It is a funny old world is it not ?

Just a thought as i am working my way through things for Fencer to think about for the new BrainKing. It is amazing since Brainking started how much it has changed. The amount of requests that have already been implemented, all by Filip himself of course.
Some of the names of people that were here in the first few months, along with those of us still here. It sort of bring back happy memories in a strange way.
How odd the site was then, we did not even have Backgammon OR Boats, and how it has grown.

Let us hope, with brainking 3.0 being developed, it can carry on improving & growing

Ian - MM

Fencer:

It does just show that there are strong feeling about this. If the person in question in banned, lets hope that means banned, and not banned of using that account so go and create another

I do appreciate the problem though, and you have more important things to do than chase people and try to prevent them from doing such things.

I wonder if there is away to track account set-ups. You can only hide so much, from people if they want to find out this sort of information. I was only ready a news article the other day about all the latest Proxy's and get rounds, and even using Proxy's there are some sites like Facebook, Gmail, Twitter that give all this info away

Roberto Silva: I 100% agree with you. If i Ban someone from my local bar for what ever reason, and they come back the next day and say 'Oh , its ok, i am someone else now, everything is going to be ok' i DO NOT think i would let them in.

Pedro: If that is really how the site is going to be run now , i think you will find ALOT of people leaving, Never heard such a crazy idea

And just to add, i have never had anything to do with those involved ion this converstation, and so have nothing against anyone. Madness !!

(V): Surely if the site owner bans you from the site, it means you are no longer wanted there for what ever reason (and the owner should not have to provide one).

Just shows what some people are like, obviously banned for whatever reason, yet they must think it clever to return. Some people just dont know when they are not wanted

Bernice: Well, sadly it is true.

Anyone can create as many accounts as they wish although it is strictly against stite policies. Although Fencer can not always determine if accounts belong to the same person. If the person chooses not to say anything to anyone, then no one would ever know.
In your case, if tthe person is openly admitting that they are banned then IMO they should be remoeved, BUT often it is not as easy as that

Pedro & coan.net: ok, just needs re-wording then

Have to have a discussion or some suggestions i think about a re-design (dont tell Fencer lol) of that whole signing up process.....put them together on the Facebook page

Pedro Martínez: Are you sure that is the reason, i am sure it was not there yesterday when i set it as main team

Either way, it should still be there as the Team is still open, maybe the Open teams to join: should be changed to Teams looking for Players: is you are correct

I am not in any Pente Team (not shocking really as i am rubbish at it lol). Anyway, there is a Team Tournament coming up, though when i look at the Tournament, i see this:

Match type: Normal game
Tournament type (?): two games (switched colors) for each two players
Minimum number of teams: 4
Maximum number of teams: unlimited
Maximum number of teams per section: 8
Number of team players: 5
Time control (?): 5 days 5 hours, standard vacation
Status: open
Last term to sign up: 25. August 2009, 04:00:00

You are not a captain of Pente team.

Open teams to join: Radost z vítězství (4), ☼ ¥εstεrday's Wørld ☼ (3), Kapříci (3), ITALIANS DO IT BETTER :D (3), World Federation of Pente (3), The Teamplayers (2), Velká A'tuin (2), THE IMMORTALS (2), Club WebTV (1), Purple World (1), The Mercenaries (1), THE WELCOME MAT (1), The Sunshine Club (1), "Le" Club (1), ABSTRAKTA (1), Polish Power (1)

NOW, that is all very interesting, i can join any of those Teams (well, IF i was in half those Fellowships lol), but agreed, the Teams are open to join if i was a member of the appropriate Fellowship

So, my question is......WHY is the Madhouse Team not in that list ? Is it just because i am boss of it ?
Can someone else look who is not in a Team and tell me what they see please

Fencer: Yep, connection and site flying at present , just glad i noticed it then and not in half hour lol

OH, and i am using Prism rather than a web browser

And again, i come across a batch of games (only about 70 this time) all with 54 minutes before timout.

Hope connection speed is ok today

tinksbell: Yesterday (or was it the day before) i got here to find i had 120 games ALL with the same time on and they were all timing out 35 minutes after i got here. I tried my best, but still had time outs

I presume this was something to do when the site was down the other day, i can not see any other way to end up with all those games having the same time

Fencer: And by the way, if you use Mozilla's Prism brainking is loadssssss faster

(one sad drawback is though you can not have any add-ons)

Fencer: IS this one part of the same problem, it says Waiting, (he has since yesterday morning lol) yet the games have started

Madhouse 2009 - Week 24 (Backgammon)

Roberto Silva: I did say when i created both the weekly & monthly ones, that i would give the Byes a proper testing

nodnarbo: No, it went like that hours ago before i even mentioned the Byes problem.

coan.net: Thats ok chap, i realize some people may not get the gist of Eliminations and Byes

Any thoughts on my last post ? Possibly that is related to the same Bug, i can not see how a Tournament can just stay Waiting

On a similar point, BUT on the actual Tournament mentioned earlier.

Why is this one in Waiting status ??
It has been like it since 11.00am when most of the others started.

Madhouse 2009 - Week 24 (Backgammon)

coan.net: I know how Eliminations work, i play Darts every week in them

I do not see how anyone can complain that certain players get "too" much credit for winning a Tournament

It is not the players fault who entered a Tournament, they took a chance and participated. Whether they won one round or 10 rounds, they put there name down....and if anyone complains about someone winning something too easily the answer is simple, enter yourself

To me the more games started, the more Tournaments started, the more people get to play games, and that is why i thought we were here.....simple

alanback: Exactly what i meant to write

On the same subject, the lowest value should be 2 really. OK its a straight Final, BUT at least the 2 people that entered that particular Elimination would get to play

Fencer: Trust me, if there is a problem i will find it

AbigailII: Agreed

I knew it was wrong, but wanted to make sure, so i messaged a few people as well

Will be interesting to see what happens after the first round lol

hmmmmm ok PLEASE someone explain to me this:

Madhouse 2009 - Week 24

Madhouse 2009 - Week 24

Byes take effect in the FIRST round on an Elimination Tournament. Looking at these 2 examples something odd is happening. The only way this can work here is if you are having Byes in the next Round & the next etc..etc.. so you could get a Bye to the Final.

To me using Byes, the first column of games should be 4, 8, 16 etc... where the empty spaces are Byes as such. Other games in the Tournament are fine whether they have 5, 7 or whatever amount of players.

PLEASE tell me this is a bug

Fencer: If it was a Team we were part of, or had a reason to go and look at i would agree BUT i can see NO reason why Me or LB would even look at the 2 Teams involved, as they are not exactly the most popular ones here

To delete 2 separate Teams accidentally , which would include ticking the little box is VERY unlikely

Just noticed something while going through the Madhouse Teams.

Why all of a sudden have i not got Small Pente & Small Keyro Pente Teams, and it wants me to create them AGAIN.

Why did they un-create themselves

For those interested i have just tidied up the MUSIC Discussion Board

Sadly it looks like Eriisa is not about at present, so i have created a new Music Quiz, that will run daily

Please feel free to join in HERE

Also, feel free to embed any videos you wish, or use Hyper Links.

Any other ideas, please let me know or post there

And, dont forget to enter the BrainKing 'MUSIC' Challenge

Czuch: I presume you are talking about the Madhouse Poll i am running to see how many (if any) Brains people have here, so therefore if they can afford to enter Brain entry Tournaments.

Well after 88 people voted, this is how it stands:

Option 	 	Votes
NONE 		48 (54.54 %)
0 - 20 		12 (13.63 %)
21 - 50 	4 (4.54 %)
51 - 100 	4 (4.54 %)
100 or more 	20 (22.72 %)

I think Brain Tournaments are fun, as they give you something to aim for (whether you pay an entry or not).
I remember when Fencer first started Tournaments here (WOW, that was a while ago lol) he ran a Prize one if i remember rightly, though i can not think if it was a Single player or Team one.

This should really go on Feature Request, but maybe it could get discussed here as it is about BrainKing itself, its structure, features and future

Lets find some more ways to acquire Brains that people can use for Memberships or entry to Tournaments and maybe even in the shop in future when it re-opens.

My first suggestion, is once every couple of months Fencer (or coan.net / Tanien) run a Prize Tournament. Maybe one game from each section. The prize does not have to be huge (50-100 Brains maybe), but it would be good to give those interested a target, and you could get a Achievement for winning one (or more site PRIZE Tournaments).

Anyway, that is my first idea and of course it is all up to Fencer.

I do not know about anyone else, but times are hard right now and going to get worse before they get better.

Would it not be great to play for a small Prize and maybe those who have nothing may get a little something for taking part

yourturn: I have sent you an invite

Well, i do not know, back to normal mode, and smiley pop-up is back.........how weird is that

Fencer: Well i am in Safe Mode and makes no difference, still no smiley pop-up

Fencer: I will give it a try though i have not changed any add-ons recently. Let see......

rod03801: hmmm working fine with Chrome & Safari so cant be my brainking settings............so what has happened to Firefox ?

best get the hammer out and mend it

Anyone else have a problem with the smiley window ?

I click, but no pop-up , nothing has been changed that i know of.....most odd

Am i right in thinking that the Poker game is written in JavaScript ?

If so are there any plans to change any of the other games so they would run in it, hence stopping the need for page reloading. Would be a bonus for Logik i know that

Hrqls: Yes, i think that would be fair to everyone

(lets have a Poll lol)

Hrqls: Surely the easy way is when vacation days are set at the start of the year, that is ALL you get for that year. If you add more membership, then next to this years vacation days have a box or brackets and in there the amount of vacation days you have already for next year, the year after etc.. etc..

In other words, whatever is the set amount for the year that is ALL you get for that year. Any other added is put to one side.

This would make that reason or people doing it pointless, the one we are talking about, just to get more days. Most of us buy membership when ours is either running out, to help others or just because we can afford it at the time, nothing to doing with more vacation days.

This could effect Fencers income though, as those who do it for the vacation reason may not bother.

So is this catch 22 I hope not, common sense should prevail.

Mousetrap: Much better, but it would be nice if just the Music board had its own i think. There are a lot of active Fellowships(and a few Public boards) and people may like to see all new messages when they get there.

Mousetrap: Well i have sort of solved the problem, we now need Fencer to add an extra option. If you set the amount of posts you see to low (i.e. 5) the Music board is fine, BUT of course this effects ALL boards, so may not be right for everyone. 10 is not to bad.

Fencer, could all boards have either there own setting or even just the Music board as it does contain a lot of in bedded material

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

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

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

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:

Nirvana: hmmm i wondered what you meant earlier by your post, now i see

Is the 'All Games' option going to come back sometime ?

EDIT

I just tried to create a Random Elimination Tournament, but it just went to a blank screen with url - http://brainking.com/en/DoTournament


I will try another way

EDIT 2

Tried it a couple of different ways using Random, it will not let you

Filip (had to be me didnt it lol)

Could you look at THIS game.

I have to make one of 2 moves (both forced), but when i try to move d10-d8...etc etc.. is all that happens is d10 vanishes and i get d10-a1-a1-a1 in game notation

Please advice

Czuch: yeahhhhhhhh,.....you WIN ---------> Your turn lol

I spy with my little eye something beginning with "C" ...................................... I am going to set a Tourny for it lol

(Fencer, Firefox Update Scanner is great for finding these things out lol)

Please remember

rabbitoid: Well, i will try to beat that in my Logik game. Been 3 months WITHOUT a move form my opponent

(V): I have been using Chrome (by Google) on and off since it was released, and agreed it is fast

A few articles i have read suggest that a lot of people went over to it right away, but many are returning to Firefox and IE now. It is not just a security issue (though that is foremost) but there are many sites it is not compatible with at all, Facebook being a well known one

I will stick to Firefox, though it is not as fats as it should be with all my Add-ons lol