Marshmud, thisbeme: I can only agree. Starting an inordinate amount of games that you cannot handle shows bad judgement. That can happen to anybody, but continuing to do so shows carelessness and disrespect for others.
Although it does not violate any official rules on this site, it violates basic courtesy, and I would not want to play against such people anymore.

Marshmud: But there is still no need for anyone to be rude to him about it. He has done nothing wrong, and has broken no rules.

I've been the "slow one" a few times over the years, so I can relate a bit. When I have a lot of games, I play in order of time out. So of course the games with the longer time limits can last SO long, because yes, there will be times I approach the time limits pretty closely.
This is why I tend to avoid games with longer than 3 day limits. And when someone sends me an invitation to a private, friendly game with a long limit, I write back and warn them that which such a long limit, unfortunately, I may use much of it.

Anyone who asks POLITELY however, as others have said, to move more quickly for them? I'm MORE than happy to do it, as I'm not going "slow" on purpose.

This is one reason I have requested the ability to "flag" certain games, (for whatever reason), and have an additional command of "Move and go to Next Flagged Game".
(Which I STILL think is a great request, FENCER!! )

People need to realize they may get better results by being nice. I know if I got a rude message about my speed of moving, I'd probably tend to leave games with that person longer than normal!.

thisbeme: I have many friends complain of your play in the past. I've never said anything about all the time outs, but that is what happens when you have thousands of games to play. Your a smart player. When you timeout constantly it lowers your BKR. It upsets people who play their games on a daily bases. All my tournys from last year that I'm still in are because of your slow play. I can see why people get upset, but its your right to play thousands of games and time out on as many as you wish as long as we have no limit on games played. I suggest those who are upset is to just not join tournaments you are part of, and explain to the BB of said fellowship and explain why you won't play.

When someone sends me a polite request asking me to try and move more quickly than the time limits require I try and help them, especially if they include a good reason for wanting to play faster. But if I got three rude demands to do so all in the same day, I'd probably ignore them.

thisbeme: I agree with you : a message like this has no reason to be. Everyone is free to play as he (she) wants.

Gabriel Almeida: I sign up for a game with a certain time limit, then it is up to me how I use the time.
How is it kind to me to send 3 consecutive unfriendly messages within a day,

People are complaining that I'm making moves or not making moves when they think I should/shouldn't be.
Got one player who isn't on my main page list complaining with 3 message because I don't go hunting to play the game with them as opposed to the games about to timeout!

Fencer: I just played about 10 games and all is working fine, Thanks

MadMonkey: Can you please test move and go to pawn opponent?

MadMonkey: Yes, they are most likely connected. I just noticed that one of my friends had no red number on the main page, but a 9 appeared when I was on the events page and also here.

El Cid: Yes, i have just tried that, you are correct, sorry i misunderstood, though maybe the 2 are connected.

By default i have 10 set to show on my main page. If i am on my Main Page and hover, i can select from all 10 BUT when i am on here typing this message and i hover over it, i get to choose from 30

Most odd.....

MadMonkey: That was not what I was talking about. I was talking about the red number right below the "main page" words (separated of the ponds and game invitation red numbers by slashes). In the main page, if I have 15 games in my turn, but only have 5 games displaying when I hoover the mouse on this number (top left, at least on the castle layout) I can only choose bewteen the first five. However, if I go to the second sub-page of my games, or messages, or online opponents, or any game page, or whatever, I can choose between the 15.

However, now that Ithink of it, the bug you said could be caused by the same problem. If you only have 5 games showing in the main page, the red number next to friends on the right only accounts for those 5 games. However, if you go to the friends page ot accounts for the first 30 (or even all) of the games in your turn.

Edit: I think it's just a strange filter on how the site collects information about games in our turn depending on the page we are

El Cid: The bug with the red number shown in the top Right (under Friends online) i think Fencer Knows about (well, i mentioned it a while back lol). I dont really know what it is doing. If i look there now, i have 6 friends showing, and 2 of them i have 1 game waiting against.

IF i then click on my Friends list and look at my complete list, at them same 6 players.... 1 has 15 games waiting, 1 has 5, and 1 has 1.....so i have no idea what it is doing

MadMonkey: For some reason, that filter only works for the first 30 games with the least amount of time. The drop down box only shows those 30 games too, and on the main page the red number with "games on my turn" only shows the same number of games that I have per default (i.e. if I only have 5 games showing in the main page, the red number also shows only the first 5 games). However, if I move to the second page on my turn (or any other page in the site, other than the first page of my turn) then it shows the 30 games on the javascript menu

MadMonkey: Next game of this type is my default one, for the same reason. Before that, I even made anti-checkers moves in a checkers game... eheheh

Fencer: Well, i don't know. Sometimes it is, and sometimes it is not. I also tried picking a few game in the Opponent's turn in 194 games: list on my Home Page, and the same there, it is there in some games, and not in others

It's not important really, more to those who stay in games like Dark Chess, Logik etc... after they have moved to see the result of there move, and being able to goto the next game of that type.....

MadMonkey: It works for me.

MadMonkey: That's been gone quite a while, I believe.

Fencer: Something i just noticed....what ever happened to the link to next game of a certain type (if there is one waiting) that used to be at the top of the screen if we stayed on a game after submitting our move

MadMonkey: Yes, the pawn one is very useful. I often use that one, when I feel I'm caught up enough, in order to be helpful to the pawns who only have a few games anyway, so at least the ones I play can have something to do. lol.

Unfortunately, lately I'm not often caught up.

Fencer: yes.....maybe we should have a poll, and see if there are any not needed any more (or any new ones lol )

The Pawn (go to the next game with a non-paying member) is helpful i think

MadMonkey: I have been wondering how I could miss the "go to next pawn member". Now I know. Looks like I had disabled this option on my Settings page and completely forgot about it, so I couldn't see it during the testing process. I'll look at it now.

rabbitoid: That is a list of the ones not working that Fencer wanted the other day. Thay are not the ones i use

My main ones are:
Goto next Team match (my default)
Next game without Vacation (to avoid timeouts lol)
Next game with non-paying member (so Pawns can get through there games, and thus play more hopefully, then they may join)
Next game of this type (i try to play in blocks, when i have my logik or chess head on etc...... when i need to think)
Next game of this Tournament

They are my regualr ones, though i hae Stay here & Main page enabled as well

MadMonkey: Nice to have all those micro-management options, but how many of those do you really use? I have only the following enabled:
go to the next game of this type (my default action)
stay here (I use that for battleboats, logik and espionage where I want to see the results of my move)
go to the main page (which I use only rarely, when I want to play just one game)

Fencer: Found the list......

Goto Game with most moves - Getting removed
Goto Team match - Done

These ones did not do anything (unless you have altered them since), just took you to next game on your list...

Goto Message Box
Goto Discussion Board
Goto tournament
Goto list of online opponents

Fencer: I can't find the posts now about which ones are used....

Goto next Team match now works again , non-paying member does not though. Will have another look which ones were mentioned before

Thanks Filip

:-) and I caught it. Easy with the amount of time I spent here...

Aganju: Since I made a quick restart, it was probably down for about 15 seconds.

Was brainking down minutes ago? I got the message 'server could not be found' for a while, and it was not my network.

MadMonkey: Let's try it now.

Fencer, a few weeks ago a few of us spoke about the 'Move and goto....' options

I think you said the ones we asked for were the easy ones to do, any idea when they will get done please

gogul: And I'm portuguese, so... I simply don't use "payment" at all!

ketchuplover: Which infrastructure should we use to that? I still don't use online payment :)

ketchuplover: bad Idea, much of the income comes from the advertizement reaching a large number of players, like pawns, so there would actually be an income drop even if there were to be a %25 increase inpaid membership

ketchuplover: I think you'd lose 95% of players immediately, and another 99% of potential new players - if I come to a website the first time, and they want money to start with, I just close the page. I don't pay money for things on the web, as there is always somewhere you can get it for free. I think most others would do so.

And having so few players suddenly results in the same people playing everwhere, which is boring, so more people leave. RIP.

Just my take of it.

Divide membership income by number of active members. Lower membership cost to $0.25/yr above that figure. Drop free membership. Thoughts?

xarmanhs: Your best bet would be to find someone who would agree to play a game to completion with you.

There is also the Fischer Clock timer, but that still isn't quite what you are looking for, I think.

Being a turn based site, it is really the "norm" to play hours/days per move, though.

i am sorry for buggin you but i am new and i would like to know if there is a way to play quicker any game i want. without waiting hours per move or something like that,,

furbster: Ok, ok... I'l accept your offer... thank you! :D

Gabriel Almeida: aha i can donate it to somebody who isn't :p

furbster: Hummm... you're a Black Rook... wanna be member for "2 eternitys"? :D

fukuhara: Yeah the bulb codes haven't been used for a while, i still need to catch two of them! :o)

happyjuggler0: Good suggestion, except in point 3 you need to check when your opponent made his last move, as that's when your clock starts ticking

rod03801: If you have a game with time remaining in the red (i.e. less than an hour left), I suggest the following:

1) Open up the game.

2) Check the time limit per move. Let's say that in this case it is 2 days.

3) Check when your last move was made. This should be under your name on the board and say something like "Last move: 25. September 2011, 10:59:24".

4) Add the time per move to that time listed under step 3. In this case, add 48 hours.

5) If the time under step 4 is in the future, you haven't used vacation time in that game.

6) If the game you just checked has for example 15 minutes left, and you have another game that has a time left per move that is less than 75 minutes, you should check that game too under steps 1-5. The reason is that it may already have gone into vacation time and had 1 hour added to time left to move.

All of the above should also take into account weekend time. Fischer clocks make things even more complicated if they add extra hours for each move made. Good luck in that case....

Aganju: I BELIEVE I used to be able to look at the old calendar, and see that a vacation day had been used. Of course that is a bit more complicated now that we have vacation hours. (Which I think is an awesome change, and very clever!)

rod03801: I did not get your point at first; now I did.
I don't think there is any such log right now.

Aganju: Like I said, I don't "keep track" of what it was before.