MadMonkey: I agree with you.
I'd buy an extra week or so. I was in Argentina much longer than originally intended and used up a huge chunk of my allocation. Something similar is bound to crop up during this year.

How about it, Fencer, old chap? It'll mean more money!

As was mentioned a while back and a few messages ago. Can we think of a way to be able to get more vacation days. Either by purchasing them, by donation from others or any other ideas.
We all run into problems sometimes, and i had a major one at the start of this year which used all my vacation days.
I know i am here alomost every day anyway, but it would be nice to have a day off at some point LOL

BerniceC: Did you activate the automatic vacation?
You must consider our time zone (GMT+01:00) to calculate when a day ends and the next day starts.

Fencer: now that is service :)


I will post this again in case iot got lost in the smileys :)

just a query.....I come on at about the same time everyday and leave at about the same time with no games left to be played at my end....today when I came on I had timed out a Tourney game with Czechgirl...how did this happen....Im not worried about it but it does give her an unfair advantage over the other players in the tourney :(

Thanks, Fencer!

Look again.

115 116 117 118 119 and 126 to 135.....these are all the new ones :) I hope I havent missed any, but it might be fixed now for you :)

Can't. With WebTV the javascript option doesn't work. I wonder how many others there are that we don't see on that list?

rod03801: I see what you mean and it is obvious then that these 2 pages are run independantly of each other....run cursor over smiley and they are there :)

My point is, why aren't these on the list I see when I click the "?" above message boxes? And if it is not on this page, how do people know about it?

= 134
= 135

There is no 135 on the list I see...
Don't see that wolf anywhere either

just a query.....I come on at about the same time everyday and leave at about the same time with no games left to be played at my end....today when I came on I had timed out a Tourney game with Czechgirl...how did this happen....Im not worried about it but it does give her an unfair advantage over the other players in the tourney :(

135 =

Is the smiley list up to date? I swear I saw one that had a smiley holding a sign saying "Brainking is #1", yet I do not see it on the list.

he can't, vacation days run from jan. 1st thru dec. 31st

Vikings: unless he buys more credits that is.
I dont think I need any vacation days. Mastermind might though

wayney: You could get 30 days for the price of a rook membership, thankfully, the rook you are playing will be s.o.l. after one more day

how much would this games site charge per day if someone wanted to buy extra days of vacation to top up because they run out.
I ask this because I am playing a paid rook member right now who is already down to 1 day and the year is only 1/4 finished.

BIG BAD WOLF: oops thanks (red faced now)

wayney: The date is correct. Kevin ran this competition last year.

wayney: The Brainking.info site has not been updated since 2004, so that date is actually correct.

I just noticed on the brainking info that there is a competition being run but they have listed the end date as March 2004 instead of March 2005.
Would it be a good idea to have this corrected?

It will work in a more accurate way when the database server is upgraded. I cannot make it more overloaded at the moment.

Pedro Martínez: Ahhhhh...
So we were both correct, sort of, Thanks pedro :)

It works this way:
There are 2 situations that may occur:

1) You set your vacation days BEFORE your opponent made her/his move in a particular game. After your opponent makes her/his move, the remaining time will include the vacation days you set before. E.g . if it's a 1-day-per-move game and you set Tuesday and Wednesday as your vacation days (let's presume your opponent made her/his move on Monday at 10:00) plus your weekend days are Thursday and Friday, the time of your time-out will be set at Saturday 10:00.

2) The problem is when you set your vacation days when it's your turn, i.e. AFTER your opponent made her/his move. The system will not automatically calculate these vacation days into the remaining time so the game still shows Tuesday 10:00 as the time-out time. What happens on Tuesday at 10:00? The system first checks whether you have this date among your vacation days or weekend days. If not, it checks for the auto-vac. In all three cases, you get 24 hours added on.

Czuch Chuckers: Actually I think it can. Imagine you have auto-vacation on. You timeout on a Friday, at 00:10. AV kicks in, the day is set as vacation and you get extra 24h. All the way through Friday it will give the impression that you have less than 24h to 'live'.
But then, on Sat at 00:10, you timeout. But since you can't timeout on a weekend, you get the extra 48h (or is it 24h again? not sure here).

I've seen this happen a few times before, so I guess it's the way it works...

Pedro Martínez: If it says you have 1 hour left to time out, it is really one hour isn it? If a weekend is coming it wont say one hour it will say one hour plus the weekend time wont it?

So it does not add 24 hours to all games like it use to.... just extends a few games which need it.

If you set e.g. today as a vacation day, a game that should expire at 23:55 will get 24 hours added on. But you will time out in a game that should expire at 0:05 tomorrow (after the midnight). That's how it works.

Maybe a question for Fencer, maybe someone else can answer.

When you use auto-vacation, I know that when a game reaches 0 time, 24 hours is added on. (But the rest of your games get nothing added on.)

When you use to have to use Vacation days, if you scheduled a vacation day, 24 hours was added to ALL your games (not just the ones that are getting ready to expire).

My question - is it still like that, or does scheduling a vacation day act like auto-vacation and just add time to the expired games only?

Chessmaster1000: Thats right!

Chessmaster1000: Right

The main page says that my "first" game will expire in 1 hour. I have activated the auto-protection thing, but let's suppose i hadn't.
Then if i wanted to protect the games from expiration, i would have to add one vacation day for Saturday. But this isn't possible as i have it on my weekend days.
So i suppose that (even with the auto-protection off) the games will be protected during Saturday even if the main page shows that in 1 hour they will expire...........
Right......?

Of course.

Thats my understanding too, bry. I'm currently in a 10 wins match, and only one of us will get one win added to our win/loss score at the end of it.

EdTrice: I may be wrong, but my understanding is that if you play a 5 games match, the whole set of games is counted as one win - or loss.

Oh, right, I was just in the finals of a tournament that was a 3-wins match.

But games are still counted, aren't they?

In all of my tournaments that had a finals sections, I have made it to the finals, that is a heck of a lot of uncounted games if this is the case!

Were they 'not counted' games, Ed? Without looking at your profile, that seems to be the most likely explanation. Or was one a 3 match game?

I know I have played 22 games of Amazons, but my profile only shows 20. Can anyone determine where the other 2 games are?

Great, now I won't know what everyone is talking about...
What's a * 133 *? or a * 135 *? or a * 128 *?
Is it because it's April fool's day?

I tell you, this smile business is a two sided sword... someday a pawn will get the wrong message and then all hell will break loose

Yeah!!

Walter Montego: yes I realize it was 8 months ago and I dont really think you could be a Service Rep here AND NOT LOG ON....if someone needed help you wouldnt get the message :(

You could be a service rep and not play games but she hasnt logged on...

Princess Kammy was part of the KM so I can't understand how she became a service rep in the first place :(

BerniceC: That's 8 months ago, though. Is James right about the service, or just the lack of logging on? Seems like you could be a Service Rep and not play games here, couldn't you?

JamesHird:
tht link says last action 30. August 2004, 13:37:49, which is a long way past april.

I think Princes Kammy
http://brainking.com/game/Profile?u=6670
should be deleted form being a Customer Service Rep.
It is kind of ridiculous having a CSR that has not been online in almost a whole year. I think April marks a year.
Time to cut off the dead wood and grow anew

Fencer: LOL! have fun with making it 'prepared' then.

The right-left direction will be a spooky thing, BK is not prepared for such layout :-D

Fencer: Great. Waiting to see the result ......

bumble: Fencer has already asked me to do that. I sent him the log-in page translated into farsi but Fencer said the system doesn't recognize the letters so I stopped working on it.