rod03801: as a Customer Service Rep, can you please suggest a board we may migrate to?

I see the point of the conversation also to include changes to this and therefore it should stay right here if the "changes" are discussed I feel.

Czuch Chuckers: Just a quick correction - if someone asked me (nicely) to move quicker in their games, I always help. It's the few (some which I don't even have any games with) that like to just cause problems, and try to make a big deal out of it - or the ones who don't understand how a turn-based games site works, or for some reason someone who got into a many-day tournament instead of a shorter time-limit tournament.

The cloak mode conversation needs to move to another board, please.
It is already a feature here.

grenv: Thats prolly correct.... someone like BBW has had problems mainly because he plays way too mamny games and ends up not playing very fast in most of them, and people wonder why he is not making his turns, and they see him at this fellowship, and that discussion board etc, doing lots of things but making turns, and they ask him to turn his attention to his games instead of the discussion boards and he doesnt like people to know that he is here so much, yet not spending much time playing games..... This is just my opinion and is just a example to make a point, not meant to be an exact representation.

The point is that most people who use the cloak mode do have something to hide , and most of the time it is something like the scenario I described above.

Well I've played quite a lot of games and made quite a lot of posts on various boards and nobody has said anything to me that bothers me, or even made reference to what I was doing.
I guess I'm just not a good target for harrassment or something?

pauloaguia: the more people the site shows online at any one time, the better it looks compared to other sites.
eg at the moment goldtoken has 112 and BK has 123
BK wins thanks to auto refresh !!!!!!!

chessmec: that way if you are playing games with someone and want them to know you are online, or simply want your friends to know, just add them to your friends list.
It also takes away the habit of so many people of addint enemies to their friends list just to keep tabs on them.
Fine, add an enemy, you wont see them but they will see you :)
Dano will see everyone then rofl

JamesHird: But that way you'd know when you're on someone's friends list ;)

On this issue: there is only one thing cloak mode has messed up for me - I can no longer say when a player is really online, visiting several pages on the site or just on the homepage with auto-refresh on and probably a mile away from the computer. Can't a player just go offline when (s)he's more than 5 min visiting the same page? I don't think autorefresh should give a player online status just because the page is constantly reloaded...

Apart from that, cloacked or non cloaked you're still all invited to play against me

JamesHird: I suggest that only people on your own friends list can see you when you are online
that seems to be worth to discuss!

JamesHird: Yes! I don,t mind friends seeing when I am online. But why I have to see what some people are doing when I read the boards makes no sense. Sure this is using resorches that could be used better elsewhere.

chessmec: ???
I was making a joke with Rose. I agree with cloak as it stops questions etc.
I also agree with your suggestion more about being completely invisible when online.
I suggest that only people on your own friends list can see you when you are online

JamesHird: now, we all jnow that we do not only work when we are working. between work we are switching to non-working things - e.g. brainking.com - and it can be helpful to do this in an anonymous way :-)

Rose: but the real question is Rose, what are you doing reading this board? And why were you on this board for more than 17.5 seconds?

that some of us feel we have to use cloak. I am tired of ppl saying to me "why are you looking at my profile" er cuz it's there is the best answer I can come up with!!
Why were you on such an such FS for so long? why this, what that? the whole idea of ppl watching your every move is sooo Big Brother that im glad cloak mode is available. If you dont like me on cloak mode then hide me, block me do what ever you feel you must do but Im glad it is a feature here!!

chessmec: I would be for it - I'm for anything which can help the users privacy - and help protect them from some of the idiots which roam this site.

BIG BAD WOLF: in my opinion the cloak feature is lame, because you are seen online. what about a completely undecover function? in some cases this function can be helpful :-)

grenv: I've had on multiply occasions someone harras me for doing things that I have done. Normally I would not care if people see what I'm doing, but like other things - a few bad apples ruin it all. So I believe the cloak feature is a good thing.

People who are worried about people who have activated cloak mode are paranoid about something. What is it?

Anyone taking the time to actually activate "cloak mode" is paranoid about something. What is it?

Czuch Chuckers: Good idea!
I have no wish to know what others are doing either!

grenv AbigailII reza: Yes, I'd like to play Dark Chess live. It'd be a hoot! Speed Dark Chess would be crazy. A slower paced timed game would be very challenging.

I know that I already asked Fencer and he said he would think about this... but I'd love to hear others feedback...

What about an option to create in-game discussion open for all viewers? In Plente o' Pente f/s we are holding an Unrated Tourney for teaching, learning, and discussing strategy... it would be nice for all of us to read the comments of others....

chessmec: suggested a 4x4x4 cube already, kings in opposite corners,
pawns would share a cell with an officer in the start position - magic detail is the
amount of cells equalling the amount of squares in real chess, smoothest transits. ~*~

Vikings: no need to assume by measure of indifferent terms, order is listed above ... ~*~

Summertop: Hey, seems to be VERY interesting this byzantine chess, however i miss a 3D-Chess as Mr. Spock always played (this is half a joke ;-) )

Fencer: can I assume that ladders are a long ways away then?

grenv: finally you found out for what a gameserver is meant, wow - congrats ... ~*~

eagle eye: it's a competitive ranking system, the games should not count toward
bkr ratings, thus ... you give up games lightly for challenging higher opponents who
will help you climbing faster - a win brings you up to the rank of the defeated one ... ~*~

Byzantine chess
Here is Link to more information.

Who cares? Just play the games and forget about the cloak and dagger nonsense.

Czuch Chuckers: sounds fair

Czuch Chuckers: I liked that......!

I think anyone using the cloak mode option should have the privilege to see what others are doing removed!

grenv: Oh I see. If you find any such site, I'll be very glad to join if possible. I love dark chess though am no expert in it.

reza: I was just curious if there was a site that had a realtime version with clocks etc. I haven't seen one yet. Not that I have the time for such distractions very often anyway...

grenv: Sometimes when I'm online, I'll be gald to play you a couple of games till completion.

AbigailII: If you could tell me where I could play dark chess in real time I'd be most interested.

Blackadder Mr K: That's just a battleboat variant with more boats. Except that you might be lucky and you win before you've sunk all.

A hard battleboats variant I used to play was that, just as in dark battelboats, you always get three shots. But if your salvo has any hits, all you are told are how many hits you have - not which shots were hits. But I wouldn't play such a variant here, just as I don't like playing dark chess or espionage on turn based sites.

Why not make a new Battleboat with fake boats ?
You can have one or two and the point is that you don`t know if you hit a boat or a "duck"
The game will take longer time to play and are much harder.

eagle eye: Ask BIG BAD WOLF, I already forgot the basic idea :-)

Can anybody give some info what ladders are for and what is idea behind it.

rod03801:

Back to Feature Requests, please!

:-)

Thanks!

chessmec: hehe congrats!!!! you work too hard ;)

Hrqls: is it off-topic too that no items are remaining to translate in german? all done ... look at my profile (fencer must activate it, wait a moment) :-)
Now making final beta revision with my army! YEAAAAH!!!!

chessmec: eh ... oops ... blush ... i dont know .. i am not that much into sports ;) .. i just repeated what everyone said about soccer games between germany and the netherlands :)

nothing bad about austria of course ;)

yes i know ... this is :)

Hrqls: 2 rules are now to translate, then finito (alpha) - then i will corrct with the suggestiions from my army and then all finished (in some days)

By the way: I am from austria ... when did austria beat The Netherlands :-( ?

But of course ... The Netherlands had victory with an AUSTRIAN trainer - ernst happel :-)

chessmec: nice army indeed! ;)

the dutch version has 93 items left .. 67 rules, the rest are help and faq .. the big texts ...
it seems germany beat holland once again in the last minutes ;)

Hrqls: You can have a look at my "army" in my profile ... 4 rules are to translate, then all is done :-)

chessmec: lol .. a whole army ?? ... glad i dont have so many ;) .. although the ones that i have are flooding me already ;)

it will be fun to compare the dutch and german translations :)