Interesting discussions that I missed while I was on vacation...

As some other people already said, automatic tournaments are a good idea, but they must be rare enough to give them enough credibility, like the team tournaments actually have. The proposition of monthly tournaments + yearly championships + seasonal team tournaments sounds excellent. Not the top of my wish list, but if it is easy to do, definitely a good thing for Brainking.

I am less interested in an improved discussion board system, I would prefer the discussion boards to stay inside Brainking. What about giving the possibility to every member to create unlimited discussion boards in fellowships ? If the problem is of controlling the content, using fellowships sounds like the natural solution.

It is true that the possibility for some people to abuse vacation days in order to slow up their games is definitely unfair, but I propose to see the problem from another point of view. Having people buy vacation days is the easiest possible money for Fencer, and easy money for Fencer is good news for all of us, it means that he can concentrate on making the site better with a lesser need to care about profit. In other words, vacation days abusers pay for a part of our membership fee !

please take the dragon battles and besiege of the castle to the general chat forum

Fencer: If you had ten dragons on the main page, wouldn't it prevent people from entering the castle?? If you had a dragon and St George people might feel more comfortable taking refuge in the castle!!

Vikings: Oops! Now it is correct.

Infidel: Hahahaha. Love it!!!!

Tigger: thats just great :)

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I think the link in todays blog entry by Fencer is incorrect, it is supposed to take us to a page titled "Big user photos" but it is taking me to the 5 in line settings page instead. Was this the page the link was supposed to take us too? http://brainking.com/en/Statistics?p=5

Hrqls:

ok .. lets get on topic please :)

TarantinoFan:  It's been my experience that blonde women are at their best after midnight.  Level playing field and all that.

taking cover !

Well I've got my little club here but it doesn't seem to help much!

Fencer: LOL, yes, we need a catapault to shoot the fireballs back at it.

TarantinoFan: Nothing. This is just a beginning. One dragon is not enough, we should have at least ten of them. And some people complain that they cannot shoot it down.

Or did I mean horizontal? The one on the bottom of the screen anyway! It's not there but when the dragon hits the side of the screen it is there for a second. Awww It's after midnight and I am blonde and a woman. What more can I say!!!

Fencer: When you are trying to read a really funny blonde joke it is very distracting! I kept losing my place!

TarantinoFan: A vertical scroll bar for a second? Sounds like a real apocalypse.

Silly dragon stretches my screen. Even when I am looking at boards I all of a sudden get a vertical scroll bar on the bottom of my screen for a second. Bit distracting. Back to no fonts I go!






*I left the t out of vertical. Hahahaha.

Fencer: pity.

rabbitoid: Not exactly.

Is that the way you chose to prepare us for the introduction of dungeons and dragons to BK? (wink, wink)

Nice fireball for the Dragon you made Fencer

alanback: good point

emmett: We wont get very good odds at the betting shop for that

Gordon Shumway: Congratulations, Tenuki, on winning the proposed future BrainKing Championship!

gambler104:  Not quite true in backgammon, because of the luck factor.  Still, a tournament winner would be "one of the best".  Match length should be sufficiently long to reduce the effect of luck, say 15 or 21 points.

gambler104: I also like the idea of a BrainKing Championship.

rabbitoid: I really like the idea as well but for a completely different reason. I think it is a good alternative to the rating system and stairs which can be manipulated. The official tournament winner can rightfully declare himself best at a game presuming all players are allowed to play.

I add my voice to the "agree" crowd, for a different reason: because everyone creates "all game" tourneys, there are far too many. Either people set the minimum number of participants too high, and they never start for lack of participants, or they set it low and we have a zillion "tourneys" with 4 participants, which is not much fun.

One may hope that "official" tournaments, if not run too often, may solve this problem.

I agree with MadMonkey when he said:

"I would like to see regular Team Tournaments, something like 12 every 2 or 3 months (maybe 2 chess, 2 Lines, 2 Gammons, 3 Others(as we call them) and 3 from this group (Reversi, Go, Boats & Espionage) as an idea."

I think a new set of TEAM TOURNAMENTS on the first day of each new season would be great. That would be quarterly, and you could theme the team tournaments around seasons.

I finished almost all of my team games in the last tournament very quickly, and since then I have been waiting for the new ones to begin. They are very fun.

I've said for a long time that I would love to see some sort of "Official Tournament" - something ran by the site, that is "Official" - something that if someone was to join just 1 tournament, this would be the one...

I would say once a month, have an "Official Monthly Tournament" of all the games. One month do a quicker 2 days time limit, the next month do a longer 5 day time limit.

Then in December/January, have an official "Yearly Championship Tournament" of all the games.

This way if someone was to join just 1 or 2 tournaments, they could just join the "Official" ones which hopefully will be pretty big and fun.

I say only 1 a month since there are plenty of other tournaments to join. Plus I would stay away from prizes - except maybe awarding "Brains" as the prize - and maybe just for the "Yearly Championship" tournament.

But monthly official tournaments - A BIG YES - Something that stands out and says "Hey, there are a lot of tournaments - so if you are going to join one, join me - since I will hopefully have a lot of players providing a nice challenge and fun games to play".

pauloaguia: I agree to a point, its just an idea, but also i think its nice to give the Pawns something, this way we know brainking will have one new member. True they may not keep it, but at least they may help spread the word the advantages of being a paid member.

It would also stop anyone who thinks it is clever to create multiple accounts to give themselves a number of chances to win an overall Tournament. The best they could do is win the Pawn one, unless they buy multiple accounts, but then Fencer gets money anyway

Like i say, they are just ideas. I just hope for more Team Tournaments myself or/and Team Stairs

MadMonkey: I only don't like the idea about tournaments for pawns and for paying members. There are good players in either side, why shouldn't they be allowed to compete against each other on those tournaments?

Hrqls: I do not think we need regular Tournaments like IYT have. We create our own here which is great, but saying that look how many are still waiting for players. We seem to have to many individual Tournamnets as it is.
I create them 1 a week, and once a month in the Madhouse, plus any special ones people want. Yes, i go over the top, but i think Fellowships are a great thing to have and try to involve everyone as much as possible.

I like the idea of having a champion for each game every year.

As a treat maybe Fencer could have 2 prize Tournaments a year (1 for Pawns & 1 for Members).

As, has been said i think we should concentrate on Team Tournaments, as that really is part of being in a Fellowship, playing for a Team.

Its been roughly 14 weeks since the last Team ones started. Most first round are almost over, in fact some are in the final now, ok exception will always be the long games like cloning and Froglet, but why should the rest have to wait to start again. After all, there are quick games here now like Cheversi & Mancala.

I would like to see regular Team Tournaments, something like 12 every 2 or 3 months (maybe 2 chess, 2 Lines, 2 Gammons, 3 Others(as we call them) and 3 from this group (Reversi, Go, Boats & Espionage) as an idea.

One thing while i am here on Team Tournaments. At present Fencer gives a prize to the winning Team of each game. I think there should be at least 1st & 2nd place. There are some Team Tournaments that we know who will win before they even start, Chess being the prime example(nothing against Chess Club, they are awesome), so we are fighting for 2nd place.

Thats my say on Tournaments, Team & Individual.

Fencer could you still have a think about Team stairs please.

cc. Blog site

Hrqls:
team tournaments would be a great idea
but has for normal ones weve enough of them already
and we dont want to become as predictable and boring as ItsYourTurn!!!

i dont think we need automatic periodic tournaments .. but automatic periodic team tournaments would be nice

maybe 5 per month, of a random game type
and 1 team tournament with random games

AbigailII:
I Like The Idea

Well, we don't need them (if they were needed, Brainking wouldn't be as it is right now), but IMO, they could be a nice addition.

alanback: You could send a PM to Summer Flame and ask

alanback: Someone that talks alot LOL

Summer Flame:  I shouldn't ask but I must, what is an "extreme member"?

Summer Flame:

MadMonkey: Its a good idea. I am on Paltalk. I am an extreme member so if anyone wants to set up a room there i would be happy to be an admin there :)

srnity: I have used one for ages for all Madhouse members.
The only draw back as such is that one is based on Paltalk.com, so you have to download there Messenger service to use, but thats no real problem.
The only other one is that myself or someone i can trust has to be there to look after it lol

One based and written just for brainking would awesome

especially if they were created by BK users, for BK users . In another word - By Gamers , for gamers :)

I think it would be a GREAT idea, like Fencer said, it could keep the actual "fellowships" to be "fellowships" (and game/tournament/etc. related) & for those that want to "chat it up" (like me, sometimes), it'd be fun to have "chat rooms"(?) to go to, especially if they were created by BK users, for BK users

emmett: No, stay from my weekend. Usally I can't play during the weekend.