Sent: 1/5/2008 5:59 PM

http://groups.msn.com/Goldtoken-com/

Eriisa: What time was that posted?

Posted on Goldtoken MSN groups

Great news about the new server. It will be super when GT is fast and efficient.

HOWEVER ... there is a teeny weeny problem with the update. The new server is located in California, and they got hit with the worst storm in California history. So the update is going to take longer than expected - I believe it will be finished about 6 hours from now. If the transfer aborts because of the storms then it will have to be redone, but lets hope it all goes through smoothly first time.

Firefly

coan.net: I have just joined yourturnmyturn

Like the set up, but have to find my way about yet.
Just played a practice game against the computer there at Guess the Code (Logik here) and love the colour selection process. Maybe we could have drop boxes with colours instead of words

Will pop back there later to have a look and maybe play a game. Found coan.net, my first friend their lol, added you, but not found out how to find if you are online or not yet lol

coan.net: Been playing the boats more & more there now

Those diagonal ones make it a great game as the board is based on squares, therefore boats can go across each other (A1, B2, C3, D4 & D5) and the other (D1, C2, B3 & A4) for example.

You can set the games to include diagonal boats or not, and also have boats that just use ONE space, would be like having one Frog in the game OR we could call it Life Raft (great idea monkeyboy lol)

In fact what is great about BugCafe, well a few of there games, is you can create your own rules as such, like design your own Scrabble boards, any size you wish, and set bonus squares anywhere you wish them, how ever many tiles you want.

Would be great if we could do that here with Boats here, decide how many of which boats we use in a game

In fact be great if we could do it for any game here that Fencer can not find time to make even the smallest changes for

Server upgrade in progress Great News!

We are in the process of upgrading our server. To do this, we must ensure the integrity of our data as we complete the move, so you will not have access to the website until the upgrade is complete.

While we can't provide you a timeline of when this will be completed, our best estimate is that this process shouldn't take more than a few hours.
Rest assured that no game timeouts will occur during this period.

When we complete the upgrade and bring the site back online, it will be a faster, more responsive system, capable of handling the increasing load that comes with our site's popularity.
Be sure to check back in a few hours!

coan.net:
I believe they said on the English site they would add more games once they had 100 paying members? Seems like if they added more games they would get more of the guest already there to join as paying members! Looks like 73 now so have a long wait

ellieoop: I use to play on the Dutch site often, but haven't for the past couple of months - so rummy must be new (or I missed it)

I might go try that out also..... and hopefully they will have it over on the English site soon - even though with so few members, it gets boring there fast.

coan.net: have you tried their dutch site, it has a lots of different games, my very favorite is rummy, and of course lost cities is on both sites, don't understand how they can have those 2 great card games and no other sites have them .they have lots of paying members so tourns. start daily, and sometimes 2x a day, and you never seem to play the same ppl. paying members can play in team games, like the team challenges here.

MadMonkey: Yea, many other sites have been growing for the good. YourTurnMyTurn is continuing to add new games, many unique for the site. GoldToken has really steped up their game develpoment - they now have a great chess & checkers selection - enought of a selection to be the official game site of ACF and others... plus also working on other great non chess/checker games.

Heck, ItsYourTurn has even introduced some great games recently - I just love playing Dark Crazy Chess - plus they have some new boat variants and such.

I have not played on BugCafe for a long time - but I think I will have to check them back out here soon.

BugCafe has come along way since it first started with just Scrabble.

It has now introduced Mancala & Dice Poker (Bugzee as they call it), so now has all types of games & more than BrainKing does, just not all the variations.

Its a lot more basic than here, but very playable

We had a burst of new games at the start of 2007, BECAUSE of all the Black Rook memberships.

When will we get something new now, even the most basic sites are leaving us behind now

Fencer: That a pity, but a clear answer. Have you tryed other lisenced games too?

joshi tm: In order to release a licensed game, you need a license, of course. It's good you mention Carcassonne - I've been trying to contact the author, the distributor and everybody else who could have anything to do with the license. Nobody ever answered me. You can try it yourself, perhaps you'll be more successful.

Yup, that's right. After Tally Ho!, YourTurn, MyTurn is about to release Kahuna.

The Dutch rules are here: http://www.jijbent.nl/spelregels/kahuna.php

Is it so difficult for BrainKing to release a lisenced 2-player game? Think about (Dutch names) : Ceasar en Cleopatra, Kahuna, Fjord or Carcassonne?

Does anyone play at www.king.com?

Mousetrap:
exactly its been nearly a month since i posted that

The Crazy Puppy: Wow they are taking thier time! No more moaning about Brainking from me, will, maybe just a little now and again. What would life be like without a moan or two

The Crazy Puppy: I am soooooo glad I never got dooped into buying a membie there.. talk about gutt instinct..

So what's become of gamedriven now?

gamedriven is back

Fencer: Competition is a good thing in my opinion,it keeps businesses on their toes and promotes quality,otherwise we are faced with collusion.

coan.net: Weren't they doing that two years ago when IYT had been facing serious problems with their hardware or whatever?
I think people are smart enough to choose a game site themselves, they don't need to be "driven in". And it's not nice to turn another site problems to own profit, I would say.

coan.net:
oh another rubbish site least said about that one the better..lol

coan.net: LOL...that can be said of goldtoken too!!...i wont put caps on the site name as its a dying site!

"Snoopy": Well GoldToken is officially "welcoming" players that are migrating from Game Driven with free silver membership and such.

So the more I read and wait - the more I think gamedriven is gone

There as a lot of cool things about gamedriven - but (1) bad owner, and (2) the limits they kept I believe kept away many people.

Eriisa:
when i wrote that i was just getting white pages when trying to log in
now today theres a message site down for maintenance so you could be right about it comming back

"Snoopy": As I understand it, he went broke and closed it down. I did hear rumors that it would start up again in Nov with new owners but I don't know if that's true or not.

Coan, they did have several colonies start and you could play at any of them.. so essentially, you could not play all the games. My favorite was loose Gold Card. I never saw that anywhere else.

I'm glad I didn't pay for more than annual.

Dolittle:

im just glad i was still using a freebie membership
im be really annoyed if i had pay for it

"Snoopy": I get the same thing...don't know what is going on!

coan.net:
im still a member there and ive been trying for 3 days to log on but just get a white page

rod03801: Well I'm still curious - isn't there any players on here that also played there? If so, are they closed for good - or is it just hardware issues or something where people can't connect.

If anyone knows, please let me know.

coan.net: Doesn't sound like my cup of tea anyways.



The only other site that comes close to being as good as Brainking is Goldtoken.. to me, anyways.

rod03801: Well it had some cool ideas - players would join a colony - limit to the number in each colony - and in there, you could buy houses and stuff for the house with fake money you earn playing games and such.

But after that, things go south. First, they had like 20 games on th site, but a colony could only have access to like 10 games at a time - and the players of the colony had to vote for which games. (me, if I'm playing - I want access to all the games).

Of course this information is from when they first opened, not sure what they had done since.

Games - they had some of the regular - plus some unique ones like a card-poker game which was pretty fun - basically it was a single player game, but made into a 2-player game where each play their own game - highest score wins. Um... I think their battleboat game was interesting - with different boats/tanks & different backgrounds. Um.... plus some of the "regular" games like chess and such.. can't remember.

Had some cool ideas, but I think the owners idea was to have a community site that just happened to have a few games - and did not want a "game site" so could care less about concerns - like mine about wanting to play all the games not just a limited selection. In my opinion, if they focused on both - they would have gained a lot of turn based game players.... well that and if the owner wasn't such a .......... well, you can fill in the blank.

coan.net: What kinds of games were there? What was the whole "colony" and "homes" concept?

coan.net: That site owner is a nut job anyway. Some people shouldn't be allowed to own pay to play sites especially people like that site owner. He was on one serious power trip when we all played there. If you didnt kiss his butt he kicked you out!!

As many of you know, I stopped visiting Game Driven site awhile back ( http://coan.net/gd.html ), but I got an e-mail today from someone telling them they closed the game site down (of course after they accepted his $200 lifetime membership - which means the lifetime of the site, not his lifetime)

Anyway, like I said - I don't visit the site, I tried a few minutes ago and it did not work - so I was wondering if it is correct that the site is closed, or are they just closed for repairs or some other temporary reason.

volant: huge shock

Looks like they are down again

   

Saturday, August 24

We are currently attempting to install new hardware. However, because of the weekend, we are currently physically unable to reach our servers. As a result, we do not have a target time for completing the install.

We apologize for the inconvenience, and we appreciate your patience.

jessica: I gave up my membership there because I did not like the limit of 100 games. (yea, it was 200 - but only 100 tournament & 100 regular games - and since I play 99% tournament games, I felt cheated out of 1/2 my games)

... so I only play a few games there now and don't plan on getting a membership again. Dark Crazy Screen Chess is fun when there is enough to start a tournament there.

i agree. there are children who go to that site and if thier parents knew what was being written on those boards wouldn't allow the children to sign up in the first place.
i hardly go there anymore because of the language on the boards and the fact that i only get 15 moves per day compared to unlimited moves here.

coan.net: I agree.The tone of some of those boards has turned off the people with anything interesting to say anyway,no great loss.Expect a stampede to this site,but the culture shock of having to display new level of maturity and respect may be daunting for many of them.

ScarletRose: Those message boards have driven some people from his site - I think it is a smart move... I have a few games still on that site, but haven't visited the message boards there for well over a year now.

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http://www.casualcollective.com/ is pretty fun.

It's a multiplayer version of http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/ .

Although not really a game site  facebook.com is a really cool site. There are many small game applications you can add to your profile. You can network and connect with friends. I have found or been found by 10 friends from school. I havent seen or heard from these ppl in over 20 years so it is really great to talk again.
Just to name a few of the game apps at facebook.com are
pirates,
scrabble,
fantasy games,
board games


Worth checking out.. And if you do join up to facebook.com <span>Look me up! (Rose Zinck)
Maybe we can get a brainking group going there.(who knows there may already be one!!)

*Update*   I did a search and no BK groups there so I created one!

thank you

ScorpionOct64: If you want turn based, there's a few card games at http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv .

ScorpionOct64: MSN games has a few card games. Real time, of course, not turn based. I particularly like Hearts there. There aren't that many multi player card games there, though. But if you like live Hearts, I recommend that.