Aganju: Some of us has communicated with fencer and we do know what he has in mind. Now I assume that price may have changed in the past few years. Now since he wont list a price tag or the fact we have no programmers willing to work for free I think it is immaterial what we chat about until a price is communicated. I don't think it was worth 50g in 2015 and I'm sure its not now. In the eyes of the owner a serious offer may not be what we think it is. With that said you would think others here at BK would like to know the asking price and many have asked publically with no replies. On the other hand we have no idea what has been communicated privately.

OK let's be optimistic for a moment and say either one or more people came up with the money to buy Brainking from Fencer. Who will be the administrator that will take time each day to make sure all is running the way it should? If you are going to add new games, who will do the programming for these new games? How are the monthly fees going to be paid to keep the site up and running? You are not just buying a game site, you are investing in a real business. A business that needs good and proper financial bookkeeping records and a way to pay expenses and if their are any salaries to pay, making sure payroll is met. Running the site may also take you away from other aspects of your personal life with friends and family with no guarantee of making a profit on your investment. Before diving in make sure you have a solid business plan that a bank would buy into if you ever needed to borrow money for the site. A lot to think about than just buying a game site to play games. You can play games in a lot of different sites. I am not discouraging anyone from doing this, but make sure you have all your ducks in a row first. Pay a business lawyer for about an hour of their time to discuss how to do this.

speachless: this could actually get us somewhere... although you all might just be shooting the breeze.

Be aware that this was discussed before, and various estimator sites give very different values. What matters is what Fencer considers a serious offer, and that is still not publicly known (but it is probably higher than this estimate).

It is very difficult to build a group of people from all over the world that trust each other enough to chip real money in, but I'd be willing to be a part of it.

Walter Montego: you can give the check to me and I run it for you, if you provide the double amount ;-)

Walter Montego: I'd write a check for the full amount. That is the easy part.

ketchuplover: I'd write a check for half that if I knew how to run this place.

BrainKing is currently worth $11042 Please act accordingly. Thank you.

Mélusine: Some of the problem is only paid members can play on the teams so with renewal membership down the available players are becoming more difficult to find. Its why I mention its nice to see players renewing their membership

Marshmud: Yes, you're totally right.

Mélusine:

2 dark battle boat players available at the IFC fellowship. Both Geomomo and marshmud available to play in the site team tourney. Just ask us we will join in. Our team is filled already

Like coan mention, we need to fill 4 teams so if everyone joins one team the cloning team game wont even get started. So if you have enough players for your team kindly ask one of your players to join another team....please.

Dear all we search for good cloning backgammon and others, players who like to join BGBedlam's Fellowship Multigammon and join some of the teams. We are still waiting with joining the openteam tournaments:
Multigammon Mayhem

you are welcome

crosseyed: Humm, I think I forgot but is it really important ? There's a great advantage to join my f/s : people can eat frogs legs, wings of flies and taste my potions.

coan.net: thank you for your very fast support, i'm very happy about it and appreciate your effort

speachless: I did 5 per team not to long ago for a cloning gammon tournament, and got 7 teams - so 5 sounds good. Done. Stuck it in to start in October!

Aganju: if we make small teams of only active players it should work...maybe 4 - 6 players...i'm at multigammon mayhem team - we would have 5 active players

speachless: me too! if i get a team together.

coan.net: please cloning backgammon 2 wins match team tournament i would be enthusiastic about it...

Marshmud: Okay mums the word.

crosseyed: No don't tell nobody until they join and receive their prizes

Mélusine: Will you be warning them they might warts and other things

As it becomes more and more difficult to find players for tournaments, I invite anyone interested to join my fellowship "Spells and magic potions". Everyone is welcome. My f/s will exist as long as it's possible, I renewed my subscription for 6 months and I will renew it as long as it is possible to play. Thank you all.

Marshmud: Yes, I will keep making them - usually I have more up before they last ends, but have been busy - I will sit down and get them made soon.

SUGGESTION TO BIG BOSSES: As fellowships are having a harder time getting teams together, if you have a popular fellowship, with many extra members on your teams - maybe look at being a partner with another fellowship, or even encourage some players to spread out to other fellowship teams. Since we have been having a harder and harder time getting enough teams to enter (sometimes even the popular games are only getting 4-5 teams to enter, which if there may be enough players for a few more teams if we work together.) I know if won't be easy, or kind of defeats the purpose of building a big powerful team, but the more teams we can get, the better the team tournaments are! Just a thought.

coan.net: I guess I agree with MM because we do have problems with getting teams together now. My suggestion is to make the popular games a larger team maybe 6 players and the less played games a 4 player team. I know monkey and myself will actually play with another fellowship just to get a tournament up and running.

Other then that I'm excited to know that the team tournaments will continue.

I'll try to post some site team tournaments soon - sorry, just been busy. I'll most likely just pick some of the more popular games and make many stretched out for a few months..... and as always - ANY SUGGESTIONS OF GAMES you would like to see?

DeaD man WalkiN:

Glad you enjoyed it I saw it on tv and pc

What a gr888t show here in Nebraska with the Eclipse...

Marshmud: Yes I think I will do the 6 months renewal.

crosseyed: Personally Mary I would buy the 6 month and that will put you into March 2018 and hopefully BK will be up and running and then add 6 months again in 2018 if life goes on in BKland.

Carnie: Well imo it is sort of both. Yes fencer has said his family is his priority but it cost
to keep Brainking online so I meant with some income he might continue payment of his server fees for example....

I was thinking the same way and took the full year..

Marshmud: My membership ends on the 3 September. Do I take the risk and buy a full one year membership? Or should I pay for a 6 months' membership?

ketchuplover: Dream on.

if someone got a discount if they joined multiple game playing sites simultaneously

MadMonkey: Well we have a new black rook from near a month ago and several rook memberships so hopefully a little income will keep the boss paying the fees to keep the lights on.

Marshmud: I certainly am in favour of them....even if it is a struggle sometimes to get enough teams
Even if it has to be the most played games, at least it would be something
It just seems that so many have no interest in BrainKing now since Fencer's announcement.

Personally i find it so so sad

Coan, will we have any more team tournaments?

rabbitoid:
I get that notice every time I log in here and at GT too

Aganju: Only the pages which prompt for a password are labelled insecure, if they are not of protocol https. once this barrier is passed Chrome (Firefox too) doesn't care anymore. Until the next upgrade, LOL

Carnie: no. Chrome has started to report all non-https sites as 'insecure'. This is not related to anything happening at BK, but a general move in the internet. Security of BK is unchanged; it was never high-security, but there is also not much to lose or steal. Any hacker above twelve would probably focus on pages where there is something steal-worthy.

a lot of things have been happening on the site spooks are comeing i mean that

winterangels: Message from Fencer on Jan 1 2017

Fencer 
The future
1. January 2017, 09:39:10
Happy New Year 2017.

As you probably know, BrainKing will be 15 years old this year and it is also the last year when it would have an official support. Many things changed since October 2002 when the site had been launched and I think it's only fair to our members if they know (in advance) what they can or cannot expect.

1) BrainKing is guaranteed to be running at least to the end of 2017. After that, nothing will be guaranteed. For instance, the site could become offline for a longer time, an unexpected error could break some important features, games could timeout for no logical reason, etc. Since BrainKing is quite a mature product and was programmed to self-repair many usual issues, it is not unlikely that none of these scenarios would happen - but still, it's good if people are aware of that.

2) There will be also no refunds for any kind of membership subscription. I will link this post from the Paid Membership section, so everybody would be informed that purchasing a membership is risky and not recommended to people who expect a service that continuously operates at a peak effeciency without any downtime.

3) It is also possible that, starting January 2018, BrainKing could be suddenly taken down without any warning. If it happens, memberships that would be still active will not be cancelled and their counter of remaining days will be stopped during the whole time of inactivity.

winterangels: As far I understood it is not 100% sure yet. Fencer announced that it might be unsupported after 2018. But this is only one possible scenario. option 2 is for Fencer to sell brainking or he might come up with a third option when time comes, but yes it's possible that the site will run unsupported from 2018 on. It's on you to decide if you take the risk to pay for one year and if BK will work till then.... but maybe I'm wrong, it's just how I understood Fencers announcment

winterangels: according to Fencer that is correct....no more "fixing" so when it is broke it is broke...

why are they telling me that brainking may be going down is this true

winterangels:

click on "paid membership" under profile in the left margin. best wishes