Eriisa: One post? Why do you think it will be restricted to one post? Do you think the proposed rule change for Turkish checkers was the very first time a rule change was suggested? And that it never happens again? Furthermore, your suggestion was to, and I quote you:

if there is a hot topic running on the board, that a general notice could be posted on here so that non-readers of a category board could know about it.

That to me doesn't suggest ONE post. It suggest that anytime someone thinks there's a "hot topic" running on a board, it's fine to post messages pointing to the topic on other boards.

And yes, a game is a feature. What do you imply with that? That all the postings on the dozens of boards dealing with the various games should be made here? Including the posts of the board you no longer wish to read (the Ludo board)? And I guess the "Feature requests" board is redundant as well.

Why not just cancel all the other boards, and just post everything here? It's all happening on "brainking.com" anyway....

AbigailII: I am not saying Spam the boards! This is the BrainKing board to discuss its structure, features and future.

Is not a game a feature? I don't have time to read every board on the site so all I was saying is an announcement here that a discussion about the rules on a game on another board is not totally out of line.

Now a 2 week discussion about whether a ONE POST announcement should be allowed is becoming just a bit over the top. So I will not say anymore about it.

Eriisa: Eh, no, that doesn't make sense at all. Then all the boards would be cluttered with message "Hot topic on board XXX!".

If you want to know about threads on the Ludo board, you should read it (or view the RSS view). I'm not interested in many boards, but I am interested in this board. However, if this board would be cluttered with messages about hot topics on other boards, then I would no longer read this board. And then when there's a hot topic on this board, you would have to post it on the other boards so I can learn about them....

Hrqls: That's like I love playing Ludo but I never go to the Ludo Board (anymore, that is). So it would make sense to me, that if there is a hot topic running on the board, that a general notice could be posted on here so that non-readers of a category board could know about it.

In the Turkish Checkers situation, I assumed that would happen. So in that case, Hrqls re-directing the conversation to the Turkish Board is an expected move.

*crawling back under my rock*

Hrqls: LOL. I'm horrified by the imagination to once simply say "lol" in a real life conversation. It never happened till today, buhh

I'm not sure which is a bigger waste of time.
1) trying to debate revision of game rules
2) complaining that someone did
lol.......

gogul: lol! i would love a lolboard :)
(the dutch word 'lol' means 'fun' :))

i think there might be too many boards already .. personally i am perfectly fine with a board per game type or as it is right now

people who liked the discussion about the rules of turkish checkers though didnt find it on the checkers board so i assumed they might want to have a separate board for discussions about game rules, as i think thats more important than the ordinary chats about the games on those boards, but i guess they dont need it either :)

Hrqls: Ya, it is a categorical question to me too. For example: If I want to search for the word extrapolate on BrainKing, I'll soon have the idea to suggest to create a board exclusively for the word extrapolate. That way I wont have to invest a lot of time to find the word. With the possibilities of today (you know, hyperlink and stuff), everyone could choose the order he likes. I personaly would favorize the opption to have boards for each single word, that means a wordboard for the word "word". A thatboard for the word "that". A thatboardboard for the word "thatboard", and so on. Do you think that makes sence? The basics of Internet can put all in each favorized order. ...?

conan.net: That bulb is a good advertisement.
emmett: Yes, I saw that in The Gammon Cube fellowship and I thought it was a new feature of Brainking.

gogul: i like to have things a bit categorized (is that an english word ? ;)) people who are interested in sports but dont play any can go to the sports board to read about it, it doesnt have to posted on this board which is about brainking in general

i admit that gamerules of games on brainking are in a grey area wether they belong more on the game board itself or on the board for the specific game .. after all the posts about turkish checkers on all boards i had to direct it to the appropriate board and hope something like this wont happen again in the future :)

coan.net: Thanks! I see what you mean now

emmett: ◙ The Gammon Cube ◙ - it shows up at * 28 * in the link, but if you follow the link - the * 28 * is converted to

inpassant: Can you provide me with an example of what you mean? I went to the fellowship pages and couldn't see a yellow dot.

coan.net: ROFL Good One

inpassant: The fellowship owner (whoever that might be) can now put a smiley next to a fellowship name. Probable just a BIG BOSS just having fun!

What's the purpose of a yellow bulb near the name of a fellowship?

Bernice:  I think the answer lies in very limited access to computers and, for that matter, to telephones.  According to the link below, there were only around 190,000 internet users in Cuba as of December 2006, most of which were probably commercial users.

http://www.internetworldstats.com/car/cu.htm

I have looked and perhaps the eyes arent working properly LOL, but looking at the list of countries that play on here I cant find CUBA...is it there or do we have any players on here from there:)
and if not does anybody know why?

Hrqls: Well what are the mods of these boards thinking about then? Peoples who don't play these games
could be interested in reading about the game, not worth going to seach over several boards to find finaly something interesting about it. Switch-overs don't hurt.

gogul: ok, i thought so as well. i was looking for a solution for the checkers board not giving any response though :)

gogul: I feel this is a vicious circle. Next subject?

Hrqls: There are, Backgammonboard, Checkerboard, Chessboard ect.

might it be nice to have a board dedicated to discussion about game rules of all games on here in general ?

tippycI believe action points main use was for fencer to test his site under more pressure than it was already getting (people liked to get the most points so would play many more games and make more moves a day) there was also prizes for the top positions ...........shame it has stopped for those that enjoyed it .

tippyc: according to Fencers blog are now dead and buried
shame cause i loved the challenge of them

Eriisa & emmett: thanks for the prompt response. i guess we will just have to wait and see what they are good for.

tippyc: Hi tippy! We don't use the action points now. Fencer might in the future but he hasn't said.

tippyc: I'm kinda old and i still don't know what action points are good for

im kinda new and i have a couple questions that i couldnt find answers for on my own.

what are action points?
what are they good for?

Gabriel Almeida: Actually, Fencer did answer it 2 days ago right here ---> BrainKing.com (Fencer, 2007-07-15 20:56:02)

alanback: I lost the correct form, and anyway I don't know which box to check

gogul:  Why not?  It never hurts to ask

Gabriel Almeida: You can't ask Fencer and the globs for any little unimportant thing

Hrqls: Atila had done it a long time ago. No answers, there (checkers variants 8x8, the right place). In checkers board it's no usefull too. Well... anyway, this is not the right place for the discussion, indeed. It would take us for a long conversation that always have been avoided for Fencer and global mod's, in brainking...

could the discussion about turkish checkers please be moved to the checkers board ?

danheg: I knew that somebody would notice that. But it's just a name.

Fencer: Hi Fencer. When a player has two possibilities to capture a pawn, with a pawn and with a king at the same time, the program forces to capture with the king. Players (experienced or not) has no chance to select to capture with the pawn. This is a bug. To clarify all the rules of Turkish Checkers, we have prepared and submitted an article about Turkish Checkers in Brainrook site with my user. Would you please confirm to publish it, so everyone can access and read whole rules of the game. There are many board bitmaps displaying related rules examples. When you will find time to fix these items, it is better to check and test the implementation of the rules with this document. We also understand that your work load is heavy with this nice sites support issues. Therefore, if it is within the principles, we are also ready to help to work with your team to fix, implement and test these rules, even at the programming level.

Thanks for your efforts.

If a team joins a tournament but one of its players' membership expires before the tournament starts what will happen? Will the team have to rejoin (with another member) or will it still be up for play?

Fencer: I think if we get more frequent, small batches of Team Tournaments it will come closer to pleasing everyone. As we all know, it is impossible to please everyone. Personally, I have no complaints about this batch!

Hey emmett always have Star Trek movies there is 10 of them

emmett: When I include more games, people complain that I have included too many games. This is a compromise.

emmett: I am surprised there are not more games for the intelligent, thinking type player.
Well i know what i mean Chess, Go, Line games etc..
Three of them are dice luck games, still fun but not mind taxing.

Logik is good though

Fencer: you actually selected some of the most popular games at my fellowship (even if my favourites are not amongst those), so thanks for that

Fencer: Yeah, but you usually include more games. Six is a limited selection. And most are games of chance

emmett: No matter what game selection is made, there will be always someone who calls it "lame".

emmett: Well, there are only 6 Star Wars movies...

I also don't like the selection

quote:

I would like to see some strange games in the next batch, along with popular ones, think about Grasshopper or Crazy Screen Chess.

Is there only going to be six new team tournament games? That is one lame selection of games. Are more games going to be added?

rod03801: O well, I would like to see some strange games in the next batch, along with popular ones, think about Grasshopper or Crazy Screen Chess.