fukuhara: 33 left.

I've just made a quick look to the database and 51 red codes are already used. So there is still a time but it is getting shorter.

Skeeky: There is no set rule for such situations. Send me a message with details and we'll see what we can do.

Gabriel Almeida: Now it's your chance.

fukuhara: There will be an easter egg. This year.

Gabriel Almeida: I will add it soon.

Roberto Silva: I have a better solution than to rewrite the tournament system. It just takes some time to complete.

coan.net: Yes, you are right. Either solution would require programming and testing, which I currently don't have time for. Anyway, I don't think it's a critical issue when people can play unlimited number of tournaments.

Gabriel Almeida: Well, I think we could make one more membership action with colour codes. Or something like that.

Gabriel Almeida: Yes, it starts with a three.

toedder: Thanks.

MadMonkey: Can you please test move and go to pawn opponent?

MadMonkey: It works for me.

MadMonkey: I have been wondering how I could miss the "go to next pawn member". Now I know. Looks like I had disabled this option on my Settings page and completely forgot about it, so I couldn't see it during the testing process. I'll look at it now.

Aganju: Since I made a quick restart, it was probably down for about 15 seconds.

MadMonkey: Let's try it now.

MadMonkey: Go to game with most moves will be removed for performance issue reasons. Everything else can be done.

MadMonkey: Ah, that be easy. Anything else?

MadMonkey: What should it do, exactly? Just go to the first game that belongs to a team match?

MadMonkey: That works, doesn't it? It selects a next team match game. Not always from the same team match, though.

Move and go to next game with online/offline/friend opponent should be working again. Hopefully.

Thad: I removed it because the algorithm was written very ineffectively and caused occasional performance problems. When I find out a better solution, it will be added again.

(V): Because I do it only when I decide to do so. It is my site and my decisions. And I am not interested in your messages. Spamming is not allowed.

(V): Maaaan, I don't care how many people pay for memberships. BrainKing has been living on a more interesting source of income for more than 5 years. So it's not about money, trust me.

(V): Dude, you don't want to see an answer because no matter what I write, you won't like it. You know it, I know it. Ergo, answering is illogical. I haven't noticed a question, anyway.

Let me give you some hints:

1) This is a game site, not a chat site. You are free to play games, create tournaments, join fellowships etc. Regarding discussion and private messages, you have no rights here.

2) I am quite busy with more important things and I don't have time to observe and evaluate every clash of idiots. When I decide that someone is abusing other people or simply acts as a moron (periodically), I just click the ban button and don't think about it too much. Deal with it.

3) There is a small group of troublemakers who continuously make problems and probably think that it's their right to post anything they want and send as many annoying messages as they want. Then, there is a big group of normal people (more than 95%) who are happy to play games and never make any problems. I don't care how many morons of the first group leave BrainKing. In fact, I would be more than happy if all of them get out of here and never come back.

As long as I own this site, these rules are set and won't be changed. No matter how unpopular it could be.

(V): This board is not for your personal problems.
And, shortly said, troublemakers who went too far are always punished. No exceptions.

Hrqls: That should be easy.

MadMonkey: When I have some time, I'll try to make a script that would automatically fix winner lists.

skyw7: It's been a long time since I played go for the last time, so I am no longer sure how to determine dead stones. Please send me the game ID and coordinates of opponent's dead stones.

MadMonkey: I can hardly explain what I don't understand myself. But my guess is that you can use Brains to pay for tournament fees in order to win more Brains, so it is probably considered as gambling, although there is no way to change Brains back to real money. Don't ask me what sort of moron came with this ridiculous conclusion.

rod03801: I am afraid not. Some companies (PayPal) seem to be too paranoid to understand that it is not a gambling. There is no point to fight a red tape.

Thom27: Everybody can do this and Brains are deducted from your account.
Find more information here: http://brainking.info/archives/608-Prize-tournaments-redesigned.html

(V): Yes, it happens to me too. I will replace it with some Flash sound player later.

There is always something to learn.
If you want to build a multilayer system, never use Cherokee web server as a front gateway. Especially not on a 64 bit environment.

Luckily, there are always alternative solutions.

Anyone still observes differences between brainking.com and brainking.cz average response time?

crosseyed: It means that database server has been restarted and it usually takes a while. I don't see a point in commenting every unusual event that happens here, especially after I wrote about it in Server News.

coan.net: Yes, I think that image loading could be the source of problems for some people. We will try to tune a couple of parameters and see if it helps.

crosseyed: Actually, I've got messages from you only and nobody else is complaining. Anyway, if you don't get an instant response, it usually means that I am either too busy at the moment or I don't know the response yet.

crosseyed: As I have said, our tests prove that BrainKing is not to blame. However, I can investigate and ask some network gurus if they come up with new ideas. That's all I can promise.

MadMonkey: I keep it in mind.

Bottom line:

As I have mentioned in the Server News, we are still in a process of tuning some servers parameters, just to make sure that everything is balanced to the best performance. However, it is very unlikely that if a problem occurs and it is actually caused by the site, it would affect only a few users. In 10 years of our existence, we had solved many bad situations and all of them had been caused by global issues - affecting the whole site.

By the way, I never said that I am the best programmer in the world who can solve every possible problem. If a buggy situation just happens and, after trying my best, I find out that I am out of ideas and no solution works, well, we must learn to live with it.

I have a 30 Mbps cable connection at home and although it is a very fast line, there are still many sites that work incredibly slow for me. I don't complain, I take it as a fact.

Dalmatiner: I've just checked your account, to make sure nothing is wrong with it. Logged in within a fraction of second, opened some games, browsed through various pages. No problems at all.

Guys, please. What do you want from me, miracles?

As you can see, there are many people who confirm that BrainKing is accessible and fast for them, as usual. Our internal tests that are running continuously show that all functions work normally, there is no overload and data throughput is smooth, showing no anomalies.

I don't say that people who has problems are idiots or don't know how to use their computers. On the contrary, it is quite possible that BrainKing is slow for some of them, because that's how the web works, naturally. My duty is to keep the site alive and, if a problem shows up, try to solve it. From our perspective, nothing unusual happens here and something wrong happens outside the server, we can hardly do anything about it.

crosseyed: From a user's point of view, nothing has actually changed, even the server's IP address is still the same. Host tracker confirms that BrainKing is accessible from everywhere.
As temporary workaround, ask them to try another domain, e.g. BrainKing.cz, BrainKing.de etc., just in case it is a local DNS problem.

MadMonkey: A small bug, most likely. I'll check it.

MadMonkey: Yes, sure. I was doing some urgent things but I hope I will find time for this one.

MadMonkey: Actually it works but it only tries to find a game of the same team match. I know that's not the expected functionality. I will fix it next week, just leaving for a couple of days.

beach: Right now I can suggest to wait for the next update. I think that I can add more parameters to the filter.

Bernice: Ten Ways To Fight Hate.
Anyway, the choose game feature works for me.

Yes, I have overlooked this one, mostly because I don't use that feature so I forgot we had it here. It will be easily fixed.