I have been reading all that is being written about pawns etc..

As someone who does pay towards the site, i try to look at it from both sides.

I get fed up when i can not get on here at certain times & the reason may well be there are too many people online. How can we blame that just on pawns (we were pawns once). I reckon there are about 260 paying members (out of 5900), if all or even half the paying members logged on at the same time the server would overload anyway - how would that be stopped ??? - would we start limiting Knights (i think not !!).

We would not have so many games to play if we started limiting pawns more than they already are. Logging them off when the server gets to a certain level would lead to games timing out & more people getting upset. I think that pawns are happy with the deal they get, we all were before we decided to become paying members. That was our choice as it is theres. We know the benefits we get as paying members, maybe those benefits should be made more clear to pawns to encourage them to join.

At the moment it looks like we are trying to drive them away, which personally i think is wrong. I received a message from a pawn today who is no longer going to be playing here as they don't feel they are welcome & also there is a note on this board from one who is not playing here again - i think it is sad this is what is happening to this site.

All this running people down just because they may not be able to afford to join at the present time is totaly wrong. How do we expect this site to get better & grow when people are being made to feel not wanted here ?????

MadMonkey