MadMonkey: I just looked at a knight fight game and it is brown for me, but to be honest, I can see the numbers better in the brown than i could with the blue ones

Mal 4 Inara:top one is small

Can you make it so we can use the big board for all backgammon variants, and switch to the small board only in Plakoto please?

anastasia:

All hail!!!

Okay, back to your 500 plus games and your enormous duties of monitoring all of the discussion boards..... good luck keeping your key board handy!

coan.net: You are done with telling me this... yet you are still telling me this??? hahhahahah

coan.net: Thats nice, and this extension makes it even easier, not to mention, you can make more options for you as well! Why waste time going to your profile or notepad everytime you want to paste soemthing into a game note???


BTW, how do you find time to unbury your keyboard when you need to use it for a discussion board, but cant seem to do it when playing games? Please... maybe you could make life simpler for the rest of us mortals?

coan.net: Its ironic because you seem to be able to find your key board plenty when it comes to playing on the discussion boards, but when it comes time to play your games, all of a sudden it is buried too deep to make a decent "hello" or "good luck"????

Anyway, I have offered you a nice way to say hello without using your key board, but I wonder if it was merely an excuse, or if you truly care to give any time to a greeting in your games?

coan.net: but to be upset with others who actually come to a game site to play games......????

. I mean this is a game site - a game site is a place to play games, not chat.

Kind of an ironic comments coming from someone who volunteers to watch over and moderate every public board on this site?

coan.net: I understand what you etal are saying... , but to use the option of totally removing the message box is totally rude and uncalled for, IMO!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1063

The above link is a great firefox extension that will take care of the problem for most people. who like me and BBW, dont have access to our key boards for one reason or another..... dont let the name fool you, I put in a few different greetings, for example good luck, or congrats great game, I even paste in greetings in different languages, then they are all just one click away from being pasted into any message box!!!!

(the only problem I have is that when I say hello to someone in their native language, I end up having to try and explain that i dont really speak their language!)

Anyway, instead of taking advantage of this "new" option to remove chat options, try this extension instead, like doolittle says, its only a common courtesy!

AbigailII: I personally think that every opponent deserves some sort of hello and thank you.... sometimes I forget, if I get playing too many games too fast, but if I have the option turned off, well, that is just plain rude to me

pauloaguia: The answer to you is yes!

But if your settings allow for you to not even have a message box, then the answer is clear that you do not wish any congrats or good lucks.....

If I play you and you refuse to offer any greetings or whatever, then I can always put you on enemies list as to not have to play against you, I suppose this si still possible if i come across someone who has no box present, but why make it so hard?

Is there any setting available that allows for us to not become involved in any games with anyone who is not even willing to offer a pleasant 'good luck' or 'congratulations'?

Jim Dandy: I too had noticed , and did not dare to jinx it either!

NOT a floosie: Well, it does keep it off the main page here where prospective members might see it and change their minds about becoming a member.

Its hard to tell for sure, but you make it sound like that is a bad thing?

Wouldnt someone want to know, and have a right to know, before they purchase a membership, that any problems they may have encountered are inherent in the "system of the internet" and are not "fixable", at least from the Brainking end, and they will likely continue into the future?

Thats why there is a free level on this site, to give someone the opportunity to see if they like it here or not, before they buy into it.

Some might think that any perceived "slowness" might be something temporary, when in fact it is likely a permanent side effect of the internet itself.

I think it would be a good idea to even have a few things posted, maybe on FAQs page or the paid membership page, things like what browsers work best with Brainking, which ones dont, that if you live far away from the Czech Rpublic and you use a slow dial up service and you prefer IE then you are likely to experience certain "problems" etc., these are all important notices for any prospective paying member, dont you agree?

pauloaguia: Czechoslovakia hasn't existed over a decade now

Thanks, I think I knew that and why I wrote it that way I am not sure

pauloaguia: The internet can be very unstable sometimes...

The problem is, that if that were the reason for problems here, it would not be a unique problem just for this site alone, would it?

I dont hear one person saying the problems they find here are similar to what they are finding at other sites?

The only reason I can think of is perhaps this is the only very commonly used web site that hails from the Czech Republic, and perhaps if we were all using another site from Czechoslovakia, we would find similar inconsistencies that we see now?

beach: Okay, I think fencer is correct, I dont remember anything being said when I created an account, but I just checked my email and there was a link to make the account active, that must be the problem, except, since I already made my post here, I havent tried it again!

I could say with the same "success" that PayPal is the slowest money processing site in the world and all other sites of this kind are operating at a light speed, and it would be just the same nonsense.


The thing is, if paypal is the slowest, at least it is always the slowest all the time, and the same every time it is used and the same for every user.

But you have yet to address the reason Brainking seems to be so inconsistent between uses by the same user? Why are some days "normal" and other days with "problems"? Why is it different for Brainking than for other sites that all appear to be at least consistently good or poor?

Fencer: I have just spent 10 minutes trying to figure out how to respond in the blog section???

I have made a "new" log in etc., but dont see where to click to make an entry, or where to click to make a response? i tried clicking on someones name, like Fencer, which is clickable, but took me to an email page to write a note, and after I did this and went to send, it said that fencers email addy was not formated correctly to send it? I just got more frustrated and came here.

Fencer: Its quite simple really..... Use Firefox, with all the correct extensions, use the lite version of this site, and move to the Czech Republic, and you will experience no problems whatsoever!

coan.net: I'm just trying to say that it's hard to see it being a BK problem when many people don't have issues



I think it is hard for many to swallow that line, simply because the problems appear to be unique with this site only. If what you and Fencer are saying is true, then BK would not be the only web site that has the same types of issues. But I havent seen any examples where this is true? I happen to be one of the people who have few problems, I do have some sometimes, but it rarely seems as bad as others profess, but it just makes no logical sense to anyone that slow connection problems are unique to brainking only, yet brainking has no responsibility for them?

the current bid is 44.6 billion USD

I know if it were you Fencer, you would hold out for at least 50 billion USD before you would sell Brainking!

(but, I could probably talk you into a special black rook or something for a measly 44.6 billion?)

Bernice: The point is, it seems like us non Europeans have the option to get a refund for any VAT that we pay, and we would need some sort of confirmation that we actually paid a VAT to get this refund, I assume?

I havent a new membership, but anyone who has, does the cost reflect a charge plus a separate tax charge?

Bernice:


Me too!

My context menu is very small, i havent used it in awhile, but it used to be a lot bigger, I can barley even see it enough to read anymore?

jryden: One possible reason for this might be that they live in the same time zone as the servers?

For example, often when I have made what seems like a lot of moves for me, the server switches days right in the middle of it all, which makes my "daily" count seem lower.

Fencer: would you consider 3 acounts?

I havent been able to be here much lately and might have missed this one.... does it mean if I buy a 3 year membership I will recieve 9 years?

Its when Fencer offers a two year for the price of one year membership bonus!

code red code red code red

Is the time out checking process disabled due to the latest already explained problems, or is this due to something completely new and different?

Nirvana: and the ponds as well?

code red code red code red

CODEREDCODEREDCODERED!!!!

AbigailII: Its funny... i think most people seem to play more from work than from home, so a holiday off from work is not a good thing for so many people!

or2ak.com: Im pretty sure that even if you dont celebrate Christmas, it is still a holiday for you, and most people have it as a day off from work?

I am certain that Hanukkah is not a holiday for most people where they get the time off from work etc...

I am not quite sure how the vacation system works....

Question, if I use a few of my own personal holidays and mark them as vacation days with what I have been allotted with my membership, does the amount of my vacation days left to use get cut by the same amount of days?

I think thats how it works, so Mad Monkey et.al. can take a few of their vacation days at the beginning of the year and mark their holidays, like Christmas time, as vacations, and then even if they use the auto vacation option, they will never run below enough to cover the ones they already have set.... if I understand how it works correctly?

CODE RED CODE RED!!

Whats up witht the poker add on the tournaments page????

Notice the top left corner under games, where it has "waiting games"...

http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/06628ceab8.jpg

Hey Fencer, how many code green memberships sold so far?

Fencer: Is that for a mini me membership, or is that for a Fencer is on permanent vacation membership?

Fencer: If every registered member gave you a dollar, would you make Animal the little boss of us? (exchanged in Euros, of course!)

Fencer: so I must pick a payment and hit continue then? And do it this time when the red light comes back on again?

Fencer: Okay, thanks, it just doesnt show anything when I look at my shopping cart, I guess I just have to trust that it will be calculated correctly when i make my payment.

Furthermore, we have added a nice improvement - you don't have to send a payment in 72 hours to validate the bonus (like before), it must be received to the end of this year - 31st December 2007, 23:59:59 GMT+01:00.

So if I read this correctly, as long as i signed up for my new membership when the light was red, then when I pay I will get the second year free?

Czuch: Must have been , cause he is already gone

Hi Fencer, how was your Sunday dinner? (or is it supper?)

or ?