MadMonkey: i think there was a message about it some time ago .. i think it was me who asked for the change then :)

in real life teams are also rated by their perfomance and not by their current players .. i think it would be logical for brainking to have a similar system .. this way there can be team rankings as well (and not just ratings) .. so we can have a list of teams and how they are doing compared to each other .. in the past there was only a list of signed in teams in team tournaments .. now there is a list which can always be viewed and which is indepenend of the players in the team

but i am not sure yet if its implemented that way .. as i said i didnt check it yet :)

WellyWales: i dont know exactly what you mean .. but i guess its a bug you report ? maybe someone else reported it in the bug tracker already .. if it isnt there yet you can best report it there

you can also try to press ctrl-F5 to refresh your page and see if the links work correctly then .. on my old computer my cache sometimes messes up the links

i think the team bkr works the same as a personal bkr .. tme team itself plays matches against other teams and from that gets its bkr points .. just like you would get bkr points from playing matches with other players

i never checked this though :)

Jim Dandy: what i am doing is posting links which fencer posted in his blog .. but which some people might not have noticed because not everyone reads his blog

this last link points to a certain adware which some players have on their computer .. this could be deduced from the statistics from this site (it showed the name of the adware in their user agent) .. read the article at the link or fencers blog at brainking.info for more information about it

i dont know what caused the drop in speed for those people (somehow the speed didnt drop for me) so i dont know if any solution might be a long term solution

at the very least its something that can be tried and by trying you can find out if its a longterm solution or none at all

pauloaguia: thats true .. maybe BrainKing was already on the edge of being slow though with all those scripts/queries/whatevers running and this adware just pushed it over the edge for some people

when you are having speed problems please check Fencers last blog entry

it tells you about FunWebProducts which might have an influence on your speed

to check if you have that piece of adware enter the following line in your address bar of your browser :

javascript:alert(navigator.userAgent)

a popup will appear, if it contains the word FunWebProducts then you should look at the page of the bottom of this message for more information

http://www.liamdelahunty.com/tips/fun_web_products.php

TarantinoFan: not sure about liquid being a factor in speed .. but i can imagine that it would have some influence .. he wont be downloading the stats all the time though .. i guess thats an occasional action (about once a year?) so it should be in effect now

TarantinoFan: as said before there are more parts than BrainKing and the users computer .. there is a whole route in between

somewhere down i read that nothing was done about the slow connections .. thats not true : a minimal version of BrainKing has been put online to increase the connection speed for those who have problems

the last 4 posts from dicepro and Jim Dandy have been moved to General Chat

baddessi: the part of the pages that load slowest for me is the list of fellowships (i have quite a long list) and my list of favourite boards (quite some in there as well)

but maybe this just like to be the slowest part because its loaded as last

when i playing my games those parts arent shown so i it loads much faster (i dont go to the main page in between my moves in every game)

srnity: dont worry about being banned too fast .. especially not for your own opinion

but please try to be on topic and use another board if you want to discuss something else ;)

Rose: i certainly can image your frustration
i also know some people who have a slow connection with brainking are on fast computers and high speed providers

so it isnt their computer

i also know some people who dont have problems .. so it doesnt seem to be the brainking server

it must be somewhere in between ... the point is though .. we dont know where .. if we would know some common characteristics of the people who have a slow connection to brainking and another set of common characteristics of people who dont have problems .. then we might be able to sort it out

my knowledge of the routing tables is too little to know if everyone from the usa follows the same route towards brainking (some people from the usa have problems, others dont)

i hope we can sometime find the problem .. but i am not sure wether fencer can do something about it other than relocate or use another line

jryden: i ignored the sarcasm and hoped my point was clear as well ;)

TarantinoFan: i also use the no fonts settings

maybe someone can setup a poll somewhere (i think you can do it at yahoo or maybe even at facebook?) to ask people wether bk is fast or not for them and wether they use external stylesheets or a standard one or the no fonts

btw yesterday bk slowed down a bit at the end of the evening, but not 'slow' yet ... just 'not fast' .. hotmail and hyves were slow though .. slower than bk .. so i guess it was my connection at that time :)

jryden: please post it on the general chat board

AbigailII: true relocating might solve something. but is it worth the cost and trouble ? the same as the other type of line which fencer mentioned in a previous post .. is it worth the money .. it would mean that the membership fees would have to increase even more

if you have an idea to solve things its always best to send a message directly to the person who can do something about it .. if you want a discussion about it (which has been going on for quite some time now and getting stalled) then you use a public board

Andersp: i didnt see that post about the expensive line but i havent read all post the last 3 weeks (as i was on vacation and didnt get online) ... maybe its too expensive for the money brainking is generating .. if thats the case then the membership fees would have to increase more to be able to use that line ... (i remember 1 post about an expensive line, but that was about direct lines from the brainking server to each user :))

i know some people who dont have connection problems, and some who do .. if thats the case then it cant be the brainking server

(the lines are gone now, thanks :))

Andersp: i wonder why you used to many white lines in your message

i agree that fencer is not always that diplomatic in his answers, i hope you wont apply that same characteristic on me though

the problem with the connection speed, is that not everyone has the same problem .... i am from the netherlands and dont have that much problems with the speed, redfrog is from the usa and doesnt have any problems, fencer says he doesnt have any problems .. the only difference between the users who do have problems and those who dont have must be the route by which the connection goes ... that route is something in which fencer doesnt have any influence and which he cant 'fix'

this has been said more than once, it even appeared as a blog on brainking.info ... it would be nice if that topic would come to an end .. or if there is some miraculous solution if someone would post it somewhere (probably the computer board as it might be quite technical)

some people do like the extra features, thats why he adds them (but the ones who do like them are silent while the ones who dont like it are quite loud)

the only rule for this board is to be on topic (and to be nice and have some netiquette)

(edited because i forgot a word 'not' :))

AbigailII: lol ok .. i guess i will have to change the description

as i read it as it is right now i thought it was clear that the subjects on this board are brainking itself, its structure, features and future which i think to be the topic of this board

i will think of another description .. please give me a week time :)

Andersp: i dont know which post by redfrog you mean, if he posted on how many points in a game he scored then it was definetly off topic and should not have been posted here

this board is about brainking and its future .. so not only its future (but i think you didnt mean only its future)

my agreement with jasons emoticon was because discussing the oneliners just multiply the oneliners into many posts making it multiple-post-one-liners

your post itself wasnt offtopic though, i should have clarified that, sorry

i hope i am not using double standards, if you think i do please send me a pm
once in a while there was a user (i dont think he is fluent in english) posted the standings in a tournament, he did this about once a month .. it was off topic, but as it always remained to be 1 post and didnt lead to a real off topic discussion i led that one go by .. some weeks ago he posted 2 posts about a tournament though and i directed him to the tournament board.
thats where i try to draw a line .. when a (series of) post(s) is about to clutter the board and hiding the on topic posts into off topic ones .. then its time to do something .. an occasional off topic (single) post might slip through though as its often more confusing to remove/redirect the off topic one that to let that single 1 remain

if you want to discuss the modding or have tips/ideas please dont hesitate to send me a pm .. i am always eager to learn (but also might have my own opinion ;))

Andersp: i agree with both your points at most times

the thing to do about the oneliners destructing a discussion is to ignore them or let a mod take care of them (and if no mod does take care then send a pm to the mod of the board) .. at least dont react to it and multiply the onelines into many-posts

the emoticon from jason was appropriate though .. he could also have stated his post in a several lines, but this 1 emoticon serves a better purpose by keeping the board on its intention

TarantinoFan: please take this to another board

rabbitoid: :) thanks for your support :)
but please lets concentrate on brainking and not the spammers ;)

at the moment no players are hidden or banned on this board

TarantinoFan: there were 2 questions/comments on the last couple of pages :
- the connection to brainking is bad for some users
- badessi stopped being a comod on this board

for problems with the connection please read the blog entry at brainking.info :
http://brainking.info/archives/403-The-world-of-delay-and-waiting.html

about badessi and her reasons to stop being a comod of this board, she posted her own message explaining everything
some people tried to make it sound like something else though and they continued in that line .. from that lead some more post which were not related to brainking at all anymore .. of course those messages can be fun and wont be censored .. but please post them at the appropriate board, some people like to come to this board and get info about brainking itself without all other posts thrown into as well .. if they want to read the other posts they can go to the general chat or some other dedicated boards

alanback: well coan.net already mentioned it .. but a bit cryptic as he said he had his weekend set to tuesday :)

i always switch my weekend to the days most profitable before i leave on a vacation (this vacation sat. and sun. are the best days for me as i leave early sunday morning and come back on sunday

i always let automatic vacation take care of the first few days of my absence (as my opponent might not have moved .. and that way i save some vacation days :))

Fencer: it is in my favourite boards now .. dont know what went wrong yesterday .. maybe it was my cache (although i never had that problem with firefox) ... it kept giving me the link 'add this board to your favourites' and didnt switch to 'remove this board from your favourites' .. the board didnt show up in my list of favourites either

ah well .. maybe i should have done a manual refresh .. i dont think i tried that :)

its working now .. thats the good thing! :)

MadMonkey: you could set your weekend to tuesday and wednesday .. that way christmas andthe 1st of january would be covered

personally i think 35 vacation days per year are more than enough .. i even am not in favor of people buying extra vacation days .. although its a good income for brainking it also favors the rich people which unbalances the world enough already :)

it would be a good habit to set christmas as a vacation day at the start of the year already

maybe its a good idea to turn of automatic vacation days .. that way you wont use a whole vacation day to prevent 1 single game from timing out and you might have more days spare at the end of the year which can be used to prevent more games from timing out

as everyone said we had 30 vacation days per year, then christmas became an ordinary day and we got 5 extra vacation days per year .. so in fact we got 3 more days per year (i think)

if we go with fixed holidays again then i want 1 for my birthday as well and for queensday .. as i cant play on those days either :)

Fencer: i cant add the interview board to my favourite boards .. is this board something special ?

Kunoichi: we all made that mistake when we became rooks ... just like dog who manage open the closet which holds their food .. the first time they will gulp everything inside and be sick for a couple of days :)

i also know that i join too many new games and tournaments when i come back from a vacation .. i am bad at self control sometimes :)

there is no other option than playing them, letting them time out, resigning them, or arranging a draw with your opponents :)

hoky: please post messages about tournaments on the tournament board ... there it will be read by anyone who is looking for a tournament :)

Andersp: the amount of snoopy's games is a left over from going for the top spot in 'moves per day'

its an insane race ... and this is the left over .. the number of finished games is just a side effect .. its an awkward list at all as someone who is here longer will have more games finished (on average)

i might feel sorry for the opponents though as they might want to play a nice game and now have a win by timeout

66% is a great target .. mine as well .. was there .. not anymore though i think

my 2 important lists from the statistics are win/loss ratio (66.6666% is the goal :)) and average bkr (2000 was the goal, now it is 1900 for more games :))

MadMonkey: last week the timeouts were turned on again and the timesof the game have been reset .. so it was like each opponnent made a move in each game at the same time .. if they werent online since then and the timeout per move were the same for those games then the timeout messages would arrive at the same time as well

Fencer: lol .. thats what i call risc calculation :)
(hmm probably another term in english ;))

Fencer: you had a real harddisk crash ? had to recover the data from it ?
dont have any redundancy ? (however it is spelled)

rod03801: yep i think you are correct :)

some people (including me) asked for random teams as it seemed a nice addition to the team of single game types .. this would make it possible to create team tournaments in which the teams would play random games .. fun! ;)

it was suggested this to fencer only a few weeks ago .. so i was positively amazed that it was in the progress of being implemented already .. its great when a site owner listens to suggestions from its members and implements some of them
(some of my suggestions havent been implemented, its up to fencer to decide what would be a nice addition :))

madmonkey found the random teams by accident and shared it on this board .. which is a nice thing to do .. that way the random team isnt only accessable for a few members, but every fellowship can create his random team
(go to a team of your fellowship and in the url change the number of the team to 255 .. you can see which number when you compare the urls of 2 teams of the same fellowships) .. i joined a random team as well .. after i read madmonkeys post (in which he explained how to do it)

the random teams are still in the progress of being created though and isnt completely active yet .. thats why fencer probably didnt announce it in public yet

any member is free to explore the site .. and it would be nice if (s)he finds anything (s)he would post it on a board (if its a bug it would be best to post it in the bug tracker) if its something which can be abues dont post it on a public board though but send in a pm .. if its something nice (like this random teams .. which gives a little insight in the future :)) .. post it here (or somewhere else)

i think its great that this site is still developing and new things are being added

alanback: thanks :)

Tulip: the problem is that it works for most people
it doesnt work for some people

if it would have been a problem with the site then it should work with noone

if you cant connect to the site via the brainking.com or similar urls but you can connect to the site via the ip adres 89.187.130.22 then its a problem with your ISP which hasnt been updated

the site is working for me (except sunday 28 october) when the harddisk failed. at that time everyone had problems connecting to the site so it was clear that it was a problem with the site

anyone correct me if i am wrong

TarantinoFan: its annoying that the site isnt accessable ... its not annoying when its mention on a board and brought to fencers attention ... it doesnt have to be brought to his attention by everyone though .. one or 2 posts mentioning it would be enough ..

if worded as if to mention it to him, you might get a response, if worded with an attack/insult/.. in the post as well .. then its likely to be ignored or sarcastically answered

i think its always best to post a building non-destructive message, that way there will be a faster response and better response as well

usually the site can be accessed perfectly by me, but not this weekend (i was away for 4 days, came back on sunday, and the connection to the site was a mess) .. this was caused by a failing harddisk though which shouldnt happen too often :)

Czuch: report it in the bug tracker with the mention of the time at which it occured and which board

Czuch: it could be that someone edited a message you already read (i think that is counted as a new message for the red number, but doesnt show as new when you read the board)

or that a mod or glob deleted one of the new messages

AbigailII: ah ok ... i know too little about that ... too bad .. i hoped i had a small escape in case .nl was inaccessable :)

pauloaguia: true ... i remembered again how to lookup an ip address :

http://www.who.is/whois-nl/ip-address/brainking.nl/
http://www.who.is/whois-com/ip-address/brainking.com/

AbigailII: i wondered if they would have a different ip address .. if they could be routed differently .. but i know too little about that

rod03801: ah ok ... brainking.nl wasnt accesible .. but brainking.com was ... and then brainking.com wasnt either

is there a difference between brainking.nl and brainking.com ? do they point do different ips ?

is there a difference betwen http://brainking.com and http://brainking.nl ?
i just couldnt connecto to the .nl one .. but i am connected to .com now

Fencer: nice split! could the same be done for the pond page as well ? i recently joined a couple of rain ponds but had to go through all fellowships to find them :)

(and another point of interest : what are your thoughts about team tournaments of random game types (of all games) ? :))

i love random games!

i would love a random game rating/ranking as well .. but only for those random games where all games from this site are possible .. not just a subset

this rating could be established by team tournaments of random game types (we need a random team for that :)), by normal random tournaments (which we already have), and by personal matches (of more than 1 game, about 10?) of random games

it would rock! :)

(fencer what are your thoughts ? ;))

is it possible to have team tournaments with random game types ?

is it possible to have a team for random games ? ;)

and something different : it might be fun to challenge a singple player to a match of 10 games, where the game types are random :)

lambudai: please send this message to fencer, he can look into it a bit further and take action if needed

lets not start a whole series of posts about this ;)