Two questions:

1. what is auto-pass, and

2. why are some games italicized in the waiting games list?

These things really should be explained where they appear rather than just letting the user wonder...

Thanks...

Oceans Apart: hehehe one for you :)

Bernice:

srnity: I know it is awful isnt it HAHAHAHA

Bernice: And, Bernice, your scaring me - lol

SEAWOLF2: I THINK WHAT WE ARE ALL TRYING TO SAY IS FEEL FREE TO USE CAPITALS - NO NEED TO APOLOGIZE - I THINK YOU'VE PROBABLY ENLIGHTENED QUITE A FEW PEOPLE, WHICH IS NEVER A BAD THING

SEAWOLF2: GOD BLESS YOU, AND YOU CERTAINLY HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO NEED TO APOLOGISE....AS SOON AS I READ YOUR POST IN CAPS I KNEW THAT THERE HAD TO BE A VISION PROBLEM, AND FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE i AGREED WITH SRNITY AND HER REMARKS...PLEASE ENJOY YOUR STAY HERE AND HOPEFULLY YOU CAN BECOME A PAID MEMBER, AND ENJOY SOME OF THE REAL BENEFITS OF THIS WONDERFUL SITE.

Hrqls:

Thank you for speaking up in defense of me. I AM
vision impaired with glaucoma and am having some
difficulty with seeing various aspects of this site. I
am very grateful to those of my opponents who are
using large sized text in their game messages to me. It helps a lot! Yes, I am on webtv; but there is not way for me to "adjust" my webtv browser. It is
merely a primitive form of internet receiver with no
hard drive. It provides a "remote" internet connection
to the WWW via a telephone connection acting as a dial up modem, and a television acting as the monitor. I meant no offense to anyone and nor did I
intend my message to represent "screaming". My deepest apologies to those who were offended by
the all caps message I posted. I am accustomed to using capitals only because it makes things a LOT easier for me to see and read online. Please
forgive me if I have broken some unwritten rule about the use of capitals. I am enjoying my first few days here and do hope I will not be asked to
leave for this "faux pas". Please forgive me. I will
do my best to use normal text in the future, but it
is very difficult for me as I have glaucoma. Thank
you all very much for your input to my query on the
discussion board about the Espionage games.

Regards,

SEAWOLF2

alanback: Yes it is, many a time I have to be told I am shouting as I canna hear meself well

ty fo that info, i'll set vacation days, this way i'll be safer. i really do not want to time out.

Hrqls:  The visually impaired must use capital letters in order to see what they are writing more clearly.  This is not rude, just a necessity.  It's like a hearing impaired person speaking too loudly -- may take some getting used to, but a small price to pay for the benefit of including everyone in our conversations.  

Hrqls: Seawolf is using WebTV, you cannot increase the fonts on that, if I understood correctly. Nothing worse than having lots of typos because you cannot read what you are typing.

Trust me, I know!

srnity: i know what you mean, i thought about that as well, thats why i didnt post anything about it the first time.
he responded to pauloaugia though who didnt write in capital letters
in every browser you can configure the browser itself so that it will show letters bigger .. i guess thats what seawolf2 did
(that wont work for espionage pieces though as those are images and not letters)

i dont think seawolf2 meant it as screaming. i think though that there are people who see a post in all capitals and associate that with screaming.
seawolf2 probably doesnt know about that though, thats why i posted a note about it :0

Hrqls: Ummmm, just a thought, but, maybe he uses capital letters not as a means of "screaming" BUT maybe for the simple reason that he may not be able to see &/or read as well as the average person can & therefore it helps to have writing in capital letters??? Don't you think your "putting the cart before the horse" in presuming otherwise? Just my opinion

SEAWOLF2: please dont use capital letters for your whole post .. its considered the same as screaming in real life conversations. non-capital letters are easier too read as they are more different than capital letters

i dont think there is a way to enlarge the pieces for espionage ... there are some pages in which you can select the size of the pieces in other games on this site .. but i cant seem to find espionage on those pages either .. sorry :(

pauloaguia:

I DON'T SEEM TO BE ABLE TO DO WHAT YOU SUGGEST ON WEBTV UNFORTUNATELY! 8^(
WEBTV IS A REMOTE INTERNET RECEIVING DEVICE THAT DISPLAYS ON THE TV SCREEN (COMPARABLE TO YOUR PC MONITOR). THERE
IS NO HARD DRIVE, AND NO WAY TO DOWNLOAD ANYTHING TO IT AS A RESULT.
I WILL CONTINUE TRYING TO NAVIGATE THE
BK TOOLBAR AND MENU LINKS HERE IN THE MEANTIME. MAYBE SOMETHING WILL CROP UP THAT WILL HELP ME OUT. I SURE COULD USE A
TOOL THAT WOULD ENLARGE THE TEXT HERE!!!
THANKS AGAIN FOR THE INPUT, PAULOAGUIA.

joshi tm: i dont think its implemented yet :

In order to prevent a panic, nothing like that is planned for BrainKing. At least until a balanced and useful version of this idea is worked out and we are sure that we really need it.

ellieoop: there is a difference though :

suppose a game time outs the day after tomorrow, it is set as a automatic vacation day when the game tries to time out, it tries to time out again a day later, it is set as an automatic vacation day as well, then the day after that it tries to time out again.

now if you had set those 2 days (day after tomorrow and the day after that) as fixed vacation days and you would have moved today, then the time calculation would notice that those 2 days are vacation days and those 2 days are added to the time which wont make the game time out on the day after the day after the day after tomorrow, but 2 days later

so setting fixed vacation days really adds the time to the timeout .. while automatic vacation days first let the game use up their time, and then add a day when needed .. leaving it with 1 day max at the end after the automatic vacation days (where fixed vacation days might leave you with more days after those days)

Interesting, a friend of me already wants me to ake his account for a while, but now I can't be his agent/delegate/substitute/representative/proxy/assistant, for it won't be allowed to have a clone account or anything like that.

great, i'll make sure i can play those few games each day.
ty.

ellieoop: that is correct, except on games that do not allow vacation

i have automatic vaction activated. i want to make sure that i understand it correctly, does that mean that i do not have to take vacation days?
thx. in advance:)

Where do I find an explanation of what Auto-pass is? I see the option to enable auto-pass on the gammon games in my Settings, but while it seems to me the phrase "auto-pass" on that page should be a link which would take me to an explanation of what it is, it isn't. And it isn't explained in the rules for Backgammon either, so I gave up and came here.

Do we have a glossary of site features somewhere or something, so that everybody who wonders about this kind of thing doesn't have to bug people on the discussion boards about it?

Many thanks...

tiger

When there are games in the fellowship waiting room, I don't get this message now, so can't set up new games


There are no public waiting games here at the moment. You can create New game that will be added to this area for other players.

sonar: right after you make your move, the dice are rolled for your next move .. if those dice will make you pass at your next move, then you will automatically pass after your opponent moved

(at least thats how i think it works?)

sonar: not sure if this is the info your looking for but
click on waiting games
at the top of that page click on change the game filter
near the bottom of the new page it says select games which you want to play with the auto pass feature
choose the games you want
click on save and finish

can someone talk me thru the autopass feature - i don't expect it to soul shattering but was offered it now after 3yrs of BK...

SEAWOLF2: I don't know the first thing about webtv or anything. But if you say the pieces appeared larger before, maybe your browser is shrinking the board to fit on the screen? Try removing the left menu bar (at Settings page) and the notation column and see if that helps.

Again, I'm just guessing here, don't know if it has anything to do with it.

MadMonkey: No, it's not possible.

Fencer, what happened to the Firefox button you had at the bottom of the left column ?

Is it possible for us to add a button anywhere, like in a Profile or top of a Discussion board.

I HOPE THIS IS THE APPROPRIATE BOARD TO REQUEST HELP HERE ON BK?
I AM A NEW PLAYER AND I AM ALSO VISION IMPAIRED AND USE WEBTV TO ACCESS THE GAMES HERE. CAN ANYONE TELL ME IF THERE IS A GAME SETTING TO ENLARGE THE SIZE OF THE GAME PIECES FOR THE ESPIONAGE GAMES AS THERE IS FOR THE CHESS, CHECKERS, AND OTHER GAMES HERE? I CAN'T SEEM TO FIND ANY SETTTINGS TO ENLARGE THE SIZE OF ESPIONAGE GAME PIECES ON MY OWN. THE NUMBERS OF THE GENERAL PIECES ARE JUST WAY TOO
SMALL TO SEE ON THE ACTUAL GAME
BOARD. WHEN I WAS SETTING UP THE BOARD THE PIECES APPEARED TO BE MUCH LARGER, BUT ONCE THE GAME
PLAY ACTUALLY BEGAN THE NUMBERS ON THE PIECES SEEMED TO "SHRINK"
DOWN?! HELP PLEASE!!!

TIA FOR ANYONE WHO CAN HELP ME

8^)

SEAWOLF2

Medal table Brainking World Championship after Jarmo

1. Dominika 1 - 0 - 0
2. Uganda 0 - 1 - 0
3. Slovakia 0 - 0 - 1

MadMonkey: ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, now I understand!

Eriisa: oh, got ya, i never used that so i had not noticed, but you are right
Any, open box (as in not surrounded like the box one) can be resized

MadMonkey: You know how at the bottom of a message it says "Reply (box)"? If I click reply, the text box is resizable. If I click box, the text box to type in is not resizable.

TexasToest: Some of the smaller extensions for Firefox are the best one
Duplicate Tabs & Searchbar Autosizer, are both great ones as well

Eriisa:It should do if you mean when reply to a message as it does even when you are editing
Sometimes it does not always work on the line/corner, sometimes you have to move the cursor about a bit

MadMonkey: oh WAY cool! Thanks for finding that.

I see that it works in the text box up top, but not on the reply 'box' inside the message. hmmmmm

That works really well.  I don't have time to read about 2,200 features, so I let other people tell me what's good.  You did a great job.  That really helps with entering things in the plain text editor box.  That lil thing is dinky.  But, don't tell Fencer I said that.

plaintiger: Sorry my friend Tiger, Firefox has Resizeable Textarea for ages, well since version 1.5 was released, its just another of there 2200+ extensions
Gordon (or was it BBW) told me about it, great & very useful

See if i can find, i use it

Here it is Resizeable Textarea

Oooh, I just discovered a very cool feature in the Safari 3.0 public beta (also available for Windows, in case anyone didn't know) that isn't in Firefox: these text fields we type our messages into on brainking? They can be resized - along both the X and Y axes - by dragging the little zoom lines in the lower right corner of the field, just like a window. Very cool indeed.

Okay, I'm done.

So, can I send Fencer a message each time I collect 25 seeds in Mancala and my opponent keeps on playing? ;-)

OTOH, that situation is much easier to program than a Go endgame.

srnity: Ive seen tougher on here, just not on this board LOL

Wow, y'all are one tough crowd tonight

coan.net: nah, make it even better, don't write down the random number & leatters! Just close your eyes and hit some keys.

jadarite: When you are finished picking up all the games from the waiting room and then resigning them, of course.

jadarite: Just don't visit http://brainking.com and your account will go old and not be used again.

If you need help not visiting the site again, here are some fun steps:

1. Get a piece of paper.
2. Write down 10 random letters & numbers
3. Go to "My profile", and near the top - click on "change password"
4. Put those 10 random letters & numbers in as your new password
5. Save & log out
6. Destroy the paper before you have a chance to remember the password.
7. Ta-Da, can't sign back on!

jadarite: Just log out, surf on to your cool and hypermodern chat'n'play sites and forget about it.

How do you close your account on this server?

PLEASE NOTE: I have continued this discussion over on the http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=52 Discussion Board, in case anyone wants to follow it over there to continue the discussion.

kirsten: I use Firefox & have virus protection through a major University & it still gets me too