King Reza:

Czuch Czuckers:  But don't tell ex-bouncy I used her signature

King Reza:

xmas is soon:

King Reza:

xmas is soon:See Fencer, they mak eme answer to their posts, I have no evil intention of going off-topic, but

King Reza: LOL

Do you know when the total days of holiday will be added? Is it on the 1st of January?
I understand that if you renew your brain category you have all the days again. Is it true?

naughtypawn: I think if you renew, you get your vacations reset right away. (not 100% about that.)

But everyone's vacation days are reset on Jan 1st.

BIG BAD WOLF: Thanks for the answer.

naughtypawn: at the 1st of jan. the vacation days are renewed (so you will have your full 30 days again)

when you renew your membership your vacation days renew as well
(at least thats how it was when i renewed last time :))

Why i have i got GIANT American flags beside everyones name LOL

Its in place of that little square that you can click on to invite them to a game of something, most annoying.

MadMonkey: not happening to me, probably a problem with your browsers cache ?

Hrqls: Yeah, its all better now, i tried clearing the cache earlier, but it made no difference, tried again and its all better now

Fencer: Any idea as to when the store will be open again. I still havent got a 'T' shirt
Thought about treating myself for Xmas

MadMonkey: Next year, I guess. But it will be changed a little.

Fencer: ok thanks, i will treat myself for my birthday instead then lol

Fencer: Next year?  That's so far away! 

Fencer don't forget to add finished game results for cloned ;o) http://brainking.com/en/GameRules?tp=92&fwa=ShowGame!g=2152795 :op

furbster: Sure, I have forgotten again.

hehe, i wondered if you'd remember i'm always the annoying one to remind you

furbster: You must find a new way to annoy me because I am going to fix it once and forever.

http://brainking.com/nl/Statistics?p=2
Wow pretty popular here?

joshi tm: Speaking of those stats in general, I wonder if Fencer could make a table for completed games each month - which might be a better was to see what games are more popular.

For example - Hyper Backgammon is a game which usually takes a lot less moves then Backgammon - so I would guess that Hyper Backgammon would be closer to Ludo & Backgammon, but can't get there with ongoing games since they end too quickly.

Completed games in the last 30 days of a game type. Or maybe there is a better was to show the popularity of a game type in addition to the ongoing games (that I can't think of right now.)

bishops are exactly the same as knights tournament wise they can only join one of each type

"Snoopy": yes

Fencer: most moves in this game

BIG BAD WOLF: One down side to determining the popularity of a game based on "completed games" Is that, unlike hypergammon, some games take many, many moves to complete a game.... maybe just use "started games" as a way to determine the most popular?

Im sure this has been explained before, but.... How do i end up with 17 plus days for a move in a 3 day per move game?

Czuch Czuckers:I know i had a 7 day one, which has now turned into 40 days

sorry 24 days not 40

Czuch Czuckers: your opponent has set some vacation days
you can see that at her profile

Czuch Czuckers: Don't forget the public holidays on BrainKing.

Czuch Czuckers: i cant be around so much at Christmas to many things need doing sorry

"Snoopy": Its not a problem at all... I guess I forgot about setting vacation days in advance as adding time to games!

Czuch Czuckers: i guess woman need more time of then men at this time of year..lol

"Snoopy": This time of year only?

Fencer: Are u putting a cloning stairs up

xmas is soon: All public stairs of Cloning Backgammon have been already added. 2 days ago, I think.

Czuch Czuckers: Um... we already have the "started games" stat - that is why I was suggesting a "completed game" stat.

Maybe a "moved in game of this type" stat for the day/week/month or something similar would be another idea.

BIG BAD WOLF: I can't find a "started games" statistics, just a "running games"... "started games" would be cumulative I guess :)

Mr. Shumway: Oh, did not catch the difference.

For "started games" - or amount that has been played, you can see the total of the game rules page for each game.

Mr. Shumway: but started doesn't account for popularity alone. Games that have been here for years will naturally have a larger number of started games than games that were introduced just a few months ago.
Ongoing gives you a more present figure.

BIG BAD WOLF: Actually the totals at the rules page account for finished games. A game must be finished to know if it was won by black or white (or red).

This added to the ongoing is what gives you the "started" games. So Mr. Shumway your request is sort of granted already, just not all on the same place ;)

BIG BAD WOLF: Um.... Started games and running games are different. I was thinking how many games have been started, of a particular type, in a certain amount of time, for example one month, to find the most popular? Running games doesnt do it, since there are many running games started many months ago etc.... I think that if game A has 100 games started in the past 30 days, and Game B has 50 started games in the past month, then game A would be the more popular.

pauloaguia: So Mr. Shumway your request is sort of granted already, just not all on the same place ;)

It wasn't really a request, I just thought I could clarify things ;)


but started doesn't account for popularity alone.

Of course not. But Chuch already made clear how it was meant to be: instead of having a total sum of finished, and a total sum of running games, have the sum of how many games were started in <whatever period> (e.g. last month, last year, or even february 2005)

OK.  Hereby I introduce our guest of honour heavenlyemma

Everyone's welcome to send me questions you have to ask her.  She was chosen by 3 votes out of 11, I think

King Reza: and we start voting for the next person when?

"Snoopy":Whenever you wish.  I keep all the votes and questions archived.

"Snoopy":Yeah shall we get voting now