it makes me think twice as well ... which is not what i am coming for on this site! i dont want to think .. i just want to click :)

(hmm when was the last time the 'polls' section was used ? ;))

could it please be made so that all BattleBoats (and Espionage) games are set to 'private' by default ?

in those games the starting position is very important and it get harder and harder to come up with a nice new setup each time when all old setups can be viewed by your opponent

please ? ;)

you can always ask your opponent to tell you the remaining positions of the ships, most players will tell you.

lol

most of those things i wont give away ;)

i never heard about espionage before i came to this site .. i knew about stratego though .. we played it (dont know if those are the official rules) that when you (tried to) capture a piece your opponent had to reveal that piece to you and you had to reveal it to your opponent .. even if you would lose the capture part

but of course in stratego we didnt have spies like we do have in espionage :)

ah!!! nice!! thats what i meant .. the descriptions in the friends screen .. of course its only needed for regular opponents which will probably be in the friends list .. thanks!

after the backgammon prize tournament is over i will be a paying member .. wether i have to for it myself or let the tournament pay for it ... i still have a (very small) chance .. go mary jo! ;)

its nice to have this feature for pawns already as well ...

it would be nice to be able to place notes about certain players strategies per game which could be read when playing that specific type of game .. but for now i have all i need :)

is it possible to add notes to a certain player ... notes only you can read .. like the notes you can make about the game in espionage .. it would be a nice way to write your own notes to remember certain strategies a specific opponent uses

dont you have to feel bad for the mods sometimes .. they have to read all of them :)

nice work around .. thanks .. will use that for the time being :) (?) :)

when i go into a board and see more than 50 messages unread i have more than 1 page of unread message on that board

(i can change the amount of messages per page, but 50 is nice, maybe even too much :))

when i then go to page 2 to start with the oldest new message all of the messages on page 2 are marked as not-new already since i already was at that board at page one .. is there a way to start at the oldest new message ?

just lost my first game .. but i see even you lost one .. so there is still hope ;)

good luck to you as well, i hope we meet in the tournament :) :)

heh .. wow i couldnt imagine how many reactions some simple posts of a simple pawn could 'inspire' :)

i didnt mean to demand those 'changes' .. it was more like some features which other people might think useful as well .. maybe something to put on a future 'todo' list

i am just on this site for about 2 weeks .. trying things out .. to see if i like it .. which i do a lot .. otherwise i wouldnt even think of trying out the discussion boards and post something in the 'features' section (which is open for pawns to post in :))

its free to anyone to respond with any opinions about the points i brought up :)

i might become a paying member ... right now i am in a bg tournament of which the first prize is get a 1 year paid membership :) .. so far i won 2 games .. lost 0 .. but i am about to lose at least now :)

thanks for reading my posts ... will check back soon for more sponses :)

what i mean about the link to the rules in the pages of the discussion board is that it would be nice to see the same link inside the discussion boards. like when i am reading a message in a discussion board which makes me wonder about the rules about that (variation of that) game .. i can go directly to that link instead of having to go through 2 other pages first

to explain the show of new messages per discussion board : right now several discussion boards are grouped in a collection (for example all variations of chess) ... now i have to open the group first to see if there are any messages at all .. i cant see if from the main screen in which i see the groups .. right i am using the link to expand all groups .. giving me 1 large screen with a lot of boards which show me the nice red number .. but it would be nice to have the groups non-expanded and show the total of the unread messages in the boards inside the group.

i might be asking for too much though :)

ah! thanks! ... sorry ... somehow i didnt see that one :)

is it possible to sort the game list ?

as there are more and more games the list is now getting quite long and sometimes hard to find a specific game type/variation
(of course i can use the 'find' option of my browser, but a ordered list would be nicer :))

maybe its possible to group the list into several groups which can then be opened into the sub types like the discussion boards :)

(thats what you get from a newbie on this site ... btw a newbie who thinks its a great site :))

here i am again .. sorry to ask so much :)

would it be possible to have a link to the game rules about which the discussion board talks ?

is it possible to see how many new messages there are on a total discussion board .. i mean on the whole group like 'line 4 and variations'