I think of Fencer as a father figure...who doesn't give an allowance to any of his 9000 plus children

I play on a webtv, but occassionally I get to the library and play on there for a little while and the site is fast then. The speed might depend on your system. However yes this site needs a better server which takes money which means we can help by selling this site to others who are pawns or others we meet on other sites. I was a pawn under a different name for a year before I was able to get some extra mad money and now I am a brain knight. I thought about a rook but felt with my schedule I wouldnt be able to handle the load of games that you can play as a rook. I play between 35-40 normal games and the rest of the space is filled by tournament play.

Yes, His wife cole. You jealous?? LOL

What do you mean?
We're not your full time job?...blink..blink..
Is there someone else?

There is no doubt this site has so much more upside than IYT. I played at IYT for a good year before discovering this site. I found a link to this site from a message board posting on IYT. Fencer clearly cares more about the players on his site and gives even the pawns more than IYT ever did. I started playing on IYT when it was 40 moves a day. Now I get 25. IYT is a dormant site with no new innovative ideas or games. Fencer has been doing this such short time and already has more features and has more games and creative ideas for games and new features that IYT will never have. This site is just starting its rise while IYT long ago reached its peak and now is falling down the toilet. I know you are not advocating for IYT LJ. However when Fencer gets all the improvements to the site and the better server up and running, look out. Some creative marketing and this site will be unstoppable as long as he continues to devote his free time and energy to this site. I am sure he will.

YEs LongJohn but how many of those players have paid memberships. I know they have a link with the MSNTV people. If you have an MSNTV (webtv) and you go to the games section their site will be linked in with some of the games. SO many of their users either are or were webtv people. Like I said I only play their part time for the games that Fencer has YET to implement but is on his todo list.

I play a few games at IYT that are not available here yet such as the battleboats plus and dark battleboats, sabotage and variations and I play blackhole reversi and ITalian Checkers. Those games are not here yet. I stress the word YET!!! I see some of them coming here in 2004. I would never pay IYT money though. THey want 30 bucks for a membership. THere are limitation on games with that unlike a brain rook for 28 USD here costs.

Dont believe everything you hear LJ. IYT isnt that well off. If they were chu wouldnt have had to lay off his ad people and other staff. His stats show hundreds of thousands of users online but it doesnt tell you just how many of them havent been back to the site in years!

I know its tempting to compare BrainKing to other games sites, but I would ask that you don't make insulting remarks about other sites. They are not here to defend themselves and it isn't helpful to BrainKing. Thanks :o)

Quote "It is the people/personalities who make BK what it is".
The infrastructure helps promote this.
IYT was populated by an incredible number of wackos and weirdos who crept out at night...
I may not agree with much that is said, but I defend the right for people to say it..
Here I get good games, and socialise as much or as little as I choose.
While the character of the site remains... so do I...

I think everyone agrees that you and Liquid are doing an exceptional job,Fencer! I think theres alot of wishfull thinking is all:)

I just need more time. I still cannot have BrainKing as my full time job.

I agree BBW..in fact,Fencer even has a discussion board for suggestions ;)

Well I think it is always good to look at ways to improve the site. If you don't try new things, this site will start to get "stale" and boring.... which is what had happen for me at IYT - which I don't think had a new thing there for a year or more!

... and some of the things that are removed right now as I understand it is just temporary - until the server problem is fixed or updated.

I agree....don't change a thing!

ROFL
I like the dice just the way they are, thank you! :o)

im in total agreement with you rod! why change anything i like it just the way it is.

I agree. People are talking about eliminating many of the features (some unique) that brought me here to Brainking! I don't want to see any of it gone!

I'm so proud of Flooze....wipes away tears of joy.
What a gal!

why not just make it work the way its supposed to? I'm always up for innovations..but I like BrainKing just the way it is! Thats why I became a member here...and I'm sure alot of other folks did too!
But hey...since everyone is asking,any way I can get better dice in backgammn? Floosie is kicking my butt!! LMKBO! ;Þ

emergency vacations - if you mean like LittleGolem.net has, where if you run out of time, 1 day is added (which I think GoldToken also now does) - I believe Fencer has something like that on his list.

Which basicly lets say something happens (bad weather knocks out power for 5 days) - and you are unable to log on to any comptuer, as long as you have vacation days left, it will automaticly use 1 of them instead of timing out games.

I use archived games in links regularly.

harley / NHB : Gripping, collosal, action packed, twists at every turn with a surprise ending. A must see!

i think there should be emergency vacations!

I will think out some search system for archived games. There is still an unused "Search" menu item :-)

Thanks, and a big thank you to noholdsbarred who took the time to visit me and brave my troop of kids and pets to do the interview! He's spent a lot of time on that, and I'm amazed by the result. Thanks, noholds :o)

Bernice, I sometimes look at archived games if I'm trying to remember a conversation I had with someone - but I have so many now I often give up very quickly! I also look at what games I have played with other people, I think thats a nifty little feature on other peoples profiles!

Fencer.....would getting rid of "Archived Games" free up some space.....I tried to view game 1 between you and Liquid, but it was a private game but I could see your game with Ang at game number 10.....there are one hell of a lot of games archived it that is the case :)
Just a suggestion and can anybody tell me how often they look at archived games?
Open question to all....

*edit*
also why not cut message boards off at 1000 messages stored....that gives a hell of a lot of reading to any new person to a message board and unless it is a really long discussion, the topic would be way past...

this was a great interview!

I often look at a game being played by random members currently online and it turns out to be very interesting, I think it's one of the best features of the site and I'd even like to get rid of "private" games as they strike me as antisocial. I dont see how there is any intrusion of privacy with viewing online players, if we could read the messages they were reading or writing I could understand but just to see where they are and to be able to view any game they might be playing is socially integrative, whereas secrecy is socially divisive.

The only thing i can see against the hide function is basically as Vikings & rod say, but not so much in the case of Kights & Rooks as they could be playing alot more games.
What about a pawn with a max of 20 games AND alot of there opponents decided to use this hide feature. They would look at opponents on-line and just go again as there would be no reason for them to stay (apart from hope lol).

good point Vikings!

I like the on-line -opponents just to see if it is worth hanging around after I've made my moves and read boards

Good job! :)

I look forward to the BKR's being back on the main page..
And I want to place my vote for KEEPING on-line opponents. I use it CONSTANTLY.. Most of the time, those are the games I play first. (the ones against opponents that are online at the same time as me.) It helps me to always have games to play.
And I too like being nosey and seeing what others are doing. :-)

Great job Harley and Noholds from the nosey one that asked the most questions. hehe

Amazing Job!!! Well done and great reading. I loved it!!!

Definately a great interview Harley & NHB! Thanks :o)

Great Interview NHB and Harley :o))

not show that you're here. i don't like the feature that we know what everyone is doing on the site, i would think of it as a privacy feature.

Brilliant Noholdsbarred :)

And thank you harley for and interesting read too

What exactly should this feature do?

are there any plans for an optional hide button feature? there's something like that at iyt. i think that would offer the privacy that some players want.

The Sneak preview is here for those who are awake.
Harleys Interview

Lyth and Pedro...why don't you check out the uncensored debates.... you could give us some solid arguements for why you want to ge rid of Bush instead of just the general comment "get rid of Bush, yeah, me too..."

good.. i like it just the way it was.. and i like being nosey. dont change anything Fencer :)

They will reappear in the future.

I miss not seeing how I am doing with my bkrs at a glance, so I for one, would like them to reappear in the future :o)

LOL! I'll go along with that, Pedro!

There are no BK averages anywhere at BK...I like the "On-line opponents" and I also use it very often...get rid of Bush

I like the BK averages...Get rid of the 'Whose on line' or 'On-line Opponets'...rather nosey areas to begin with.

At any time, you could have went into your setting and turned them off. I personally like having them on so I can look at how I'm doing in certain games - but also agree to leave them off until the server is doing beter.

Great, keep the BKRs off forever; then I don't have to page down to get at the games.