i hope you're going to keep the time suspended, it just took forever for me to submit a msg., and i don't even know if it went thru. i left it to see if i could get here, i hope this submits. i would really hate to lose all my games, that would be very discouraging. i'm going to try to play some games, i couldn't before.

I only made it back on here this time after deleting the cookies, and then turning the power off and back on.

For those webtv-ers that don't know how to delete them, go to the "home page", click the "help" on the top right of the screen, then scroll down the left column to the "utilities tool". It explains all about it and how to do it there.

I just used webtv emulator, and only get a white screen for brainking, not even a login page

I was having problems until about 30 min. ago. Now everything works fine ??? Earlier, I couldn't get on any discussion boards.

How may webtv users play on this site ?

Probably quite a few. There are over 50 in the Web-tv fellowship, and there are probably a lot more that aren't there yet.

(Rod....how is that for a shameless plug?)

53 members in webtv fellowship. Most of them paying members of BK.

there are 388 paid members in total not counting owners . so that is near enuff to one in 6-7 are WebTv. I think a little bit more consideration should be given to them seeing this is the case :)

I am on webtv. I started having problems getting in here starting Friday evening and couldnt get in until tonight. Most of the webtv people here are probably IYT players who were looking for a better place to play. They found it here. I love this website. With the exception of a few bad apples most of the players I have met are great people and it is fun to come here when comical things are happening on the discussion boards and in the fellowships. I would hope Fencer and Liquid would take their paying webtv people seriously and with great consideration. I still play parttime at IYT with a tournament and a ladder. If webtv becomes unusable source to play from at this site, there are others that are webtv friendly. I would hate to see that happen as this is the best game site on the web. However I am confident that Fencer and Liquid will do everything to accomodate us webtv players.. IF 20 percent of their paid membership comes from us that is a huge portion to lose to the competition.

thank you Brian1971!! well said and well put! i just managed to get on here a little while ago, after being down since Friday evening and concur with what you have said, i play one ladder at IYT and that's it....this is the best site going and would hate not to be able to play cause of being on webtv....hope the bosses get everything ironed out soon!!

There must be something strange in WebTV proxy server system. Maybe they have different caching and accessing policies for European sites? Because all other mentioned sites [IYT, GT] are American ones.
Of course, we could create a fail-safe system which shows our site always up and running even if one or more of the machines are temporary turned off. However, such system costs money. Lots of money.

The webtv system appears to correct itself within 3 days.

They should improve that system.

I have a little bit of an "in" with WebTV.. (Not MUCH of one,lol, I'm not trying to brag) And I'm going to try and find out if something has changed with the proxy server in the last 2 weeks. It has to be something that has CHANGED, because WebTV users were always able to access Brainking at the same time as the computer users, every time brainking has come back up.
It seems as though both weekends, it has been somewhere between 24 and 48 hours later, before we could access the site.. Whatever I find out, I will of course pass on to Fencer..
Wish me luck! :-D

All you other webtv users out there, please don't abandon brainking because of this.. Fencer wants to solve this as much as we do, I'm sure!!!

I can't promise I'm going to find anything out, but I'm going to try..

LOL.... Send them a donation :)~

I'll be here till the end. Hope thats not this comming week-end, LOL. Just kidding, I'm sure we can survive, It just gets on your nerves when you want to play your games and can't.

To my fellow players:
My apologies for timed out games. I'm hoping to have the games reinstated as soon as possible and with Fencer's help. My webtv sure wasn't very "user friendly" for many days.

glad to see you Star, hang in there.. dont let go.... need a rope?? ==============================

Good to have you back on Star..hope you get the games reinstated!

Um, what exactly can a "Manager" do in a fellowship? What about in BK2.0?

Right now Summertop, managers can't do that much. They can request tournaments to be started (this is purely in HOME, other fellowships might work differently) and get people motivated to joining their team(s).
Eventually they will be able to remove people from their team if they wish, start their own internal tourneys and have a lot more control of tournaments with other fellowships etc. Thats my understanding anyway, although it won't happen immediately BK2 is launched. Thats in the future :O)

Thanks, harley

.....On Checkers board, but because the wrong person was made moderator there for some stupid reason..I cant post due to being banned from there grrrrrrrrrrr

Different moderators banning the same person.

Hmmm.

Maybe it's the person and not the moderator?

LMAO
You would trust them then Gothic?

is BK2 going ahead this weekend as proposed?

If BK2 starts up Saturday that meens tournaments will be started by the computer, Does anyone know if the tournaments that we signed up for already that start after Saturday will still happen or will they just never happen.

They should still happen.

Thanks for the info. Bumble

Next Saturday.

Thanks Fencer :(

Has the switch taken place ? I haven't had any problems today. :-)

Again: Next Saturday :-) Hopefully.

Oh, Ok Thanks. :-)

There will be some fairly obvious changes (most obvious on the login page, imo) when the switch does take place :-)

The log-in page says 'DON'T PANIC!' in large letters.

ROFL at bumble!

lol - yep, that's exactly what it says. Fencer said you're not supposed to spoil the surprise, bumble?! :-)

in anger yesterday at a certain person i put FTW behind my name....after 24 hours and having slightly cooled down I went in to try and take it back to plain old Bernice (enuff of the old ) hehehehe

UMMMMMMM I cant....why?

A a guess Bernice, I'd say someone has bagged your name when you stepped out of it for a second! Is 'Bernice' now showing as a pawn acocunt?

Lenka wants me to release the BrainKing T-shirt shop as soon as possible. I would like to do it after BK 2.0 is out. Well, well, what should I do? :-) Since there is a significant number of people who already want to own the T-shirt, I will release the "shop" soon. Very soon.

If your wife wants you to release it as soon as possible, do you have a choice? Really? :o)

OF COURSE I DO HAVE A CHOICE! :-))

No, your wife only lets you think you have a choice! :o)

Do you have a price yet for them Fencer (inc p&p of course). Have to start penny saving (got 7p already).

cariad: That's how it works in your family? :-D
MadMonkey: 20 EUR [including p&p]

I thought thats how it works in every family?!

20 euros is a very good price, what size range will there be? My kids would look great in them!

Fencer: Oh yes!

That's a good price, especially including p&p.

20 EUR just over £13 ?? (i think)
BK 8.0 will be out by the time i get one with my penny saving ROFL

harley: All sizes, I think. I will prepare a page with full description etc.