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Princess Alison: No its not strange, I deleted it myself. I wrote it, and accidentaly posted before considering my words. When I saw Fencer's replay I deleted it. But is true, I think you are right:) Hope itll be solved soon.
Fencer: I think that you're missing the point of their complaints. The system appears to have logical inconsistancies and is applied in an abitrary way. Even you say that you're going to change it, so that would appear to me that you have problems with how it is set up also. You are being rather secretive about how you'll change it. I, for one, will take it on faith that you'll improve this Brains business, but I think Princess Alison would just like a reassurance that when the new system is in place she'll get something for helping to recruit some new members that she got to sign up recently. After reading her posts, it doesn't make much sense to me that a refered member if they join as a Knight will earn someone some Brains, but won't earn them any Brains if the referal pays more and joins as a Rook? This doesn't seem logical to me and I'm sure that's all she's talking about.
Pawns get to play upto 20 games. They can play in only a single tournament at a time.
Rooks get to create fellowships and start tournaments.
They get to play 1,000,000 games and join 1,000,000 tournaments.
The Knight cannot create even a single fellowship or tournament.
The Knight can play upto 50 games - only 2½ times as many games as a Pawn.
The Knight can participate in only ONE tournament at a time per game type. [In theory that's over 70 tournaments but for a Knight who only plays one type of game that means only one tournament - same as a Pawn. Or if they play two games types, only twice what a Pawn is allowed]
Yet the fee for a Knight is over 60% of the Rook's.
Is this fair?
I'm going to join a tournament to see if I can win a Rook membership. With 125 players it so far and another month before it starts, the chance of several snails and turtles playing is extremely high. So this tournament could last, what, a year?
That means that for the next year, perhaps, I will be unable to play games in any another tournament because I'll mostly be waiting for others to play their games.
The Knight gets on the order of twice what a Pawn gets.
The Rook gets everything possible.
The Pawn pays nothing.
Yet the fee for a Knight is over 60% of the Rook's.
How can this be fair?
I suggest, at the least, that Knights should have a higher limit on games and tournaments. And not per game type but overall. A player who wishes only to play chess variations, or line games, or backgammon types should not be penalised because of that choice.
Fencer: Just but i still lose 100 brains regardless of whether you are changing your referral programme or not, im not going to get those 100 brains am i?
Fencer: Im sorry Fencer but i still think it is wrong. Somebody has been awarded 100 brains without doing anything. I have quite a few people on my friends list who are looking to become paying members,, but if they go for Rook i wont get anything, nothing tiddly poop, but YOU get your money, so i am not asking for much am i????
Referrign to recent comment about the brain referral programme. Is it really right, that a person who didnt make a referral is allowed to receive the BRAINS that i wasnt allowed to have??????????????????
My head turned red when i realised that pretty soon after i wrote that. I will became soon brain rook. Why i use that way, one might ask. That why that my dad is little bit paranoid maybe with his credit card.
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Does this mean that from finland you can not pay like this. If mean it truly mean that from bank from finland? Why so it should be pretty same which bank the money comes from, should't it?
I would just like to say thank you to Wellywales for his kind words. He did not have to write or should i say type them, he did because he feels just as strongly about the naff brainking referral programme as i , and many others do. I really think it should be reviewed.
It should be known that Princess Alison has encouraged 3 people to sign up this month including myself, she has charm and is a pleasure to play games with, I feel let down that she is punished because one of the signers chose a rook membership, Alison has helped this site and should be awarded more for this not less, I am sure others would agree and encourage there opinions and support foe Alison, I would not blame Alison if she did not encourage others to join from now on.
Fencer: If a knight is able to get someone to buy a rook membership, I would think it would be good to at least give them some brains. Maybe 75% of what a rook would get would be good.
Otherwise a Knight might try harder to get the person to only get a knight membership themself - which of course a rook would be beter for the site.
BuilderQ: each paying user of BrainKing.com (i.e. everybody with Brain Knight or higher level) can join our referral program. He/she earns a given amount of Brains for each new paying user that refers to him/her on the How to pay page. This is the list of all possibilities:
* Brain Knight - earns 25 Brains for new six-months Brain Knight or 50 Brains for one-year Brain Knight.
* Brain Rook/Maharajah - earns 25 Brains for new six-months Brain Knight, 50 Brains for one-year Brain Knight or six-months Brain Rook, 100 Brains for one-year Brain Rook, 2000 Brains for six-months Brain Maharajah and 5000 Brains for one-year Brain Maharajah.