ThunderGr:
Yes i could just resign... but it would take HOURS because i would have to resign like 500 games! Im hoping Fencer could possibly just delete them for me!

TomsWife4Life: It is about 3 seconds per game x500=1500 seconds =less than half an hour(1800 seconds).
Waiting for Fencer will take significantly longer, trust me.

TomsWife4Life: I know it's not the best suggestion, but I've seen a few of your games (4 or 5). It appears that you are in the last game in some (probably many) of them. You can always wait the 2 or 3 weeks for each game and then they would end, and you would win some, instead of losing the 104

TomsWife4Life: I've deleted your games. But next time, it might not be wise to start over 100 ten-win matches with the same person.

Fencer:
AGREE!!! Thank you for your help!

hi, i guess this question has been posted already but i'm wondering if it is a common situation at the moment that games doesn't time off, what about you?

speachless:  looks like the timeout function is not working again perhaps fencer will see its not working and fix it

Timer is not right as I was supposed to have a fellowship tournament start at 10AM my time today and it is after 3 PM and it still has not started.

Brian1971:  doesn't look like it has been fixed yet maybe someone can contact fencer

Hey guys, I suppose it is solved now, right? Sorry for the delay, I've just returned from holidays.
Actually, it's fun to try to restart BrainKing from iPad on a hotel WiFi that goes down every 5 minutes.

Fencer: welcome back, problem is solved since the 16th, thx for your support

question?
is anyone having trouble creating tournaments in their fellowship? when I click create it takes me back to the fellowship.

Universal Eyes:  I just tried and was able to set one up with any problems

Is there anyway this page can be fixed, would eb nice to see where i am in the charts and it's been broken for a while now :)

http://brainking.com/en/Statistics

As in the finished games, and top players pages etc

furbster: it works for me? What do exactly mean is broken?

Aganju: For example the finished game pages shows me as having finished 12,271 games and then the wins/draws/losses, when in actual fact i have finished 16,002 games! It's been stuck on 12,271 for a long time now, and i'd just like to see the correct information shown there.

furbster: Yes, that wrong/outdated for me to. That's on http://brainking.com/en/Statistics?p=1 I checked only on http://brainking.com/en/Statistics?p=0 But that may be actually wrong too..

I keep getting the white page and can't make any moves. Anyone else having the same problems?

Not here !

MrDelete: It is back to normal now.

Very Good !

I am playing a Ludo game and I have 23 passes. This not the first time has happened. There has to be bug or something wrong with the Ludo game.

crosseyed: That's really not that uncommon.

rod03801: It maybe not uncommon but it sucks. There has to be something wrong with how the Ludo game is set up in this site.

crosseyed: While it's not that uncommon, it's definitely not that common either. In those situations a "real autopass" would be very helpful though.

rod03801: I stopped playing Ludo for this very reason, too many passes. I only signed to help beach out. Sorry beach I won't signing up for any more Ludo games. Autopass would still 23 passes.

crosseyed: The problem is - and that has been discussed many times before - with the random number generator. It generates not-so-random numbers that follow patterns, and one of those patterns is that you get the same numbers many times in a row (and if that is not what you need, you end up passing very often).

One way to avoid that is (aside from not playing here, of course, which works perfectly fine) to not play such a game immediately. The not-so-random-numbers are dependent on the time, so if you wait an hour, you get different numbers. That is my personal theory/analysis, and has been discussed before too, and many people do not believe it. It works just fine for me (for example, in backgammon I sometimes decide to double in fast-played games based only on the fact that I can kind-of-predict my next roll - if the game moves fast enough)

Feel free to try it - waiting even 15 minutes is typically enough, and the risk is nil. And feel also free to ignore this as an absurd variant of paranoia...

crosseyed: No, there doesn't need to be anything wrong - I believe there is approximately a 2% chance of having 23 non-6 rolls in a row, so inevitably it will happen to anyone who plays enough. Now if that happens to you every game, that's a different matter. To me, the bigger issue with Ludo as a game is that the skill element is pretty low in my opinion - but maybe that's just because I'm not skilled enough to understand the subtleties of the game. :D

I have never understood the people who argue against auto-pass, nor Fencer's decision to set up the auto-pass so that those that don't want to use it can shut it off in a game created by someone that wants to use it. I think that If I create a game, then I should have the final say in the options and parameters used, not the person that accepts the game or enters the tournament. If that person doesn't like the parameters of my game, they should either create their own game, or write to me and we can discuss it, or they go pound sand and play with themselves.

I do not play Ludo, but auto-pass is a good thing for Backgammon. Yes, I have come back to a game and seen that I've missed six turns sitting on the bar. What a relief! Why would anyone want to roll and enter a move when your opponent has every point in his home base covered and you have a piece on the bar? And I do not mind when there's points open and auto-pass skips my turn either. I can always scroll back through the moves to see the bad rolls if I really want to see them.

The RNG or rather pseudo rng has a near random distribution of dice output across the site rather than by individual.

As I always get double 6s in anti-backgammon, it means less double 6s to go around for everyone else.

Now, if only crosseyed and myself could swap our numbers

crosseyed: After 24 passes I am now able to make a move.

crosseyed: In the spirit of aganju's post, I will say that I have "noticed" that publicly complaining about the dice "seems" to quickly result in getting better rolls.

Of course I may be even more paranoid than aganju....

happyjuggler0: I think you could be right. However my opponent has only one piece to get home and is very close to home.

Walter Montego: Totally agreed, Ludo desperately needs an autopass system. It's also completely ridiculous that if someone doesn't want to use autopass, they have the right to prevent everyone else from using it when playing against them. It should be up to each person to decide whether to use autopass on their own moves, the anti-autopass brigade shouldn't have the right to dictate their terms to everybody else.

It also amazes me how many people seem unable to understand the concept of randomness, expecting randomness to mean no patterns can arise ever. True randomness means precisely that patterns can in fact emerge every once in a while. Of course, the human brain is set up so as to try and look for patterns wherever it can, which is why so many silly superstitions abound...

Roberto Silva: And to me, I would love to see a compramise. If someone does not want to use auto-pass, and want's to click "pass" every single time - let them. But on the flip side, if you don't have a move, then auto-pass should happen with the game going back to the other player right away.

The ONLY argument that I've heard is that if the other player is using auto-pass, then if the non-auto pass player wants to send a message with each turn, then some message might be missed or something stupid like that. SOLUTION: Have all the messages turn up once they are able to move. And if it's a big enough problem, then have an auto-message of "Opponent did not have a move, so auto-pass brought the game back to you" message so the non-autopass player who don't understand will then see that the other person has not played, hence have not seen the message.

Anyway..... long argument short: I also don't understand why we don't have a good auto-pass in play.... and let each player decide how they want to play, don't make others force their opinion on them.

coan.netwhy is it I feel like we have had all this conversation before????:

Bernice: Yes! - It is August! We always repeat the topics!, monthly.
I think in September we need to repeat the discussion about slow players than hold up tournaments for years, and October's topic is Daylight Savings time and its sense or nonsense.

Aganju:

Aganju: hahahaha

Bernice: "why is it I feel like we have had all this conversation before????:"

Because the problem has yet to be solved. Just because you're tired of hearing something doesn't mean it stopped being true.

But I still would like to know why people feel they should have the right to impose their style of play onto everybody else (people who complain about others moving slowly are another example of this), and even worse, why the admin agrees with them. If poeple don't want to use autopass, then don't use it, but what gives them the right to say that other people are not allowed to use it on their own moves?

Roberto Silva: ummmmmm...not being "picky" but where did I say I was """tired of hearing something""""???????

get your facts right and don't put words into my mouth (screen)
hahahaha

Roberto Silva: Why? That is a general issue with the world.
I don't want to start a political discussion about today, but just for example, the Crusades were started because the Christian's felt that it is necessary to force their beliefs onto the non-believers. I am sure you can find current similar situations...

Half of the trouble in the world comes from people that think their ideas are so good that they have to force others to follow them. If not more.

Aganju: I know that. But I sure would like to know why...

Ours is not the reason why,Ours is but to do or die !

WoW been a long time for my main page has 0 games for me to play...

I don't think this site has had any new features since I first logged in in 2012! Does anyone know of any? Is this just a dead site?

thechosen0ne: The site itself is not dead in the sense that people are logging in every day to play games. But I don't think the creator is planning any new changes other than maybe an occasional bugfix.

thechosen0ne: Yea, the owner has been spending more time with "real life", so programming & this site has been put on the back burner. Now he still fixes problems and bugs, but not much on "new programming" for awhile now. I hope and think at some point if he doesn't sell the site, he may get board and do some new programming.

As I'm sure he will read this, maybe some easy game variants - like a large logic game with extra color/spaces - or an "express ludo" game with 2 dice instead of 1.... stuff that should be easier to program as he can copy most of the code from the original..... I can hope.

coan.net: I think your garage will be built first lol

thechosen0ne: ... my body has no new features since I first started using it... though I am still pretty ok with it (well, flying would be nice, really, or X-ray vision).
Why the assumption that everything needs to get 'better' continuously or be unworthy? Some things are just great as they are. Just generally.

Yes, BrainKing could use some polishing in some corners.

So... why don't we go and code a better variant? There is probably no copyright on it, and I doubt Fencer would care too much. If everyone that complained here in the last ten years writes a (correct) line of code for every complaint, it is probably more than halfway done.