Q Should a time out effect ratings? Reason I ask is a game I was winning (my opinion only lol) was allowed to time out by my opposition. This wasn't credited as a win or loss. Is this always the case, cause it seems unfair in allowing anybody to time out as opossed the losing the game.

Harley, you singing the time warp song again?

Radiant, I thought your rating was 2333.. ;-)

Fencer, my rating used to be 1333. Can you please restore that for me as well, concerning Game ID 93890?

Cheers :-)

The ratings aren't saved...if you want your rating restored, you have to know what it was for Fencer to change it :-)

Of course I should say: "Shouldn´t I get more BKR now?" Sorry for the confusion :-)

Thanks Fencer, but could you also check out the ratings? I have still the same ratings as when lost the game.. shouldn´t I get more ratings now?

Done.

Hi Fencer,

can you please check out the above Game ID? I won a tourny game against panda and finished it last night. Then today I received a message, that panda won. Could you please reset that game into my advantage? Sorry, panda :-) I know i didn´t win the tourny, but I can use the BKR ratings ;o)

Thanks for your help, Fencer,
~*Radiant 36:9*~

I just found the Poetry board,,,thanks Harley :)

It is brilliant but on the wrong DB, you see (hehe). LOL

Thats great GrassHopper! But this isn't the poetry board! Click on 'discussion boards' in your menu, and you'll see a list there of all the boards... 'poetry' board is listed there :o)

Ode to a Data Base.....

"Here we have a data base,,,
that erases all the moves we make...
We try again, again, & again,,
& then we Win again, & Again..."
(My attempt at poetry......) :)

For budding poets and poet-lovers alike there's a brand new DB here on BK for just that purpose. I'm certain there is talent here just waiting to burst out of the woodwork so don't hesitate to enrich all of our lives with your original stuff and/or your favorites. The board awaits your creative touch. Enjoy.

P.S. Thank you Fencer!!! :o)

Is that legal? Sounds rude to me.

Database deamon only decided to restart itself. Uh-oh. Liquid is tuning its parameters.

yes twice in three days ;( also when you get the games back in games like backgammon it gives you differnt dices , so we cant even stick to the same moves ;(

Has something just happened to the site again in the last 5 mins. I have just had games come back that i have moved in already, messages return that were deleted & tournaments finishing for a second time ????

Fencer, have we just had another little 'time jump'?! This is a bit like being in Dr Who's tardis!! :oD

Bernice, you should be able to pay for 6 months membership already. On the paid membership page, next to each type of membership you should have the option to purchase 6 months or 12 months?

Please don't growl moi :) hehehehe
but I thought I would try and pay for a 6 months subscription in 2 lots...your payment "thingy" only gives an option of a ONE YEAR purchase :(
At nearly $50 australian this is too much for me
can you suggest another way of doing this...
Im sorry to be a nuisance...but 6 months paid in 2 lots would be good for me :)
If this is too much trouble then please ignore me and I will just have to let my "prize" subscription run out :( :( :(

AND HAHAHAHAHAHA @ bumble....poor Fencer :(

Sorry, Fencer. You had a few hours off yesterday. That WAS your vacation! :)

I've turned off the database replication, no other "phantom" data storing should happen again. Bloody computers! I need a vacation.

Hold on. I don't know what happened, I wasn't here during yesterday's night. I'll check it.

I have played games over today as well... But I thought I was losing my mind today... (Nothing unusual)..... lol :)

You know I was wondering about that also awhile back. There are plenty of regular tournament, and some people call their tournaments "Championship", but I think it would be cool to have anouther OFFICIAL BrainKing tournament - hopefully get some of the best to enter the tournament. (Possible have about a month to sign up so pawns will have some time to get through current tournaments before it starts)

Hey Fencer - want to start another "Official" tournament? :-)

Will there be the 2nd Official BrainKing.com Tournament anytime soon?

it's the 2nd time that it happened since I've been here ... ~*~

yes an explanation would be nice , not only moves was lost i for one had sent invites out and had to try and remember who accepted them after they had vanished , (is this likely to keep happening ?)

Fencer any explanation on why our moves from today are gone and we lost them all and have to redo most of this mornings moves? What Happened?

LOL @ BBW, yip I guess that would just about do it!!

Easy way to be removed from this site: Stop putting "brainking.com" in your web browsers address bar! :-)

I wouldn't worry to much, dogdog, we're all in the same boat, I certainly can't remember all my moves, even those I just did tonight! If my opponents can remember and its important to them, then I would hope they will prompt me.
Jason, all my games seem ok loading in, have you tried leaving the site all together then coming back on? Maybe it just needs a kind of big refresh?!

well i have games that wont even load up properly (things missing from boards )

Thanks for the reply harley,

I lost two days of games about a week or so ago and they have never come back so i guess these will be lost as well. i wish i could remember all the moves i made, but i'm way toooooo old for that. i just hope the other players understand that and don't blow a fuse or two if i make different moves than i did this morning.

Uuum, not necessarily, dogdog. This has happened once before and unfortunately the games could not be put back. Hopefully your opponents will be good sports and do the same moves as has already been made.

:o) I could be wrong too, I only have 41 games at the moment so it doesn't affect me so much!
I'm sure there will be a note about it on the main page when Fencer comes on again. There was last time. :oD

OK, i just looked at my games and the moves i made up till about 8:30 AM CST are still there but all the moves i made after that time are gone and i made a -lot- of moves. so i guess they'll be put back, right?

ha maybe it was once , i have too much deja vous going on in my head trying to work out what i lost lol

Twice? Its only happened once that I know of?

it appears that twice today i have wasted my time , things dissapearing or reapearing ,hmmm that cant be a server going down twice in one day ?? not amused

I pity those players that appear at the top of my screen every day with 870 moves etc!!

Has it been reset from that long ago?! Ah well, at least the favourite boards are fixed! :oD

Me too, i just lost all the moves i had made for the morning and all my games have been reset back to the way i left them last night. what's up with that??

Yes, it seems things have been reset from about half an hour ago? Some messages have disappeared from this board too (which I did not delete!).

i just got some games back from this morning that i already played...

Thanks, Niki, you're quite right, I haven't deleted any message, and on the rare occasions I do have to delete one I always tell the person concerned why I deleted it.

0x0, there is no way to 'be removed' from this site, you simply don't visit any more if you're not happy here.
I'm not sure why your email address wouldnt be valid any more, unless you've changed your usual email address, in which case its just as Niki says, change it in your profile. You can also change your username there.
If there is anything else I can help with then please let me know, but I'm not quite sure what the problem is?

or change your email address in your profile ? (top of page.. my profile (edit))

Could come back under a different user ID or sommat i suppose ?

how come ? 'Cos if there's something particular about the site that you don't like, it's worth mentioning it.. you may not be the only one .. and something might get done about it :)