Monkeys Fast Splish Splash 2 - El Cid

Kunoichi's Strange Test Pond...

Started a chess pond... probably not supposed to be possible, so I wonder what would happen if we tried it.

Kunoichi: what are the rules and how are they implimented?

want to talk about this in the ponds fellowship?

Kunoichi: weird. how did you define a "pond type: chess"? the definition page still offers only the 3 usual types run, dark and rain.

I think this pond will need a little advertising
Large Pond

Vikings: very funny. I don't know why I even bother

concerning Kunoichi's Strange Test Pond...
have you noted that the BKR's posted are the ones for chess? aaaargh, I hope mine doesn't suffer too much when I go splash in this thing

rabbitoid: she must have some other testing abilities, she has one pond for 3 players and another for a minimum of 4 players

rabbitoid: If you would have accepted your invite to the ponds plus fellowship, you would have already known all about the chess pond, including the fact that your chess rating would take a beating too

Vikings: no special testing ability - just some interesting URL hacks and such which Fencer did not put safe guards in.

There use to be other similar bugs awhile back that allowed people to read private fellowships, pawn to get more then their allowed games, allowing tournaments created in other fellowships, plus other things which I helped track down a long time ago for Fencer to put a block on.... but I never spent much time to see what game hacks I could do - since most are obvious when done - except for possible a few new ones they found, which hopefully they sent the details to Fencer so they can block those.

I've found a bunch of stuff already that needs safegaurds and it's all reported in the bug tracker thing. Editting bounds for ponds and making ponds for other game types like Chess included.

Well, we have been asking fencer for the ability to make ponds with fewer players and some with faster time limits, so maybe he gave us the ability by not blocking them?

I would like to try one with 1 minute limits, lets say a quick 8 person pond?

Why some players can define a very small pond and I can't?

joshi tm: Nobody can do that.

Fencer: Not since the past 5 minutes anyway!!!

Fencer: I dont know why you would not let us create ponds with less than 16 people???
Ponds are only for paying members, why not give us what we want?

Fencer: What about the running games????

Czuch: Looks like the chess pond made a poof noise before pulling a disappearing act. Magic...

oops, no, the pond is still there, but it seems it's ME who has done a disappearing act from it. Spooky

rabbitoid: what???? really?

Czuch: I'm no longer in the list of players

rabbitoid: Fencer must have felt bad for you and your chess rating? he can be very sneaky sometimes

oh, that was me actually. I didn't know whether or not a chess type pond would actually effect people's chess ratings, and I didn't want to be responsible for you losing a bunch of points in chess since you were way higher rated than everyone else. How I did that is irrelevant now since that appears to be fixed.

It would a nice feature though if ponds could be unrated though. If I could have, I would have made all ponds for finding and reporting bugs unrated so we wouldn't have to worry about that to begin with.

Well, anyway, I tried all the bugs I found before, and it looks like all pond bugs are fixed now, as I can't find any more.

Kunoichi: Fixing some I can understand, but some of them are things that we members have asked for for a long time now, including having ponds smaller than 16 people!

Kunoichi: I'd lift my hat to you if only rabbits wore one. I hope you won't ever be tempted by the dark side of the force...

Pond: shame you dont know who else is playing 4

Your pond is finished. (winner: Vikings)

For Anyone With 10+ Pond wins only!

For anyone with 10 or more wins only please!

http://brainking.com/cz/Pond?trnst=0&trt=0&u=8032

new ponds!

A WHAM BAMS A Pondside of Points!!! #94

Cougar727: I assume you are talking about this pond: Hyper Mega Pond

If you notice, the person who dropped out this past round was a pawn. Once a member turns back into a pawn, they cannot play the ponds. So, their last bid as a member, is the forced bid, until they drop out as the lowest bid. People just looked for that, and knew that anything over 487 would be safe. So, many bid 488.

Very interesting. Thanks for the info!

Pond: Ponds Plus Open Large Pond

The pond is finished. Your final position is 47 out of 48 players.

Your BKR change: old BKR = 2438, new BKR = 2151 (-287)

has anyone got a better plunge?

rabbitoid: Běh kolem rybníka (Flake, 2006-01-23 08:51:20)
-427 points

Fencer: I feel like an amateur

rabbitoid: It might be worth a new tab at the Statistics page.

Fencer: Don't! you'll be accused of cosmetics again

Minus 427? Wow that should hurt :(

Big pond, starts in a month
How about another Big pond

Heres a few quick start ponds
Quick start pond
Quick start dark pond
Quick start Rain pond

Only 2 people needed for this pond to start
Quick start pond

Only 2 players needed to start this pond
Quick start dark pond

Only 2 players needed to start this pond
Sluneční kruh XI.