he's ill..poor Stevie.LOL

no comment ;o)LOL

checks Steve's forehead...omg ,you better lie down ;-)

BTW
Im gonna ruin a trend and say I like the graphs ;oD
shock ..horror..Steve likes a new aspect of the site finally LOL

This morning.

When did the graphs 1st appear? I was away for a couple of days & when I came back "poof" there was graphs. LOL

You were just showing off that high bkr werent you LOL

I see, so it didnt really do a negative effect on your graphs, it just stalled it :o)

It wasn't a good example. Tank Battle is better.

harley: You must have a visible BKR. It should happen after finishing 4 rated games.
Stevie: There is still a hole. Look at my chess graph for example, you'll see.

<Quote>The BrainKing Daemon? That's Stevie isn't it? :D

(joking Stevie cos I know you can take it!)</Quote>

Finally, someone who understands me LMAO


On a serious note. Fencer
You say the BKR have been recalculated back to the year dot. How did you go about the 3 month black hole period where all bkr changes were lost?

How many games must you have completed before you get a graph for it?

the one thing I found the best about the graph is it actually shows what your highest ever acheived rating is. I dont believe before we could tell what this was.
Thanks Fencer, great feature !!!

mine looks like a plane crash!!..heheeee!

BBW: The previous wrong values of BKRs had been rewritten because there is no use for them anymore. The changes should not be significant, +-50 points and similar.

Nice feature Fencer. Do you know if anyone's ratings changed very much with this calculation? I meant to make a copy of my own BKR ratings before the recalculation to compare, but I forgot. I can tell that on the Statistics page that I look like I'm in a different position on the charts then before, but not sure if I changes, or if others just complete more games.... wish I could go back and look... :-)

Anyway, graphs are great! Now I can see in Battleboats I was up to over 2000 but plunged to about 1600 in a matter of a month or so....

It could be done a long, long time ago, with a lot of other things.

I think BK could use a whole team of psychiatrists...lol well,some of the members anyway lol

The BrainKing Daemon? That's Stevie isn't it? :D

(joking Stevie cos I know you can take it!)

Once the AI (BrainKing Daemon) is implemented, it can solve everything.

Would you add a 'counselling' feature too? A sort of BK psychiatrist? :D

Maybe I could add some "analyze this personality" function based on the graphs :-D

According to some of my graphs, I'm clinically dead.

Great feature though!

The three games Nellaf lost ended in the 1st move ... thus no BKR change

i think brainking is fab

if that someone always had lower rated opponents his/her rating wont change that much ... if the one with 7 wins and 3 losses always played the highest rated person then the wins would add a lot

I am just wondering how someone with 126 wins, 1 draw, and 0 losses can be rated lower than someone with 7 wins and 3 losses.

Doesn't that seem odd?

but more then just Czech Checkers - all checker variants, so I never even bothered to see if that rule change worked in other variants!

Plus it said that it was a bug that was fixed, not a major rule that was changed. I just figured there was some bug that I did not know about, not that it was a rule change. O'well - I'm beter now. :-)

maybe froglet was such a hit that the rest of the message went by unnoticed ;)

BBW: it was announced in server news :)

Fencer And new games again 1. September 2004, 09:45:31
Modified by Fencer (1. September 2004, 10:17:43)
BrainKing brings 3 new games - Jarmo, Alquerque and Froglet. My thanks go to white for those little froggies and Sinay for boards of Jarmo and Alquerque. Yes, I know that boards for Jarmo and Alquerque are too big, I will add smaller ones soon.
Besides, lots of bugs was fixed (!!!!!e.g. multiple jumps in Czech Checkers!!!!!) and added several improvements.

Can I suggest that when rules are changed for any games, that they be announced somewhere other then in one game messageboard? Maybe like in Server news.

I just found out today while reading the Czech Checkers message board about an important rule change that effects most checker varent games which would alter the way I would play the game a lot, and the rule change was made on Sept 1st!

Anyway, Just a suggestion that any rule change for any game should be announced in System News - even if it effects a few users, I believe it is important enough to announce.

Thanks.

I dont think so. Then Fencer might as well just shut down the site. Pawns are important to the site as far as having more peopleto play. Also if you dont give someone a chance to play for free at the beginning how will they get a chance to see how good this site is? Besides there are several who cant afford to pay for a membership due any number of circumstances. I was a pawn for a long time too. However now I am able to afford membership, I bought a membership through December 2005 plus have helped a couple of others attain a membership as well. I do beleive that 20 games and unlimited moves is more than generous when compared to IYT who has only 25 moves a day for non paying members. I think we could limit the number of moves per day on pawns though. Maybe unlimited moves for the first 60 days and then after that limit them to 50 moves a day. 50 moves for many is still a lot of moves per day.I would be willing to bet the average pawn carries 10-12 games so that would average out to 4-5 moves per game per day. Not too bad.

he can see my posts Harls, he is just trying to pretend no to.
We all know he could never let a post go unread LOL

Oh I see, sorry Stevie, I thought you meant generally hidden from everyone.

There is on my hide list Harley...its LJ

Grampa AD, I will not remove posts just because you happen to disagree with them, no matter how many private messages you send me. (Which, by the way, I can't reply to privately since you have me on enemies. If you insist on sending me messages like that, I'll have to place you on enemies too)

LongJohns post was controversial, but it is a point that has been raised before and I don't see that it is any different than other occasions where the pawn (and rook/knight) membership has been discussed. There is only one part of that post that I think could be found offensive which I will edit.

However, there are a lot of other posts which have been made in the last 2 days which I consider to have crossed the line. Its better to make your point without insults, then your post will have a chance of staying :o) I don't like editing posts but I will now to keep the peace of this board and to keep it on topic.

Stevie, there is nobody on hide as far as I can see. Nev Nake, thank you for editing your post.

***edited and taken to Gen Chat***

[edited]

oh gosh, the red numbers are starting on here now LOL Ill have to look hard to find who i have on hide on this board.......mmmmmm only 1. must be [edited] LOL

[edited]

yes Stevie definately sarcasm..
***Interesting though that she pointed out that Kevin did sponsor her first membership. Makes me see him in a different light supporting folk less fortunate than most of us. ***

I guess i did put it wrong...I actually won the membership in a competition that Kevin ran, I wasn't one of the "less fortunate"
as LongJohns says.

***edited*** LOL

Yes, the Trax World Championship final is an 11 game match. So far we have played 5 and he won them all - so I just have to win 6 in a row! lol

Seriously though, I never thought I'd have any chance of winning - my goal is just to not get beaten 6-0! :-)

And LongJohn - why would you assume I'd be moderator of the Trax DB? And whether I would be or not, what is that comment suposed to mean?

[edited] Pawns are the backbone to this site. If they like what goes on they will join in they're on good time.

And the way it should stay...

The post below of LJ's is instulting and off-topic. Let's hope the moderators do the right thing and remove it. It's not LJ's business if Fencer wants to allow for pawn memberships. It's no ones. Pawns are welcomed here and that's the way it's always been.

[edited]

     Have a blessed day! :)

typical answer from a person who obviously intends to live this life getting far more than giving.
Dont come around this neck of the woods at christmas time please LOL

Wipe out the Pawn Membership

If you want to take away the things the Pawns already have, then why not scrap the whole thing? It's pointless to force someone to do something they don't want to do.

The reason I say 'scrap the whole thing' is because that would be the ultimate fate of it anyway. The Rich would win, everyone would be happy, and all of us who are here just to have fun will be gone.

Apology accepted Harley.... Thanks ;)

or not allow them to post to any dbs

Maybe pawn membership should be limited to a certain amount of time?