Gabriel Almeida: Now it's your chance.

Fencer: No eggs, I need a "flashing light". And I catch a red one...

Gabriel Almeida: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJcPp2aJf64

Pedro Martínez: What Vodafone commercial?

Fencer: You should stop looking at and watching that Vodafone commercial…

fukuhara: There will be an easter egg. This year.

Gabriel Almeida: I will add it soon.

Gabriel Almeida: You can check how many particular color codes remain by seeing your achievement stats.

fukuhara: That would be fair. And that achievment should be increased... I'm unsuspected to tell it, as I'm not on the run to get it!

I am still counting on color conquering achievement, but to achieve that it must be easter bonus. I hope easter bonuses (just limited easter bonus alone may be enough)

Skeeky: Well, if you purchased a membership, while you had the red code, you would get double what you bought.

I am always a little slow. I'm not quite sure how this bonus program works. I got the red code, what does that actually do for me?

Thank you

ok, got it :)

MelissaMarie: From this page http://brainking.com/en/PaidMembership?p=3 is defined as:

"Black code - a randomly selected bonus from this list"

black code?

Artful Dodger: Or... the other one only needs your IBAN/SWIFT... and wish to pay it! ;)

Aganju: I bought a 2 for one and then gave one to another member. They sent me 1/2 the cost to my paypal. That was a few years ago. Several people teamed up that way.

Ok that makes sense. If you are willing to spend that kind of money for someone else.
How would you do that ? Write in the message how you want it handled? I did not see any fields for that.

I thought a while about ordering like 10 various memberships in one go, and stockpile them to use in tourneys I start from time to time. I wouldn't want to make a separate order every time for each tourney, as it is rather cumbersome to pay for me (the process, I mean). How could that work?

Aganju: You could buy one, and sell the other (as in share the cost) so that two people get black for the price of one. That's what I did. ;)

Aganju: Bought! I should now have 7+2*12 months more membership :-)

actually, the life time memberships should be half price instead of 100% longer. Most people don't have any use for twice lifetime...

RED CODE!

Aganju: You don't lose anything. I bought a membership and mine finished before on December 2011, and the new membership begins on January 2012.

Aganju: no, you loose nothing, whatever you purchase for example we'll use your 25% example, would extend your 6 months by one year and three months for a total of 21 months if you were to purchase a one year membership

6 (months left) + 1 year (membership purchased )+ 3 months (bonus) = 21 months

I don't understand how this works; let's say I still have 6 month of membership running, but I buy a new one now with the bonus. Do I not lose the still open six months, just to replace it with the bonus? If the bonus is 25%, I would actually lose on the whole thing?
More generally asked, what happenes if I buy membership while the current one is running? Anyone tried this?

Artful Dodger: Ok, thank you.

Mélusine: I believe you can. I've gotten red before and gifted it to others. ;)

Artful Dodger: I've got the red one today. Yesss.
I wonder if I can use a color for someone else; I mean to pay something to someone else with the color on my page ?

Gabriel Almeida:

RED CODE! RED CODE! RED CODE!

Yeah Fencer on the new bonus membership. It will be sporting to try and catch the 100%

Justaminute:

rabbitoid: You will be able to swop them for Euros soon.

The owner can, of course, but why should he bother? to enter a tournament so he can try to win more of them?
Hmmm, come to think of it, the same applies to me too. Maybe I should try to unload mine on ebay? :)

Bwild: There's no hope... if the owner can't get brains for himself, what can we do, simple "not-owning-members"?

Gabriel Almeida: yeah...ones lost, and the other six are out looking for it!! lol
j/k

rod03801:Fencer has... 7 brains! :) 

rod03801: Yes, I think that is right. I posted a question on this message board some time ago about getting brains. Some generous soul read my post and asked Fencer to transfer 30 brains to me. As far as I can tell, there is no other way that I could have gotten brains.

Marshmud: I would guess it's a case of someone asking Fencer to transfer some of their own brains to someone else, so that they can use them for the brain tourneys.

Aganju: How did you get a gift of brains? I didn't know that was possible. The last brain action (where you could get some free) was April 08. I think the brain system is disabled. The only members who have brains are those who bought them in the past or won a brain tournament.

I think I understand what he means. I also got a generous gift of 20 brains, and have entered 5 tournaments with them yet (I won 6 brains in one of them), so that leaves me with 1 brain, and four running tournaments. Or should I say ongoing tournaments; they are not running in any sense.
They are not even going well, but that is another topic.
But maybe around Christmas, one of them might end, and I might be able to join another one.

I asked that question before (and it resulted in the donation), but I'd really like to know - how do you get brains?
- you can win them (but only if you have some to risk)
- you can get them donated (thanks again, but that can't be the preferred way)
- you can buy other people memberships? not sure about that one?
- there is a page that claims you can get them for free if you complete some easy steps, but I could not find those easy steps (here it says 'By completing a simple process of easy tasks, you will be awarded with 20 Brains and you can start to explore all other possibilities with no actual investment. Please visit this page for details.'), but there is no simple process of easy tasks described?

ChaseWinstead: How's this? Brain Prize Tourney for Chase

I made a random Brain Tourney of the games I see on your profile that you play.

It really belongs on the Tourney board, so I'll put it there too.

I was given 30 brains some time ago, a kind gift from another. I'd like to use these brains to enter so prize tournaments, to increase my brains. However, even with the free gift this is very difficult to do. If I played backgammon or chess, maybe, but for the games I play, there don't seem to be many options.

Fencer, a while ago you had mentioned maybe another color code for memberships. Have you thought any more about that? This was your comment ( Well, I think we could make one more membership action with colour codes. Or something like that.)

Can somebody find a good estimate of the percentage of tournaments affected by this?

Mélusine: There are still a few players playing. And one of the slowest, as I said, is a person I really respect, good player and friend. So, this is nothing personal, and if he/she read this, I'm sure he/she'll understand!

Fencer: I have a good idea, how about.........i know, i will write to you rather than start a huge debate lol

Roberto Silva: I have a better solution than to rewrite the tournament system. It just takes some time to complete.

Fencer: "I don't think it's a critical issue when people can play unlimited number of tournaments"

True, but not everyone can - even those with paid subscriptions (knights and bishops) may be prevented from playing tournaments of a particular game for years.