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Hrqls: There are no active or inactive BKRs. BKR is still a BKR and it will never change. What will be active or inactive are the positions in the charts - if you don't finish a game in six months, you have no position. It doesn't affect anything on the Statistics page.
There is another thing with charts which will be implemented soon. A player who does not finish a rated game within 30 days (pawns) or 6 months (paying members) after his last finished rated game of the same type, will be temporarily removed from the charts (keeping the BKR, of course). He will reappear there after finishing a rated game again.
The purpose is obvious - to avoid occupying chart positions by inactive players or the ones who already left the site.
There was an idea of removing all non-paying members from the charts. They will be allowed to have BKRs but they won't be calculated for chart positions.
Positive consequences:
Significantly decreased number of position cheaters.
Another reason why to pay :-)
Decreasing the database server overload.
Significant improving of chart positions of paying members :-D
BerniceC: No, only when a year changes. Next "clearing" will happen as of 1st January 2006. Or maybe not, if we manage to get a new database server first :-)
I'll look at it.
Btw, I plan to reduce the number of public discussion boards, mainly in game variants. Keeping a one board for a "main" game and one board for all variants together should be enough (or the main game board can be omitted in some cases). The posts won't be lost, just shown under one big board instead of a lot of small ones.
Dolittle: You can find current exchange rates on http://www.xe.com and if you go to the Store page, there is a form to select a type, size and quantity. If you want to specify more details, just send me a message.
Ehm, I am really sorry that I don't understand your language :-) However, since this board belongs to the main BrainKings DBs, I would prefer to speak English here. No offense. BrainKing is an international site and public boards should be understandable to as many users as possible.
reza: How big is the tax you are talking about? Perhaps we can find a solution - for example, if more people from your country decide to buy a membership here and the total amount will be sent as one money transfer to my bank, one of these people can get the membership for free, in order to cover these extra expenses.
I could be more concrete if I know what the real fees would be.
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