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Thank you harley. I just went there and was able to activate vacation days for next Tuesday and Wednesday. Ah, the joys of hearings.
As I've gleaned from the discussion about the use of vacation days, if I'm able to play those days, it'll be OK to do so. Sounds like a good way of doing of to me.
Where are they located? I might have need of such a feature the next time I travel. I timed out two games awhile back because Vasailia's library wasn't open on Friday and by the time I got to Bakersfield the games had timed out.
Maybe, you should be prevented from playing on a vaction day. That way you can't be selective on what games to play. With a comming off vaction day that allows you to play that day but then you can't take vacation afterwords.
I personally don't care much about it, I rarely look at games where someone else it going to move. If they are slow, I rarely notice.
:) i use notes for that .. but i have to admit its tough in espionage .. also because there is a small bug when you go back in the history .. but still this use of auto vacation could be what people call abuse as its lagging the game
Thanks Fencer for the talk to Thad.I,am not one for posting took over Purple music made it double and i guess there is a few peaple got upset.sorry AL or MASTERMIND.
Truthfully? Because they are Espionage games and I need to go thru and figure out what pieces my opponents have left and what have been captured. I wish there were a captured pieces section, but this is opening up another can of worms that probably belongs on Feature Requests or the Espionage board.
the question is why you are using vacation days to prevent those games to time out while you are playing other games .. why dont you play the most urgent ones first ?
right now i think the abusers are just using their left overs before the year ends .. what about limiting the number of auto vacation days to 5 per month as well ? that would make it a max of 2 times (i think)
Hrlqs: He cannot do it more than 6 times, considering the max number of vacation days :-) And the perfect solution does not exist, of course. We are just trying to find the best approximation.
(although i dont see the problem of slowed down games for rooks, but thats probably because i can hardly fit my games in my spare time nowadays, this site is much too addicting :))
5 days should be enough ... i guess i do have to set some fixed vacation days then ... which i was hoping to be done automatically as well (yep i am lazy :))
(hmm could it be done so that only on (team) tournaments it is limited to 5 days ?)
what if someone uses 5 auto vacation days, then makes 1 move, and uses 5 auto vacation days again (plus of course the max of time per move)
Some are simply bothered by games that take 'too long'. I personally am bothered when the game moves so slowly that I can't recall what my plan of attack was when I made my last move, especially when the game is at a critical stage. I'm sure other rooks can add more reasons.
Hrqls: What makes players bothered is probably the fact that such situations slow down the affected tournaments and team tournaments. But, as I already said, all possible negative effects should be eliminated by applying a restriction of using auto-vacation in max. 5 days in a row. I think it's a sufficient time to make an arrangement even if you are in a hospital. Just ask a friend or a relative to send me an e-mail with your situation.
Mastermind, I'm not for or against auto vacation. Personally, it doesn't bother me when people abuse it. But I can see why it does bother other people, so I wouldn't be opposed to any changes. I'm firmly on the fence for this one! :o)
Auto-vacation abuse DOES bother many rooks. You keep saying that it doesn't. I don't want to repeat myself, so please scroll down a bit to my post about it earlier today.
take it easy mastermind ... everyone is just giving their thoughts about the auto vacation .. not reason to get personal
i like the auto vacation days as well .. it saved me when i couldnt get online because my gfs grandmother died .. although my opponent was nice enough to lift the game over the weekend .. the auto vacation days could have saved me
i honestly dont see any problems which rooks can have with it .. but as i said before pawns and knights might get limited in their game play when an opponent drags a game on for too long
so for me i love the feature .. but when i think about what it can do for others .. it might need some tuning :)
Fencer modified holidays and gave 30 days a year as they wish as they paid for as for myself my computer was hacked and shut down for 5 days.I was lucky enough to click on fencers new auto holidays which im running a team tournament were as one of my members that play on the same computer did not click on to the auto system where as he could not final moves on games he had won in a tournament.Now if it was not fencers auto holidays we would have lost alot more games thanks to kevins thought i agree with them 100% if im not mistaken brainking had to suspend time also.So why was holidays taken away when one of my members didnt go on auto holidays lose a team tournament game due to time outs.Harley who is running this site THE BIG BOSS not you.Everyones holidays are theres and not yours so i thought fencer gave the people the options to take there holidays when they wish or in case of a emergency.
the 'problem' right now is that people can use their last vacation days towards the end of the year as they will be gone anyway when the new year starts (i guess?)
personally i have no problems with people using autovacation on me .. the time out just takes longer *shrug*
i can see pawns having problems with it though
(and knights if it happens in a team tournament)
Making it just for 5 days in a row could be the solution. And special cases [when someone is in a hospital, etc.] can be solved individually, as usually.
When you renew your membership and want to send a money order or personal check, is it made payable to Brainking or the service rep handling the transaction?
It would be nice to be able to create/join a tournament where vacations arent allowed.
But now that I think about it more, many tournaments take a year or more to finish, and it wouldnt be right to go a whole year or more, only to lose to a time out because they are going on vacation.
I can see if someone does have an emergency, that it probably wouldnt be a big deal if they were to lose by a time out, cause they would probably not care too much about losing a game as they would be busy tending to what ever the emergency was...
But not a big worry anyway, as someone with 600 games who purposly/ unable to move before time out, will run out of their vacation time pretty quickly anyway.
All I can say about this auto vacation is that the BIG BOSS of this site must have wanted it on there for a reason. Not knowing that some people would over use it just to get people upset over it. And the person or people using it may also think if I wait long time on taking a move the person I'm playing may get mad a quite the game, and I can get a free win. Now that I have said my $2 worth back to my corner I go.
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