobile devices, if you install Opera Mobile.

And BrainKing automatically makes some optimizations when "PocketPC" string is detected at the user agent.

5. februar 2008, 13:33:16

Jason

Emne: Re: mobile brain king

Fencer: when i have tried to connect to brainking using a mobile device i get "the requested server does not have a DNS entry! "

5. februar 2008, 13:41:24

Emne: Re: mobile brain king

Jason: Hmmm. I don't think that I can do anything about that because BrainKing obviously has a DNS entry. Didn't you make a typo?

6. februar 2008, 04:05:50

Emne: Re: mobile brain king

Fencer: I have an HTC Touch running Windows Mobile 6. I get to the DoLogin page and there it sits forever with a blank page

6. februar 2008, 06:50:56

Emne: Re: mobile brain king

mctrivia: And which web browser do you use?

6. februar 2008, 08:24:06

Emne: Re: mobile brain king

Fencer: IE not much extra space to add extra programs right now

6. februar 2008, 08:25:44

Emne: Re: mobile brain king

mctrivia: I am aware of this problem because it doesn't work with IE on my PDA too. There must be issues with HTTP header processing but I am not sure how to solve it. However, since everything works fine with Opera Mobile, it could be a problem of Microsoft's.

6. februar 2008, 11:34:36

Emne: Re: mobile brain king

Fencer: since you're talking about mobile browsing, i've tried to see how the site looks like in my perfectly normal mobile phone. I'm using opera mini. I can read boards just fine. With some degree i can even play ponds. The game boards, however, simply suck. I can only view them properly on normal mode, but then i can only see a small portion of the board at a time. I've tested frog and dice games, i still need to check out chess boards. As it is now, there's still a long way to go...

6. februar 2008, 12:03:24

Emne: Re: mobile brain king

pauloaguia: That's true. BrainKing is not fully optimized for playing games on mobile devices yet.

6. februar 2008, 12:29:48

Emne: Re: mobile brain king

Fencer: Actually I stand corrected. Seems like I picked preciselly the wrong types of games. Attax, Backgammon, Ludo and Minishoggi are perfectly playable (though in the later case I can't see the captured pieces properly when in compact mode).
So it seems like it's not a long way to go - just some adjustments in particular games...

6. februar 2008, 15:06:27

Emne: Re: mobile brain king

Fencer: i will try out opra if I can get the room.

7. februar 2008, 02:20:01

Eriisa

Emne: Re: Marking guessed fields in Frogs.

AbigailII: What I do is make a guess and choose "stay here" then i put the grid result in my notes if it was a miss.

There will be a link "go to next Frog game" if you have more games.

It gave me my sanity back........... (mostly)

7. februar 2008, 10:47:26

AbigailII

Emne: Re: Marking guessed fields in Frogs.

Eriisa: I guess that's possible (although with my style sheet, there's not input field for notes...), but it still remains awkward. You still have to map the coordinates to the screen. Possible - but playing a game of chess with just the board and the list of moves is possible as well.

The link to "go to next Frog game" is not there if use the "lightweight" settings.

7. februar 2008, 12:07:17

Emne: Fellowships

Modifisert av pauloaguia (7. februar 2008, 12:08:30)

I would like...

a place where I can see a list of my fellowship's BKR at all games, and the standing position as well without having to set some setting that is related to the main page and whose side effect is activating this information in fellowships as well - I like to keep my main page clean

that the fellowship's information wasn't all cluttered in one page. We have so many pages with severall tabs already, why not the fellowship page too? (I find that Waiting Fellowship Games tab rather silly all alone by itself when there is so much information that should be in its own tab as well)

to be able to create a fellowship tournament without having to look for a link for it in the teams section. Most tournaments are created with more than one game type anyway - why keep it in the teams? Why not in the tournaments section, bellow? If I'm grabbing stats from past tournaments and want to create the next month's tournament why do I need to scroll the page to a more or less unrelated area?

to have checkboxes by the list of challenges from other fellowships so that I could easilly accept / reject a batch of them

the hability to define a fellowship as an ALL GAME fellowship, so that when new games are created, the teams are automatically created as well

a quick overview chart so that I'd know at a glance what fellowshi members are in what teams and I knew what teams I'm not yet registered with; or what teams need more players; or how many games a certain player has played by a specific team so I'd know not to always call the same ones over and over; or...

for a BigBoss to know how many members a global fellowship message was sent to or how many have that option disabled even before sending such a message. In some fellowships, many players have them disabled so the BigBoss will think he's alerting many people for something when in fact he's just talking to himself.

Ok, I think that's enough already (for now, at least). I know I'll never get to see them all implemented but I'd really like to see some of them (especially the ones I've already asked about in the past).

7. februar 2008, 15:35:48

coan.net

Emne: Re: mobile brain king

Fencer: I tried yesterday to play on here through the Nintendo DS Opera Browser - I was able to make 1 move, but after that I gave up - just so much information that loads was slowing it down and making it hard to scroll to the place I needed to be to make the move.

I'm not sure if the site recognized it was a mobile version or not...

Idea: Go and register BrainKing.mobi - and then make a mobile version of BrainKing that has the very basic of information. Then you don't have to worry as much about having the site try to recognize which person is viewing the page from a mobile device or not.

7. februar 2008, 15:46:01

coan.net

Emne: Re: Fellowships

pauloaguia: Here are my thoughts on your suggestions:

1. I agree. I have turned off this information a long time ago, and always forget that the fellowships have this. A "Statistics" tab in the fellowship would be a good place to put this (and other things mentioned below)

2. Well I first agree since many pages do have a lot, but then I got to thinking what can be moved to different tabs. Finished & running tournaments (leaving open tournaments on main page). Same with challenges maybe.

3. It would be nice if when you click the "create tournament" instead of the game which was up being the only option to choose from from the drop down - that all fellowships games were listed would be nice. When I create site-wide tournaments, it is nice because I can create a tournament, hit the back button, change the important information and submit again. In fellowship, I have to go all the way back to the begining to start a new tournament.

4. This would be hard - since you have to pick your players who will play in each challenge - to have a checkbox to select them all - you still would need to go through each one to select your players - so I would not think this would be much of a time saver.

5. I agree - and in the "Fellowship list" which lists all the fellowship, instead of the long list of games that each fellowship offeres, it can be replaced by "All games"

6. A good thing for the Statistics tab

7. A good thing for the Statistics tab - but would also like to remind BIG BOSSes to also put the information on their discussion boards. I turned this option off on many of my fellowships because the BIG BOSSes were writing a message on the board, then sending the same thing out. I myself read all the discussion boards, so I don't need to read a message twice so I turned the all-fellowship messages off. So as a reminder to BIG BOSSes, to get to someone like me - make sure you also write in your fellowship.

8. februar 2008, 03:25:07

Emne: Re: mobile brain king

Modifisert av mctrivia (8. februar 2008, 03:38:25)

coan.net: i like the idea of .mobi though the main site should still detect a mobile device and forward to that domain like facebook and google.

Or a cheaper option is create a subdomain mobile.brainking.com or just m.brainking.com

Fencer: Free mobile testing program: http://mtld.mobi/

8. februar 2008, 21:26:31

joshi tm

Fencer: Well, you want to do something about Ludo. How about implementing the autopass feature for Ludo first?

8. februar 2008, 21:28:44

Emne: Re:

joshi tm: Who says that I want to do something about Ludo? I have just posted some ideas (which are not mine, anyway).

9. februar 2008, 18:12:36

Beaupol

Emne: Future Request

In the statistic page, you see the top 50 of some statistics. And if you are not in the Top 50, your score is mentioned below of the list.
Is it possible to mention also the current ranking you have with that score?

Thx.

9. februar 2008, 23:48:53

Andersp

Emne: Blog comments

Another repeated request: Since blog comments now are not allowed at the BrainKing.com board and people struggle to post a comment at the blog site.

Shouldnt a board "Blog Comments" make life easier for those brave people who still dare to comment about the site's annoying bad performance and other topics they (the rattlebrained blog trolls) feel important.

Should also give job for one or two mods.

10. februar 2008, 16:01:52

tazman7474

Emne: Re: Future Request

Beaupol: To add to your request, wouldn't a "players near your rank" feature be nice? Say list the 20 players above and below you in each game?

13. februar 2008, 07:27:29

Beaupol

Emne: Re: Future Request

tazman7474: For example this should also be an extra add-on to me request. Maybe a combination of both !!!

13. februar 2008, 09:23:54

Emne: Re: Duplicate invitation button

Thad: Right now you can make the same invitation up to 9 times at once - there's a "number of games" option just below the time settings and above the number of games in match option.

As to a game template, I think that it would be useful (and more or less easily implementable) at least when challenging someone for a rematch (when you get a message with the outcome of the game and then have the option to send a game invitation for the same person)

13. februar 2008, 11:10:36

Fencer, i use my notepad a awful lot, as i tend to post a lot

Hence my list in the notepad tends to get rather long

Could we please have a Delete button at the bottom of the page to delete ALL selected Notes like we have in our Message Box.
There is a 'Select all on this page' tick box there, but that just moves Notes to folders, maybe a Delete beside that

13. februar 2008, 16:35:14

Emne: Message Notifications

I find message notifications that were introduced recently most usefull in many situations. But I'd like to suggest some improvements:

* Bug notifications - I don't need to be notified of my own posts in bugs. I mean, I know I posted there :)
* Board replies - I'd like a new "sub-option" when activating these notifications to activate them only for boards that are not my favourite boards. I read my favourite boards every time I see a red number indicating a new post. I need to be notified of replies to my messages on other boards, that I visit less often.
* Board replies 2 - same thing as with bugs. If I reply to my own message (sometimes I do that, to keep the message in the same thread) there's also no point in sending me a notification about my own posts.

While I'm at it, I think it would be interesting to add another option for bug notifications - the hability to subscribe to a bug. This way people could be notified about the bug's progress without having to post there. Let's suppose my opponent finds a bug in our game and posts a bug and then informs me about it. I could just subscribe to it and be automatically notified about its progress... especially since I may be an important part into clarifying some aspects of the game as well...

15. februar 2008, 16:18:15

AbigailII

Emne: Finished games of this match

If you're playing a multi-point match, there's a table with previous results. It will say things like 'resigned', 'time-out', etc. For gammon games, if the game ended naturally, it will say "All pieces out.", regardless whether the game was won with a (back)gammon or not, or the current value of the cube. It would be interesting to see this information; so I suggest that wording for cubed games be changed into "Backgammon", "Gammon", "All pieces out", or "Double rejected" for backgammon, gammon, 'regular' wins or rejected doubles; in all cases followed by number of points scored (or the value of the cube - given one, the other can be infered). So "Gammon (4)" means that the winner won by gammon, after the cube was doubled.

16. februar 2008, 20:36:28

Emne: New Message Setting...

I do not know to what extent the option above change the game pages.

Just a thought Fencer, but if the opponent has the Setting on Nobody (and friends only for certain people), can the message box be removed or does that happen ?
It would just save writing things that would never get read, this should really happen on Blocked opponents as well

(posted in .info as well)

16. februar 2008, 21:04:57

Emne: Re: New Message Setting...

MadMonkey: Yes, the box is removed and replaced by a description message.

16. februar 2008, 21:05:59

Emne: Re: New Message Setting...

Fencer: Great

18. februar 2008, 19:01:56

joshi tm

Emne: Knight Fight

Sounds as a game with potential. Knights rule ;) For the eye, you should make single mumbers appear with an extra zero before them (like 07)

19. februar 2008, 06:17:45

P-G, Belgia, Brain Rook (for alltid), Mann

P-G

Emne: Email annoucement

Would it not be desirable to display the image of the position and the last move?
So, we could enjoy the position, without overloading the BrainKing site.

20. februar 2008, 05:06:44

redfrog

Emne: Main Page Settings...

"Display games where its my turn only / hide games where its opponents turn"

20. februar 2008, 14:56:06

Emne: Re: Main Page Settings...

redfrog:

Check it.

20. februar 2008, 21:05:47

El Cid

Emne: Re: Main Page Settings...

Fencer: How about hide most of the ponds (show only five ponds) like with games

20. februar 2008, 22:07:09

LionsLair

Emne: hide opponents turn feature

excellent! now if it worked the same way for the 31 ponds I am waiting on that would be awesome!

20. februar 2008, 22:13:18

Carl

Emne: Plakoto.

Love the new "hide games where it's my opponents turn" feature.Would now be a good time to request the backgammon variant Plakoto?

20. februar 2008, 22:17:36

Emne: Re: Plakoto.

Carl: Plakoto requires to create new graphics because we never used combinations of white and black pieces at the same position.
Or is it only about "one white and one black"?

20. februar 2008, 22:42:04

Carl

Emne: Re: Plakoto.

Fencer: No it's not just about one white and one black on the same position.It can happen that there is one white and lots of blacks(or vice versa) at the same place.I don't know anything about programming but i guessed it would'nt be as simple as creating just another version of backgammon.It is still my dream to see the game here,and i'm sure it could bring a lot of Greeks to the site as it seems to be there national game! Thanks for your consideration.

21. februar 2008, 02:26:55

Emne: Re: Plakoto.

Fencer: if to many combinations you could make the pieces on the fly or just make the pieces with clear background and use css to overlap with the board.

21. februar 2008, 05:22:17

Mousetrap

Emne: Re: Main Page Settings...

Fencer: Cool feature thanks!

21. februar 2008, 08:42:33

Emne: Re: hide opponents turn feature

LionsLair: It is done.

21. februar 2008, 11:43:38

Emne: Re: hide opponents turn feature

Fencer:

21. februar 2008, 14:13:28

furbster

What are the rules of plakato? anything like Tapa? love that varient!

21. februar 2008, 14:28:28

Emne: Re:

furbster: This page says that Plakato and Tapa are just the same.

21. februar 2008, 14:56:19

AlliumCepa

Emne: Re:

Fencer: Does it mean that we will have this game here?

It's my favorite Backgammon variant. Very skilful

21. februar 2008, 15:52:54

LionsLair

Emne: Re: hide opponents turn feature

Modifisert av LionsLair (21. februar 2008, 15:56:02)

Fencer: awesome

Thanks

any chance on another pond feature? I know several that would like to be able to sign up for ponds by checking which ones they want to join (from the main page)and doing it with one mouse click instead of having to sign up for each one individually and end up having to see 3 pages per pond.(main,pond,signup, back to main)
signing up for 10 ponds means seeing at least 30 pages ---just something to think about while making the site more user friendly!.

-may want to get rid of "another test pond" while you are at it... it will never start

21. februar 2008, 16:00:37

AbigailII

Emne: Re: Plakoto.

Fencer: Yeah, but you'd need to work on the backgammon graphics anyway, to be able to distinguish between "race" and "normal" stones on the bar. (The latter are required to be played before you can move any non-barred stones, the former don't. "Race" checkers appear in Crowded Backgammon, Backgammon Race, and Cloning Backgammon). ;-)

21. februar 2008, 18:11:13

Emne: Parachute

I love Lines of Action & Scrambled Eggs

How about a small modification to Scrambled Eggs, to get Parachute

. (Could think of a better name lol)

Only half the pieces are on the board to start with (normally left & right sides). Each player starts with six of his opponent's stones in reserve.

The first six moves consist of making a regular move and placing one of the opponent's stones, anywhere on the board.

After this, game continues as normal

21. februar 2008, 19:41:15