Some time ago I think someone mentioned a link(?) to go to in order to translate a conversation - I've looked through BK and on the net but have trouble finding one that helps me.... one of my opponents is having a one-sided conversation with me since I don't speak Czech.... could someone help me please? Thanks!

alanback: "Never underestimate the ingenuity of an idiot"
Equally, "Never attribute to ingenuity that which can be explained away by stupidity"

nodnarbo:If that's the case, he must not read these boards carefully! We have some steel-jacketed, armor-piercing idiots on this site!

pauloaguia: I'd call that Fencer not realizing the caliber of the idiots he was idiot-proofing the site against

Snoopy: Oh, I see... I'd call that a bug

pauloaguia: i came in in guess mode clicked said game then clicked log in and it let me accept the game
it still should of not let me

Nothingness: I cannot see any invitation from you in the Waiting Games list...
I think in guest mode you can sell all games... I say this because I noticed in the past that the red number by the waiting games list is always much bigger than the one I can see when I'm logged in... but then again, I may be wrong.

I cant see it...I have no rating in that game

Snoopy: You cannot accept games in guest mode... Can you?

Nothingness: I created some invites to test it out, and I've had one game accepted so far and it was within the limit I set

rod03801: i tried comming in in guest mode
i could see his games and it even allowed me to accept one which ive since deleted
so there does appear to be a bug somewhere

Snoopy: Hmm.. If it is open fast espionage, I have no rating and can see a game of Nothingness' in there.

Nothingness: i have a low rating in that game and cannot see your games when i look at waiting games so i am assuming other low rated players cant either

i also checked this on guest mode and it seems that it is open to all players.

i am unsure if the settings have taken hold. I currently have two games posted both with settings where players with low ratings under 1700 or 1800 cannot play me. in the past players with 1100 have been able to play me. Its says anyone can play when i look at my posted game.

Nothingness: when you say "it says anyone can play" I assume you mean on the invitations area under opponent where it says 'anyone'. This just means the invitation is not to a specific player, and not that your BKR limits are not in place.

does this help?

Nothingness: Perhaps you are forgetting to disable also the "Include unrated players".

I still am unable to adjust the quailty of the ratings of the people i wish to play. for example i posted a game of open espionage but i do not with to play anyone lower than 1800 and no higher than 4000. i clicked the area where you can adjust this but when i posted the game it says anyone can play. i have been trying to figure this out for the last 2 years with no luck...

MadMonkey: That's why I generate the tournaments I create with a script. I won't forget that way.

AbigailII: Really, i never bother to change it, thanks

MadMonkey: How about a setting in the Tournament that by default is the way it is OR that can be changed to play another game

That's already possible. What I do when I create an elimination game is to not use 'normal game' but a '1 win'. In that case, the game is replayed (with switched colours) in case of a draw.

Tuesday: Yes you have to use the largest number of rolls possible.
In that case the rolls are {1} and {5}. You can use both. So you should use both. :-)

Tuesday: It will not let you. If you moved your 9 piece, then all your pieces would be on the 14 point and you would not be able to use the dice with one on

Fencer: Thanks, although at present no one has gone anywhere

I personally think a better rule should be found. With this lowest rating thing we may as well just toss a coin at the start.

How about a setting in the Tournament that by default is the way it is OR that can be changed to play another game . That would be a lot fairer way to do it

p.s. Like the new pic, about time it changed LOL

MadMonkey: I.e. Kiwiyeti.

MadMonkey: http://brainking.com/cz/Help?ht=66

Fencer, can you check game Knight Fight (littlemole vs. Kiwiyeti) in my elimination Tourrnament. It ended in a draw, BUT who goes through to the next round of Madhouse 2008 - Week 52

rabbitoid:

Hey, there's a strange looking guy masquerading as Fencer! must be a stranger, Filip never changes his pic!

Oh darn now I guess I'll have to go and numerize a new one, too :)

Fencer: cheers

Snoopy: It was disabled by a mistake, as a side effect of http://brainking.info/archives/566-Camelot-rules-and-sortable-game-type-lists.html feature.
It should be fixed now.

can we have the option back to include all games when creating a tournament
its sure is time consuming having to click the extra 125 games

AbigailII: I tried using Adblock Plus just to see what happens, and set it to block those 2 things.

Something has happened , a game page now loads between 0.76 and 1.9 depending on game involved. Whats odd is that i only blocked them on the main page as they do not show up as being there on any other page i can find, though coan.net says it does. Have to wait for him to wake up lol

Artful Dodger:

nodnarbo:  Yeah, that's the ticket! 

Artful Dodger: kinda like, shoot the dragon and win a prize, and the prize is that we don't have to see it for the rest of the day.

coan.net:It could be a good addition to Brainking if we could have a game where  we shoot the dragon and then it can't load on our computer for the day.  We get 3 shots and if we miss with 3, or don't kill it but only wound it, a second dragon appears.  Just for the day of course. 

Artful Dodger: Before, i had it set to the no-font layout, and then used my own external .css (but had tried all 3 with the same resultes.) Problem before, even if you did not see the dragon, it was still loading with many of the pages of BrainKing (you could look at the page source and still see it loading - but just not flying across the screen).

I could open my Wndows Task Manager, and look at all my running processes - sort on CPU, and as soon as I starting doing anything in brainking site, Firefox would peg out between 80-99% of the CPU (slowing everything else down) - and if I let the page just sit there, it would stay that way for about 45 seconds to 90 seconds (which is about the time it takes the dragon to fly across the screen.) - and then brainking would stop using all the CPU. I can have 20 other tabs open with very little issue, but as soon as the BrainKing tab is opened - boom - there goes my CPU.

Fencer: I just tried that setting, and tried out a few pages while watching the CPU - and firefox seems to be staying between 00 - 03% while I have this site open (a quick jump to about 70% for a second while the page loads - but I see that as normal and only lasted for under 1 second) - so looks good so far - Thanks a lot! (I'll give it a good test later today as I have a movie I want to watch on my computer and plenty of games to get through.)

Fencer:One could always add http://noscript.net/ to the FireFox addons but I'm not sure what all that might affect.  Frankly, I use the "Simple" layout and the dragon isn't an issue for me. 

I think it works for me too since i haven't noticed any slowdown after disabling that.

(V): Then you have a problem. It works for me.

Fencer: Don't work.. I've turned off 'style animations' and I still get the dragon.

coan.net: What about an opinion poll regarding the castle layout and this flying dragon?

coan.net: Interesting. It is true that dragon causes some kind of increased load but I have tried it on several computers and none of them was using more than 35% of CPU. Furthermore, it happens only with Firefox and Internet Explorer, Opera works smoothly and shows no strange behavior, most likely because its JavaScript processor is not as buggy as the one of other browsers.
Anyway, the code should not be loaded with other styles (except the castle one) and you can even turn off all animations, using a new switch "Enable style animations" at your Settings / General page.

Rose: Well what it looks like is it is coded into many pages on the site - but most of the time just set to not show - still runs, just does not show (well I use a theme to always hide it so I never see it except for when I first sign in) - but he is still there in the background causing problem.

Like right now, I'm typing this while watching a movie, and now the movie is freezing stopping (and has been working well for the past 3 hours) - open up the task manager, Firefox is using between 85-99% of the CPU. I will finish this post, close the BrainKing tab - and the CPU will go back down to the normal 5-10%

Again, maybe it's not the dragon - but it is definitely this site.

I don't know what the fuss is.. I have my game page open all day long while I work and I never ever see the dragon anymore.. I never go to the sign in page so no dragon.

Constellation36: Things you can try: 1) disable JavaScript. 2) Install an adblocker and block http://brainking.com/images/gui/flame-left.gif and http://brainking.com/images/gui/dragon-left.gif.


Can't garantee anything though. I don't use the castle layout, and even if I switch to castle layout, the dragon isn't taking 99% cpu resources.