Iamon lyme: The board was on approval earlier today.

Okay, this time it worked. So what's up with the politics board?

I've tried to post messages at the politics board but nothing happens. The first time it happened I assumed it was a glitch, or maybe I clicked on the wrong button. If this message doesn't go through then I'll know something is definitely wrong. Can anyone explain why I can't write to a board I was able to write to before this happened?

rod03801: Wish this optimization would get a move on, getting very frustrating

DeaD man WalkiN: This was talked about on the www.brainking.info site :

Sunday, April 17. 2011
Posted by Filip Rachunek in BrainKing News and Events at 11:57 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)
Recent changes of BrainKing features

As we have announced in the Server News, BrainKing is currently under a process of optimization and tuning, in order to improve the overall performance and response time, mostly by rewriting certain functions that cause too much CPU load. There is nothing to worry about - everything is working OK and many players will probably notice no important changes. Anyway, I would like to clarify what exactly has been modified and why:

Maximum number of games shown in one list has been reduced to 100. The reason is obvious - some people, who are quite reckless in joining more tournaments than they can handle, end up with thousands of started games and it is neither logical nor wise to display all of them at once. 10 years ago, when BrainKing had been launched, we didn't expect that someone would start more than a couple of hundreds games, but since the reality is far too different, time has come to do something about it.
It means that if a player has more than 100 games to play, only the first 100 would be displayed, along with links to other pages containing the rest.

Game lists are sorted by time left and it is no longer possible to change the column to sort by. After doing a lot of tests and optimizations, it turned out to be the most effective solution, regarding the site speed and fair user policy. I know that some people will probably miss the feature to sort games by, for instance, opponent names, but a similar result can be easily achieved by using the opponent and game type filter above the game list. The same filter has been added to user profiles where all started games of the particular player can be found.

DeaD man WalkiN: General settings allows you to change the way it's done... Down the bottom.

I guess Fencer moved the options

I have tried 10s of times to switch (Game, Event, Opponent, Your color, Move and Time left).
On the main try to switch the way U get games and pls, tell me how U did it..
thxs for U time and any help...

DeaD man WalkiN: Well, it would have to be done through Fencer. I would send him a private message about it, and possibly he'd take care of it.

ChaseWinstead: Can someone give brains to other players?

ChaseWinstead: It looks like that opportunity may not exist anymore.

Does anyone know how to get the 20 free brains that the site says may be earned?

For several days we are without "List of 50 most active players of all times"

This is a pity. I hoped I might get my first brains this way:
1. create a tourney with brains price bougt with money
2. choose the games I am best in for a random game tournament.
3. sign up myself and win

Mistrovství světa BK 2011

Medails sequence nation after 41 games:

1. Czech Republic 14 - 16 - 15
2. Poland 6 - 3 - 2
3. USA 3 - 4 - 3
4. - 5. Italy and Germany 3 - 2 - 1
6. England 2 - 1 - 1
7. - 8. Russia and Japan 2 - 0 - 0
9. Netherlands 1 - 3 - 0
10. Slovakia 1 - 2 - 4
11. Spain 1 - 0 - 1
12. - 14. France, Bavaria and Australia 1 - 0 - 0
15. Great Britain 0 - 1 - 5
16. Brunei Darussalam 0 - 1 - 4
17. - 18. Belgium and Scotland 0 - 1 - 1
19. - 20. New Zeland and Uganda 0 - 1 - 0
21. Bulgaria 0 - 0 - 3
22. Norway 0 - 0 - 2
23. - 26. Northern Ireland, Tibet, India and Finland 0 - 0 - 1

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without nationality 2 - 2 - 2

MadMonkey: It doesn't matter how dictionary.com or any other website defines “gambling” … it does matter, however, how “gambling” is defined by/under the applicable legislation…

Fencer: Crazy.... I guess on Pogo, when you spend Gems, that is it they are spent. The same as here if we were just going to use Brains in the shop to buy a shirt or mug, that would be OK.

Surely there must be a way around this

It must come down to how they define the word gamble, and looking at dictionary.com it is only a gamble if there is a element of chance involved (i.e. Toss of a coin OR Roll of a Dice)...So if we stick to Chess & Go we are OK

all seems crazy to me

MadMonkey: I can hardly explain what I don't understand myself. But my guess is that you can use Brains to pay for tournament fees in order to win more Brains, so it is probably considered as gambling, although there is no way to change Brains back to real money. Don't ask me what sort of moron came with this ridiculous conclusion.

Fencer: Could you explain why that is please ? Surely there is no difference between buying Brains on here OR Gems on Pogo....they are both used as site currencies....well so i would say

rod03801: I am afraid not. Some companies (PayPal) seem to be too paranoid to understand that it is not a gambling. There is no point to fight a red tape.

Fencer: When can brains be purchased again?

Thom27: Everybody can do this and Brains are deducted from your account.
Find more information here: http://brainking.info/archives/608-Prize-tournaments-redesigned.html

How to create a free prize tournament? Can everybody do this? Say the winner is to receive brains; are they detracted from thre creator's brains account or can they be bought with money?

MadMonkey: Correct, you can not edit time limits once the tourney is created.

(Which makes sense if people have already signed up, but I can't see the harm if no one is signed up yet)

coan.net: I have set it now thanks ..... I don't think i can edit those parameters

MadMonkey: You could start with 1 day per move - and then give a bonus of say 1 day - and then put the MAX at something like 4 or 5 days. That way people would have to play a lot of first, but if they play quickly - can store up to 4 or 5 days

lukulus: OK thanks for your input...i will set it and see what happens. It is only for people to get some practice (probably set as unrated anyway)

MadMonkey: If you want really quick FC tournament from the start, you should set starting time to say, 2 days or so. It depends on time bonus per move.

Change of subject.....lol

I want to set a fast Fischer's clock Tournament up. Now i do not think i have ever set one of these in all my years here lol

I want to start this in 2 days, and want the first few moves played as quick as possible (without getting silly lol)

After a week or so i do not care how long it goes on for (within reason)....i bet you are all thinking What an odd Tournament, Monkey has finally lost it lol

Anyway, anyone any ideas (or advice) as to a time set up ? (Time: Bonus: Limit: )

fukuhara: They're visible only in mode "castle"
In other modes you can change easily by modifying the "/en/" in the current page link to your favourite language code. It sticks when you then click on things.

It does not work recently. Where have all the flags gone?

Marshmud: I can use it but if I do, my filter disappears on the main page.

Pedro Martínez: Ah yes, thank you !

Mélusine:
When submitting your move in any game, you can

“Jouer et (rester ici)
Fixer cette action comme défaut”

Marshmud: I don't see where is this link !?

Mélusine: So you can not use the link "Set this action as default" after you choose what type of move you want to make?

Marshmud: Yes, I do " Move " and " stay here " as you say, but when I come back on the main page after that, my filter has disappeared. I'd like to see it again.
So, I totally agree with Rod who said : " ..... IF the page would stay filtered until you tell it not to. "
The filter disappears when you choose : " Move and stay here ". What a pity !

El Cid: Yes that will work and take you to the next game of whatever you are currently playing, but what Mel wants is to view the boat game as soon as she submits the move and if you want to view the game immediately you must select "Move and stay here" if you want a direct link

Marshmud: How about the option "go to the next game of this type" (or something like that) that appears on top of the board (with a direct link to the next game)

Mélusine: After you make a move on a boat game, and you want to see if you hit a target your move setting should be "Move " and "stay here" but after you view the board you still have to select another game from your game list, but my filter for this function works fine.

Bwild: Yes, it works but I said that I didn't do this because I wanted to stay on the same page so as to see the result of my move.
Mmhh, I'm not sure to explain very well what I mean.

Mélusine: the "go to the next game of this type" seems to work well.

rod03801: Yes, when you say : " ......if you make a move and come back to the main page, it is unfiltered, and you have to refilter it...... ", I totally agree, because when I play games as Battleboats, I like to stay on the same game after doing my move so as to see if I've shooted a boat, and everytime, I have to refilter, and this irritates me !

rod03801: Agreed...... I was just trying to think of something to make it easier for Fencer to sort out.

I miss the Move and Goto Team Match, No Vacation and non-paying member as you say

MadMonkey: Decent idea, if the Move and Go To, aren't going to work again. (The ones that still aren't)
However, your idea would be even better, and a great compromise, IF the page would stay filtered until you tell it not to.
Right now, if you filter it to show all backgammon games, for example, if you make a move and come back to the main page, it is unfiltered, and you have to refilter it.

And even nicer if "Move and Go To Next game" took you to the next game from that filtered page. (Then no need to go back to main page)

Of course, the only one I'm really missing right now is Move and Go To Next game with non-paying member. Other than that I generally just go in order anyway.

Happy weekend Fencer

If the 'Move and Goto' actions are still a problem i have another suggestion (as i do lol)

I have been using the 'Game Filter' on the main page, though it is not as useful as the 'Move and Goto' selections, to find all my Team Tournament games (by searching all Team Tournaments, and just selecting those game types to play first).

So, how about adding a third selection box to the filter ?

We have 'Opponent' & 'Game Type', so how about 'Group Selection' (first thing that came to mind lol) where there could be:

Non-paying member games
Team match games
No vacation games
Friend list games
Online opponents games
Offline opponents games
Stairs games
Fischer's Clock games

Those would be the Main ones i think, but you miss out on things like 'Similar type games' but that could be added, and if selected open and extra drop box to select All Lines games, All Chess games, All Checkers games etc.... and the same with Tournament selection.

Just another idea from my mad world

(p.s. this is not a Feature request, its an Observation note lol)

Deb4858: General Chat and Members Only already exist

Deb4858: That could help people who discover the site but I think a link would be necessary at the end of the registration of the member, because, me, when I came to Brainking for the 1st time, I didn't pay attention to these boards, I was more interesting by the games.

Why not a discussion board for new members? Isn't it beneficial for the site?

coan.net: Ok. Thanks for your answer.

Yea, only Fencer can create new site-wide boards - usually when a topic is warranted or enough interest on a subject.