IMupChucKing, As far as Friends go, there is an option on your friends page to make a note about them. I use that to put a name in of a person who changes frequently. That only helps if you have that person on your friends list, of course.

I don`t know why it is necessary that a user can change his name at every time. At the most server the nickname is not changeable.

maye you could put an option where, instead of letting people change their name they can instead reserve a new name. Lets say you get tired of your current name. imply choose to reserve an extra name to your account. you could then choose in your profile which name you want to use. it would also list in your profile what names you have reserved. a site I go to frequintly does this.

the site is tmallance.com(a mature site by the way) there any one can create reserved names so long as they aren't on moderation.

did I make any sense?

btw, perhaps you could limit how many reserved names some one can have based on their membership level?

just another thought

Sometimes I like to change my name to include a message. For example, if I suddenly have to go out of town for work, it's nice to change my name to "Thad (gone until tomorrow)" so that people know when I'll be back. I know I can change my profile, but it's nice to put it right into my name so that others see it right on their games page. If I had to reserve names ahead of time, I couldn't change my name last minute. A names history (sorta like eBay does) would probably be best.

the site I refered to does it right away. reserving a name is just a title. what I mean is once you put the name in it is yours and will stay yours until you delete it. You basically just add extra names you can switch with instead of having to type it. it would require the same, if not less time to do as just changing your name the way it is now.

I wish I could explain it better.

IT doesnt matter what people do to change names to avoid detection or any other reason. You have an ID number on the site which is in your profile. That number is unchangable.

yeah, but people don't remember numbers (not to mention they're not easy to see on your every day moves around the site).
A simpler option could be to stick somebody to a username and allow for a changeable nickname. So one day I could be "Coelho (pauloaguia)" and on another "CometSeeker (pauloaguia)".
This way everyone would be happy...

Just my two bits...

I understand what you are saying paulo. However if you have a person stalking you get the ID number and put them on your enemies list. This way when they change names to try to stalk you under a different name, you will easily see it.

I've alway wondered what Gothic Fortress Loop would be like. :)

Chessgi is played at Gold Token and that is one of two things keeping me on that site. the other is the promis of dominoes I would love to see both chessgi and dominoes added here and doninoes has many variants as well.

RamblinMan: Loop Chess is not enough for you?

Even though I do not play dominoes much, I would think Dominoes might bring a new wave of people to this game site just to play dominoes! (which they would then see the rest of the site, and hopefully buy a membership.)

Thanks fencer that sounds as if it is exactly what I was looking for. so now the only thing holding me to (that other place) is the promise of dominoes to be added in the future. how about it Fencer do you think it will be added here? Please...?

Can you give me an URL of some page with Domino rules?

Yes there are many out there but the game I call DOMINOES is also called MUGGINS or FIVES and the rules for that basic Game can be found here... http://www.gamecabinet.com/rules/DominoMuggins.html and if you ever want to add variants or just see the rules for other DOMINOES variants go here... http://www.gamecabinet.com/rules/DominoGames.html hope this helps.

:)

I would love to see card games on a turn based game site!! (As real time card sites are not compatible with WebTV) .. but I think it has been pointed out that most card games would not work well on a turn based site. I can't remember the reason. Too lengthy possibly?..
Though that doesn't seem to stop people from playing anti-backgammon! lol.

A game of royal casino lasts 24 moves each, in chess terminology that's a miniature, so it's difficult to posit length as an objection.

I don't remember now what the people who said it couldn't be done, said. I was just guessing.
I'm a card playing addict. Believe me, I would LOVE to see card games here.

Multi-player games (3 or more) won't work, but Gin is 2 player. With 10 cards dealt to each player, the hand can't go more than 32 ply + whatever pickups are made. While the hand _can_ theoretically go long, in practice, they don't.

You can also add the variations, such as straight gin and Oklahoma.

http://www.pagat.com/class/domino.html
has a LOT of different games

Part of a game like Hearts of Bridge is remembering what has been played. Viewing past hands is not allowed. That would make turn based cards difficult if moves came with long time gaps in between. :-(

One can always play back through the previous moves, as one does in slow games of dark chess. It would be nice, as a starting point, to know how many two player card games are being requested(?)

That's true, but, for me at least, that would make it too much work to play. ;-)

I would still like to see ataxx on here, a variant of which is the Outbreak game on Gold Token and another is Armada on Neopets.

Both Dominoes and Outbreak would also be great as multi-player games :o)

Any update on this ?

From: Fencer 28. March 2003, 06:08:14
I plan to add Chinese Chess. But first I have to 1) finish current tasks, 2) learn how to play it ;-)

Can you see it in "Features in development (sorted by priority)"?

lol

I had a member of one of my fellowships who let his membership expire (revert back to pawn). This led me to these two suggestions...

1. the Big Boss (and team captian) need a way to remove someone from a team (or did I just not see how this is done).

2. When you remove someone from a fellowship, it would be nice to be able to say "Why".

Summertop, if you remove someone from your fellowship, they are automatically removed from teams too. But you can't take them out of teams and leave them in the fellowship.

i think to take them out of a team that is signed up (is that what you meant) you would leave the tournament and resign up.

What is the effect of such a lapse mid tournament though?

Nope ... That's why I asked !

I did remove the member form the fellowship and he was automatically removed from the team.

I would have prefered to just remove him from the team. The team is not signed up for (or in) a tournament yet.

long: it's at the top of this page:

Feature requests Moderator: bumble, red dragon
Do you miss something on BrainKing.com and would you like to see it here? Post your request into this board!

Features in development (sorted by priority):

Pro Backgammon (with doubling cube).
Ludo.
Ladders.
Full Unicode support.

what is:full unicode support?

Unicode is similar to ASCII...It uses two bytes per character/letter. This way extended character sets such as chinese can be supported.

Is this correct?

Unicode is another character system, like ascii. Since the ascii character set (the one most widely used, including on this site) nearly restricts characters to english, it does not work so well for languages that are not english. Unicode support will make it much easier for Fencer to support additional languages.

great! now I have to learn to say"good luck" in chinese! LOL:)

will be easier than welsh LOL

I've always wondered if Welsh sounds like its spelled? I've never heard it,I dont think.

You cant get a translator software either from what i can tell LOL

once a day..can you remove the game time suspension?
Thus meaning, any one abusing it or not, their games will time out as they should. Because youve only done it incase the site crashes havent you. So whats the harm turning it off for an hour each day while you are online fencer

I think he done it because he was expecting the site to be slow all running from the same machine - but I have not seen much of a difference.

I would turn back on time for good (well unless things do get worse, then bring back the time suspension)

... of course after I wrote that, I had a minor slow-down of the site & pages not loaded.

Not bad, but is the first time I've seen the site really slow down. :-)

I'am running real slow,some bad games coming up while i'am playing,some entery of things blow out,hope fencer get things going.

What feature request is that?

<I'am on high speed.This site has become ,like milking a cow by hand,LOL, It has ben very fast until lately, Fencer...LOL>>:)

Nonsense. It's very fast now. And it has nothing to do with feature requests.

GothicInventor was it?