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12. Mai 2003, 19:06:01
TTjazzberry 
Subiectul: Re: Members Only Board
I personally see nothing wrong with non-members making suggestions, it is their way of contributing to the site and many suggestions have been to my liking, so as a member I benefit.

At this point 6 of my 7 games are against non-members, again as a member the ability to play both members and non-members benefits me.

Another thing we should consider before getting self-rightious is the fact that some people simply can not afford to join, what may seem like a little to some may be alot to others. The ability to play against them, exchange idea's on the boards with them and benefit from their suggestions are just a few important factors in my decision to become a member.

I agree there should be some benefits for members only as incentive to join, but idea's like boards for members only serves to rob me of the chance to exchange idea's and thoughts with members and non-members alike. As a member I want my thoughts and contributions to the threads accessable to the whole community, not just paying members.

12. Mai 2003, 14:10:06
Dmitri King 
Subiectul: Re: Members Only Board
Tony, I think that p[eople simply like to get something for nothing, so thye will do so whenever they can; and they can always come up with SOME reason or another why they are not completely satisfied yet and why they are not "yet" becoming a paying member.
I am of the opinion that giving the pawns MORE features will make them LESS invclined to pay, but what do I know about running a business (nothing).

12. Mai 2003, 14:02:00
tonyh 
Subiectul: Re: Members Only Board
Dmitri, what feature would attract non-members so much that they would have to pay the cash? I would have thought that entering only one tourney at a time would have done the trick - but not so! Any ideas?

12. Mai 2003, 13:47:15
Dmitri King 
Subiectul: Re: Members Only Board
Rose-- "I see many non members asking for features etc (all input is great) but always getting so much for free defeats his purpose of wanting to make a living off this site and make it the best site out there!
Likley there will be talk of discrimination againt no members but thats easily rectified.
Just buy a membership! :-)"

Right on! I have asid this many times myself. NOw, I underatsnd that people want to try soemthing out before decideing to purchase it. BUtm Fencer gives the non-member PLENTY, easily enough for them to decideif they want a membership or not. But instead, some of the pawns seem to want various minute details changed to their liking. I wonder if they will be mailing in a membership fee as soon as said changes are made?

12. Mai 2003, 13:20:47
Rose 
Subiectul: Members Only Board
Fencer has added a members only board.(Add it to your favourits all you members!)
I thought it would be a great idea to have one for a few reasons.
One for members to discuss the site and add ideas and also as an incentive for non paying members who want to be included in the happenings of the site to purchase a membership to help Filip out.
I see many non members asking for features etc (all input is great) but always getting so much for free defeats his purpose of wanting to make a living off this site and make it the best site out there!
Likley there will be talk of discrimination againt no members but thats easily rectified.
Just buy a membership! :-)

12. Mai 2003, 08:59:32
blazeinshore 
Thanks Fencer, and three cheers for liquid for such dedication! :)

12. Mai 2003, 08:09:49
Fencer 
Subiectul: Re: The move button.....
blaze: Okay, I will try to make it wider.
About connectivity - that's good because Liquid spent almost the whole night by tuning the database server ;-)

12. Mai 2003, 04:04:32
Kevin 
I don't know if Fencer will read this, necessarily. You will be much safer to send him a personal message, as he does read those :-)

11. Mai 2003, 23:21:21
blazeinshore 
Subiectul: The move button.....
Fencer, the new dropdown menu system on submitting moves is good. General feeling is that it would be beneficial if the move button was wider however. It's more difficult to aim the mouse at the smaller button (particularly for people using 1024 x 768 screen definition) and the feelings of people I have spoken to are that a button of similar width to the original button would be easier to manoeuvre. The dropdown menu is cool.

Would it take much to widen the move button?

Blaze

BTW, connectivity seems way better tonight. No downtime here!

11. Mai 2003, 01:57:43
Dmitri King 
Subiectul: Re: problems accessing the site
Dream-- the last time there was a site outage 9two days ago, I believe, for almost an entire day, I noticed that games that would have timed out during the outage did not time out. So maybe Fencer has made it to that the clock stops during outages.

11. Mai 2003, 01:17:18
dream 
Subiectul: Re: problems accessing the site
all I ask for is for the time clock to be turned off when the site is experiencing problems, this would make all of our lives easier, including Fencer's who must be tired of reinstating games. People who do have limited time to play (and we do exist!) shouldn't have to feel like we have to dive for the computer at every spare moment to try and log in and catch up...Personally I don't care if I get extra membership days...I would just like to be able to play when I have the time and not to have to worry about timing out if the site is experiencing problems, (which has been 5 out of 7 days in the past week for me anyway)

10. Mai 2003, 15:43:24
Jason 
Subiectul: Re: problems accessing the site
its not just you dream ive got the same problem (aswell as loads of others i know) its hard work trying to move this last week i work 12 hour shifts and play when im at home some days i cant even log onto this site at all and when i do like today it can take forever to make any moves if i dont get fed up of waiting first
wonder if the paying members will get some days back ???

i do think this is a great site but at the moment its just giving me a headache .. sorry fencer..
i just have withdrawals from not being able to play my games

10. Mai 2003, 15:36:36
blazeinshore 
Subiectul: Brainking Info Pages.
A huge Thank You to Fencer for creating and now updating the BrainKing info Pages.

BrainKing Info now has 5 informative pages: News, Technical Info, Company Info, Known Bugs and a Support Us page.

Information there is a true indication of what a great site this is, so please take a look and I'm sure you will all join me in thanking Fencer for keeping us so well informed!

Blaze

10. Mai 2003, 10:50:32
harley 
NightHawk, you shouldn't need to restart your PC, its not a major change. Hope this message is in time! LOL! You must be in a different time zone to me, I was in bed when you posted your last message!

10. Mai 2003, 09:55:57
Bernice 
Subiectul: HAPPY MOTHERS DAY
to those it applies to of course:) and expectant mothers are included LOL

10. Mai 2003, 08:31:26
Kevin 
Jet Boy: There will be a relatively small "move" button, and to the right of it will be a list box with 5 selections. When you move, it will do what is selected in the list box ;-)

10. Mai 2003, 06:29:15
Bernice 
Subiectul: on a lighter note :)
DONT BE OFFENDED



A girl asks her boyfriend to come over Friday night and have dinner with her parents. This being a big event, the girl tells her boyfriend that after dinner, she would like to go out and "do it" for the first time.

Well, the boy is ecstatic, but he has never done it before, so he takes a trip to the pharmacist to get some protection. The pharmacist helps
the boy for about an hour. He tells the boy everything there is to know about protection and doing it.

At the register, the pharmacist asks the boy how many he'd like to buy; a 3-pack, a 10-pack, or a family pack. The boy insists on the family
pack because he thinks he will be very busy, it being his first time and all.

That night, the boy shows up at the girl's parent's house and meets his girlfriend at the door. "Oh I'm so excited for you to meet my
parents, come on in." The boy goes inside and is taken to the dinner table where the girl's parents are seated. The boy quickly offers to say grace and bows his head. A minute passes, and the boy still deep in prayer with his head
down.

Ten minutes pass and still no movement from the boy.

Finally, after 20 minutes with his head down, the girlfriend leans over and whispers to her boyfriend, "I had no idea you were so religious."

The boy turns and whispers back, "I had no idea your father was a pharmacist."

:o)

10. Mai 2003, 05:54:04
Jet Boy TERP 
Subiectul: I need a little help too...
I'm in a tourney game of parachute checkers, and I make my move, but there is no submit button on it...I've refreshed, gone away and came back, and it's my only legal move, but no submit button...What can I do?

10. Mai 2003, 05:40:25
NightHawkEdward 
Subiectul: Re: HELP
I did thankx Harley,now should i shut down and restart my computer????????????

9. Mai 2003, 09:16:14
Kevin 
lol look at zetes ;-)

9. Mai 2003, 08:36:21
pipilo 
Subiectul: Re: congrats to fencer...
eddie: With 371 games going, you're probably one of the noodliest. :)

And I thought I was hooked on games.

8. Mai 2003, 10:35:08
Niki 
Subiectul: Re: new email
lovelysharon ... Thankyou :-) I looked everywhere but there !! knew I'd seen it somewhere ! :-)

8. Mai 2003, 10:30:45
MadMonkey 
Subiectul: CONGRATULATIONS Twins are here
Some GREAT news in life for once.

Just had a message from cariad, Panda gave birth to twins a short while ago, all is fine & they are all are healthy. :-)))

Bumble's plane should be arriving home now & then they are all off to the hospital.

I hope you will all join me in wish them all well & the best for the future.

(best start to think about the next 2 bumble lol)

Good Luck
MadMonkey

8. Mai 2003, 00:44:27
dream 
Subiectul: Re: problems accessing the site
I have no other problems with other sites, just this one, it finally loaded this morning, very slowly, from what others are saying, perhaps I have having problems as the times I can play just happen to be the busiest times of day for the site.

7. Mai 2003, 23:04:48
eddie spaghetti 
Subiectul: congrats to fencer...
i see the site now has over 5,000 players!! good to see im not the only noodlehead thats hooked to this site...haha

7. Mai 2003, 22:52:51
harley 
Have you changed any of your settings lately? I believe theres an option to take off the background PICTURE... maybe that could have affected it?

7. Mai 2003, 22:40:41
NightHawkEdward 
Subiectul: HELLLLP
I don't know why but i have no back ground colour on any of my games...

Please tell me how to fix it :o( PLEASE

NightHawk/Eddie

7. Mai 2003, 17:17:22
Dmitri King 
Subiectul: Re: problems accessing the site
Regarding hwat Tony H said--- I have to agree with him. lAst week was problematic, but the last few days I have had no trouble getting on or making moves.

7. Mai 2003, 16:40:53
lovelysharon 
Subiectul: Re: new email
if you got to my profile and right at the top there is an edit link.. does that not work?...

7. Mai 2003, 16:37:48
Niki 
Subiectul: new email
Does anyone know where I'm to go to change my email address for this site please ? I looked in settings, and my profile etc, but can't see anywhere obvious ..

7. Mai 2003, 14:16:37
macbann 
Subiectul: Re: problems accessing the site
i don't normally comment on these discussion boards, but i must say Fencer has a great site here, with the widest choice of games i've found anywhere else.
i know there are problems when the site is busy,
but i still think it's the best on the web.

7. Mai 2003, 11:21:51
MadMonkey 
Subiectul: Re: problems accessing the site
I have to agree with most of everything written below. Fencer is working hard for the site, and has it has proved it must be good, not only by the increased numbers joining, but also the ones becoming paid members. Those of us who have been here a while will remember when before we had alot of down time he increased the length of our memberships to make up for it, and as was mentioned, the site is FREE. I can fully understand the paying members for complaining though. I do think that even they would give Fencer more credit for his hard work.

I am the same as everyone, i love the site and get annoyed when i can not play my games, but not all problems can not be solved just with a few lines of programming. Hopefully when the new server is up & running things will get better for everyone.

Fencer deserves thanking for providing such a great site. The more people that become members also helps as it raises funds, then of course he will be able to increase the power of the servers etc...

In a way we have all created our own problems, as the site is so good & Fencer talks to us like humans (more than you can say for other sites). We go to him with problems that he tries to solve as soon as he can. When we ask for all these odd little options etc.... he installs them, but remember, just like page loading, Discussion Boards and all those things we use to jump around the site puts pressure on the server.

I think that Fencer posting more information on the Board would help people understand how much is involved how hard it is to keep a busy site like this up & running.

Myself, am i am with harley, blaze and the rest that try to understand, Fencer, this is a great site & can only get better & better in time.

MM

7. Mai 2003, 10:42:29
tonyh 
Subiectul: Re: problems accessing the site
dream, it is weird; I am having no problems at all, using basic modem sign-on. I assume you have no problems with other websites?

7. Mai 2003, 10:24:17
dream 
Subiectul: problems accessing the site
Ok i cant get answers elsewhere, and I know I am not the only one who has been having problems. The past couple of days it has been hell trying to get into this site, either the page will not load at all or you play a couple of moves and hit white page, or it is like watching paint dry trying to do anything here. I have had a few games time out because I simply can't sit at my computer all day and wait for the site to come back online, it is very frustrating, I understand Fencer is trying his hardest to get things happening properly here, BUT why if people are having problems, is the time clock not turned OFF. It is pretty offputting to time out on games which normally would not have happened, I happily paid my membership, but at present the frustration of not being able to play is making me feel like not bothering anymore, or perhaps coming back in 6 months when the problems are solved. Either that or use up all my vacation days so my games don't time out...

7. Mai 2003, 09:14:32
pipilo 
Subiectul: Re:
This site is so well organized and detailed. Hats off to Fencer!

7. Mai 2003, 08:50:16
blazeinshore 
I second harley on the feedback issue! So thanks for the update Fencer. I look forward to the techie info too :)

I think everyone should be aware that not only does Fencer have a day-job, he also has a family. In fact it's amazing and admirable how he has found the time to put together this brilliant site and also the time he devotes to improving and stabolizing the site now it's here.

I would ask everyone to be patient. Fencer has little enough time as it is and for what it's worth I think he's doing a great job!

Also, a brief note to other brain pawns... we have to remember that Fencer is providing us with a free service here, which is very good of him; therefore much as downtime has been frustrating I really don't think it's constructive to criticise too much. It's a service and one which we brain pawns are not even paying for. I, for one, appreciate the times when we are able to connect and make our moves!

Thanks again Fencer, for all the time you devote in addition to your other committments, and also for not being a stranger to us on the boards - as harley rightly says, we really do appreciate the feedback!

Blaze

7. Mai 2003, 08:29:28
harley 
Oh heck Fencer, if you post technical info make it something us wood heads can understand!! LMAO! You know, like "that blue thingy whats plugged into the green board makes that switch there work"!! Hee hee!! Only kidding, you go for it, I can look up what I dont understand, might be a good learning experience for me!
BTW, we all know you're working hard on eveything and appreciate it all, but even more we appreciate the feedback we get from you. That means more than a problem-free site (IS there such a thing??).

7. Mai 2003, 08:22:07
Bernice 
Subiectul: Re: Fencer:)
You are a sweetie :0)...now there is sumpin you prolly dint want to hear LOL.
Yes I do think you should post as much info as you can to the other site :)...not all would understand but those of us who do have a little bit of knowledge would understand.
You must get sick of the complaints :(
at least we can talk to you :)

7. Mai 2003, 08:19:16
Fencer 
Btw, do you think that it would be interesting to post some technical information about this site to BrainKing.info? Probably yes because some problems are not explainable without several low-level relations.

7. Mai 2003, 08:16:17
Fencer 
Well, ahem, what should I say? Although it doesn't look like that, I am still trying to improve the site performance, it is my top-priority job related to BrainKing.com. But I have to do something for living too and it is time-consuming as well :-)
Anyway, you are right about the outdated BrainKing.info. I will try to add new information today or tomorrow.

7. Mai 2003, 08:09:09
Bernice 
Subiectul: on a lighter note :)
thought for the day.........

Birthdays are good for you,
the more you have the longer you live

7. Mai 2003, 08:02:47
Bernice 
Subiectul: Re: Im annoyed !!!
and this is going to sound like a cracked record LOL....I love the new features, but getting here to use them is more important in my book...
I have said this before....but....I know for some this would be important...
DO I REALLY NEED all the options on the left when most of it is on the right????
Doesnt someone think this could be duplicationg things or is it me.
OK
Ill shut up now :)

7. Mai 2003, 07:57:11
Angus 
Subiectul: Re: Im annoyed !!!
I have to second Bernice on this, it took me a couple of hours to get back on, after being "booted off" while playing. The new options on making moves are nice, but I'd rather see the efforts go to just enabling us to get on this site in the first place. It's not a matter anymore of making some moves on my games, but whether or not I can get on the site.

7. Mai 2003, 07:50:37
Bernice 
Subiectul: Im annoyed !!!
you are all going to think I am a complete whinger, especially not being a paid up member.
Today It has taken me an hour to get here...at the moment i have played the six games that were waiting, no tournament games were there for me, so I would assume others are having the same problems.
I checked out the INFO site and the last post to there was for mid april....Every time I have problems, I check there but there is never any news :(
I also noticed that one of my tourney partners timed out on his games with me...
This is becoming more than a bad joke, and more like a b loody nuisance (excuse language)

6. Mai 2003, 03:39:47
goofball38 
Subiectul: THANKS FENCER
I love the new options in the game...you are the greatest...thanks to all the people who work so hard on this site..You all rock.

Love MEG

5. Mai 2003, 18:03:28
pipilo 
Subiectul: Re: pipilo
I thought we had all those options already, but with more buttons. I liked being able to go to the main page or to the next game without much fuss. It's no big deal. So far, after a week or so, I'm greatly impressed by this site.

5. Mai 2003, 15:35:18
harley 
Subiectul: pipilo
Put it on the default for the one you do most(move and go to next game in my case) then you're mostly only pressing it once.
For the extra click you have a lot of extra options.

5. Mai 2003, 15:28:00
pipilo 
Subiectul: Re:
It was nicer without the drop box. Now it takes two clicks to move instead of one (unless you always want to do the default).

5. Mai 2003, 11:54:19
Fencer 
:-)

5. Mai 2003, 11:05:38
MadMonkey 
Subiectul: lol Wiz
ok - Panic over lol, all stay calm :-)

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