Forum Format (again)

I have enought trouble just winning my games regular much less
giving odds!!

Dave

Would it be possible to slect the range (rating) of your opponent?
Some players don't like to play me because my rating is "too" high
and some players would not like to play players with "too" low rating.
I personally play everyone!
If it could adjusted that by default is would be the range 0-3500 and
then the player had the opportunity change if they wanted to do it.

Harri / Luck

You can do this already by using 'Find Player' and typing in a suitable range. But I agree that
it would be useful to be able to make a kind of limited invite which only players within the
range stated could accept.

This is on the to-do list.
(I know you probably get fed up with hearing that - but this one
REALLY is on the to-do list, planned for the next couple of weeks)

-Russ

Would it be possible to send a message to all active players who I am
playing with that I am leaving the site for nite for example? So I
would not have to write to message in all active games?

Harri / Luck

Chris,

Just a wild thought: Often in forum posts and in game-related
messages I would like to be able to use a wider variety of symbols
than are available on a standard keyboard. I also wouldn't mind being
able to draw simple things, especially in the Posers & Puzzlers Forum
where a drawing would help the explanations for things like geographic
riddle. Posts with drawings would have to be flagged somehow, and
very carefully moderated for smut, porn, etc.

Coyote

I was looking at Coyote's last post and I had an idea: What about a
board diagram that you could set up and include in a post? I could
see a number of uses... The board position for critical move in the
latest Man vs. Machine match could be posted right along with the
move list, etc...

Anyone else think this would be a good idea? I have no clue as to
whether this would be possible, but it's just a thought.

--Rein

I actually was thinking that posts on the Chess Theory Forum could
use newspaper style board grids to discuss moves and continuance
strategies visually instead of by notation codes. Some people just
think much more naturally in pictures. I didn't think it would fly, but
rein has given new wings to the idea.

Coyote

Alot of what is being suggested are changes to the site rather than the
forums.Good suggestions but not really things you can do in a forum.

Most forums now are V-bulletin.Its has a ton of hacks that can be added.Private
messaging,who's online,latest posts,new members,calender,avatars,custom
titles,different color shemes,on and on it goes.

Have a look
here:http://forums.civfanatics.com/index.php?s=0c6c453d4ce2927185f132506c874f4b

or here:http://apolyton.net/forums/index.php?s=5e855a627fba4559c14f94d159adc288

other features:
Emotioncons(smileys)
Polls
image tags(you can link directly to images so as to include a position for example)
post editing
attachments(could be used for pgn files here.RHP would need to set aside some
space for this)
hyperlinking
buddy lists
ignore list 😉
Search in a variety of ways
members list by different categories
MOST ACTIVE POSTER lists(another map war?gotta moderate the spammers)
Signatures
read/unread posts
Ranks by post #(0-100 could be Pawn,100-500 could Knight etc)

The only limit is how much space owners want/have to use.