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What has happened to this site today? BK sever is timing me out.Pages are loaded crooked.It was working fine then BANG.That what it use to do year,s ago
Fencer:Interesting. Looks like the Western US is not well served. I wonder why they didn't include major cities on the West Coast (LA, San Francisco) in their list. Or Las Vegas, for that matter.
Artful Dodger: I know that Internet Explorer is a very strange piece of software because sometimes it does not show any page at all and just gets frozen (not only with BrainKing but any other page I try). I hope that the version 8 will become more stable but until then, I really don't recommend to use this browser unless you have no other choice. Google Chrome is definitely the fastest one, at the moment.
Fencer:Only once in a while are things slow for me. Mostly they are very fast. So fast that I have to revert back to dial up just to keep up! ;) j/k
I'll say this. I use Explorer when I'm at work and that browser is horrible on BK. Firefox is great and people who are having trouble but insist on using Explorer are missing out. Firefox is the way to go. That is the FIRST thing folks should do. Chrome is fast too but I prefer FireFox.
BadBoy7: That's not true. I've made a speed test using an independent service and it proves that the connection is very fast from some places in USA, while it is significantly slower from other locations. Which means that the site is OK and the problem is with your ISP line to Europe or something like that.
Just to be more precise: Philadephia, Orlando or Washington show less than 1 second response (actually the average time is about half a second) and two other places seem to have a connectivity problem because their response times exceed 4 seconds. This is just an example, the test cannot cover all places around the world, of course.
This reply does not mean that nobody has a problem to get to BrainKing but it should be a recommendation to everyone who thinks that to blame BrainKing is always the right thing to do. Please don't do it (especially at public boards) if you cannot make a qualified evaluation of the situation. Thank you.
anyone else noticing multiple links to the same board under their favorites list? The World of Arts board shows up 4 times in my list.. if I try to remove anyone of them it takes them all away and the Stories board takes over the lead with multi links.. I suppose it would happen with any board which appeared last in my list..
BadBoy7: I've always had problems with the javascript stuff on this site, but haven't had a problem lately - but then again, I have a lot of stuff turned off in my settings.
You can also turn off the Dragon - I think it is the "Enable style animations" in settings - uncheck that. Turning that off helped me A LOT - I could not even play on the site if I was wanting to do anything else with my pc like watch a movie.... BrainKing just took all the processing time away from everything else.... but once I turned off that dragon, I haven't had any issues since.
alanback: all I know is it has to be something wrong cause all the other sites i play in work fine but here it is taking forever to load the site then the games and i am in the usa and I talked to a friend who is in the UK and she says its slow too the last few days not to mention the darn dragon that locks up from time to time and makes a black page so i have to reload it..something is definately wrong here
"GERRY": The game list at least tripled since then ;) ;) ;)
Here are my two cents. The vacation system should stay the way it is, with one exception. We Black Rooks have an advantage never renewing our membership, but, as any other busy man, there should be a manner possible to set a string for vacation (for have a real vacation, for instance). I think the number of autovacation days should be limited. The rest of the vacation days should be planned (and, also, no vacation if you plan the days too short). Of course, that should not solve te problem, but makes the turtles think.
By the way, I've got 13 vacation days left. 2 are used as autovacation and the rest is planned as holiday in August.
Sujet: Re: If you renew a membership, you get only 10 additional vacation days. (10 days max - no matter if you renew 1 or 20 memberships)
Snoopy: It can't be a bug, because recently Fencer attested that it isn't possible. Who am I to disagree with the boss? (BTW you also need to count the ones that are already set)
Sujet: Re: If you renew a membership, you get only 10 additional vacation days. (10 days max - no matter if you renew 1 or 20 memberships)
__chess__: wow thanks for the offer but i dont need any at the moment which leads me to ask how on earth did you get 40 days has a pawn is there a bug or something
Sujet: Re: If you renew a membership, you get only 10 additional vacation days. (10 days max - no matter if you renew 1 or 20 memberships)
Artful Dodger: yes i understand that and i agree in principal that vacation days are long overdue an update but my main concern is why punish everyone cause 2 or 3 ppl abuse them
it will certainly mean less money for Fencer ie i wont be creating anymore prize tournaments the one lil perk i get from doing these is my vacation days back if i remember to ask but i don't abuse them i make at least 500 moves every day i don't keep people waiting on purpose to end tournaments there must be a way round this where genuine ppl who love this site are not hurt by the few abusers
Sujet: Re: If you renew a membership, you get only 10 additional vacation days. (10 days max - no matter if you renew 1 or 20 memberships)
Snoopy: The whole idea is to eliminate any potential for abuse. It has to apply to everyone fairly. Otherwise we have to judge the motives of others and no one can do that fairly. 45 days should be enough time for yearly vacations.
Sujet: If you renew a membership, you get only 10 additional vacation days. (10 days max - no matter if you renew 1 or 20 memberships)
coan.net: I could live with this as well. That would equal 45 days which is what a black rook gets. I also would add no "sharing" or "giving away" days etc. Treat vacation days like money in a bank account. when it's gone, it's gone. (until next payday which is a year away!) ;)
1. The vacation days you get is the amount you get all year.
2. If you renew a membership, you get only 10 additional vacation days. (10 days max - no matter if you renew 1 or 20 memberships)
3. You can "reset" your vacation days only once a year - AFTER June 15th of the year. (this way hopefully someone won't string vacations days along for 4 months in a row)
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