Life In 19x19

Hi,

what is it you really really can't wait to see? Give the two or three favorites.

Mine:

1) Replay and teaching tools: Tools that make it easy to share knowledge, experience and ideas are my undisputed number one. I even hope that Kaya will provide tools so good that it will be attractive to start a carreer as online teacher on it. I will be a student, not a teacher, though.

2) Skins for goban and stones: I know it sounds silly, but aesthetics are an important part of the game for me. I want to be able to chosse a good looking goban

3) Some kind of tsumego mode: Would just be awesome! Less priority than 1) and 2) though.


Jörg

Well, I don't have three specifically off the top of my head, but Gabriel has been talking about the inclusion of a joseki dictionary that sounds really neat and exciting

Gegenzeit wrote:3) Some kind of tsumego mode: Would just be awesome! Less priority than 1) and 2) though.

This.

Gegenzeit wrote:2) Skins for goban and stones: I know it sounds silly, but aesthetics are an important part of the game for me. I want to be able to chosse a good looking goban ;

This, and Fisher Timing.

Choosing a skin for the goban as easily as dragging and dropping a jpeg onto it - like it is possible in Moyo Go Studio - would be great.

Fischer time is already done Oo

I really look forward to the teaching features and the tournament integration.

Celebrir wrote:Fischer time is already done Oo

How come I didn't see Harleqin on the server yet??

1) I'd kill for an audio time indicator, voiced would be decadent. (Well, I'd be killed less at least).

2) Review tools matching the quality of kibitz tools.

3) Easier to get games' SGFs.


(I believe these are all on the agenda, but it's what I'm looking forwards to).

Tsumego mode would be awesome as well.

Not two people agree on the same feature .

Of course we have priorities on what we want to build, and they are swayed by public emotion, and also tighten down by techinical implementations. More often than not, solving one problem gives us the tools to quickly resolve other ones.

For example, one not-asked feature is undo's, but solving that is not so trivial, as we have to have a mechanismo for going back. But after that is solved, finally fixing the sandbox will be much easier, which in turn means that review tools come faster.

Loons wrote:1) I'd kill for an audio time indicator, voiced would be decadent. (Well, I'd be killed less at least).=.

decadent? you mean you would like a beeping sound as opposed to voice?

Kaya.gs wrote:you mean you would like a beeping sound as opposed to voice?

He means a voiced timer would be a treat. In other words, a beep would be nice but a voice would be superb.

I want to set my go stones like these:
http://www.algorithmicartisan.com/gostones/

And so that everyone sees the set I play with, not just me!

One thing I like about playing Tygem Japanese client is the byoyomi countdown. It works very well.

I don't know if I'll use the new server or not. KGS gets me games just fine.

On the other hand, if I were in the position of running tournaments then a feature that would be enough to make me switch a tournament to a new server would be having TD privileges to set up third-party tournament games. A little like the KGS tournament options, except with the pairings generated by the TD rather than the server. The system would drag the players into the match and start the clocks running if one of them isn't there.

I don't know how much frustration I've endured with players who can't figure out how to create matches.

My list is along these lines: (in no particular order)

1) Tsumego à la WBaduk
2) Voiced byo-yomi countdown
3) Malkovich commenting during games
4) Show variation -chat option

5) A bit below the others, more strict escaper policy compared to KGS. I prefer Tygem or WBaduk style.

walpurgis wrote:My list is along these lines: (in no particular order)

1) Tsumego à la WBaduk
2) Voiced byo-yomi countdown
3) Malkovich commenting during games
4) Show variation -chat option

5) A bit below the others, more strict escaper policy compared to KGS. I prefer Tygem or WBaduk style.

Not sure if you're on the alpha, but 3 and 4 are already implemented. I had never seen Malkovich commenting before coming here, but watching games on Kaya is already better than other servers because, when people see observers, they almost always add Malkovich comments as they play. It turns just about every game into a Malkovich game

Fizyx wrote:Not sure if you're on the alpha, but 3 and 4 are already implemented.
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I'm aware of that (not in the alpha, though) - and as you say and from what I've heard it all works really well. So, can't wait to get to see the features in action with my own eyes