Artful Dodger: there can be many reasons, some examples
- an unexptected longer illness
- an unexpected change of jobs where internet access is more limited than your previous job
- an unscheduled long vacation
- an unexpected illness of a family member
- unexpected computer / provider problems

the policy of vacation days (or even no vacation days) is different per game site

the policy of this site is to allow vacation days .. and at the moment the policy is to allow rebuying of more vacation days

MadMonkey: that would be my solution as well but with the same side thoughts as you have

maybe allow someone to have a maximum twice his allowed amount per year by buying a new membership (like it is now, but then max twice a single membership)

the game (guess ther person) is over ... move it to another board ..
any post from now on this subject will be deleted
(even answers)

feel free to continue on the real thread though (ideas to solve the abuse of vacation days)

ok can we please go back to the subject that matters ... not the person itself but that fact that the system on this site can be used like that

Artful Dodger: white rooks can have 2 fellowships

nodnarbo: hmm i could login into web.brainking.com ... but as fencer its absolete :)

nodnarbo: they point to the same ip adress

open an ms dos prompt and 'ping' both adresses to see the ip adress

AbigailII: true ... i forgot about that ... i dont think anywhere in the statistics or profiles you can see the separate games

MrWCF: at the top of the game rules is a box with Statistics of won games ... add up those 3 numbers and you have the total

i am not sure if games which were finished (give up, or time out) within 2 moves are in there as well .. neither am i sure if unrated games are in there .. i dont think games which dont count for the win statistics of a player are in there

Bernice: that will have to mean he has to buy another year of membership every 7 weeks (35 days + 7 weekends) .. i dont think anyone will do this just to prolong a game

Artful Dodger: i think its checked once every hour ... but i could be mistaken :)

(V): a free copy of xp sp3 ? nice! i should call them as well ;)

please move this discussion to the computer board

Fencer: correction :
1) a few (i think), although i am not one of them :)

anastasia: using firefox at home with no problems at all .. using IE at work .. and also having no problems ... but i visit less pages on this site at work and make less moves from work

maybe pawns get some extra's which paying members dont get (ads or something like that) .. maybe those extra's cause trouble ?

Fencer: how about the translated domains like brainking.nl .. will they stop working as well ? do we have tp use web.brainking.nl or still brainking.nl ?

Czuch: send the message to fencer in a pm .. i think he is the only one who can de-mod someone aside the mod himself

also send a message to the account(s) of reza in case he still playing or reading & modding the board

Dundonian: ah yes i forgot .. the site itself provides the same options as well as the browser .. so when you select the option 'user name and password' then you only have to click on the login button the next time you go to the main page

Dundonian: you have to use your browser settings for that
most browsers (like firefox) can store your username and password

you will still have to click on the login button though

Gordon Shumway: send the names to fencer in a private message and he will look into it

andy99: in the 'castle' style (which you can chose on the most top line of this site) there is a column with flags on the most right side of this site .. click on the flag of the language you want to use

another way would be to change the url (the website address) in the address bar of your browser .. the address of this board ends with '/Board?bc=1' just before that is the language code .. for me its 'nl' (dutch)
'en' would be english, 'xx' is unreadable (keycodes), 'es' is spanish (i think), etc.

Rose: thanks for this tip

(it might explain why i have no problems, i am using IE at work and an older version of Firefox at home with very little addons)

Bernice: what if there is no solution to speed up your connection ?

alanback: you are right i should not have replied to it .. i am a weak human sometimes as well :)

i wont go into this subject any further on this board .. if anyone wants to discuss/chat/..anything.. about it .. please tell me where and i will be there

lets have fun and enjoy our time on here

Bernice: why answer me on here and not in a pm ?
i asked you in a pm because i was waondering why you asked your question : was it because you wanted to let the people know you were having troubles with your connection ? (thats not what you wrote) or was it because you thought (or hoped) that the message about the slow speed would be deleted (which it wasnt and wont) ..

i asked it to you in a pm because that wasnt a subject for this board (as it was about you and not about brainking)

do you have a slow connection yourself ?

i rarely do .. but most of the times dont .. dont know what is causing me to have a fast connection though

maybe a poll should be held asking people wether their connection is fast or slow ?

but please post your comments on the subject you want them to be about and aimed on something else

when you want to answer on that part .. you know how you can send me a pm

Adaptable Ali: thanks :)

Adaptable Ali: no problem with firefox at all .. using it now, but i am using version 1.0.3 so maybe there is a problem with version 3 ?

you might get a better answer at the computer board

alanback: true .. linux is casesensitive .. so you can have those 2 files there .. when you then download them to a windows system the second file will overwrite the first one

i posted 2 requests on the polls board

i hope they will be implemented

if you want to comment on those requests please do that on the polls board :

http://brainking.nl/nl/Board?bc=153

Andersp: i understand, i would have done the same

the problem is though that the polls the conversation is about now is about topics which is not fit for this board .. there is a good reason that the fellowship those polls are in is a fellowship and not a public board

please take the conversations about those polls to that/those specific fellowship(s)

Bernice: you can only see those polls when you are in that specific fellowship .. wether it is posted in the fellowship or as an fellowship poll .. the scope is the same .. only people who joined that specific fellowship can see it

leave the fellowship if you dont want anything to see from what's being done in there

Dark Vamp: you can best ask this on the opnion polls board

is there a way to remove a poll from the list without voting in it ?

i have 2 polls on my list which are in czech so i cant vote (as i dont know what i am voting for ;))

i would love to have the as 'finished' for me so that my list is empty .. is there a way to do that without voting ?

Roberto Silva: true .. i visit brainking.nl from work with ie and from home with firefox

and occasionally i visit brainking.com as well (with either browser from either location)

Snoopy: please could you try to clear your browser cache ?
also try to press ctrl-F5 which might help when graphics arent loading

Bjornalmar: i believe there are some fellowships which are concentrated on that .. i dont know which though
(you need to be a paying member to be able to join fellowships)

there is also a list known as the 'quick players club'
which can be found here : HerculesBeast

but its not exactly what you asked for

Bernice: as a paying member you can play advertisement free.
as a free member you usually have to cope with some annoyances like advertisements ..

Bernice: please report it in the bug tracker as well

dicepro: i contacted him when i went to prague.
he is still alive (although he had a bike accident :))

real life just found him again .. and makes it hard to get online

from work :

download: 623 kbps
upload : 691 kbps

please take the chatting about the icon to general chat

there is a link to an article on the blog site on top of this board. you dont have to search for the 3 links in fencer's post

you can post your complaints in here
there are other subjects on this board though which might be buried when everytime when someone encounters a slow connection to brainking posts a message about it ... this other subjects deserve some attention as well

when posting it on the blog site it will be summarized, everyone can get a quick overview and its even easier to see how many people have problems with the connection to brainking (those posts wont be buried by other posts on this board)

i hope its clear now that you can post your complaints on here, but its more structured to post it at the blog site, and other subjects on this board might also come in view that way :)

Andersp: about the sites performance : here or on the blog site or on general chat or the computer board or features request

as long as the posts are in line with the subject of the board

as said before : constructive posts are the most welcome ones :)

Andersp: by posting the comments into the blog they would be collected there and it gives an even better structure .. almost like having a different thread

(i would love separate threads on the discussion boards .. i love structure :))

constructive comments or ideas on how to improve the sites performance are always welcome on this board ..

(of course thats my opinion as the mod of this board, while the comment you quoted is from the site owner on his blog site ;))

Andersp: freedom of speech is allowed .. just use the appropriate channels for it .. lets try to keep this place a bit structured

Andersp: its allowed to discuss the bad perfomance of brainking on this board .. its definetly about brainking .. and its definetly allowed as you can see below

discussing the internal workings of the chatroom should more belong on the computer board, but the announcement as done below is allowed on here

Jim Dandy: sometimes DailyGammon is slow for me .. slower than BrainKing

FaceBook is almost always slow showing me pages that the page/part of/the application cant be loaded and i should try later

Hyves is slow as well sometimes

those are the 4 sites i visit most ... when i sort them from fast to slow it would be :
DailyGammon
BrainKing
Hyves
Facebook

(and i think ebay would be somewhere between BrainKing and Hyves for me (remembering from the few times that i used it)

Of course i am living in the Netherlands while you are not so the order might be different for you for the reasons coan.net posted

The reasons why other sites you visit might not have the speed problems is that they are not located in the Czech repulic and on the same provider as BrainKing

a solution would be to move the BrainKing server to another location .. but as said before that can cost quite a lot of money

Jim Dandy: unless when that costs too much

ScarletRose: thats what i mean .. and so does brainking

even if the VAT would not appliable to users who can prove to be from another country .. then the site owner can always decide to raise the membership price because of his own VAT increases his costs to keep up the site .. so fencer could also say that he wont take any VAT into account for us users .. but that he has to increase the membership price because his own VAT is making it more costly for himself to maintain the site

(i know i could have worded that in better english ;))