There is one more significant advantage of a brand new server. It is usually purchased with 3 years warranty (or more, in some cases). When something goes wrong, we don't have to pay for a fix, it must be done for free by the vendor. It means there should be no other unexpected expenses like we occasionally have in our current situation.

Just remember Mr Loup City...its a matter of trust, not expectation! ;)

mrloupcity: There is another way.

maybe if we could run another pay fund raiser to add with the last 1 they could find a big server or the bigger hard ware to handle it. Just an idea.
:o{P

I know, but at the time it seemed for a good cause to have as many as possible, It turned out that I was wrong :o(

It is a matter of trust, agreed.
I wonder, had there been no donations to purchase a new server, where would the money come from for these repairs? If I said to you, Fencer, I have $4K(or the full price) for you to purchase a brand new server, check is in the mail, I would expect (not trust) that you would purchase that server. If you do not have money already to keep up with repairs, perhaps you should be taking donations for that purpose, instead of a new server?
Stevie... you didnt do a very good job of removing these type of players from your dollar donation tournament ;) It would be into the third round or finished by now had it not been for 2 or 3 players!

Of course a tournament is set to the pace of the slowest player. Everyone has to finish their games for the tournament to be completed. By signing up for a tournament, you agree to wait for the other players in it.

Tyhis is the right board, its misuse of something done to the site to help others.

I have already started removing players like this from my tournaments, but these games were started many months ago. But most players ive removed dont act like this in these circumstances. But then again, he is still a minor anyways.

And who are you to tell me where to post?

Its called tournaments..... no control over who you play, and even if you dont play them, you still have to wait for them, as a tournament is set up to play at the pace of the slowest player. I agree with Steve, that its just a lack of courtesy when someone who is holding up a tournament does so even when they are on here often and are able to play at a much faster pace, if they werent so obstinent. (BTW...being obstinent is nothing to be proud of)

I think it is a conspiracy to make every pay atleast for two years membership, as most tournaments take that long, or more, to complete ;)

Games will not time out. Nothing stops players from using that to delay games, so such is allowed. I am not sure that this board is a suitable place for your personal complaints against Kevin.

IMupChucKing: It's a matter of trust, nothing else. Nobody is obliged to support us, everything is voluntary.
bwildman: Do you really think it's possible to purchase a whole new server for 400 or 500 USD? You cannot buy more than several components to replace the damaged ones in the current "same old equipment" [as you call it] which is exactly what the money was used for. We cannot just wait for more funds and do nothing at the meantime. When something is malfunctioning, it MUST be fixed immediately. Q.E.D.

Its to allow for players who cant get on here, not to allow the ones here to stretch things even further. you are wrong.

If game time is suspended, that means that no one is required to move. If you don't like how quickly someone moves, then don't play them again. What more needs to be said?

I was under the impression that the $ donated was to be saved to help pay for a new server.

I suppose it does not matter exactly, if that money was used for other things related to brainking, and then use money collected from memberships, for example, to pay for a new server.

Maybe if we are really concerned, we could hold donated funds in an escrow account until the time to purchase this new server, so there would be no possible other uses for money that we want used to buy a new server.

Thats the sort of response ive come to expect

Hey Steve, what's your real point? To keep provoking me until I stop responding and then you will claim "he is ignoring my questions again"? Don't waste your time. If you want to continue, choose another board. General Chat, for example.

bwildman: They were used for BrainKing, of course. I don't think you expect me to send you copies of bills of hardware components we had to buy, just to keep BrainKing alive. If you don't trust me, nobody forces you to support us anymore.

what ever happened to the money LindaJ so unselfishly spent hours and days raising for you?

*rushes off to the store*

Steve, very good point.
Fact is, all you do gooders brush over this stuff but dont you all realize this is a situation where someone, Kevin, is basically saying "screw you" to everyone.
It is insulting to all his/her opponents and if I were in Steve's shoes, it would irk me too.
It is blatant disregard and not very good traits to have if you are customer service.

You're Fired Kevin

LOL.. clearly :-D though how a circle can be wrong... I just don't know ?? ;-D

Its because we run in the wrong circles Niki

He's gone :(

Fencer: would you make excuses for me?


NO

If it not deliberate or on purpose, how can it possibly be done accidentally ?? those big red numbers are a bit of a giveaway !! LOL

Why not? I can make excuses for anybody I want.

DONT make excuses for him

yes, he has been on every day. he was on in the night. he has been posting on boards too. He does this every time you suspend the time.
Look at his game list, I am not the only one.

Can you prove he is doing it deliberately, purposefully? I guess not.

maybe its ok for customer service rep?

Think if its a pawn or knight he is doing it to

thats not my point. he is deliberately going over the time limit. Thats past the rules surely????

It's hard to do when he's not here.
Moreover, he doesn't break any rules.
You can play unlimited number of games Steve, so why is one slow game with Kevin such a big problem?

You are talkative today :o)

So how about doing something about Kevin and speak to him?

Try it, I am kind of talkative today :-)

I have a question but im not sure if it is an "Oldhamgirl question" or "Bernice question" so i think i wont ask it :)

But you can keep hoping, of course :-)

Ok..sorry my mistake, forget what i said about hope then :)

Andersp: I have not listened to any advice. There are only different kinds of questions.

Im glad to see that you "listened" to my advice Fencer theres hope for you too :)

Its understandable for players who have not been on site, but this is stupid

I know we cant complain normally about KEVIN and his moving ways.
But, every time we get the suspended time thing he does this.
He was on 6 hrs ago, and has been each day and even posting on boards. He has let many games time out, but when FENCER says that it will start again, he will rush and do them.

NOW TELL ME I SHOULDNT COMPLAIN.
I reckon the games should be ended and we win.

I've seen a few that I haven't liked, but I also kind of know where you're coming from too.

I am wondering what the status of this is. They're still dark.

Fencer: I can't see a note about this anywhere, but you may know already.
Have you tried to 'Hide Message Archive' at the bottom of you game page ?
It just sends you back to your Main screen. I only knew when a Pawn messaged me saying they were trying to get theres back and this kept happening to them.

Andersp: How do you like this "Fencer answer"? :-D

Bernice: When it happens, it means that the database server refused to insert your post/move because of a current overload. It's just a feature of database servers and there are two ways, in general, how to fix it:

1) Optimize the application/database code and infrastructure. It is already done and it's called BK 2.0.
2) Optimized code bring one consequence - since the site is faster, it can serve more requests at once. Which, of course, makes the site slower. It's a common problem of all sites with non-sufficient hardware. The remaining solution is to replace the current database server by a new one, faster one.

Please note that we are still running on the same hardware configuration as we started with two years ago. It's a small miracle [thanks to Liquid] that it still runs in kind of acceptable way.

I as maybe a lot of others had aproblem with having to play games and write messages twice, or even 3 times in the old BK...I noticed that this hasnt changed?? will it be fixed?

Thanks rod03801

Yes SunFire

how to grow best ... :D ~*~