Feature Suggestions for ITY
Posted:
Oct 3, 2000, 7:15 PM
I thought I'd share some suggestions I sent ITY about a week ago. The first few have to do with Go, but then I get into ranking, tournaments, & pente ------
I've been playing on IYT for about 6 weeks now and have a few suggestions. I know features are easier said then done , but here are the ideas anyway:
- Start having Go tournaments
- When challenging someone to Go, allow the challenger to set the stone handicap.
- Offer different size boards for Go: 9x9 and 15x15 are fairly standard alternative board sizes
- Calculate Rankings: given what your core business is, it seems strange that you don't do rankings other than voluntary & self-reported by players. BTW, Gary Barnes is generously devoting hist time calculating rankings for Pro-Pente players (such as myself) to use
- Winning a tournament: I think tournament winners should get something for having won a tournament. Perhaps you give winners a little symbol (like the one's you give players who click ads) for each tournament won.
- Pente game history: there is no way to see at a glance or print out a pente game histories. The players must step through each turn in order to see the move that happened. It would be _VERY_ nice if you could display the moves in cartesian coordinates rather than B W (which gives no information).
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Re: Feature Suggestions for ITY
Posted:
Oct 8, 2000, 12:08 PM
Is it possible to add to IYT postal servis. It is very convinient if you receive your game to your e-mail box and can make moves just sending e-mail instead waiting when picture will download your boar - to see which move have made your opponents. Here in Russia Internet is rather expensive and it is better if you can make moves for one minute instead 10-15 minutes. Best Regards Alexander Nosovsky
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nosovs posting of 10/07
Posted:
Oct 8, 2000, 9:03 PM
Please note Nosovs open letter. As our friend Gary B. says, the fun is in the study of the game. So it requires twice as long as Nosovs says. Once to get the move and once to send the move.
The ultimate feature would be the multiple function.
IYT would not then be a repeat of Richard's. You would have to visit the site (and read the ads) at least once.
Happy aka. hap, happy5, h1a2p3p4y5
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Re: nosovs posting of 10/07
Posted:
Oct 10, 2000, 8:23 AM
IYT would never agree to an e-mail function because, while they are a free site to us, they, unlike Richard's, are a for-profit site. The action they get on their banner ads is their only income; thus, they would not agree to a function that allows you to play the games without being exposed to the ads. Maybe they would add the feature if they were able to put banner ads on the e-mail notifications, but even that would not be nearly the exposure level they get now. I would think that that option would not sit well with IYT or their sponsors. I mean, someone can ask if they want, but I doubt that would ever come to be.
By the way, Mr. Nosovsky, welcome to the club! I have long hoped that the top European and Russian players would start finding their way here.
Aaron Fortune
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