pauloaguia: This is true, BUT i think its sad when some people will hold a Tournament up when they have no way of going through to the next round

Which leads to another point always raised, mainly in Elimination Tournaments, why can not the next round continue when even without the previous rounds results ?????

May get more interest from Bishops & Knights (and even Pawns in certain situations) if they do not have to be help up because of a certain few

Anyway, i came second at poker tonight, so not happy

Could we have an option to send a message to everyone taking part in a particular Tournament please

Some Tournaments are all but over, or could go on to the next round, but are being held up for no reason apart from a game win.

Would be nice to be able to contact all involved and see if they will let it proceed

I did mention this a while ago, but thought i would again as someone has asked me to create a Random Challenge that only includes Gammon games.

I know how to do it, but rather than having to challenge each and every Fellowship in turn until one accepts, could we have a Team Match Waiting Room for such challenges.

Then, other Captains / Bosses could go there and see what is available

AbigailII: What is important is that games like Dominoes, Various cards games etc... if they are wanted & will get played, should be looked in to

Fencer: PLEASE, please.... could you make it possible to embed U Tube videos at the top (description area) of Fellowship Discussion Boards

Be great for Music boards

If you use Firefox you can download Paste Email Extension

It sits on your toolbar and gives you 15 spaces to put any messages you like (ok it is meant for email, but no matter, i use it for email and messages)....

Then you just click on it and select the appropriate message you wish to write OR if you use want to use the same one just click once and it will repeat the last one used

Please could we have a Preview button for messages, so links etc.... can be checked to make sure they work

It has been asked before

TarantinoFan: Have a word with mctrivia

He has an AutoPlayer program that you can use

Fencer, A couple of things about links when you have a little time

Could you make the Team Tournament URL (when its copied/pasted) and it translates it for us (rather than doing all the a href= stuff) include the game types as well please.

Attack of the Clones Ludo - like this

And, could you make it translate the Fellowship URL's as well, so if we need to advertise a Team, we can just have the team showing in Fellowship, the Copy/Paste the URL and it will translate it to a clickable link with the correct Team showing.

Also, it does not appear to translate some links in notepad

Thanks in anticipation

This was mentioned back in 2004 by rod03801 (also variously by other since then)

We must be due some more boat variants

I posted a link on here the other day, which had many variations, BUT i think the easiest for Fencer to code would be to have a Boat Plus version where they can be placed diagonal, with maybe an even slighlty larger board 12x12 or 13x13

mctrivia: I am not totally up with Matthew on this (as you know welll lol), BUT if it could help in the long term of page loading / updating it could well be worth looking into further

Maybe you and Fencer should have a talk about it, and it could be your project

dicepro: I second that. Shut the box is a great fast game

We play it in the pub all the time for the odd penny or two

Fencer, i know this has been requested before, but it will not hurt to mention it again.

Could the Tournament Board either be divided in 2 or another created just for Tournament winners

Lots of us post the winners of Tournaments there, but it does get annoying going there to just read about winners, rather then to sign for new Tournies

mctrivia: I think you will find a lot of people using that Matthew, its a very useful thing to have

Now just do the left hand column as well, BUT more selection would be great.
e.g. Being able to remove whole sections OR keep certain links (i.e. in games keep Main Page & Waiting games, in Profile keep My profile & message box)......well you know what i mean

Best talk about it in user scripting Fellowship

Fencer: On a Team Tournament RESULTS Page, its great to be able to hover over Teams, to see how all players were doing in a particular Team.

We also have all players results on the next page, BUT do you think we could have either the hover available as a page to goto, or maybe on the Players results page we can sort by Team, Wins, Losses so we can see a Team together (at present default is by most wins), just so we can post links in Fellowships for players to look at

Thx

(from Tournaments)

I was reading through THIS PAGE the other day

Every boat variant (well most lol) you can think of

mctrivia: Yes, we need something, and various ideas have been mentioned over a while

I think the best idea is in a players profile, on the list that says which Teams they are a member of to have a little available yes / no toggle that they can set for each Team. This would then show up beside there name in the appropriate Team (in the pink box).
This would save having to keep leaving & re-joining Teams.
Something that could be added as well, is when signing a Team up for a Team challenge or Tournament, the system could then check each player to make sure they are eligible to play in a certain Tournament / Match

When a Team is entered for ANY competition, i think every player who has been picked should get a *IMPORTANT* PM sent to them to let them know.
i.e. You have been selected to play in XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX starting XX/XX/XX please contact either Team Captain or Big Boss if you are unable to play.

I think that would help a lot of Captains / Bosses out, not having to change Teams and find new players.

A thing that i mentioned to Fencer a few weeks ago, is the ability to change a Team play if the Tournament has started BUT the player has not played a move.
Really, being a Team competition, you should like every other game in the world be able to change a player any time as you are working towards a common goal.
This of course brings into the structure of Teams here, should our own rating matter, or should Team ratings be just that, Team BKR Ratings worked out on there results wins, losses and draws

I say yes myself lol

Could we have a Waiting Room for Team challenges please Fencer
Its nice having the option to just challenge another Fellowship from the Team page, but often others decline them, and then you have to set up another.
Would be nice to pick a Team for something and leave it in the Waiting area for another Fellowship to accept

joshi tm: As paulo says, the Knight would have to get there and make the play.

I have been trying to find more rules about the game, but there are few hey, but we can make some of our own if needed

joshi tm: True, thats just my idea as why they are both on black, as in soccer it is possible for every player to score

jessica: Looking about, it can be either, but European seems the favored one.

grenv: I understand what you say, i think the reason they are both on the black square is that the goal is on a black square. If a bishop was on white, he would never be able to score

How about Football Chess

joshi tm: Can you not find that in your profile joshi under the Tournament tab

When playing Team Tournaments (and challenge matches i think), could we have the option to Goto the Tournament like we do with normal Tournaments.
It does not give us that option when playing Team games for some reason even if we have it ticked in our Settings

pauloaguia: This is why Fellowships should have a Mini-Boss or second in charge, whatever you wish to call it

rod03801: ok then, i never bothered to even check , but as you say i think on results would be better

pauloaguia: aaahh never thought of that, maybe others had theres set like that as well, so they could not see any

I agree it would be nice to see each Team BKR within there Team on the main Fellowship page, and also like i said on a page that contains all won, lost, drawn games etc... like we have in our profiles.

Also, as rod mentioned the BKR's should really be worked out on Team results, NOT individual BKR's added together and a mean taken

When playing a game for a Team Tournament (or challenge match) the game looks exactly the same as any other when we play, apart from obviously the Tournament name. I think that should be at the top of the game page, and the BKR's shown within that game, should be the Team ones, not our own

pauloaguia: Really, maybe there was a bug when it was first added then.
I recall when i first mentioned seeing them, other said they could not. Thats good that everyone can see anyway

pauloaguia: - I think Rod asked about Team BKR and if it could be sorted out as it appears to be just an average BKR of the Team and not a worked out BKR as players ones are.

- If you are a Boss you can, you have a list on the Fellowship page at the top, but i think you know that, it is not anywhere else though

- That would be a good idea, also i think the list should be visible to anyone in a Team of a Fellowship.

Personally i think more should be done for the Teams & Fellowships.
All Team players should get a message when a match/tournament is over so they know how they got on.
It would be nice if we could have a page in there that lists all Teams (games) with games won, drawn, lost, BKR & tournaments won, just like in our profile.
I think we should get a list of things together to ask Fencer for so he can try to work on them when he has time

Oceans Apart: If there is i have not found it yet lol

I have just created new ones for the Madhouse house, yet had to join each one separately .

Would be nice if we had tick boxes (like when joining more than one in a Tournament) to join or remove ourselves from lots

nodnarbo: Well it would be nice, but then i guess we would get no surprises

I just think it makes sense to have a board about turn based games (old ,new and ones we invent) as that is what the site is about

joshi tm: I asked for one a few months ago but Fencer said no

He said he did not have time to work on new games and when he did he already had some of his own

I still think the site would benefit by one. Other games do get mentioned all over the place and then lost on boards.

At least if they were mentioned in one place they could be looked at when ever by Fencer or anyone

pauloaguia: nice list I have one like that as well, but much longer

I think the one that is most important and has been asked for numerous times since Fellowships started is to have a Mini Boss, who has all the power of the Big Boss accept being able to delete the Fellowship.

Then people could ask to join anytime & not have to wait, be turned into Managers / Captains easier, challenges excepted, Tournaments set etc..... etc....

Would save having to Swap Bosses when someone is on holiday or suddenly vanishes

I was asked to play for a Team the other day, but i can not as i can not be invited to the Fellowship as the owner is now a Pawn and not here, but others in the Fellowship want it to carry on

I did mention this a while ago, but it may have got lost on your To-Do list Fencer

When playing certain game like Dark Chess & Logik, a lot of us use the Move and Stay Here option to see the outcome of our last move.

It is great having the 'Play the next game of ********' option still on the screen so we can carry on after.

But that is only there IF there is another game of that type to play NOT if that game is over on the last move or there are no more games of that type to play

So my request is:

That we replace it with our Drop Box option so we can choose to go where ever (Next Game, Main Page, Game of Simular Type etc, etc...).....

Most Useful i would say

srnity: oh yes, any tourny that i like

Welcome to membership land tippyc

(p.s. nice guy that chimp lol)

mctrivia: A very sensible suggestion Matthew

mctrivia: A very sensible suggestion Matthew

fakar10: As it is i get numerous taken out of the Waiting Room by people who never move and just time-out. I get nothing for that

That was just an idea, but i was asked many times by top players what happened to my rating in various games.
Yet, they would still have to play me in those Tournaments and lose a lot of BKR when normally, they would of only changed by 10 or something either way.

Your point is valid of course, people would just time-out when losing.

I just think there should be a better and fairer way

nabla: I think there should be some sort of cap to BKR changes for a simple reason.

Earlier this year my ratings for Ataxx & Assimilation (among others) were 1800+

Then because my computer had a meltdown, i lost a lot of games (about 600) through timing out.

The problem is, that when i got back i was still in Tournaments i had entered with my high ratings, playing other top players. Obviously, many of them suffered badly (BKR changes up to 200) when i won any games as my BKR was under 1000 by then.

I personally feel sorry for those players as it was not done on purpose, and the same could happen anytime to anyone

Maybe a solution to this is games Won or Lost by timing out should not be counted by BKR.

wetware: I get the same with Dice Chess. I used to think it was just because it was a new game, but as it is not anymore and i have played may games like yourself i do not know why it seems to make huge changes to BKR's

My poor graph looks like a ............ well a upey, downey thing

Take Two: I just got a message from a Bishop i look after (bless here little cotton socks lol) asking if when her membership runs out (thats was today) she would lose games over her 20 etc... being a Pawn again.

Needless to stay i have sorted her membership out, but it would be nice to get a reminder from the system to let us know when any Bishops or Knights that people do look after, when there membership was about to expire

Eriisa: I will go get it from the works and take it to Fencer then

Silly monkey if a funny mood today
Hey, i am dog sitting for a few days. Took him for his first walk of the day this morning, nearly killed me, he is an ex greyhound

Hmmm, thats not a Feature Request , ah, got it, could i have a trolley to sit in please so my doggy can pull me on his walk

well, back to the games i think

(me think monkey has lost the plot)

Just one small request today

Could we have a Preview button for messages as well please, just so we can see if any links (well and spelling lol) are ok

rod03801: I have asked for that as well.
In fact when hexkid was here, we had it in his Greasemonkey script. (he has some great stuff in there)
Underneath every board was a clickable link that said 'Add as priority game'

Once this was clicked it would then be flagged by the system as such, so when the game got back to your turn to move it would appear basically at the top of your list.

In fact it appeared twice in the drop box we have, the list was split in two.
All priority games would show as being top of the list, BUT also still be in the proper place as your list is determined.

trohat: Move and Goto Jail, do not pass Go, do not Collect £200

Right, enough messing or uncles rod & taz come tell us off

mctrivia: hmmmmm maybe, but not one i would use, with a lot of games, there are plenty on 0,1,2,3 etc....
Most moves (which we have) i can understand , but i only use a few of them myself, which is the idea. Have all feasible options and let people select the ones the use from the list.

Family Man said about move and goto his Stairs, well you can goto next Stairs game.
I would probably use that in the Context Menu, which i think is great and understated here on brainking. I have none of the left Menu in my games so pages loads a bit faster, BUT all the Main places i need to go i have in the Context Menu at the top of the page, just Hover and Click

Here i am again
I have thought of one more useful Move and Goto option for you to write on your To-Do list Fencer.

The only thing not covered now is Move and Goto next Non-Tournament game

That would give you options for everything i can think of lol

srnity: Yes, great eh..........

Me thinks that Fencer can have prize and a drink

Eriisa: Ahem, i gave up my Team places so others could play

But i would still like to make sure all my Teams are in

Eriisa: Well, have to catch Fencer when he is in a 'Lets write some Code' Mode

I have mentioned these things before, but never know if Fencer sees them or they just get buried lol
And they are useful things

Would be nice to have a copy of Fencers 'Requests to be worked on' list