MadMonkey: For about 2 hours this morning, I couldn't access the site, using the regular brainking.com address. However, brainking.cz worked without any sign of trouble.

MadMonkey: Hey, take it easy man! It's just games, nothing serious, huh?

Furthermore, there was no downtime of the site itself and I saw about 100 online users all the time (today). Unfortunately we cannot be responsible for a DNS servers malfunction which caused a temporary non-existence of brainking.com domain in several parts of world. However, it was resolved in 3 or 4 hours, so it was really not a big issue.

Anyway, in case it happens again (which should not), try to use 81.91.83.6 instead of brainking.com. IP address should always work.

MadMonkey: it only matters if it happens in Prague

MadMonkey: I couldn't the site for a short time either. But I don't feel sorry for timed out games; don't let your clock run down that much while you've used all your vacation days.

I also couldn’t access this site for an hour or two this morning. Perhaps it only affected certain locations? The 3 of us reporting this are all from England.

MadMonkey: i had the same problem this morning no idea for how long but when i got in
i thought has noone else had mentioned it must of been a fault at my end

well, i have a question ?

I could not get on here today as i kept getting site not available (for just over an hour) !!

Once it got to 9.45 i had to go to a funeral, now i get back rom the funeral and there is no sign of anything being wrong, yet of course i have timed out on lots of games.

I can not beleive i have been the only one with problems.....all oother sites were fine, including brainking.info etc...

Not happy !!

Snoopy: Thanks Snoopy just didn't go down far enough when I posted. LOL

skipinnz: read about 8 posts down

I have noticed that when I go to my profile and look at finished games it no longer shows the last ten games, even though the heading is there. Anybody know anything about this?

rabbitoid: ROFL.

Pedro Martínez: yea, I see that now, but when I asked it was during a 24 hour bonus period. Mostly I just got confused when the clock was past the time that the bonus was supposed to end and the bonus light was still on. I think it has like a minute lag time.

nodnarbo: You can easily tell yourself. The current time should be within the interval shown when you hover the mouse pointer over the light bulb. If that is the case, the time is displayed in your time zone, and if not, it's the BK time (unless you're in the same time zone as Prague, of course). :)

Bernice: This is, of course, valid only for those users who entered their own country and not Upper Nonsensstan, just to have a pretty flag :)

nodnarbo: I believe it is YOUR local time zone.

when you mouse over the bonus code and it tells you how long it will be active for, is that in BK time zone or converted to my local time zone?

furbster: Of course you can Furby...........if you know a sad English guy scrimping and scrapping for membership

Pedro Martínez: Thanks, never bother looking there these days

MadMonkey: http://brainking.com/cz/ReadBug?bgi=1972

When you look at a profile and goto finished games, it used to show you the last 10 games finished, in fact it still says it does.....why now does it not display anything

furbster: Yes, they can do it.

One of the achievment awards is a black rook (if you gain all the bonus colour codes). I was just wondering if a black rook 'achieves' this, do they get to donate their black rook to another user?

I used to pay by PayPal all the time. It was fast and easy. So, to test this Alert Pay, I set up an account (took less than ten minutes, picked a pawn from the registry, and sponsored him to see how quickly the transaction would take. It took about 30 seconds. I just checked and he's a bishop. so....IMO, Alert Pay is just as easy as PayPal. Maybe easier. It doesn't work as easily with bank transfer of funds (due to transfer fees) but they take credit cards, money orders (no fee) and checks (no fee). Looks like a good alternative to Paypal.

Stingette: I don't understand why AlertPay would be a challenge. I have used it, and it works exactly like PayPal, from my experience.

Fencer: Sorry, I don't see that option, but that's the same as I mean
But I see just 3 options
But I don't want to be involved, I paid my membership and own a creditcard, no problems at all

Bernice: That's not what I was asking about. Read again please.

Gouwe gozer: "Wire transfer (international)" is the 4th option.

Fencer: Well, what I mean is that people can book money straight to your bankaccount. As far as I can see it's now only possible by using another company, and often you pay (extra) money for that, but not always.
I see 3 ways to pay money:
1. Wire transfer - only possible for people living in the Czech Republic.
2. MoneyBookers
3. Alertpay-account or creditcard

Now you can add a 4th way of payment: straight from my bank to your bankaccount and doing by myself. You can do it online and totally free in the EU.
The only extra thing is that people have to know the IBAN code and SWIFT code of your bank, but you can add that in the description how to pay.

In this way you use no companies that can freeze your account, people must add their nickname, but they have to do that now too. Maybe you want a separate bankaccount for this payments, that's why I said to open an extra bankaccount, but that's up to you ofcourse and probably not necessary if you have already several as you say.

If you want to try it send me a message

Fencer: well.....I purchase off the internet products/"stuff" at least once a week....each and every one is paid for using paypal...never a problem....as I said you are the only one I've heard of...

Bernice: How many merchants with no PayPal problems you actually know? Of course, since their policy is to attracts as many customers as possible, people who only pay usually don't have any issues.

Gouwe gozer: Well, I already have a couple of bank accounts and BrainKing has a wire transfer option. Or do you mean something else?

Stingette: Why should it be a "challenge"? Since I opened an AlertPay account, I accepted almost 500 payments and nobody ever complained about any problems or complications.
I cannot bring back PayPal because, unfortunately, it turned out to be the worst option for merchants (although it might look like the best option for customers). There is no point to accept payments if they can freeze your account anytime and for any reason. Which means, you would be able to pay but I won't be able to get the real money.

Bernice: but your not running a site so its properly alot different from actually just using paypal to pay for something

Stingette: you've got NO HOPE him bringing back paypal...it is unfortunate as he is the only one I have heard of having problems, but then I guess not everyone owns a gaming site.....

Stingette:
Yes, I heard more people complaining about it But as we know/read is Paypal not an option.
Not myself, I paid already in advance I paid a few weeks ago for an English member here and used my creditcard, no problem at all
But not everyone like creditcards or owns one.
Maybe it's an idea for Fencer to open a (separate or extra?) bankaccount?? I guess it's today very easy for everybody to send money online from your own bankaccount to another one anywhere in the world. I think it solves this problem for many people, or do I overlook something?

Fencer:

I don't mean to whine, but please bring back Paypal!

I found it more convenient and easier to access when renewing or buying a BK membership. I won't be able to renew my current Rook membership as I've discovered the other methods of payment you've listed proves a challenge for me to use. It's disappointing that you won't accept Paypal on BK anymore.

Does anyone else feel the same about this subject/issue?

MadMonkey: Thanks! I knew they had one, but forgot how to access it.

rabbitoid: Yes, i agree, that can be a pain of Facebook

They do try to cram a lot on a page......... incidently if anyone has trouble with page loading on Facebook, you could always try Facebook Lite

It is limited to what you can do though

MadMonkey: I hope not, I'd hate to play on brainking with facebook's page loading time.

This time next year (we hope), or soon after, hopefully the new BrainKing will be just as popular

Facebook reveals its crazy usage figures. - While speaking to journalists in the UK, Facebook have revealed some truly insane usage statistics.

we'll see

Bwild: Fellowships were created for the purpose of team matches, but so many are there for discussion only. That doesn't mean it's a bad thing, Fencer just wants to separate them into 2 categories: those for chat and discussion (groups), and those for team matches (fellowships).

Bwild: It didn't say Fellowships would be enhanced or dropped. YOU asked if fellowships were going to be dropped.

I told you my impression of what the Blog was saying, and Fencer seems to have agreed that I was correct.

So, NO fellowships are not being dropped.

rod03801: impression? all I read is the drawbacks of fellowships,hence giving the impression they are soon to be gone...where did it say fellowships would be enhanced or dropped?

AbigailII: paypal does the same thing! alertpay is slow...but does work. I hope it catches on, since the only place I've seen it is here, and its not likely I will be using it at this site ever again.

rod03801: I could not explain it better myself.

Bwild: I could be wrong, but I got the impression there would still be fellowships, but there would be an additional "product" where people that just wanted to have a "club" for discussions, could do so. (Since SO many fellowships have been set up for just discussions, and they were actually intended to be used for Teams for specific game types). That's my interpretation anyway.

AbigailII: I never heard of anything like that. Please send me a message with your MoneyBookers account email address and I will try to ask them for an explanation.

AbigailII: Ugh, that's frustrating. I personally didn't like Money Bookers (I don't remember why). I have been using Alert Pay, and have had zero problems with it. It is pretty similar to PayPal

I've tried to take advantage of the "code red" promotion. To do so, I created a new moneybrookers account and transferred EUR 36 from my bank account into it (using IDEAL). This was successful, and moneybrookers confirms I have EUR 36 in my account.

At the same moment however, they locked my account for all outgoing transfers. Which means, I'm out EUR 36 - and have no BK subscription in return. Does anyone else have had similar moneybrookers issues? I've used them without problems in the past (using a credit card), but they now wanted more information for a credit card transaction that I was willing to give them - hence the direct transfer route.