I have edited my post too.

Quote Hrqls: but as long as they are within the time limit there shouldnt be a problem

And therein lies the whole problem with vacation days. Some people choose to ignore the set time limit for the tournament. Some people will let a game run on vacation days til they have no more and then renew membership so they can allow it to run on even longer.

And some people on this site are not approachable. My deleted comment was in reference to that fact. Some people can get rather nasty both in PM and f/s messages when asked to move faster. And they seem to relish the fact that they are annoying another member and purposely choose to allow that one game to drag. The system allows for that and the start of this whole conversation was to try to find a way to stop that from happening.

Gordon Shumway: 100% agree

I would of created like that if i knew such a crazy outcome could happen.
What happens if they have the same BKR ??? ...............I know, most letters in there name

MadMonkey: That's why you should always create Single Elimination tournaments as "1 win match" - so in case of a draw, the match is replayed

Would be nice though if "1 win match" was preselected when one attempts to create a SE tournament.

coan.net: I remember seeing that somewhere, that is one crazy rule
I do not think it is very fair way to decide the final game of a Tournament though like this was
Why not just play again or black/white peg count or something ?

MadMonkey: In a single elimination tournament, where there needs to be 1 winner to move on to the next round, the "Win" in case of a tie/draw is the person with the lowest BKR rating at the time of the game.

Fencer or BBW(sorry, coan.net lol) or any clever person lol

Why, in this final game of this Elimination Tournament which is a ONE game Final did something odd happen.

Both players solved the codes in 6 tries and rightly enough the game is a draw as it states BUT how come myself (as the organiser) got a message saying one of the players was the winner ?
Why does the other lose ?

TarantinoFan: thanks for editing your post :)

my opinion is that if a person moves within the time limits of a game .. then tere are no problems ..

sometimes some moves can be made easily within seconds while at work (i do that with backgammon) but not with other types (i do that with line and chess games)

but as long as they are within the time limit there shouldnt be a problem .. its sad for pawns though (and for non pawns as well) .. so if a person asks another person to move whenever possible .. it would be quite polite to make moves in those games first and whenever possible

(i do that in some games because my opponent asked me)

its up to the players while joining tournaments/games and to the opponents by being polite and fair ... the system of brainking can do little about that (it already offers games without vacation days and even without weekend days :))

rabbitoid: I have it prepaid for 2 years. But it probably does not cover a fail-safe system for their database.

I clicked on the cluster map and got

couldn't connect to the mysql server

the database is over-loaded at the moment, please try again later

http://BrainKing.info is not a ClustrMaps (reg or +) user

Quote Hrqls: vacation days are there for people to use if they need them

Yes that is true but some people constantly abuse the system. If the person is on site almost every day then they obviously don't "need" the vacation days.

If they sign up for games they should take into consideration the time they will need to play the "thinking" games and not sign up for so many games. It shows a total lack of consideration for their opponents and the other people in the tournament. And this becomes highly apparent where pawns are involved.

Hrqls: I really apprecitae and understand what you are saying. What Snoopy and I are commenting on, is the way people intentionally abuse them, especially when they know they cant win a match, they dont make a move until the very last minute.

vacation days are there for people to use if they need them ... some people move first in the 'easier' games (like ludo), and then in games which require more thinking (like chess) .. so you will see more people use vacation days for games like chess than they will use them for games like ludo

the problem with vacation days is that someone can use them all up before the end of the year .. and then simply renew his/her membership to get a new stock .. for some people the price of a membership isnt a problem to pay several times a year and so they can have a LOT of vacation days

please people .. can this be a discussion about vacation days in general and the possibility to abuse it .. dont turn this into a thread about 1 person

thats not what this board is about .. this board is about brainking

Oceans Apart: how about ppl only getting there vacation days back on the day they use them
ie...if i used one on 1st May i wouldnt get it back till the 1st of May next year

TarantinoFan:  it was a few other people

*my post was out of line for this board. My apologies.

Oceans Apart: it was a general comment on how
ppl are abusing vacation days and nothing is being done about it
as Dhass said its a side of the site that needs looking at
as i know from many messages ive received theres tons of other ppl
who have the same problem

Please becareful, lol, the last time i made a gripe about Jamie not making moves in his game, i was accused of allsorts

"Snoopy": also this person reckons that he can get away with anything and Fencer cant touch him...so if you are THAT immune you can do what you want..even if it means paying for extra membership and using the holidays up.......

TeamBundy: Because it's my job to know everything.

"Snoopy": I do have to agree with Snoopy. Because of some people abusing these vacation days and waiting until the very last minute, games that normally should be over in a week have taken me even a month. I know I have a chess game from a tournament still going where the person used up all vacation days at the end of the year, and when new days were issued, he burnt all those up too - it is not like he was not on the site either - he just chooses to ignore our game...

I know there may not be much that can be done, but it seems ridiculous that no one is at least looking into it....

Bernice:
but surely Fencer you can see how wrong this is and dosnt it gave a bad name to brainking itself?

"Snoopy": I looked at that link and he looks to have timed out ....you won the game.....but this person is known to do that especially if he isnt winning the game, but unfortunately there isnt anything you can do about it....it is his choice to move or not to move, by utilizing his holidays

it saddens ppl when you have ppl that people
on the site who refuse to move in some games nearly 1 month after me making a move they rather uses vacation days up than play a fair game

TarantinoFan: Depends on when a person has their weekend days set. So if the 2 weekend days are early in the 9 days, then 2 weekend days + 5 regular days + 2 more weekend days + 4 more regular days = 13 days (which may be why you see 12 1/2 hours left on time)

BIG BAD WOLF: So it is counting 9 weekdays and 2 weekends then? That kinda makes sense then. I was only expecting it to give 11 days though. Wasn't thinking that we were right at the start of a weekend now.

Fencer: How did you know I have that browser? Thanks, using the No Fonts option and slayed is the dragon! Yipee!

OK OK guys and gals.  Please, send me questions you have in mind to ask from hevenlyemma .  I'll be sending her the questions in a couple of weeks. 

I, too, the :)

TarantinoFan: That also includes "weekend days" - which each person gets 2 a week.

Can someone please tell me why a tournament with a 9 day time control is showing 12 days 15 hours for the next move? Did I do something wrong in the set up?

It's the Pits!!! First Ever Slow Tournament

heavenlyemma:

Me 2      

It fits the theme nicely 

Fencer: Well everything works ok on it otherwise. It is quite fast.

Fencer: I love the red dragon, I just noticed it lol

Mousetrap: Ah, I've found it. Unfortunately BrainKing was never tested with the Avant Browser.

Fencer: Crumbs well I only use it so that I don,t have to go all the way round the world to sign in to my other browser. I can try another browser though sometime. Thanks very much!

Mousetrap: What is "Avant Browser"? I recommend to use something, uh, you know what I mean.

Is anyone else still having trouble with posting? I userally have to highlight everything before I can read my posts. It has been going on ever since the new layout.

Any possible way to make a smiley flip* with a simple code before, after, or in the smiley code?

* For example: on BBW's profile you could have one of the wolves 'flip' so the nose is pointed in opposite directions on either side of BBW's name!

It would be nice for making cool messages and nicer yet for cool profiles!

Andersp: Now it's flying in both directions.

TeamBundy: Using a Firefox 1.0.7 is not a good idea anyway. You should upgrade to 2.0, at least for security reasons.
But don't panic - I am just putting the dragon to the CSS layer completely, so it will be associated only with the Castle style in all aspects. And it's the cleanest solution, even from the programmer's point of view.

and... the first thing that appeared after changing to the "no-fonts mode" was.... yes... The dragon! Any help on how to get rid of it? I'd appreciate it very much!

P.S. The fact that the dragon appears here as well pretty much nullifies my previous comment...

BIG BAD WOLF: If i understood correctly, the only way to shut off the dragon is by selecting the "No fonts" option. Am I correct?

I didn't exactly understood who put the dragon in (I would have imagine it coming from either Fencer or Liquid, but I don't quite follow why Pauloguia made a comment where it sounded like it was him. The reason for this question/comment is that I find it bad that things just pop up for no particular reason and that the only way to eliminate it, is by deselecting most of the design. This makes all the work put into the design as somewhat of a waste, as due to some annoying thing, one prefers to get rid of it, even at the price of just turning the design into its simplest mode.

The reason it annoys me, is actually not its flying. The reason is that in the browsers window, a "loading" message starts showing a loading message in the bottom part of the window. It's distracting from what one is currently doing (moving, thinking, writing messages). It kind of feels like somebody is poking you while being only (characteristically of annoying people or kids :-) ).

Anyway, I just wanted to add my comment with regard to the Dragon. Cheers!

BIG BAD WOLF: Oops, I have forgotten that some people could be using their own styles. It will be disabled for them soon.

In a fellowship, as a BIG BOSS you can send 2 types of messages - (1) message to all members and (2) message to everyone in one team.

Now I know if someone turned off the "get message from BIG BOSS" option, they will not get the message sent to everyone. But will they get the message that is sent to everyone on the team?

I just need to know if I can use that option to get to everyone, or if I should send individual messages to each member. Thanks.

BIG BAD WOLF: THank you Thank you Thank you!!! that worked.

rod03801: I think I figured it out.

Even though we use my own .css file, in settings, the choice is still set to castle.

Choose the "No Font" option. Since you are still using a .css file, it will still show up the same, but the buggy dragon will no longer be there. Wow, what a waste of a day tracing this bug.....

pauloaguia: A feature is something that does something - makes something better - this has no effect other then a little "flash" - nothing I would call a feature - a bug since he did not program a way to turn if off BEFORE he introduced it. It reminds me when redesigning our Hot Air Balloon website, I had all these little hot air balloons floating on the screen - it was REALLY cool. But even though it was really cool and worked very well for my browser, I did not realize that it messed some people up to the point that they were unable to see the site. Looking back, I know the extra fun "flash" for the site, I should have made it an option to turn on/off. Anyway, I'm babbleing now....

pauloaguia: Maybe it's just BBW's style, because I saw him mention it too. It seems to slow down my cursor in these text boxes too.
Please give us a way to shut it off!