Board for everybody who is interested in BrainKing itself, its structure, features and future.
If you experience connection or speed problems with BrainKing, please visit Host Tracker and check "BrainKing.com" accessibility from various sites around the world. It may answer whether an issue is caused by BrainKing itself or your local network (or ISP provider).
Maybe it's a good start where to investigate. This line seems to be interesting:
"Money Transfers of the customers, by drafts, bank payorders , telegraphic, remittances by swift."
"Remittances by swift" is exactly what you need for international transfers. Yes, the fees can be high but once this option is confirmed and can be used, the details can be worked out.
Bernice: Yes, it's not the first time when a player from Iran wants to pay for a membership and no option is available for him. Of course, there is always a possibility to send cash in an envelope [I never saw Iranian money before :-) ] but it's not safe and definitely not recommended.
rabbitoid: Yes, that's right. Another problem is that when I write a new entry to the Server News, the previous one is no longer displayed on the Main Page (which is exactly what I don't want to do because of the Christmas Special).
1) Christmas Special! Everybody who pays for any kind of membership (or extends the current one) and makes it to the end of this year (2004), will automatically get one FREE month of the same membership as a Christmas present.
2) And for the doubtful ones, there is one temptation - BrainKing brings the first multiplayer game which is accessible for paying members only. The number of participants is unlimited and the name is Run round the Pond.
3) The User Agreement has been improved in order to make it more understandable and clear.
Hey, I can always define more ponds with a limit to signed users count :-) But the best way how to test the first pass is with as many players as possible.
Hrlqs: He cannot do it more than 6 times, considering the max number of vacation days :-) And the perfect solution does not exist, of course. We are just trying to find the best approximation.
Hrqls: What makes players bothered is probably the fact that such situations slow down the affected tournaments and team tournaments. But, as I already said, all possible negative effects should be eliminated by applying a restriction of using auto-vacation in max. 5 days in a row. I think it's a sufficient time to make an arrangement even if you are in a hospital. Just ask a friend or a relative to send me an e-mail with your situation.
Making it just for 5 days in a row could be the solution. And special cases [when someone is in a hospital, etc.] can be solved individually, as usually.
Chessmaster1000: It means that the overloaded database server performed a rollback of the transaction. It makes no harm, it just happens, rarely. Faster hardware can solve it.
BBW: Good point.
Chessmaster2000: After a round is finished, everyone can see how many points each player used, who was kicked out etc. It would be no fun if you could see only your own score.