Site Features
Site Wide
  • General Features
    • Chat in lobby or tables.
    • Enter all game lobbies, and to participate in rated play and tournaments.
    • Listed Special Events within each Game.
    • Qualify thru playing tournaments on site, for a SHG Tournament of Champions (TOC).
    • Earn a Special Icon placed on your nick for winning of SHG TOC or Special Events on site, for a specified amount of time
    • Use Safe Harbor Friends chat system (SHF) to chat with all your friends.
  • Game Specific
    • NEW!!! Ability in all games to resize the game window
    • See current score of all games by mousing over the table.
    • Ratings for games, listed within each Game area.
  • Sound Features
    • Table sounds that can be sent to other players at the table
    • Ability to turn off game specific sounds or table sounds independently.
  • Ability to control your privacy:
    Right-mouse click on a player's name in the right hand side of the lobby and you can choose one of the following:
    • Use Ignore Player to not see anything a player types, in lobby or at a table.
    • Use Block Player to block IM messages or block another player from kibbitizing or sitting at your table
  • Staff Support for Players
    • Crew Members, all areas, trained to assist your needs.
    • Game Managers placed to handle all game issues effectively
    • Ladder/League Manager placed to handle all ladder/league issues effectively.
    • Site Managers placed to handle all site issues effectively
    • Ability to use the suggestion email (safeharborgames@gmail.com) and be heard.
    • Ability to cast your vote on game/site suggestions when placed for a vote.
Lobby
  • General Features
    • Kibitz at multiple tables.
    • Save matches in any two player game to restore and finish later.
    • See at a glance, Offline, DND and Busy status.
    • Crew Members show an Icon next to their nick to identify them easily.
    • Crew Members are listed either at the top of the lobby, or as your Friend when added.
  • Friends :
    • See your friends at the top of the lobby tree.
    • Restart your Friends List from any lobby.
    • Ability to add or remove Friends from your Friends List right from the Lobby
  • Control Table access by:
    • Closing the table from other players.
    • Silence kibitzers so their ongoing chat will not interrupt your play.
  • Customize your lobby view
    • Resize the Lobby window.
    • Hide tables, and show only chat in any lobby.
    • Choose custom color/font Option under Lobby/Chat Options.
    • Choose whether to view other player's custom color/font.
    • Turn off clickable URL's for added safety.
    • View Enter/Exits or turn it off.
    • Choose the timestamp Option in any lobby (short/long)
    • Chat Capture: Capture the current contents in the conversation window and saved as an RTF file.
    • Chat Logging: Log all conversation in the lobby until you turn it off or close the window).
Yacht Club Memberships:
  • Special Icon Features
    • Choice of Custom Icon on one nickname, selection displayed on Yacht Club Membership Pages.
    • Custom Icon puts your nick in sort order above players
    • Ability to change your icon as many times as you want with the /setmyicon command.
    • Ability to choose emoticons as your Yacht Club icon.
    • Ability to submit a custom icon for use only by you for an additional cost.
    • Your yacht club icon shows on your game table when you are playing.
  • Special Friends Features
    • Ability to set a notification when you friends come online.
    • Ability to block site-wide broadcasts.
    • Extended Safe Harbor Friends list to 500 entries, instead of 100 for non-yacht club members.
  • Other Yacht Club Membership only features
    • Ability to see players rated game history for the past six months.
    • /whereis tool that can be used to find what rooms your friends are in.
    • Ability to change your nick, once a year, and have your history follow you
    • Ability to use custom color/font Tool, which allows Yacht Club Memberships to place a special set of #'s in front of their chat lines to customize each line if desired
    • Ability to reset your rating in specific game areas twice a year.
    • Special tournaments for Yacht Club Memberships only. May include prizes
SafeHarborFriends (SHF)
  • General
    • You can minimize your friends list in your tool tray and access from there
    • Friends List can stay on after you have left all lobbies.
    • Number of people on your Friends, Blocked, and Ignore lists shown at the top
    • Ability to see at a glance, Offline, DND and Busy status
    • Drop and Drag for all areas, including from any lobby to list
    • Icons showing Site Staff and Yacht Club Members
    • Auto Reconnect if you momentarily lose your network connection.
    • Ability to manually Re-start from any lobby
    • Ability to Block:
      This will keep a player from messaging you or sitting down at your table to play. It is permanent as long as u wish
  • Chat options
    • When in chat, you can see when the other player is currently typing a message or when the last message was received or sent.
    • Player Nick listed on top of list
    • Date and Time listed on Header Bar of each message when chat begins
    • First message is a pop-up, can be replied to or minimized to sit on tool bar
    • Sound of Notification on start of a New Message Window
    • Ongoing chats, if minimized sit in tool bar
    • Optional Date/Time Stamps in conversations, both long/short
    • Ability to Open a multi- person Chat, notice will be stated when a new player has been added/exited
    • Ability to Select All in any chat conversation
    • Resizable Messages
    • Chat Capture: Capture the current contents in the conversation window and saved as RTF file.
    • Chat Logging: Log the current and future chat until you turn it off or close the window
    • Ability to use custom Font/Color
    • Ability to choose viewing custom Font/Color for all players
  • Customize Friends
    • Resizable Friends List, and scrollable
    • Ability to export Friends from one Nick and import into another Nick's Friends List
    • Ability to show Online only in listings
    • Ability to create your own Group Names to list friends
    • Ability to collapse or expand Groupings to view
    • Ability to use hand typed additions to Friends List and manually adds Group Name
    • Ability to remove a friend
    • Privacy Capabilities: Online, Offline, DND and Busy
    • Groupings showing additions to Blocked Players and Ignore in Lobby, expandable/collapsible
Ladders, Private
  • Ability to see recently played matches in your room or have the results posted in the lobby chat.
  • Your ladder listed under League and Tournaments
  • Application listed on site to apply for a Private Room, with criteria and FAQ
  • Ladder Guidelines listed under Site Documents for all to view
  • Dedicated Room(s) if criteria met
  • Admins and TD's issued Crew Member status and training
  • Ability to custom set lobby timer to increments of 15, 30, 45 or 60 min for inactive members
  • Customized Lobbies for a one-time setup fee.
  • Site Ladder Page Link to your own Ladder Page
  • Site Page Links for your members in your lobby to Cases My League
  • Admins and TD's listed on Crew Member Page, with ladder name
  • Broadcast Message System through the Friends List to tell players you have a tour starting
  • Use of Community Ladder Room for your group Ladder Challenges.
  • Use of Moderated Room for your Ladder meetings
Ladders, Non Private
  • Ability to see recently played matches in your room or have the results posted in the lobby chat.
  • Application listed on site to apply for a Private Room, with criteria and FAQ
  • Ladder Guidelines listed under Site Documents for all to view
  • Link on Ladder Page to your own Ladder
  • Ability to use the Community Ladder Room to grow and build towards a Private Room
  • Ability to use the Community Ladder Tour Room to host your Ladder Tournaments
Host Groups
  • Ability to see recently played matches in your room or have the results posted in the lobby chat.
  • Lobby Page Link to your own Group Page
  • Host Guidelines listed under Site Documents for all to view
  • Directors and Hosts within the group issued Crew Member status and training
  • Broadcast Message System through the Friends List to tell players you have a tour starting
  • Site Wide Lobby Message Board ability to advertise Live Events
  • Harbor Manifest feature (modeled after Zone Events)
  • Supports NoJoks, Kisses, and Flow Control Hosting Programs.
  • Use of Moderated Room for your Group meetings
Independent Hosts
  • Ability to see recently played matches in your room or have the results posted in the lobby chat.
  • Lobby Page Link to your own Page.
  • Host Guidelines listed under Site Documents for all to view.
  • Issued Crew Member status and training
  • Ability to share a lobby with other Independant Hosts
  • Broadcast Message System through the Friends List to tell players you have a tour starting
  • Site Wide Lobby Message Board ability to advertise Live Events
  • Harbor Manifest feature (modeled after Zone Events)
  • Supports NoJoks, Kisses, and Flow Control Hosting Programs.
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