pauloaguia: Nope.....

Also what do you mean there by: "a two year membership payment makes a good change to get the whole year for free"?

I don't mean that you should have changed the "change" with "chance" (a thing that you should do) i mean the following question:

There is not any 2 year membership available as i see! Only for ½ year or 1 year!
If you mean buying 2 one year memberships at the same time, then i have another strategy:

1)Buying 2 one year memberships at the same time:
Current COST = 2·28 = 56 €
New COST = 2·30 = 60 €
Probability of getting 1 year for free = 50 %
Probability of getting AT LEAST 6 months for free = 50 %
Probability of getting EXACTLY 6 months for free = 0 %


2)Buying 1 one year membership now and the other day another one:
Current COST = 2·28 = 56 €
New COST = 2·30 = 60 €
Probability of getting AT LEAST 6 months for free = 75%
Probability of getting 1 year for free = 25%
Probability of getting EXACTLY 6 months for free = 50%


So what we have is that buying with the second method 2 years, you get 75% of having at least 6 months for free or even 25% for 1 year for free. While with "your" proposed way we have 50% for 1 year for free but if we don't suceed we get nothing more....

I would choose my proposed way as i prefer better chances than better prizes, if actually you will allow the BONUS to be valid this way....According to the aforementioned rules for the bonus, my way is 100% legal.....

I did just now..... So Plaintiger renewed his membership for 1 year and been lucky enough to be at the good-50% winning another 6 months, right.....?

Fencer: What is "membership bonus".....? And how Plaintiger won it....?

I had asked this some time ago:

>I haven't renewed my membership and i had 0 vacation days. But now i see that i have 30 new ones. Why is that? I guess because of the start of a new year. So is it true that vacation days are initialize to 30 at the start of any new year?

Also if at the middle of a year someone renew his membership, will vacation days also be initialized to 30 again?

Playbunny responded:
Yes and yes.

Nobody argued about that. So it is true.....

WhisperzQ: "i'd be interested to hear what explanation the person gives (if they give one at all)......"

When someone says as a welcome message instead of "Hi" or "good luck to you too", the "gvdl* you too".
I just noticed that and i asked what is his problem and as he has some hours to play i will soon find out the answer to this question!
While you, you'll never find the answer to your question of draws....

*= -1

Marmite: Perhaps he/she couldn't afford 300 games plus the one future games on waiting room.
So now he/she can afford 50 plus the ones at waiting room....
So now to answer the obvious question: why then create so many ones in the waiting room? I saw that person saying because he/she thinks that there are not enough games at waiting room and he/she wants to give the chance to people to play many types of games.....

I haven't renewed my membership and i had 0 vacation days. But now i see that i have 30 new ones. Why is that? I guess because of the start of a new year. So is it true that vacation days are initialize to 30 at the start of any new year?

Also if at the middle of a year someone renew his membership, will vacation days also be initialized to 30 again?

But you must have any kind of an accusation for him/her. By just saying that he/she creates many games at the waiting room and that 2-3 people saying that he/she resigned a game against them is not enough i think. It must be a repeated process For example if he/she does this again..... Don't forget that the person may had a reason(a real one) and now he is again fine.
It happened to me 2-3 days ago and i'm still wondering why he/she did that. And the worst part is that person is strong in some games while it is very interesting to talk with and his/her behaviour was not strange at all before this. Now i have accepted 2 more games with him/her and i hope he/she will not resign....

I propose the following system:
Put 12 green creatures near the name of the tour, like this for tournaments that you have already signed up. 14 for tournaments that you haven't but you can and 17 little creatures for tournaments you haven't but you can't. Also for tournaments with prizes put 13 creatures.

So every single member of Brainking would do nothing else but counting little creatures.....

harley: I didn't take out any spaces or change any of the way your replies were set out, that must have happened when it was actually put onto the site.

It is not your fault. Brainking.com post system doesn't allow more than one spaces to appear when spaces are inserted by the SPACEBAR. In order to create multiple spaces you have to use:
  for each space you want to use.

For example the:
    4 spaces!
produces:
    4 spaces!

Reza: I didn't receice any message from you....I hope you pressed the correct buttons and your answer is not lost because of any fault of you....

playBunny:

Well i don't like the fact that a person defines and believes in something, not by his own logic but with what he has been "trained" to do from a little child. I hate to see people(i don't hate these people, just the situations that made them this way) that are not thinking by themself and only by the countless brainwashings their family and the society for the main reason the religions, make to them. I speak for almost every single human that lives in a small society on the whole earth. All people i see in my country and ALL other countries have that kind of brainwashing. A different one from country to country, but still prevents people from thinking logically!
The main reason is religions again, but not the only one. I don't really know what religion is better from the other, but i try not to involve them in my logic and my thinking.... I say, "i try" because even me(one of the greatest nonconformists!) haven't escaped completely from the training i've suffered.

So to come in this specific example: Reza believes that is logical:

-If a man kills someone, he should be killed
then (The "then" is very important because it shows that everything starts with the man. If a man does something then OK, the woman should be allowed to do it too. Although seemingly we have an equality we don't have a FULL equality since the MAN has to do something in order the woman to be able to do it too. As i will say a little below that MAY not be Reza's thinking and i may interpreted it wrong.....)
-If a woman kills someone, she should be killed too.

Or he may mean in Tuesday's question(the other interpretation):
-If a man kills someone, he should be killed.
-If a woman kills someone, she should be killed.

That is FULL equality between man and woman.


-If a man gets $100 for working an hour, a woman must get the same amount of money for doing the same job with the same quality and in the same amount of time.

That clearly shows that we don't have equality! Since the man defines the standards! The woman should be able to work with the same insensity and quality as the man did, to take the same amount of money. And i ask why not the opposite? Why not the woman to put the standards of quality and speed time etc...? Full equality means that both man and woman will gain the same money without any restrictions in their work.

-If a man can study, a woman must be allowed to, too.

Again that clearly shows that i interpreted the first statement correctly and that woman should follow man. If a man can do it then yes woman can do it also....But if a man can't do it then woman can't do it also.......


-If a man can vote, a woman should be able to vote too.
Again the same. Woman follows man.....


-But, if a man is allowed to leave his hair uncovered, it doesn't mean that a woman should be allowed to do that too.

Well of course! Who said that the same logic of "Man does this=>Woman does this" has to continue?
This sound crazy to me that i think strictly with MY logic.....


-Since a man's hair is of no sexual attraction to a woman, but a woman's hair sexually attracts men. That's what Islam says and I totally believe it.

Bad for you of course.....I'm not judging your religion ONLY, but every religion in the world!
Religions are the reason of 2 extremely bad things:
-the countless wars are happening all over the history.
-the oppression of people and the limitation of the free will and free thinking.....


PS: I hope you will not feel offended in any way! My purpose is not to offend people and here you, just to express my thoughts without any mean purpose.....

pauloaguia: Thanks. One step is gone! The next is to tell me where are the server news?

Brainking is back, is back!

I have many games on red showing a negative time, that will end with a time out, if the time will be
back again. Since i can't play them right now and since there are many games with NO days off, can i safely play them tomorrow(at around 12-14 hours from now) without be in danger of losing them?
I mean until when the "time is suspended" will be ON?

It had something to do with the NoScript extension. OK now!

Not for me from today.....?!?!

I've discovered why, hopefully fast!
The link of the green circle that indicates online players, is http://brainking.com/images/online.gif and if you insert it on Mozilla Firefox it doesn't display it. BECAUSE it needs www after http://
So when i insert http://www.brainking.com/images/online.gif everything is OK.
I don't know why as yesterday everything have been OK but now they are not!

Damn, in IE explorer it shows the small green circle but at Firefox it doesn't! Yesterday everything was perfect but now it isn't....... I have to search for a solution and an explanation

I can't see the small green circle near the players that indicates that are online, as the http://brainking.com/images/online.gif says it doesn't exist!

What this mean.....?

PS:Clicking the above link doesn't work for a reason i'm too lazy to exaplain. Just insert it by copying it to the address bar.

Andre Faria: Good!

One of his best is:
"Numbers inevitably will lead a person down the path of reason"

Since a legal thing is a legal thing and i am as pedantic as it goes, i call it fair!
Clever way of winning, yet i would not put him on my friends or approve his behaviour.....
I could call him a moron but i won't, since the moderators silently spy everything from above
He thinks he does something clever and he admires himself believeing that he is a superior brain that is fooling everyone, but the only thing he does is to spend his time on stupid things while he isn't realising that his time is coming to an end. The day that he will realise this, would be too late.....
On the other hand he may be an 80 years old man, that did everything in his life and wants to try something new!

Oh, so he is a player that is based on winning on time? LOL! That is quite new way of winning.....

I've seen the statistics of robtoo for Battleboats and he has 87 wins and 2 loses.

That can't be real since battleboats is a game of mainly luck! But i've discovered the reason. From his 87 wins the 79 were wins by time out of the opponent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So i wonder what kind of voodoo makes to his opponents and they run out of time?

Just kidding about the voodoo-part but i still wonder......

wellywales: If he uses his eyes only. If he uses his brain too: http://brainking.com/images/smileys/4.gif.

Hey Fencer can you answer my simple question i asked in the Pahtum discussion board ......?
Curious as always......

You are right madPhilip I didn't thought of that......

Since i didn't noticed the warning about the hardware upgrade, i was trying to connect but i couldn't. Since this happens from time to time (BKR recalculations,upgrades etc) and when i try to connect no page appears, and since i usually don't read the announcements, when this happens i don't know the reason and start to think possible causes like if my internet connection is the reason if it's only me etc.

I think that if something like that occurs that would make the site being down for a while, you should have a page that would say site is temporarily unavailable for 2 hours etc.......


Also what is this small dot in the top of the cursor, while i'm writing here....?

Without following the discussions about stairs, i have a question......
What will happen if someone advances to the top stair and wins X games from there? I guess he won't start floating in the air but he will remain in the top stair But what if he loses 1 game(after he won X games, being already on the top stair)? He will lose one position or not? Or since he won X games being at the top stair already, he has to lose X games also, in order to be removed from the top stair...............?

There is some malfunction regarding losing access to it occasionally, that i noticed too.....

Princess Alison: Yep that is the correct way of acting i think, for example how would you feel if your above post here would be deleted without any warning, because it was NOT about Brainking itself, its structure, features and future so it was off-topic.....?

nabla: Everything would be OK, in my opinion, if the posts haven't been deleted. I have seen 78 trillions of OFF-topic posts that haven't been deleted and some of them were just rants.......

AbigailII: I hope you didn't resigned all your games yet, so you can re-think your decision!

WhisperzQ is a good moderator and i don't really understand why he did that?!?! I'm completely surprised! You just expressed an opinion, nothing inappropriate or rude or insulting at all and i even agreed with you, but yet our posts were deleted without any clear reason.....
But yet this should no be reason for you to leave this site........Consider it again.......!

SMIRF Engine:
Unterstandable yes, beautiful no........

SMIRF Engine:
Aaaaa no, the _only_ thing i don't like about Smirf is its Archbishop and Chancellor pieces.....

Yep, it can't be a discussion about your priorities on this site....Only wishes (not suggestions because that would mean automatically a discussion about your priorities) for things should be done.......

A question: In this tournament there is a prize of 5 months membership. How the creator managed to offer a prize that is not 6 or 12 months? I mean what is the price for 5 months he paid.........?

What i see, with all these discussions about BKR, i think you should rethink your priorities about new features and spend the most time in:
1)Improving the BKR-system of Backgammon and of other games......
2)Fixing the bug in Backgammon.....

This is my humble opinion and it's up to you of cource to decide, but by doing this you will satisfy a nice number of members......

Yeah, it's a bad habit of me putting a dot "." on integer numbers to make them more easy to read.......The correct rule is to put a space or nothing at all.......

Yep, no one should complain to Fencer about delaying of taking actions. He has to do around 1.500 things per day. And that's only the Brainking-related one's......

alanback: Yes, for example YOU, why especially Alaback's BKR dropped so much while others didn't........?
Fencer can you give an explanation for this? "Curious as always......."

What i see is that the BKR's have dropped significantly........Why is that? I know that the bug caused that, but what was the bug about?

Pedro Martínez:
2 ideas:
A) Checkmate one Maharajah (or 2 if possible).....
B) Capture both Maharajah's (with check being valid or not).......

I don't know which is better.....

Yes they are fun, but after a while they become boring as the result is always the same......Why don't you change Maharajah a bit: Just add one more Maharajah.........! 15 seconds or 1-2 more lines of code.......