I love the new features... Well done Filip... :)

Beren the 32nd: It will be up to the tournament creator.

How would 3rd prize be decided?
I'm thinking especially of the case where there are two sections, with their winners playing in a final.

Pythagoras: 1) My usual typo. 2) Yes.

Fencer: .
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But Fencer you didn't answer my questions and as a most curious person i'm looking forward.....

To save you of the reading of my somewhat difficult to read posts here are the points:

1)Should in the:......
"a two year membership payment makes a good change to get the whole year for free"?
.......the word "change" should have replaced with "chance"?


2)There is not any 2 year membership available for buying! Only a ½ year or 1 year!
Do you mean buying 2 one year memberships at the same time......?

pauloaguia: Yep and this is true.....While it is also true that exactly 6 months is 50%.

Pythagoras: I'm not trying to get funnyor anything... but don't you mean:
Probability of getting AT LEAST 6 months for free = 75%
?

Fencer: and if you search for free prize tournaments, you'll find the entry-fee tournament as well

playBunny: It will be added.

Fencer: "The latter (two halfs and pairing)."

Excellent.

(Perhaps that snippet of info could be added to the Help text, just for completeness?)

Eriisa: Nope. It's my fault, a small bug in the counter table.
But if you search the keyword "single", your tournament will be found.

When I try to find tourney of 'Single Elimination' It says there are none.

I created 'Single Elimination Back' and that does not show on the search. (trg=13429)

Are we doing something wrong in the creation?

combining data from the brains and the paid membership pages:
- I could pay 18 euro for a year brain knight
or
- I pay 18 euro to get 540 brains, 500 of which I use for a year of brain knight and still have 40 brains

Now i'm not confused and here is how it is:


Probability of getting nothing for free = 25%
Probability of getting EXACTLY 6 months for free = 50%
Probability of getting 1 year for free = 25%


Probability of getting nothing for free = 25%
Probability of getting AT LEAST 6 months for free = 50%
Probability of getting 1 year for free = 25%

I was refering to AT LEAST while you at EXACTLY 6 months....

Actually you might be right and i'm a bit confused right now....

playBunny: The latter (two halfs and pairing).

pauloaguia: Nope.....

Pythagoras: I believe on your second method the odds are more like:
Probability of getting nothing for free = 25%
Probability of getting 6 months for free = 50%
Probability of getting 1 year for free = 25%

Also what do you mean there by: "a two year membership payment makes a good change to get the whole year for free"?

I don't mean that you should have changed the "change" with "chance" (a thing that you should do) i mean the following question:

There is not any 2 year membership available as i see! Only for ½ year or 1 year!
If you mean buying 2 one year memberships at the same time, then i have another strategy:

1)Buying 2 one year memberships at the same time:
Current COST = 2·28 = 56 €
New COST = 2·30 = 60 €
Probability of getting 1 year for free = 50 %
Probability of getting AT LEAST 6 months for free = 50 %
Probability of getting EXACTLY 6 months for free = 0 %


2)Buying 1 one year membership now and the other day another one:
Current COST = 2·28 = 56 €
New COST = 2·30 = 60 €
Probability of getting AT LEAST 6 months for free = 75%
Probability of getting 1 year for free = 25%
Probability of getting EXACTLY 6 months for free = 50%


So what we have is that buying with the second method 2 years, you get 75% of having at least 6 months for free or even 25% for 1 year for free. While with "your" proposed way we have 50% for 1 year for free but if we don't suceed we get nothing more....

I would choose my proposed way as i prefer better chances than better prizes, if actually you will allow the BONUS to be valid this way....According to the aforementioned rules for the bonus, my way is 100% legal.....

Fencer: In the Single Elimination Tournaments are the pairings done by taking every two BKRs (ie the top and 2nd, the 3rd and 4th, etc..) or by folding the top half onto the bottom half (eg, in a 8-player tourney, the 1st and 5th, 2nd and 6th, etc)?

I have just renewed my membership and got 6 extra months, thanks

Pythagoras: Precisely.

I did just now..... So Plaintiger renewed his membership for 1 year and been lucky enough to be at the good-50% winning another 6 months, right.....?

Pythagoras: RTSN!
Which means "Read The Server News".

Fencer: What is "membership bonus".....? And how Plaintiger won it....?

Fencer: yay, me! thanks, Filip! :)

i will say that now that i understand the new prize with an entry fee tournament model, i discover i would have liked winning those 200 brains as well! that kind of tournament sounds like fun! :)

very cool improvements about the place, sir. and thanks again for the bonus! :)

Congratulations to plaintiger for being the first one who won the membership bonus. He's been given 6 free months of the Brain Rook level.

Salkkuman: Pond games with negative numbers will cycle at aprox. 5 mins. after the hour

not more than 1 hour, i think.

How big can the time out or pond time be in negative, normally? I got now -42 min in Pond. I would like to go sleep put i have to move in that first .

Stevie: It does look something like that - the profile info's fallen behind again...

Profile: JMDLOVESNirvana
Last action: 29. January 2006, 20:05:25 - viewing profile (Andre Faria)

Posted in the Flame Pit:
JMDLOVESNirvana (hide) Re: [something or other] 29. January 2006, 20:08:50
Blah, blah...

Stevie: and then after it turns an hour,, he shows oonline again now... was it the site hourly catchup script that put it right?

playBunny: and he has made at least 6 posts in between 19:39 and 20:00

this is what i see with many players at times

Stevie: Yes, I can confirm that.

Profile: JMDLOVESNirvana
Last action: 29. January 2006, 19:39:33 - browsing main page

Posted in the Flame Pit:
JMDLOVESNirvana (hide) Re: 29. January 2006, 19:56:00
"Blah, blah..."

Both of the above were copied at 20:00 and the profile information is clearly out of synch.

harley: what ive seen is even after that Harley,, they will go to another board and post and still not show..

But anyways.. as soon as the person submits th epost, then surely at that point, it should then update the list?

If they're writing a long post on a board, it might show them as being offline (they drop off the list) because they haven't changed a page for a while, they've been incative, even though they may be typing or doing something else. But as soon as they hit 'send' it should show them as being on that board again. I haven't noticed anything wrong with my friends list lately.

Tuesday: I know, thats after about 10 or 15 minutes.. That should then correct if they come back on or move etc etc..

When it does this,, i will look at a new post on a board and find someone is online.. and th efriend list etc will still say they are no etc

Fencer: yeah that page and the list on main page..
Youll think your friend has signed out or just shut window.. then they will post on a board fo rexample, and if you check th efriend page or list, they still say something they were doing a whiole ago, or the main page list still doesnt even show them online as if the 1o or 15 minutes time has passed that says they have been inactive..
Im not the only person who has had this

Stevie: If you mean the Friends page, it is correct. It simply shows last actions of your friends, no matter when it happened.

Fencer: the friends list is all out of sync a lot of times,, you can have someone post on a board etc and it will still be showing them as doing something 5, 10 , 12, 15 minutes ago sort of thing.. I havent noticed any common factor yet cos when it happens, its as if all the friends list freezes compared to what they are doing on the site.. it gets back into shape by itself.. i dont know if that corresponds with the hourly site cathup script etc that checks tournys ready to start etc etc

Stevie: What is not working right?

so I take it that the fact the friends list isnt working right doesnt matter then?
Either that or Plaintiger has a knack of asking questions etc in a better way than some of us lol

Tuesday: right - that's what i mean about being idle.

Fencer: cool. i like that. you really think of a lot of great little touches. :)

plaintiger: Yes, it's exactly as you write.

i notice the order in which people appear in my "friends online" list changes from one page refresh to the next. this correlates with their activity, huh? people are moved to the top of the list every time they perform an action on the site?

it seems that way because people always seem to move to the bottom of the list just before they disappear, which i figure is the five minutes between the time they perform their last action and the time they show having logged off or gone idle.

You could get some tips at the chess variants board for anti-chess (among others);

http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=6

and the chess discussion board;

http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=5