Brian1971: Objectively speaking, site maintenance costs. The amount of $3/month per subscribed player is hardly enough to support site maintenance, not to even think about improvements and innovations. It is common for people to only think about what they wish for, disregarding the fact that this would cost those granting the wishes much more than they are willing to compensate for.

In short: You should be glad that you can play on this site with $3/month, considering that your money is not enough to cover the maintenance costs. This type of arrogant thinking is what leads site owners to shut down their sites and get rid of ungrateful people. :/

I just checked the conversion rate of Euros into US dollars. If I were today to renew my membership for another year it would cost me $39.57 to do it. I know when you break it down it is just over $3 a month. However I would like to think that for the money I am paying I would see some additional games added or something new during the year to make it worthwhile. I can play games anywhere. Just sustaining the site maybe is not enough anymore. I love playing here. I have my own fellowship and as a disabled person I spend lots of time on the site. Being on a fixed income, I want to know that my money is being utilized in a positive way, not just being taken and nothing new being done with it.

Backoff: nice to see you back. I was worried something might have happened to you.

crosseyed: I agree with you about the best place to play games, but I used to look forward to the sales on Christmas and Easter.

♥♫βaβyĢіґŁŁє♫♥: I just dropped back in after a few years away and nothing much seems to have really changed. That's ok though, I kinda like it the way it is :)

♥♫βaβyĢіґŁŁє♫♥: Whatever I still think it is the best site to play games in.

Justaminute: bk used to be my favorite internet site years ago. But, many people have left the site and it has gotten stale with nothing new happening or maybe we're just getting older and have outgrown it.

Aganju:
I agree Brainking is a great site but having been a member for 5 years I am getting a little bored with it as nothing changes. I only play on this site but I have looked around and sites like Goldtoken have improved hugely since I joined Brainking and I will probably try another site next time. I might decide Brainking is still the best and return after a year. but I might not.

coan.net: I think so too.
From what he wrote here before, he has other priorities, but as long as BrainKing is about paying for itself, I doubt he would shut it down. It would be equivalent of throwing its value away, and that would be a bad financial decision, considering it could instead be sold for about its value. Which was discussed in other threads before and is not negligible, or it would have changed ownership already.
So I think we are good to keep going *as-is*. Don't hold your breath for any changes, but it is good enough as-is.
Yes, it could be improved, but what couldn't?

Brian1971: Even though I can't speak for Fencer, or his future plans for Brainking, I know a few years ago his "life focus" has been his family, and Brainking took a back seat to that - so not much new programming, but he does still maintain the site & work when something needs fixed.

I personally think at some point he will start to have more free time, and in that case hopefully the "Brainking bug" will hit him again and he will do some more "new" things here - but for now, he has more important priorities.

(my opinion)

And when Fencer reads this, and wants a quick project to jump back into things - "quick Logik" with only 4 guessing spots, and "Extreme Logik" with 6 guessing spots would be nice variants that shouldn't be too hard to program.

Bernice: Sadly I am not kidding.

Brian1971: you have a terrific sense of humour lOL

Makes me wonder if Fencer is considering the end of Brainking. When was the last time we had anything really new or improved here? I can't remember anything recently. I spend lots of time here so I hope that is not the case. My membership ends in February, which I am looking for something significant that proves Fencer is dedicated to the future of brainking.

Oh yes, Fencer could make an effort for Christmas

♥♫βaβyĢіґŁŁє♫♥: It's certainly a good one, probably my favourite too.

♥♫βaβyĢіґŁŁє♫♥: i agree ... i might buy another year :-)

♥♫βaβyĢіґŁŁє♫♥:   I agree I thought he would get into the Christmas spirit and help those that would like to get a membership

beach: He should reconsider, after all it brings in holiday revenue plus adds spark to the site. I have a feeling many would love to see it.

beach: Oh that is a shame.

♥♫βaβyĢіґŁŁє♫♥:   I all ready asked fencer and he told me he will not have a sale this year

♥♫βaβyĢіґŁŁє♫♥: I do too.

Fencer: I hope you plan on having a sale on the brain rooks this Christmas. I like the ones with the colors that have a percentage up to 125 percent.

is now #40 at http://chess-links.org

ketchuplover: ive been having heaps of probs as well......

Firefox a few minutes ago

Brian1971: Google uses shady practices in their products. Firefox is much safer.

I normally use Google Chrome most of the time and firefox if I want to do something that doesn't support Chrome fully.

crashed. Better now.

ketchuplover: Looks OK to me from one network and a little slower from another one. Could be a network issue somewhere.

for anyone else?

Dice Cheater, that would imply the queen can simultaneously move to multiple spaces!

Bernice, thanks. Didn't notice it.

Bronius: there is a board to report faults

Bronius: You write "I think the second "and" was supposed to be an "in". If anything, the second "and" should be a "to".

I think I found a typo in the rules for Czech checkers.

When a pawn reaches the last row, it turns to a queen immediately and the queen can move and any spaces diagonally.

I think the second "and" was supposed to be an "in". I would actually suggest rephrasing the sentence to "When a pawn reaches the last row, it turns into a queen immediately and can move any number of spaces diagonally."

Sorry if posting in the wrong place.

I think it's best we forget that idea ever happened

ketchuplover: How would you measure an hour of access? This is not a real time site, you can open a game, spend 2 hours thinking of the next move, then click Submit and log out. Was it 2 hours of access or just 2 minutes of server time?

I too need to aplogise for timing out and not being omline, This is due to a combination of connection problems and Ciminod's illnesses which required round the clock care (some of you know what happened to him ) sorry to all those I timed out on it was unavoidable.

Oh and Speachless ~I agree there should be more people like you in the World.

BGBedlam:

badgerboy78: Hey, don't worry - we won!

My most sincere apologies to those who I timed out with. I just got my computer back after 5 days in the shop.

ellieoop: thank you

there needs to be more people like you in this world. you're doing a wonderful,thing.

Hrqls: Thank you, the thankfulness of refugees and political activists of presevo was a great motivation, thank you :-) happy to be at my warm home again ...

speachless: you do a great job! even when its not your job :)
i hope you also get some rewards from the thankfulness of the refugees ..

awesome: if you might not like nectarines, try to walk for 400 miles under the rain wit 30 kilo bagages and kids, maybe without socks and flipflops at around 10 degrees ... like here, than you might consider to like peaches AND necTARINES... while you wait to get help from institutions and eu/bruessel yOU COULD try to laugh...might help :-) i stop chatting and thx for your humor...

when my market is peachless I settle for nectarines

ThunderGr: Thank you for your solidarity. It was actually not so funny to loose over 200 games by time out. And as the work here was very intense on a emotional point of view (always need to be in control, to not show weakness infront of 1000 people asking us 5 people in charge (me and some of youth for refugees, presheva) for food, infos and medical assistance was so difficult, that i thought too if i explane, maybe fencer would make an exception for at least 1 day. i decided i just accept that.. and i'm so hell of happy, that i leave this place to recover my emotions at my home country... sorry for sharing all of those private things, i thought it is necessary to proove i'm not telling lies. (ip adress could show that i changed the country) but anyway, i think i'm just totally emotional at the moment and need just to go back.. 1 or 2 days ago (lost the time feeling) we had again the mandate to accompany over 3 thousand refugees coming by feet on rainy days etc. familys little children, it was rainy and the registration camp was overfloghted by rain. people stand in the rain, after walking illegaly through the near borders.... so when police stoped as to reach the camp, cause too many refugees it escalated to a mass panic... i went in the middle trying to calm down the crowd, while my 4 team member tried to help the police, but they just leaved the place (corrupted state)... etc. etc. etc. so sorry for being so emotional, it was maybe a mistake... people here that plays since some years against me maybe now me as some kind of people that is speechless (speachless is written wrongly i know). so i think my time outs are what they are... thx and looking forward to play (the situation with the mass panic and agressions between some of the refugees is on radio television of serbia to see, rts) so again, sorry for my emotions, i'm maybe not anymore in control of my coolness and speechless way :-) thanks for understanding and just forget what i wrote

speachless: It is my opinion that the clock on a site like this serves as a means to prevent abuse and mischief by players with no spirit of sportsmanship. The main goal is to provide the most entertaining way to spend your time by playing games. The rules exist to provide this and exceptions to the rules are always welcome by everyone in the spirit of enjoying the games. When a player like you, which has so many games at a high level of quality, interest and entertainment gets into such a rare situation as this one, I think it is imperative for the administrator to provide the means to secure the entertainment of all players involved. Very few players are in this for vain points and ratings. I think that I speak for the vast majority when I say that, in this specific occurrence, Fencer should had suspended the timer globally for a day, so that the entertainment of the players involved in these games would be preserved, rather than giving the excuse of "fairness" for not doing so. If a player had a problem with that, he/she could request the time forfeit specifically for his/her games and be done with it.
I, for one, am really disappointed for winning our game on time like this. Being indifferent is one thing, being in such a situation and requesting an exception is another.

I am not saying it is the end of the world or anything, I just feel that it is unacceptable to miss the spirit of the rules in favor of the letter of them.

ThunderGr: no problem, i really can understand that and fencer was really nice by offering vacation days, which i don-t need, it was only concerning fischer clock games *hundreds of them ... its a fair offer of fencer and at the end of the day, there are only points im loosing... in front of this tragedy im seing here every day, i feel like its not the end of the day.. .i appreciate fencers offer really much, thank you for your supporting word Thunder Gr

moistfinger: hi, i have no problem with vacation days... i have loooots of games with fischer clock set :-))) so no vacation days are allowed :-)))) no problem, i really can live with that now, i have no joice :-) and at the end of the day it is fair to all other brainking players, if i get time out...