Just a small little Easter request
When reading messages would it be possible to have 2 more buttons please Fencer.

Mark Unread & Next:
Archive & Next:

Would be very handy, rather than going back to the list every time we do either.

Happy Easter
(sorry no easter egg smiley lol)

Fencer: True, then wait for the page to reload, but if the button was not there, the problem would not occur

I think thats called Catch 22

Saying that, check boxes would solve many similar problems (including message deleting & canceling moves)

Fencer: I don't think having the 'Move and go to' button directly above the 'Cancel this Move' button is logical at all.
Only one click on a mouse wheel and you have to replay your move.

pauloaguia: I have done that many times, but more than that is in a game after my move when scrolling down, to either write a message or submit a move.
While the page is still completing to load i often click away, then as the page finished loading and the page jumps, it ends up selecting, either 'switch to rich text editor' or rather than submit it clicks on 'Cancel Move' most annoying
I asked Fencer if at least the 'Switch to rich text editor' could be moved to the right hand side. He said no as it was my fault it happened, so i guess he will tell you the same

Fencer, Could we have a 'Move and goto Next Pawn Game' option please.

I dont mind playing Pawns (old & new), but they tend to make games 3 or 7 days, which get lost in among my games where most are 2 days. Would be nice if once every couple of hours i could play any Pawn games waiting, so they dont get bored

grenv: 100% agree with that 12 hour Fischer game suggestion, but even having them in any colour would not prevent it being done unless you monitor every fisher game and make sure you are back on before the shortest time in one. In other words, if you have a lot of them you may as well stay here 24/7. In fact i think there should be some sort of built in safe guard, just can not think of a sensible one
I have lost track of how many of those games i have timed out of BECAUSE of that.
You go to bed thinking you have no moves for at least 12 hours (for example) only to come back hours later to find your opponent in a fisher clock game moved and you timed out.
Hence i dont sign up for any now if i can help it, which is a shame as i enjoy them.

Fencer, how about modifying the Message box so its the same design as the Notepad.
In other words make Archive & Outbox Tabs and the option to create other Tabs possible. That would be great and very handy for keeping certain messages where we need to get to them (e.g. Fellowship ones, Tournament ones etc...).
Having an edit button could also be useful as i am sure we have all sent messages (with Links) only to find out they dont work, having the option just to go back and edit them correctly and resend would be nice.

Could we have a page somewhere in a Fellowship that displays all Team results (the same as we have in our profiles for finished games).
It would be handy to see all Teams for a Fellowship on one page with all relevant information Game type, win, draw , losses, BKR, rating etc...

joshi tm: I think that any game using a dice has that element of luck to it.
I just think it would make Cheversi a better/fairer game.

joshi tm: I think it would be much more fun and a better game with a dice, just like Dice Chess, there would be no advantage as such.
Black could be left with Queen, King or knight etc as a last move, not really giving them an advantage. At least it should create closer games.

I think Cheversi is a great game. Its quick and the rules are simple, but the advantage is still with black, though not as much as it was.
Could we have a dice version, where the dice would denote what piece a player would have to place on the board.
It would open it up a bit to both players

Fencer, would it be possible to have a setting to swap the columns of options over to the other side.
In other words the column that is now on the left, with Main page, New game, Waiting games etc.... to put it on the right, and Friends, Discussion Boards and Fellowship boards on the left.
While you are playing your games the left hand column is always there (for what reason ??), yet virtually nothing in that column is important in your gaming as such (maybe messages).
I think more people would prefer to see there friends online and any posts that have been made on boards rather than a list of options that are not really relevant.
I hope you understand what i mean, even if you do not think its a good idea, it certainly makes more sense

emmett: I did mention this before when Fencer sorted out the order of Team Matches. I thought that in the finished list the 'Match Type' & 'Time Control' could be replaced with 'Match Winner' & 'Match Score'.
Either that or have the hover work on those links so they could be seen easily rather than having to open each one all the time.

mctrivia: Eh ? If i am in a Logik Team and available, i can play.
If i am in Logic Team and not available, i cant play.
If i dont want to play a game type at all i would not be in the Team

mctrivia Being able to specify all different thing would take alot of sorting out i would think, and i do agree with them.
To start with i think a simple box beside our names in any Team we are in that we can toggle available / not available, just so the Captain or Boss knows.

Jason: Its a great idea that was mentioned before. Its a pain keep joining and leaving Teams just to stop games building up. I think people would be more happy to join Teams if its easy to make themselves available or not and certainly help the Captains.

TC: How about:

3 - How about every couple of days i pick, say 5 Tournaments, and post them at the top of the Tournament discussion board ?
(unless Fencer can do it automatically lol)

Fencer: In Logik, how about an UNDO button as well as (or instead of) the Choose another piece button, just so when we place a guess on the board, we can just take out the LAST peg placed, rather than realising we need to make a change and starting all over again.
Just make things easier & quicker

Fencer: Well when you see the programmer, could you ask him nicely please, it would be extremely useful

but tell him to have Sunday off, its a day of rest

When editing a Tournament Fencer we can only change certain things, which i understand.
Is there any reason we can not add an EXTRA game though ?
I can understand maybe deleting a game, as people may have signed.
It would be use though to add them, that way when a new game is released it could be added to an open Tournament, rather that creating one just for the

*morning by the way *

Fencer: Thats Great, Thanks

So am i right in thinking that the running ones are in the order they have started as well ? That would be great

Is there any room to squeeze the final scorer on the result line do you think, maybe where the 'Time Control' is just to save having to go there ?
(only do that to find out who to blame )

Fellowships Team matches (not Tournaments)
Please Fencer

Could the finished Team matches be put in the order they finish please.
I try to keep the Madhouse up to date with any matches won/lost, but as the Big Bosses dont get informed of results, only the Captains its hard trying to keep up, when they are in no real order (well i guess they ??? lol). Date Finished would be ideal, then we would only have to check the last one to make sure we know how we are doing.

On that page i think we really only need:

Name Opponent Type Creator Result

Once they are finished

Proposed - Hannelore: I am sure this was asked for before the little box at the bottom to sign for all.

2nd - MadMonkey:

Either way, its a GREAT idea, i often sign for 30 out of 90, and that can be a pain



Now WellyWales can sort the VOTE out....LOL

plaintiger, furbster and anyone: else who wants it to show a difference, talk to hexkid and join his Fellowship then you could have a Dice Poker game like this (or any colour/shade you wish)

hexkid: On the ball as normal hex, great stuff.

I think maybe hatching/shading the opponents side out would be better, but so you can till see there scores

Just add to your Greasemonkey script

AbigailII: How about adding a colour to the side of the board of the persons who go it is, or shading the opponents side, would that be better ?

and i still think there should be a bonus in Dice poker, coz thats the rules of the normal game

Fencer: LOL, like that answer

dresali: As you just beat me i agree

But in all seriousness, its true in what you say. Once a player has got semi-used to playing it, the worst Black should ever do is ret a draw, but a win should be the outcome, no matter how good a player White is.

Like you i think the game is great, but as in other games here on Brainking they can be modified.

Apart from the ideas you have mentioned, how about a Dark version, where all opponents pieces, squares and score are blocked to the opponent. In other words no player would no how the other is doing OR what pieces they have used just what squares have a piece placed on it.

Fencer: Are you going to add the 35 point bonus rule (for getting 63+ points in the top section) to normal Dice Poker as well ?

Just a simple request Fencer, that i found a bit of a pain when sorting Teams out.
We have dots telling us if we are in a Team entered or not in a Team.
Could the Bosses have another colour dot so we know which Tournaments we already have Teams for. Once the first few Teams are entered and people join various Teams, and with different Captains, its very easy to lose track where the Fellowship has got to entering what Team Tournaments when there are so many.
Maybe a blue dot on the Team Tournament page to just denote, Fellowship has a Team entered in that Tournament.

Fencer: Next Team match, most useful addition in a while (clever Monkey), hopefully people will use it, then the Matches/Tournaments will finish quicker, then we can have more

Fencer: Could we please have some way to easily see if and which Tournaments a Knight/Bishop is in. It is a nightmare when signing a Team up with Knights/Bishops in, and it tell you you dont have enough players. Then you have to go through every Team a Knight/Bishop is in to find out if it is them that is preventing it.
Either one of 2 ways i have thought of:
1) On there Profile(Fellowship page) beside there list of Teams, a dot to say they are either signed for or in a running Tournament.
OR
2) A dot(or brief message) beside there name when trying to sign the Team up for a Tournament, letting us know what they are signed for OR already playing in.
This is a major headache for Bosses & Captains

Fencer: Now that means moving the mouse, rather than just the wheel

Fencer: Just an easy silly thing, but its very annoying.
Could you move the link to 'Switch to RTE' or 'Switch to plain text' to the right hand side of the page please. When the site(or connection) goes a bit slow and you scroll down happily clicking for the Text box to type in, you tend to hit that link, then have to wait for the page to reload again. It can get very annoying

Fencer: Pretty please, before the next lot of Team Tournaments start could we have a 'Move and go to next Team Match game'

Vikings: Yes, would have been nice to start the new year with some Team Tournies. Saying that, the others havent even got to round 2 yet.

I can't wait for the stairs, we can have challenges running all the time then. Like we do now, but they will count for something. I did think about a League to start with, but will take alot to sort out i think after chatting to a couple of people.

Vikings, emmett: How about the Team stairs start ?

Mousetrap: I just tried on your game of Ludo 2092286 and it works ok for me.

Just hover over the Tourny name in the game, it takes a few seconds and you may have to move the cursor a little, but it works.

Thinking about it, maybe its not meant to work and really a BUG that Fencer will put right LOL

NewYear is soon: As far as i know it only seems to work with Team Matches & normal tournaments, and you only see the section your in.

Doesnt work with Elimination Tournaments though.

It well good, but would be great in other places as well. As far as i know it does not have to be enabled, i just saw it by accident.

I think its great we can now see how we are doing in a Tournament from within a game itself, just by hovering over the Tournament name.
Could you expand on this Fencer please. So we can use the same idea on the Fellowship page or any Tournament links we have.

Also, how about from within a game you could hover over game rules at the top and get a shortened page of Rules for a game. Most games are only a variation of another so would only need short amount of space.

oh, and while im here, could we have a better way to sort Team Matches out in a Fellowship, by date started, game etc...

Happy New year

p.s. Any more thoughts on Team stairs ?

"Snoopy", rod03801 & rednaz23: Until the BUG with offline players is fixed there is little point. I used to use it all the time to clear back logged games easier, but now so many people use 'cloak mode' its pointless having it. It picks up all 'cloaked' games as well

pauloaguia: I know lol, i think its alot more important than having ANOTHER backgammon game anyway.
What you meant to do if you know you only have a couple of hours left in a game, yet you cant move until your opponent sends it back to you.
So if they are clever and notice this, they wait till you go off line and send it back then, you time out
Something should be done really.

pauloaguia: Well cool, i often look there to see about links on the net, but never even thought of it here lol, thanks

Now if you can solve my main gripe it would be nice LOL
Why can't we know how much time WE have left in Fischers clocks games when the game is with an opponent, without having to look at each game ?
I am getting really fed up with games timing out, it must be quite easy to show on the main page.

ScarletRose: I dont if this would be easier, but i create alot id ID Links to peoples profiles when they win a Tournament. The problem is you have to go to the profile to find there ID, cant it be displayed with there other info like when you hover over there piece beside there name (Knight, Rook etcc..), at the moment that shows, name, country, membership rank, and gender, why not ID number as well.

When you have a moment Fencer, could you add a little more info to the Fellowship page where the Team matches are displayed. It would be nice to see the result of the match without having to look at each one for a start.
It would also be VERY helpful if the Big Bosses of a Fellowship gets a message when any match finish so they can post it on the Fellowship DB and keep everyone informed of how the Teams are doing.
It would be nice if Brainking itself could display the results somewhere (Running: 55 Finished: 7 Won: 3 Draw: 0 Lost: 4), it does get hard sometime trying to keep up with alot of matches, makes it harder when we dont know if they have finished

Mr. Shumway: Very true, so how about having a box that we could set the URL of, like in the context menus OR even linked to the context menu.

So we could move and goto a Fellowship DB, another board (Tournaments, computers whatever) in fact anywhere we choose to set the URL.

I am sure this has been requested before, but i will ask for it again as it just cost me alot of BKR and my No.1 spot.
Can we have an extra column to show how much time is left in Fischer clock games for us. Its a bit wrong when you leave here thinking your next move isnt for over a day in any game, to log in to find games timed out because you didnt know how much time was left.

I guess we could always go through every game before we log off just to check, bit time consuming i think.

Retep: How about when you goto a Tournament, and each game has a tick box ?
Just tick the ones you want, and hit a Sign-Up button.

On the main Tournament Link we have an option to Show tournaments created by me only.

Could we have the same on the Pond Link please

When someone creates an OPEN tournament, would it be possible to have it posted automatically on the Tournament board.
Some people dont advertise them or dont like writing on boards, hence the backlog of Tournaments not started.
Just a simple message Game Type and Name of Tournament.
Maybe as well, they could be set to repost themselves a day before they are meant to start if they are short & how many players

Fiona: Hey, you got more friends than just me.........

Now stop filling my phone up with texts and goto the hospital and have that baby will you