After any Message Box operation (delete, archive, etc.) we need an option to continue navigation, like the button "PLAY AND ...", instead of just staying inside. This could be like: "DELETE AND...".

I've just started playing Logik, and I've noticed that it takes an awfully long time to play each move, since it takes 10 full page refreshes (click on peg color, click empty space, repeat for all 5 spaces). It takes me about 30-40 seconds to enter a complete move.

I'd love to see a text-entry field that would allow me to enter my turn all at once, by typing it. After submitting that, I'd be taken to a page with all those pegs placed, where I could finalize my move or play around with it like normal. (It shouldn't replace the current method, just be there as an option.)

The text format could either be full color names (e.g., "red blue green yellow white") or individual letters (RBGYW). (Since we have three colors starting with B, you could use K for black and N for brown.) I realize this might be hard to localize, though. If so, perhaps numbers could be associated with each color and shown underneath them, and we could just enter the numbers.

Honestly, the details aren't that important to me. Whatever the format, I'm sure I could get used to it, and I'm sure it would make things much speedier.

AbigailII: Yes, that would be possible.

AbigailII: I love the idea.  I also would love the option to search for just those backgammon tournaments that will use the doubling cube.

Just like the little green icon next to a player indicating that s/he is online, I'd like to see a mark next to any game on the main games page where my opponent is actually playing (or looking at) that game.

AbigailII: Great idea.

Would it be possible to have "autopass" tournaments? What I mean by that is, if you create a (gammon) tournament, you not only get set the time controls, scoring method and number of participants, there's also a tick box that, if selected, means all the games are played with autopass enabled.

This allows autopass lovers to play in tournaments knowing all their games will be autopassed, and those who don't want to play with autopass select another tournament to play.

Can we have a tick box on your own stairs, so we can do a vacation / end vacation or deletion in one go ....

redfrog: Great point, but I dont think it allows auto pass, even in those situations?

Fencer: Perfect!!  ..Thanks!

Andersp: Something like this?

Fencer:  I love autopass so i prefer to challenge players who does tha same (in stairs).  Same as when people with hig BKR avoid players with a lot lower BKR.  They can see a players BKR,  so why shouldnt we autopass lovers be able to see if a player is using autopass?

Andersp: What is the point of that?

Fencer:  I repeat my old question: Is it possible to have a "dot" showing if a player has autopass in his settings?

Gordon Shumway: yeah - great point!

Puckish: i didnt think there was always the option of doubling - i thought if you had sent the last offer - that you couldnt send another until it was returned.... maybe im wrong - im not a big gammon player....

redfrog: Or you allow multiple persons to vote for the same game and define the weight according to the proportion of votes

Fencer: Okay, that makes sense, the game uses auto pass, but since there is always the chance to double, no move is never "autopassed".....

Hrqls: or - as in the tournament you are talking about - the first person to sign up - could have their game choice given the most weight or likelihood of being chosen and each person thereafter would have lesser weight....

mctrivia: yes .. the creator choses the weights

the participants who chose the games dont have any influence on the weights

those are 2 separate feature .. i dont think they can be combined :)

Hrqls: could work as long as it is the creator that choses the weights and they are listed automatically. Or each person gets to chose 1 game as there favovorite and the weights are blindly made that way.

i recently joined a tournament from Flake in which the participants can select which games will be used as random games

so there are 8 participants .. each may chose 1 game type .. in the end there will be a random game tournament with 8 game types with those 8 participants

i like this idea a lot!!! maybe something like that could be added in the options for a tournament ?

another idea which comes from that is to be able to give a certain weight to a specific game type .. by this you have some influence which game types will appear more often than others .. so it would be nice when creating a tournament of random games you can determine the chance of a specific game type to appear (if the chances are not filled in then every game type has the same chance)

any opinions ?

Puckish: What you post is just a set of game parameters, it says nothing about the game behavior.
But, of course, when you have an option to offer a double, it cannot be ignored by the autopass.

Puckish: Not autopass...its "a good compromise"

Fencer: 5 points match with doubling cube (#1)
Stairs: Fast Cube Stairs
Game ID: 3011070, Match ID: 250788
Your expected BKR change: win: 2203 (+7), draw: 2195 (-1), loss: 2187 (-9)
It is pgt's turn.
Score: Puckish: 0.0, pgt: 0.0
Score of finished games (Puckish - pgt, Backgammon): 4 : 6 (= 0) (show games | Show all games)
Time per move (?): 1 day, standard vacation (27. January 2008, 19:50:06 is the last term before timeout for this move)
Public game (visible for other players)
Rated game (the result will be calculated for players' BKR)
Layout: No fonts (change)
Board size: 2 (change)
Weekend days: Monday and Tuesday (change)
Your opponent is using the automatic vacation. (?)
This game uses auto pass.



It says here that this game uses auto pass, but it in fact does not?

Is this something coming soon, or some mistake or bug?

pgt: If you do start using mine I have my own feature request board on my site so any improvements you can think of I will add when I have the time.

http://bk.mctrivia.com

pgt: Did you ever try mctrivia's autopass program? Its still evolving, but works nicely for quite a few games.

Fencer:
Yes, I agree, you are the one who decides which feature requests are important - to you.  But I am the one who decides which feature request are important to me. 
I was about to resign my membership after some years of pleading for a cube implementation on backgammon seemed to fall on deaf ears, and just before my membership expired you implemented a great cube version of the gammon games.  Because I love the site, I renewed my membership for the past two years, in the hope that some of the features which I consider important might be implemented in the future.
The current implementation of autopass is totally unacceptable for the cubed game, and several suggestions for improving it have been made over the last couple of years, but have been completely ignored.  It might be nice to have gold / silver / bronze rooks, but it does nothing for me - unless perhaps maybe I could be a gold pawn when my subscription expires?
I'd be happy to renew my subscription if I could see some evidence that gammon players requests for feature improvements were taken seriously and scheduled for implementation in some realistic timeframe.

rednaz23: Okay, try it.

pgt: There is a good autopass feature is gammon games. A good compromise. And I am the one who decides which feature requests are important.

Fencer: But even nicer would be a good autopass feature in gammon games (I'll probably not renew my rook membership next month - the important feature requests seem to be ignored)

Something else that would be nice... if someone replies to a post I wrote, if I could turn on something to receive a message that it has been replied to. That would be nice... I know many wouldn't want it, but some would... like me. ;-)

Eriisa: I might jump on something like that... There seems to be a lot of different black rooks, and I certainly feel willing to 'be more' than a black rook... hmmm... Something for Fencer to consider I think.

Fencer: Ok. Thanks for answering

Fencer: LOL, Coen would be the first one for that, i bet!

Eriisa: Or an animated picture? Black, gold, black, gold, ...

P-G: Actually, I was thinking about that years ago. But it's not easy to build it on top of the current game framework.

redfrog: maybe if you only color the top part of the rook like the golden rook.

rednaz23: well - it sounds like a good idea right off the bat - but i hope new users wouldnt be confused by different rook colors and if they were attached to ranking in the games.... thats really the only drawback i can think of....

wetware: Thanks! Funny answer

Blue Duck: it would certainly save a lot of time when you want to resign in those situations.... good idea....

redfrog: yes multi match...
some people leave and not come back and if you have a multi match going it is pointless to wait for the main win...

Blue Duck: do you mean like in a multi-point match?

they need a 2nd resgin option...
resign game or resgn the whole series...

rednaz23:

I like the idea for different colors, but not sure I really want to pay more as I have already givin Fencer about $500 of my hard earned money 

coan.net: Only 1 disadvantage I can see. I would have to download an extra 229bytes for each new colour. This is not bad as long as we don't go adding 1000 different options.

coan.net: ...or a Color Palette -> Select you own color

rednaz23: That would be an interesting idea. Something like:

2 or 3 EUR for a change to a different color for 1 month

or

10 EUR for a change to a different color for 1 year


.... or possible do something like above for "basic" colors like red, blue, purple, pink, etc...

Then do an "advance" one for some "special" colors for even a little extra money - like Gold, or even a "multi-color" rook.

I think it is a great idea - plus a way to get the site a little extra money.

P-G: I completely understand your comment about cats in your home. I thought you'd enjoy the photo currently in my profile, taken while I was trying to analyze a Lines of Action position. This cat clearly had some ideas about the preferred move.
She's also a keen chess-player: a true king-hunter in the spirit of Tal, she makes moves that even super-grandmasters would never anticipate. (Her biting of the king's head afterward is the coup de grace.)

rednaz23: I think that's a pretty cool idea too. People paid for the gold rook.