AbigailII: Could someone please explain to a laymen what exactly these statistics show? Its kind of confusing to me, thanks!

AbigailII: I guess I should learn Danish and make it the main BrainKing language platform.

coan.net: Actually ignore my some-what request below - found a link under "Information" - "Languages".

... I'm still not use to the list being re-organized yet.

AbigailII: Oh, OK. I don't see that page since I use my own .css file. I thought it might have been something by going through the players list page or something.

Fencer: Instead of making new links on the main pages (which I hide by default) - why not put pages like that in Statistics or somewhere that it will (1) be out of the way and (2) be able to find to look at without having to change the type of page a person has.

coan.net: Last 7 days, as is shown by default on the new languages page.

AbigailII: What is your definition of "active" user - played in the last X days? - where X is what? (just out of curiosity)

I couldn't resist making a list of how many active users there are as percentage of the registered users, broken down by language.

         Danish: 77.78%
        Finnish: 53.85%
      Norwegian: 53.33%
      Bulgarian: 37.50%
         German: 19.12%
         Slovak: 17.28%
      Esperanto: 16.67%
        Swedish: 15.03%
         French: 11.64%
          Dutch: 11.04%
          Czech: 10.36%
        Russian:  9.68%
        Italian:  9.66%
        English:  9.34%
        Spanish:  8.19%
       Estonian:  6.73%
     Portuguese:  5.87%
        Chinese:  4.23%
       Romanian:  3.98%
        Turkish:  3.26%
          Total:  8.62%

I see. But an invitation doesn't have to be refused. It only has, at worst, to be ignored.

emmett:
but the fault lies in the system where you can invite me to a tournament and i dont have the right to reply when i want to refuse

Because even if I have you on block, you can still be included in a tournament where the criteria is to invite the top 50 players in a game type. Although you might be blocked, it doesn't mean that you should be excluded from the top 50 of a game type, objectively, that is....

why if someone has you on block they still can invite you to join there tournaments
dosnt make sense to me

Family Man: I agree

nabla: The part of the discussion board system i would lie improved si the smileys. There are so many of them and only a few i use. I would like to have a customizable list of the ones i want so I can have easier access to find the one I want to use.

Fencer: Well, with almost 6000 finished games (the number of Ludo games compensate the number of moves in HBG games) should I've made just 10 moves a game. That's not many (due to time outs of opponents I think).

Fencer: and here you got him all excited! lol

joshi tm: "By the way, if you view the mentioned Statistics page today (the date of this entry), the total values might be not accurate yet because the calculation process can take up to several hours. Everything should be updated and synchronized within a day or two (or a little more)."

Please don't make any conclusions, it's too early for them.

joshi tm 49647 moves made

Whaaaat! Am I really in the top 50 of most moves made at BK?

Thinking about that: How about the statistic of Public Board Posting?

Interesting discussions that I missed while I was on vacation...

As some other people already said, automatic tournaments are a good idea, but they must be rare enough to give them enough credibility, like the team tournaments actually have. The proposition of monthly tournaments + yearly championships + seasonal team tournaments sounds excellent. Not the top of my wish list, but if it is easy to do, definitely a good thing for Brainking.

I am less interested in an improved discussion board system, I would prefer the discussion boards to stay inside Brainking. What about giving the possibility to every member to create unlimited discussion boards in fellowships ? If the problem is of controlling the content, using fellowships sounds like the natural solution.

It is true that the possibility for some people to abuse vacation days in order to slow up their games is definitely unfair, but I propose to see the problem from another point of view. Having people buy vacation days is the easiest possible money for Fencer, and easy money for Fencer is good news for all of us, it means that he can concentrate on making the site better with a lesser need to care about profit. In other words, vacation days abusers pay for a part of our membership fee !

please take the dragon battles and besiege of the castle to the general chat forum

Fencer: If you had ten dragons on the main page, wouldn't it prevent people from entering the castle?? If you had a dragon and St George people might feel more comfortable taking refuge in the castle!!

Vikings: Oops! Now it is correct.

Infidel: Hahahaha. Love it!!!!

Tigger: thats just great :)

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http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/

This is a fun tool to use and find out how often people search for
something:

I think the link in todays blog entry by Fencer is incorrect, it is supposed to take us to a page titled "Big user photos" but it is taking me to the 5 in line settings page instead. Was this the page the link was supposed to take us too? http://brainking.com/en/Statistics?p=5

Hrqls:

ok .. lets get on topic please :)

TarantinoFan:  It's been my experience that blonde women are at their best after midnight.  Level playing field and all that.

taking cover !

Well I've got my little club here but it doesn't seem to help much!

Fencer: LOL, yes, we need a catapault to shoot the fireballs back at it.

TarantinoFan: Nothing. This is just a beginning. One dragon is not enough, we should have at least ten of them. And some people complain that they cannot shoot it down.

Or did I mean horizontal? The one on the bottom of the screen anyway! It's not there but when the dragon hits the side of the screen it is there for a second. Awww It's after midnight and I am blonde and a woman. What more can I say!!!

Fencer: When you are trying to read a really funny blonde joke it is very distracting! I kept losing my place!

TarantinoFan: A vertical scroll bar for a second? Sounds like a real apocalypse.

Silly dragon stretches my screen. Even when I am looking at boards I all of a sudden get a vertical scroll bar on the bottom of my screen for a second. Bit distracting. Back to no fonts I go!






*I left the t out of vertical. Hahahaha.

Fencer: pity.

rabbitoid: Not exactly.

Is that the way you chose to prepare us for the introduction of dungeons and dragons to BK? (wink, wink)

Nice fireball for the Dragon you made Fencer

alanback: good point

emmett: We wont get very good odds at the betting shop for that

Gordon Shumway: Congratulations, Tenuki, on winning the proposed future BrainKing Championship!

gambler104:  Not quite true in backgammon, because of the luck factor.  Still, a tournament winner would be "one of the best".  Match length should be sufficiently long to reduce the effect of luck, say 15 or 21 points.

gambler104: I also like the idea of a BrainKing Championship.

rabbitoid: I really like the idea as well but for a completely different reason. I think it is a good alternative to the rating system and stairs which can be manipulated. The official tournament winner can rightfully declare himself best at a game presuming all players are allowed to play.

I add my voice to the "agree" crowd, for a different reason: because everyone creates "all game" tourneys, there are far too many. Either people set the minimum number of participants too high, and they never start for lack of participants, or they set it low and we have a zillion "tourneys" with 4 participants, which is not much fun.

One may hope that "official" tournaments, if not run too often, may solve this problem.

I agree with MadMonkey when he said:

"I would like to see regular Team Tournaments, something like 12 every 2 or 3 months (maybe 2 chess, 2 Lines, 2 Gammons, 3 Others(as we call them) and 3 from this group (Reversi, Go, Boats & Espionage) as an idea."

I think a new set of TEAM TOURNAMENTS on the first day of each new season would be great. That would be quarterly, and you could theme the team tournaments around seasons.

I finished almost all of my team games in the last tournament very quickly, and since then I have been waiting for the new ones to begin. They are very fun.

I've said for a long time that I would love to see some sort of "Official Tournament" - something ran by the site, that is "Official" - something that if someone was to join just 1 tournament, this would be the one...

I would say once a month, have an "Official Monthly Tournament" of all the games. One month do a quicker 2 days time limit, the next month do a longer 5 day time limit.

Then in December/January, have an official "Yearly Championship Tournament" of all the games.

This way if someone was to join just 1 or 2 tournaments, they could just join the "Official" ones which hopefully will be pretty big and fun.

I say only 1 a month since there are plenty of other tournaments to join. Plus I would stay away from prizes - except maybe awarding "Brains" as the prize - and maybe just for the "Yearly Championship" tournament.

But monthly official tournaments - A BIG YES - Something that stands out and says "Hey, there are a lot of tournaments - so if you are going to join one, join me - since I will hopefully have a lot of players providing a nice challenge and fun games to play".