so what's the new deal?

I've finally managed to persuade one of my friends to give this site a
try, but he says he can't challenge anyone. I know this site has just
gone to subscription, but I don't know the rules. Do you have to
subscribe to get ANY games at all, instead of a limited number?
I know I could "register" a new ID to see for myself, but didn't want to
waste the database space.
& yes, I've challenged him for now.

Is he trying to challenge people who are up to games limit? Get him
to challenge you (or me for that matter). ;-)

I dunno if he's just being dense, or if the new subscription system
won't allow non-pawnstart/subscribers to start any games. When we
talked he said that, for example, if he went to "find player" then
found my name, there was no "challenge player" option.
He could just be getting it wrong, but I'd like to know the new deal for
non-pawnstart/subscribers anyway,
Thanks
Jon

There is no challenge player option next to your name, even for me -
it's because of your game limit in your settings.

doh! forgot about that little feature. Thanks for getting to the bottom
of my idiocy. I take it that means he is able to challenge others then...
Jon

Yep he should be able to.

Actually, you and he are not alone in being confused... I spent ages
trying to get the 'challenge player' words to appear next to my own
name... it took me some time to realise that I would never be able to
see them because I couldn't challenge myself.. doh!

Rhymester

Thanks Rhymester for clearing that up for us - maybe we should be
clearer about this.

When I read this thread, I knew what the problem was - but did
have a little concern that I may have introduced a bug (there was
period over a few hours 2 nights ago when no new users could start a
game...)

-Russ