rabbitoid: Yes, that's true. Mmmm, maybe I could give it a higher priority.

Bwild: I don't know. I forgot to count the percentage.
It's a vague term because one part seems to be done, than I get a better idea and rewrite it again. You know, it's like everything is done but nothing is 100% completed. Be patient.

"GERRY": When you actually pay for it, BrainKing will activate your membership.

"GERRY": Today's exchange rate is 47.9844 CAD for 1 year, so you can calculate it.

Mousetrap: You have 5 days.

Mousetrap: It would start immediately but you will be able to use the rest of your previous membership for prizes.

Mousetrap: Yea, perhaps it could be used for prize tournaments, that's a good idea. Actually, some people have already done it.

Nothingness: You cannot. Wait for BrainKing 3.0. Or you can disable this box on your Settings page.

Fire764X: You will be automatically removed after 30 days.

Artful Dodger: Well, RTE had been created before Chrome emerged, so it was never tested with it. I'll check it later.

Artful Dodger: Thanks. Just out of curiosity, what is not 100% compatible, regarding Chrome and BrainKing?

FrancescoLR: Furthermore, if you try to check out Host Tracker test, as it is clearly described at the top of this board, you would know that the current average response time is less than 1 second. It proves that BrainKing is not slow, globally said. We cannot be responsible for local network problems.

FrancescoLR: Nothing. Check your connection.

Bwild: No version of BrainKing can solve occasional network problems. That's how the internet works.

rabbitoid: I've just made another test and all nodes show OK status with less than 1 second response time. So I guess the problem is solved.

rabbitoid: It might be interesting if you post a traceroute output because, of course, my own one is flawless (probably because it does not cross our country border).

I've also tried an online traceroute tool to check the route from some place in the world. Looks like there really is "something on the way":

TraceRoute to 81.91.83.6 [web.brainking.com]
Hop (ms) (ms) (ms) IP Address Host name
1 20 8 27 72.249.128.105 -
2 16 19 23 206.123.64.22 -
3 12 18 15 216.52.189.9 border4.te4-4.colo4dallas-5.ext1.dal.pnap.net
4 44 20 16 216.52.191.34 core3.tge5-1-bbnet1.ext1.dal.pnap.net
5 14 19 20 66.79.145.97 dal005-dalext1-846-cr1.dal005.internap.net
6 38 25 36 66.79.147.186 cr2-cr1.dal005.internap.net
7 67 89 71 66.79.147.189 acs007-dal005-841-cr2.acs007.internap.net
8 38 96 52 66.79.147.1 cr1-cr2.acs007.internap.net
9 50 49 48 66.79.147.198 acs007-wdc005-844-cr2.wdc005.internap.net
10 60 65 58 66.79.146.201 cr1-cr2.wdc005.internap.net
11 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
12 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
13 88 88 79 66.79.147.10 nym009-phi004-813-cr2.nym009.internap.net
14 109 84 99 66.79.158.9 bsn006-nym009-9-cr1.bsn006.internap.net
15 102 115 Timed out 66.79.147.14 cr2-cr1.bsn006.internap.net
16 144 148 139 66.79.158.6 bsn006-lon005-6-cr2.lon005.internap.net
17 161 176 221 77.242.206.242 ams003-lon005-4-cr1.ams003.internap.net
18 200 229 236 195.69.145.206 tr3.pop1.pra.sloane.cz
19 214 207 197 62.240.161.146 v103.bb1.pop1.sve.sloane.cz
20 245 223 222 77.48.243.130 web4u2.cust.sloane.cz
21 243 201 227 81.91.80.97 nix2.web4u.cz
22 198 186 187 81.91.83.6 web.brainking.com

Trace complete

rabbitoid: If you experience speed issues, I always recommend to visit http://host-tracker.com and check BrainKing accessibility from different places around the world.

Which is what I have just done and it shows that there is no problem in about 65% of tested locations and the rest is showing a "no reply" error message. Since it is definitely a network problem somewhere, there is nothing we can do about it - BrainKing is fast and stable but some network nodes are probably malfunctioning.

alanback: "Started Games" section is not visible on your own Profile page because it would simply duplicate the Main Page content.

ellieoop: I said that it would be done in BrainKing 3.0. When it is finished and released. The job is about 70% done and there is still much work to do.

AbigailII: What about AlertPay?

Nothingness: We made an agreement with them, a kind of compromise. Everything should be OK now.

Nothingness: As furbster says, purchasing Brains is temporarily disabled. New ways of obtaining them will be announced later.
Anyway, you can still make prize tournaments and offer memberships instead of Brains.

Marshmud: When I create a better system for it.

h657: Well, not exactly, it must be the same position 3 times in a row, not just the same moves (it is not identical in all cases). Furthermore, BrainKing never ends games in a draw automatically, it must be always requested.

joshi tm: In case of DNS issues, please try 81.91.83.6 instead of BrainKing.com and you should be fine.

And I am not aware of selling brainking.com domain. Not for less than 1 million Euro.

joshi tm: Host Tracker shows no anomalies.

GBear58: The color codes don't mean that you get any discount. The price is still the same but after you pay, you will be given some free months as a bonus, up to 125% of the membership you paid for.

Artful Dodger: Let's say it should work as you say.

alanback: Yes, definitely.

coan.net: Sorry, I am a little tired today so I probably don't understand. What exactly do you want to transfer if there are no days left?

AbigailII: http://brainking.info/archives/599-Simplicity-is-the-key-part-3.html

Hrqls: I think that I won't wait for BrainKing 3.0 to be completed and release a new (simpler) vacation system much sooner (in a week?). That would solve all problems like this once and forever.

There will be a Daylight Saving Time change tonight in Europe.
So if you think that some times are not correct here, this is the reason.

rabbitoid: It will go away.
Herlock said it well - "give then one finger, soon they will ask for the whole hand". According to too many improvement requests, the vacation system became so complicated that not even me understood it all times. Simplicity is what we want to achieve.

Herlock Sholmes: Hmmm. You are right that vacations are making problems, however we cannot remove the whole vacation system only because there are people who don't like it. It is always easier to play games/tournaments with no vacation time control because no global rule can be suitable for everyone, of course.

Anyway, the tournament system is to be rewritten for the new BrainKing version and I am sure that nobody would be able to misuse it any longer. Who would expect that 8 years ago?

My point is that BrainKing is a quite complex system with all major features connected one another, which means that a significant change of one of them would probably affect everything else and it is always a risky decision. That's why everything is being rewritten simultaneously and everything will be released at the same time.

Meanwhile, although I admit that there are users who make problems and continuously try to find out how to complicate BrainKing experience to other users, there is always a good workaround as a temporary solution. It does not mean that we want to leave it as it is forever.

BadBoy7: Turn off style animations at your Settings page.

Snoopy: Yes, something is somewhere overloaded. I will investigate it soon. Such things happen, from time to time.

Artful Dodger: I am not sure, I'll have to look at the code first. But even if there is a limit, it would be a very high number.

Mousetrap: The approve mode is just one of access modes applied to all discussion boards, public or private. Actually it is kind of useless in fellowships but, for some reason, I forgot to disable it at all. It does not make any harm, anyway.

alilsassy: Members with expired membership are not kicked out because many of them usually renew it later and they like to restore their fellowship list automatically instead of rejoining them one by one. And as long as they are pawns, they cannot use any fellowship functions, including discussion boards.
Or at least that's how I think it should be working.

Mousetrap: Most likely it was a fellowship discussion board, not the fellowship itself.

Pedro Martínez: Request acknowledged.

Snoopy: BrainKing has its own AI sometimes. All tasks should be restarted soon.

Snoopy: It's New Year! You should celebrate, not play, damn it!
It should be fixed, anyway.

AbigailII: Secondary, tertiary and the 4th one too.

MadMonkey: Hey, take it easy man! It's just games, nothing serious, huh?

Furthermore, there was no downtime of the site itself and I saw about 100 online users all the time (today). Unfortunately we cannot be responsible for a DNS servers malfunction which caused a temporary non-existence of brainking.com domain in several parts of world. However, it was resolved in 3 or 4 hours, so it was really not a big issue.

Anyway, in case it happens again (which should not), try to use 81.91.83.6 instead of brainking.com. IP address should always work.

furbster: Yes, they can do it.

Bernice: That's not what I was asking about. Read again please.

Gouwe gozer: "Wire transfer (international)" is the 4th option.

Bernice: How many merchants with no PayPal problems you actually know? Of course, since their policy is to attracts as many customers as possible, people who only pay usually don't have any issues.