alanback: If you play with the Fischer's clock, no vacation days of your opponents can bother you.

I'm taking bets on when will this game end. Any thoughts?

Walter Montego: Wouldn't that be 104 weekend days? And yes, my games list is living proof that some matches can last virtually forever.

Walter Montego: lol, I was looking for that, but didn't go far enough back!

Fencer Re: can people buy vacation days ? 20. August 2005, 04:48:07
Jason: Well, it wasn't officially announced yet but if you extend your membership by another year, the vacation counter would be reset to the original value (30 for Brain Rooks, etc.) instead of waiting for the 1st January.

How do you guys make those neat links to the exact posting?
Ah, the context button.
http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=1&bscx=382336#382336

This would seem to answer it from the top. It also says that on January 1st all the BrainRook counters get reset to 30 days. Someone asked if you could exceed 30 days and Fencer answered no to that question.

Let's see there's 52 weekend days off. 30 vacation days. Plus a time limit of 7 days. In theory two players could take the whole year to move a couple of times, eh? And I've seen 30 and 21 day limit tournaments. Amazingly, quite a few of them have finished. It gets down to the people involved more so than the rules and parameters.

Vacation days are renewed at the beginning of each year, but as BBW and a few others pointed out around 15 December 2005 on this board, if you renew your membership in the middle of the year, the vacation days are reset.

I renewed in November and my days reset to 30.

I had asked this some time ago:

>I haven't renewed my membership and i had 0 vacation days. But now i see that i have 30 new ones. Why is that? I guess because of the start of a new year. So is it true that vacation days are initialize to 30 at the start of any new year?

Also if at the middle of a year someone renew his membership, will vacation days also be initialized to 30 again?

Playbunny responded:
Yes and yes.

Nobody argued about that. So it is true.....

im sure that i am correct

Jason: I think it´s just only 30 days for all year. If you spend your vacation days, you will not get more when you renew.

fismoluni: as i believe its 30 days in the new year and then if you use them all up you can get another 30 days if membership is renewed later in the year

fismoluni: http://brainking.com/en/PaidMembership
Tells u on here

ah sorry for the stupid question, i could now easily answer it by myself, its max 30 days it seems.

fismoluni

hello, just wanted to know how much vacation days the different users have? do some player have endless vacation days?

thx for the answers,
fismoluni

Mrs.Reeves: It might be better if you use a proper board next time - Backgammon or Tournaments. This board should be reserved for more general questions.

i have cancelled the other one

Fencer: Thank you, ive done it now, but for some reason it defined 2 tournaments, i only want one lol

Mrs.Reeves: Go to the Tournaments page and click on "Define a new tournament".
I'll make it better highlighted soon.

Excuse my ignorance but how do i set up a tournament?

Thank you , i understand now.

Mrs.Reeves: From the rules page:
"Crawford rule: If a player reaches a score which is only 1 point away from winning the match, the next game is played as a Crawford round. In a Crawford round, the double cube is not used. If this round is finished and the match is not completed, the doubling cube can be used in all following games of the match."

That match is 1 point away from over. So the Crawford rule applies I think

Fencer: GAME ID is 1338754 MATCH ID is 62964

Mrs.Reeves: Tournament is irrelevant, you must post the game ID.

http://brainking.com/en/Tournaments?tri=80655#1

I am currently playing the above tournament, but it isnt offering me or my opponent the cube choice, when it should be. Any advice why this is.

ScarletRose: heh...yes, Lady. :)

plaintiger: Yes.. just like Windows XP allows me to separate the HD into different sections..

ScarletRose: ahhhh, i see, Lady. :) i wondered how You distinguished between the purposes of Your various Brains.

plaintiger: Yes.. I bought some for christmas prezzies

ScarletRose: okay, i'm confused. oh! do You mean You've bought three memberships this month?

رضا: lol

ScarletRose: I'll treat it for 10000 ones of those Fencer sells.

رضا: Well that is the most powerfull of all brains..

Oh and what happens to me that have not even one of those 'brains?'

Oh well, I actually hav eone, but it's up here in my skull, can't take it out, it's stuck .....

plaintiger: well actually I have 1050 in brains.. but, only 600 towards that new tourney thing..

ScarletRose: lol...to do what with??

I have 600 brains delegated to the New Wave Tourneys!! LOL

Fencer: February special! that works!

I still agree with plaintiger that a tiny hint about this new system would entice more people to take advantage of this offer! (It might work on me! :-D

darn, I figured it was worth a try! lol

Eriisa: No, it must be a "real" payment.
Next time I'll make the announcements more accurate.

--- Everybody who pays for any kind of membership (or extends the current one) and makes it to the end of January 2006,---

Does this mean if I pay on my membership with my previously earned brains, will apply???

rod03801: Absolutely wrong! But that's a part of my plan as well.

Fencer: Hmmm.. that's not how I read it. The way I interpret it is, that if you buy membership in the month of January, you get these 200 brains. Maybe you meant to say "and make it to January 2007"?
So are you saying any memberships bought in 2006 get 200 brains??? I'm confused! LOL (possibly not all that unusual for me!) :-D

RoastedParsnip: If you click on someone else's profile, it will also have an area saying "Use brains for membership for this person" (or something like that), with a drop down menu with what you have enough brains for.

rod03801: Yes, I know. But my plan is for the whole year, not just January.

Fencer: I think his point is, that if there was more of a hint (not a full description, necessarily), more people would add to their membership to take advantage of this offer. :-D

plaintiger: If it means nothing to you, wait for the Februay Special.

the news has for some time said: Everybody who pays for any kind of membership (or extends the current one) and makes it to the end of January 2006, will automatically receive 200 free Brains to be used in the new tournament system, which is planned to be released in February. All details will be posted on the Brains page in advance.

it occurs to me that if we had some hint about the nature of this new tournament system, and what part Brains will play in it, the offer of 200 Brains for extending membership might be a bit more enticing. until we know what this new tournament system is, and what Brains are going to have to do with it, we don't know what value to place on that offer. am i going to have any interest in participating in the new tournament system? what does 200 Brains get me under this system? i don't know. therefore i don't know if the offer of 200 free Brains means a lot to me, or nothing.

LuckyCat9: heehee...i *did* look at "his" profile too - i just didn't notice the sex.

Don't you people ever look at profiles? He's a female! lol du mass