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Subject: Re: Timeouts

Czuch: I also don't like it when people play with their vacation because they have "way too many games". If it is because of the few bad apples then I understand completely why it happened. Of course, I think I have too many with over 200. I try to keep it around 100 normally...

10. July 2009, 01:36:36

wetware

Subject: Re: Timeouts

rabbitoid: LOL...OpenOffice.org 3.1 is available now.

9. July 2009, 21:03:30

rabbitoid

Subject: Re: Timeouts

Czuch: hear hear

9. July 2009, 20:27:22

Subject: Re: Timeouts

tinksbell: The thing that really gets to me, is that it is because of a few rotten apples that spoil things for the majority of players. My guess is that you had a legit reason to be doing what you did, but there are a few who use that as a tactic to purposely slow down the pace of their games?

9. July 2009, 15:02:15

Subject: Re: Timeouts

Czuch: It seems I learned that the hard way, but I was trying to get a little more time since the past week has been too hectic for me to keep up with everything... I would still think that adding vacation would not take away time... I think I would have been happier if all that time had not been added last week with the server down...

9. July 2009, 14:39:12

Subject: Re: Timeouts

tinksbell: Like fencer said... it is always recommended to make changes after competing your moves, not before

9. July 2009, 14:27:20

Subject: Re: Timeouts

pauloaguia: I added vacation days. I did not take any away. And that is when they changed. It should have added time to games not taken it away...

9. July 2009, 13:41:13

AbigailII

Subject: Re:

MadMonkey: I haven't seen anything strange with my clocks. I did notice that in quite a number of games my opponent timed out the last few days. But in all those cases, they are players who make it a habit to only move if they have a few hours left to move. The past hour, 3 games where I made the last move in June 29. And earlier this week, a handful of games against a famous player who was spending a fortune buying vacation days. So, *I*'m not complaining. If the side effect of a few hours of down time is that snails are timing out, I can only wish for more down time.

9. July 2009, 12:11:04

Subject: Re: Timeouts

rabbitoid:

More features always goes along with more bugs.
I am not superstitious.

9. July 2009, 11:41:57

rabbitoid

Subject: Re: Timeouts

Fencer: Better not name it 3.0, all releases named 3.0 tend to have so many bugs in them they have to be followed up by a 3.1 soon after. Notable examples are MS word, MS windows, Firefox. If I were a release manager I'd treat a 3.0 as a 13th floor, something to be jumped over

9. July 2009, 11:40:03

Subject: Re:

Modified by MadMonkey (9. July 2009, 11:40:38)

Fencer: Yep, connection and site flying at present

, just glad i noticed it then and not in half hour

lol

OH, and i am using Prism rather than a web browser

9. July 2009, 11:39:31

Snoopy

Subject: Re:

MadMonkey: yes weve all been thou the same problem
i had over 500 games all with the same time other day over 200 this morning but now ive moved on them they should go back to normal timings

9. July 2009, 11:37:48

Subject: Re:

MadMonkey: Only 38 games to play at this moment. It should not be a problem.

After that, all times should be synchronized.

9. July 2009, 11:27:34

And again, i come across a batch of games (only about 70 this time) all with 54 minutes before timout.

Hope connection speed is ok today

9. July 2009, 09:56:10

Subject: Re: Timeouts

pauloaguia: I think the one that caused your problem is already fixed. This one is probably a consequence of the recent short downtime and BrainKing's automatic attempt to compensate the time loss.
Well, it's another thing to improve for the 3.0 version.

Anyway, it is always recommended to change vacation days after playing all games, not before.

9. July 2009, 09:51:38

pauloaguia

Subject: Re: Timeouts

tinksbell: Did you happen to change your vacation days?
I got that, some time ago when I removed a vacation day from the end of my vacations. Many games of mine (the non Fischer clock ones) went suddenly from 3 days left to -8 or -9 days left. Since that day was already marked as a vacation day I ended up not timing up on any of those games, but I got quite a scare.

8. July 2009, 22:37:10

Subject: Re: Timeouts

MadMonkey: Its particularly depressing as I was going to finally win some of those hard to win Pente & Keryo Pente games, they were in tournaments.
:-(

8. July 2009, 22:33:28

Subject: Re: Timeouts

tinksbell: Yesterday (or was it the day before) i got here to find i had 120 games ALL with the same time on and they were all timing out 35 minutes after i got here. I tried my best, but still had time outs

I presume this was something to do when the site was down the other day, i can not see any other way to end up with all those games having the same time

8. July 2009, 22:28:11

Subject: Re: Timeouts

Bernice: I am not sure if any of them were, but it should not have changed from 14 hours to move to -4day. It is impossible to fix that on the users end...

8. July 2009, 22:20:14

Bernice

Subject: Re: Timeouts

Modified by Bernice (8. July 2009, 22:20:39)

tinksbell: now I dont know about fischers clock but are you playing games using that? might be the answer...............

8. July 2009, 22:12:47

Subject: Timeouts

I just got timed out on 6 games, an hour ago I had 14 hours on all the games. Very confused on what is happening to the system... & disappointed. Not sure what to do about it...

5. July 2009, 19:14:08

Subject: Re: BrainKing on Facebook

Czuch: I don't like Twitter.

5. July 2009, 19:01:06

Subject: Re: BrainKing on Facebook

Fencer: Why not Twitter?

5. July 2009, 16:29:39

http://www.facebook.com/pages/BrainKing/113831815814

Subject: BrainKing on Facebook

For those who do not read BrainKing.info blog.

I have started a BrainKing page at Facebook and it is the recommended place to join our discussion about the upcoming new version of BrainKing. Everybody is welcome to add own suggestions or opinions.

5. July 2009, 00:04:09

Subject: Re: Firefox 3.5

Fencer: And by the way, if you use Mozilla's Prism brainking is loadssssss faster

(one sad drawback is though you can not have any add-ons)

2. July 2009, 23:38:00

Subject: Re:

Fencer: thanks for the explanation

2. July 2009, 18:32:17

Subject: Firefox 3.5

By the way, BrainKing works fine with Firefox 3.5. I would say it is even a little faster.

2. July 2009, 16:18:18

Subject: Re:

beach:

It's a side effect of the recovery system in case of temporarily disabled timeouts. It tries to balance the time left but does not count with weekend and vacation days.
It will be self-fixed when you make a move.

I think that I will announce the BrainKing Facebook page soon, because I want to use it for instant and quick messages of this kind.

2. July 2009, 14:28:15

2 days are now being added as of this morning last night all my 3 day games were over 4 days 23 which is what they should have been this morning I log on and all those games are 2 days 23 hrs so I lost time not gained time, talked to a couple of other people and they have the same thing, and all games should not have had the same amount of time this morning, they are all played at different times

2. July 2009, 14:25:35

Pedro Martínez

Subject: Re:

beach: Well, I have noticed that 2 days have been added to all of my games. Maybe you should dig a little deeper in the list of your games to find those. :)

2. July 2009, 13:50:55

I have over 100 games that do not show on either my turn or my oppontents turn

2. July 2009, 13:46:01

Subject: Re:

beach: I noticed games that had 17hrs last night are not listed & I did not time out. I am confused & concerned.

2. July 2009, 13:19:07

Modified by beach (2. July 2009, 13:24:38)

anyone else notice the times for games moves changed on the games today, 3 day games that should read 4 days 23 hrs changed back to 2 days 23 hrs also when I make a move in these games it goes to 2 days 23 hrs, my weekend days are Sat and Sun so they should go to 4 days 23 hrs, something has to be wrong with the clocks, when I logged in this morning all my games were at the same time 2 days 23 hrs

1. July 2009, 17:29:09

Pedro Martínez

Subject: Re: Connection issues

Hrqls:

1. July 2009, 13:20:51

alexlee

Subject: Re: Connection issues

Fencer:
Ok from U.S. now too

1. July 2009, 13:09:11

Hrqls

Subject: Re: Connection issues

Fencer: out for about 1 hour for me as well .. toughest hour of the day :)

1. July 2009, 13:03:31

pauloaguia

Subject: Re: Connection issues

Fencer: I can get here now. Been out for about an hour or so...

1. July 2009, 11:55:10

Subject: Connection issues

Due to a broken optical link (somewhere in Prague) BrainKing is currently not accessible for the most users outside Czech Republic. Game timeouts have been stopped until the problem is solved.

30. June 2009, 17:48:09

awesome

Subject: Re: People who resign

rod03801:I missed that..my bad..sorry AbigailII...

30. June 2009, 04:26:16

Subject: Re: People who resign

Czuch: I have done some construction in my life, and I have personally manned a mounted saw, many times actually, but that is just me...

30. June 2009, 03:41:09

Subject: Re: People who resign

gogul: Ever man a mounted saw? Ay, forever.

29. June 2009, 22:18:48

Bernice

Gosh the drugs must be extra strong today

29. June 2009, 21:05:31

gogul

Subject: Re: People who resign

tfra11: Ever saw a Man mounted? Nay, never.

29. June 2009, 20:33:50

rabbitoid

Subject: Re: 63 !

AbigailII: Right. divide again by 8.

29. June 2009, 20:27:40

Subject: Re: People who resign

rod03801: It was more than simply an inaccurate generalization, it was flat out a misrepresentation

29. June 2009, 20:24:42

rod03801

Subject: Re: People who resign

Czuch: Well whatever, lol. I wasn't thinking it all the way out. Her point still was that games aren't played out all the way, if they don't need to be.

If you haven't read the whole thread, you will see where she is coming from, if you do.

I'm as American as any other American, and I have certainly resigned games that are mathematically impossible for me to win, and I feel comfortable saying that probably most others do as well. It was an inaccurate generalization on the part of tfra11.

29. June 2009, 20:19:18

Subject: Re: People who resign

rod03801: I think you have it backwards.... in baseball, the game will end if there is no mathematical way for the home team to lose!

29. June 2009, 20:12:19

gogul