BBW - but a trial 2 month Knight membership will not "open" eyes to the real benefits to being a "Rook". What I am trying to say is that if someone gets chance to pay a little to try a 1 month, 2 month or 3 month Rook (without creating fellowships) - meaning they are able to play all tourneys and seeing all Discussion Boards, they are more likely to extend it for the 6 months Rook Filip wants, once they are "hooked". Those of us who have been here a while (and are Rooks and have extended membership or even taken Gold Rook) would agree that it is good value and the site/personal service is excellent.

But unless you are a Rook, and experienced the benefits.... you wouldnt know.....

A lot of people dont want to pay memberships on t'internet.... for 6 months minimum membership, whatever to small price (to some), but a taster of it may tempt them....

Bry

Yes.. I should have guessed.. men generally try to make women think something is larger or bigger than it really is.. for example with a road map.. they try to convince everyone that an inch is equal to a mile.. lol

A second round will start even if you do not have enough slots available.

So with a second round starting, it is possible to be over your game limit. (of course you would then not be able to start any new games until you are under the limit.)

How many free slots I have to have for a second round in a tournament when there is 1 winner in section 1 and 2 winners in section 2.

http://brainking.com/game/Tournaments?trg=4480&tri=13078

Why would we need a special rook membership without the ability to create fellowships - we have that, it's called a Knight membership basicly!

Maybe a "trial" 2 month Knight for 5 EUR or something?

- I totally agree - hence I got a Rook pretty much straight away after first logon. What I am trying to suggest is targetting those people who are sceptic about paying for membership to games sites, or those who dont want to pay for such a time period of 6 months. You could even make it a month for a few Euro's.

My betting is once they get a load of games going, get into see Fellowships and the chat board, they will have faith in the site and renew for the 6 months at full price. I also said it should be a one off offer for pawns only.

I think bwild meant 4oz = a quarter pound (lb), Scarlet.

I thought 16 oz was a pound... Hmmm..

4 ounces=a pound
7grams ;-)

what the #$% is an ounce? ;)

quarter ounce in this area ;-)_~~~

I have no idea how much a pack of cigarettes costs. How about expressing it in terms of pints of beer or grams of pot instead.

guess I missed that part of your suggestion.

Is looking for two more players to join its anti~froglet team for the forthcoming team Tournament, would anyone like to join in?

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bwild - my suggestion earlier was the 3 month Rook wouldnt be able to form a Fellowship - for your exact reason, but would just have the access to more games and more tournaments - tempting them to get into playing loads of games and multiple tournaments - hopefully encouraging them to renew at the end of 3 monts for a full 6 months package - then getting full Rook benefits.....

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Congrats to Matarilevich for winning the Joust!!
Well done! Thanks for everyone else for playing in the Tournament!
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as a rook,they can form fellowships...if they lapse after 3 monthes,there would be an open fellowship.I would think that with the existing numer of fellowships(some members have more than 2) the fellowship increase and subsequent abuse,would defeat the purpose.

Hrqls - yes - but ideally it would be better if people were Rooks in my eyes. That would quell all the discussions re Knights in Fellowships and numbers of games allowed etc (see posts at the bottom of this page and just before...)

bwild - why?

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Open to anyone who wants to play!

what would the price have to be ?
you can already have a half year knight membership for only 10 euro .. isnt that cheap enough ?

I think this would be disasterous to the fellowships.

ROFL, I swore I wouldnt start any more tourneys for a while, but I cannot pass up that name! LOL@sLaMz

sLaM'z " oH mAn! i'Ve bEEn bAnNed... aGaiN."

jOIn My dAMn bG tOuRnEy.

Fencer might reconsider now that the methods of payment have changed a bit.

ahh, right. Cheers Bumble. Bleedin good idea though!! lol

I believe something similar was suggested months ago but I think Fencer stated it was not economically viable at that time due to PayPal's charges.

Dont know if this has been suggested before, but how about an "Introductory Level" 3 month Rook membership? (Available to a pawn upgrading for the first time only) with the benefits of a Rook - i.e. number of games/tournaments etc but without the creation of a Fellowship facility (incase they dont renew).

A smaller price (and time period) may tempt would-be pawns and once they get the benefits and see how good the site is, any subsequent renewal should be a minimum 6 months as usual....? It wouldnt cost the site any loss of revenue but potentially gives an affordable taster to those who dont want to commit to a full 6 months....

Filip - I think you should offer first - set an example ;0)

No, I said 1/10th of a cent.

That would be 5c, or $18 per year.

:)

All right, who wants to be the first volunteer of this system? :-)

Even playing only 50 moves a day is $0.50. Over a year that's about $180...

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join in.

How about charging per move. I suggest about .10c per move.

(That's 1/10th of a cent)

:)

hehe....we'd have to find another programming gnu! LOL:)

... but then who would keep improving this site??? :-)

LOL:)
your English expressions are getting better!!

Over my dead body.

how about if the memebership was the price that a knight is now, but with rook priveleges? Maybe then a lot of pawns would join?

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what was that???

Big Bad Wolf makes pefect sence on his part of having a choice of membership its like taking away the freedom of speech as long as its negotable which fencer has allowed for everyone in the world to make the choice seeing how some people can not afford or have the time to be a rook.So it comes to there choice without that there would alot more pawns rather then knight and the pawn issue with nicks is out of control to point that nobody knows who is who.thanks Big Bad Wolf and Kevin.

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Every person here has different needs and wants from somebody else. I dont need or want the ability to play 600 games (or1600 or whatever) But I like running fellowships. You may want to play 600 games, but dont care at all about discussion boards, or whether you can show a picture of yourself. Most of us already get more than we need when paying for a knight anyway.

Why should it be cheaper for you to play 600 games and not use fellowships, than it is for me to play 30 games and use fellowships?

One price one membership, and everyone can do whatever they want to do. Some people save 42 cents a day, other people pay an extra 42 cents a day, all the new people never know any different.