Jason: I can see that...

So, Fencer, can Global Mods be trusted to approve new members?

I have a friend (Really, I do!) that is trying to register on BrainKing. His account is "waiting for approval". Is this something Fencer has to do or can the Globs do it?

My suggestion is to have an automated way...register, BK sends a confirmation email, user must respond to that email to finish registration.

Fencer: Oh, since I belong to a very limited number of fellowships...the new ad box forces me to have to scroll to see the last few fellowships. Previously, they all fit inside the visible window. That is why it is annoying.

Hmmm...how lazy are we when we complain about having to scroll a wheel on the mouse?

Fencer: well...personal peference. Since I am inundated with ads, every time I can't remove them, I get annoyed. However, it does violate your current membership features list. According to the list I should be able to "...hide advertisements...".

Will it stop me from visiting...No!
Will it stop me from renewing...No!
Will I continue to recommend BK...Yes!



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Some fellowships have LOTS of members. Every once in a while, I wonder if a specific person is a member of the fellowship. Since they are in the order they joined, it is very difficult to search. It would be nice to either add a search feature or sort the list my membership level (Big boss, manager, member) then name.

alanback: Well, I don't see a link to turn it off. I would really like the ability to turn off these advertisements. Every other site lets paid members hide/get rid of advertisements. I would even be happy if I could place it somewhere else.

Brainking is a GREAT site (thanks Fencer). But there are two main issues I have with it.

First...Sabotage hasn't been finished! EVERY other game lets you see captured/lost pieces! This is crucial to Sabotage...

Second...Annoying adds ABOVE my fellowships list.

Can the Brainking April Action Box be hidden or moved?

BIG BAD WOLF: Not so much over...More like never started. Glad they started it.

Matarilevich: Well, since I am Male...The Black Queen membership doesn't appeal to me. Besides, is Liquid really looking for a "Queen"?

Fencer and Liquid work together on the BK site, yet they chose pieces that are mortal enemies of each other. Hmmmm...

The Show Thread feature is nice!

I like the moderators. Sometimes I feel they do too much, sometimes I feel they don't do enough. But, hey! can't expect perfection.

However, everytime (well, lots of times) when someone gets moderated we all have to listen to them whine on either the "Members Only", "general Chat", of "Brainking" board. MOST of us don't care!

Can there be a board put up to allow the moderated person to post their grievence (with details)? Make all the GLOBs moderators of that board. That way someone that feels slighted, has a place to go for an appeal. Those that don't want to see it don't need to. The GLOBs would still be able to moderate and or ban troublesome people from that board.

Fencer: New server! Cool! As always...Love the site, thanks!

BIG BAD WOLF: OOh, yeah...Plus:

4: Nice to see the last time they access brainkink. don't want someone on your team that hasn't been on BK for months.

In the fellowships, where it shows the team members...

1. It would be nice to have a link by each team member's name to allow an easy way to send them a PM.

2. It would be nice to have another link that will send a PM to ALL team members.

That way the captain could ask the team questions about challenging another fellowship's team to a tournamnent. Individual players could announce to the team the status of their games.

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Walter Montego: The second dice game you mentioned is basically, Farkel. Everyone has their own version, but the basic version uses 6 dice. It is a very fun game and would work well on this site. Instructions can be found on the internet. Just search for "Farkel Rules". Here is what I found: Basic Rules. I, personally, have my own "house" rules that I would be happy to share (ask for them in a PM) with Fencer.

On the tournaments page, could there be an indicator next to the tournaments that I have already signed up, for at least one game. I know I can go to "My Profile" to see a list of tournies I have signed up for, but it would be nice to see it on the Tournaments page. That way, when I want to sign ujp for more tournies, I can easily see which ones I have already joined.

Gambling? What's that? I live in Utah!

I don't know what the law is like everywhere else. but, believe it or not, gambling is NOT illegal in Utah. Gambling where the "house" takes a percentage of the winnings IS illegal. So, I can sit down with some friends of mine and play poker for real money and not be breaking the law. Now, if I was to run a "Poker Parlor" for some friends and keep a little of the winnings to "cover my costs", then I would be breaking the law.

Now, the disclaimer...this is how it was explained to me. I am not positive about the law. So, if you take my word for it and get BUSTED...You can't blame it on me.


p.s. It is un-realistic to expect money for winning...It is just too hard to stop cheaters. I certainly wouldn't put up money in hopes that everyone else was honest. Yeah! Right!

Fencer, please don't get upset. I am just looking for an update on when the espionage games will be completed. Last I heard, you were still planning on adding a captured pieces list like every other game has. A new variation of froglet came out, so I was wondering...

I know there has been some debate as to "what" captured pieces to show. In the board game, you get to see the pieces. So, maybe you should just mirror that. However, anything is better than nothing.

I am playing some multi-point backgammon games. When I win, the "Match" isn't over because I haven't achieved the total number of points. In Backgammon, the game may be worth more than one point. On the message stating I won (or lost), it would be nice to also show the points break down...total points earned per player, points won on this game, and total points needed. I know you can get this info elsewhere, but it would be nice to have it on the message, also.

Fencer: Multi-player chess (Bug House) if one player times out the entire team loses. Just be careful who you pick to be on your team.

A variation of loop chess wold probably work really well for 4 players. Instead of captured pieces going to your own "available pieces pool", they would go to your partner's pool. Typically, multi-player games are sequential. Player 1, then 2, then 3, then 4, etc. But with this variation, each individual game would go on as normal.

How about a version of sabotage where you can move as amny peices as you want (but each piece only once)?

In tournaments, where there is a maximum number of players, it would be nice to have an option to start the tourny as soon as the max players has been reached.

I have the page layout to be columnar. On the left side, the links are broken out into four groups.
Group 1: seems to be mostly for games
Group 2: seems to be mostly User's info
Group 3: seems to be mostly Brainking info
Group 4: is just Logout

However, some links are out of place. This is more of a suggestion than a feature request, but could these groups of links be more strict as to what is there. For example, The user's "Settings" option makes more sense to be with all the other "User" links, while the "What's New" and "Discussion baords" links would be logically with all the other Barinking specific links.

Could it be modified so that EVERY list is sorted. If there are multiple columns, allow each column to be sorted. Otherwise just sort by the Displayed text.

Example 1: When you go to a friend's profile to challenge them to a game, the dropdown list of games is sorted by a value (Game ID?) that is not seen. It would be VERY nice if it was sorted by the Games' Name.

Example 2: When you are creating a tournament, all of the game types are listed. Again, it appears that they are sorted by the Game Type's ID not the Name. Since only the Name is displayed, it gets cumbersome to select only the games you want.

As the number of games increases, this problem will only get worse.

Also, there are other lists that need sorting capabilites such "Friends Online" and "Fellowships", both on the main page. Curiously, "Favourite boards" appears to already be sorted.

Fencer, thanks Fencer...Just out of curiosity, where are feature requests acknowledged?

Ah, but General Chat does NOT allow any and all discussions. I have seen many times where a moderator has asked for a topic to be discussed elsewhere. For example, I have seen where a topic has evolved to discussing a proposed feature when a mod came in and asked it to be continued on the feature board. So, the same would hold true for politics.

I just think that with how often (and how negative) political discussion come up, it would be nice to put it somewhere else. I also feel it should be a general board (not a fellowship).

Purple, no kidding. I think they would only have to make sure there is no foul language and the topics are political. Of course any blatant personal attacks would have to be deleted. But a certain amount of leeway would have to be given.

Pedro Martínez, well...Just like there are specialized boards for Feature Requests, Tounaments, Fellowships, Poetry, Music, Sories, Jokes, etc. Because Political Discussions are so common (and tend to get heated), I think they deserve their own board.

Too often the General Chat board is inundated with politics. Quite often political discussions turn into heated arguments. I know you (Fencer) are trying to limit the number of general message boards, but could we PLEASE have a "General Politics" board? I can't be the only one that is getting tired of people arguing politics (in the General Chat).

When was the time per move dropped down to hours? It's cool, you can specify one hour per move. Hmmm...I wonder how autovacation works with this feature.

OK...my request: Since the time per move id diminishing, maybe we could have a section for "Real-time" games.

Pedro Martínez, actually, I usually just open up word and use it's spell checker.

grenv: Too funny...yes that is correct

Bry, yeah basically it means "Did I spell that correctly?"

BIG BAD WOLF, it can also be annoying in a db where multiple discussions are going on. Sometimes it's ambiguoius (sp?) which discussion they were posting a reply to.

BIG BAD WOLF, Along with your second request...One of my "pet peeves" is post without subjects. I like it when there is a warning that your post doesn't have a Subject. But, alas, I feel I am very much in the minority here.

Are we ever going to be able to challenge another fellowship to a tournamnet? This would be similar to team tournies but it would be one fellowship vs. another fellowship tournament. The challenge could be given by a big boss, manager, or team captain.

After I create a new tournament, BK takes me to the list of tournaments. It would be much nicer if bk would take me to the tournament I just created. That way I could sign up for my own tourny.

Hrqls and other...thanks for the work-arounds. You all have good ideas. Hopefully in Fencer's free time (if there's such a thing), he can implement this feature.

grenv, Well, yeah. But there is still the chance that someone joins right before it is automatically started. It would be much cleaner if we could limit it so that those that don't fit the criteria don't even see it.

reza, Another real life reason for this feature...I started a chess tournament for those with a BRK less than 1900. Someone with a provisional rating that WAS less than 1900 joined. He now has a BKR over 2100. Obviously he is dominating us. If it was limited to established BKR's it would be a more even playing field.

Don't get me wrong...I am not complaining that he joined. He met the requirements at the time of joining. However, others in the tournament might resent the way it turned out.

reza, I agree. It would be nice to extend an invitation to only those with an established BKR. Especially, if you are looking for a range on their BKR.

There are three levels of ratings:
1. Unrated
2. Provisional Rating
3. Established Rating.

I think he was talking about only allowing players with established ratings.

This is a cool feature. But I think some minor changes need to happen. In the list of fellowships on the main page, only new messages in the "Main" board trigger the little red number that you can click on. To see new messages for all boards in a fellowship, I have to add them all to my favorites. I think most people are like me and belong to many fellowships. That could be a LOT of favourite boards.

How about only listing the fellowship boards in the Favourite boards List, if there are new messages.

Feel free to come discuss it in the Feature Discussions Fellowship

I just noticed that when I hover my mouse over a flag, a popup hint tells the nation and how many registered players are from that nation. Is this new to Brainking or just new to me? Either way, its kinda cool.

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Eriisa, close...I want a small list of smiley (my favorites). With a link that will give me ALL of the smileys. That way when I open the pop-up smiley window, I don't have to wait for all the smileys to open, just my favorites.