Backgammon Online

24-Apr-2013
01:05 PST

When starting a game, I would like to have an option to stop the timer/clock at weekends.

In the week, I can play every day, but then over weekends, I don't play and I often find my games timing out, especially in 2 days or 3 days games.

When offering a game, there could just be a check box that the timer will not run over weekends.

23-May-2013
15:05 PST

When we mouse over a players name for a quick view of a players stats, I would like to see their ladder rank included. This information will help to make quicker decisions as to what challenges I will make. example: Checking the ladder, I see the highest ranking player I can challenge is at 154. I then check the ranks of the players I'm currently playing and find a clear win coming from a player whose now ranked at 112. I'll choose not to challenge 154 opting to wait for my win over 112 an thus higher ranking players to challenge. To do that now, I have to go to each players stat page which is much more time consuming.

24-May-2013
06:49 PST

It would be nice to have another feature - average time per move. That way, you are able to identify a player who goes fast or slow on turns.

24-May-2013
07:18 PST

There are some great suggestions in this post.

The question is whether anybody is taking notice of them and more importantly whether anybody intends to action any of these suggestions.

I am starting to think that this forum is not monitored............

24-May-2013
08:46 PST

Stewie,
I've played on this site (and been a subscriber) for a few years now, and it's been a long time (over a year) since I've seen any action or posting by the ZE administrative "team". My guess is that it's entirely automated now and the forum is just a way for players to voice their frustrations.

If you want to test the theory, start bitching about the dice. At one point in time ZE really took the "fairness" of the dice seriously. Not sure anyone is actually reading these anymore. Which is a shame because they actually implemented a few ideas from players that improved the site significantly. The addition of the cube and notification that there was a new conversation below the board being the best additions, in my opinion.

ZE,
If you are reading these, how about responding?

24-May-2013
19:29 PST

Pokhra

Thanks for your reply.
I think you are correct - nobody from the ZE "team" actually monitors this forum.

I did have a go at the "randomness" of the dice in a post some weeks ago - no response.

26-May-2013
10:56 PST

There's a better chance of getting a response using the "contact us" feature to address a problem with an individual account. The "feature request/site improvements " thread should be closed and then refreshed as a new thread where the latest posts are at the top. ZE clearly stated their answer to any and all questions about the random dice issue in the second thread of the BK forum. The real question to ask is: What possible reason could there be for a non-random system? Questions about random dice usually come up when a game has a large number of doubles favoring one player . When I first had this happen to me ( Vs Steelerhead ) , I logged on paper all the doubles from the last hundred games we had played. Guess what. The totals were nearly equal. I actually had more.

26-May-2013
18:20 PST

GREAT IDEA steelerhead about the time of moves being visible as a added feature. They do it in the gameknot chess moves !!

28-May-2013
13:58 PST

How about having a "fast track" option that would require that moves be made in 2 minutes or less? That would give folks the option to play a complete game in one sitting and would mimic what would occur if the players were actually sitting across from one another in the same room. I realize the ZE never responds to these suggestions (which is why I am no longer a member) but if they did respond to a few of our suggestions I would consider re-uping  

02-Jun-2013
13:31 PST

just noticed in the games we are playing- with a cube-

I am completely blocked - on the bar cant move but it still asks me to roll and pass the dice-

this sounds like an easy fix to me- but I am no programmer.