pawnme: if you read on your settings page about auto-refresh, it says that auto-refresh works on main page or game page, it will not work on db pages

KotDB: The database says you have visited 121 boards. That makes, multiplied by 2, 242 points. Not a bug.

Fencer: Yet since then he's gone on to reach a whopping 1204 points just from board posts. How many posted-to-board-hours have there been since server midnight? *4*

playBunny: Enough to reach this status.

Fencer: Read his profile http://brainking.com/en/Profile?u=21647

WellyWales: This is what it say:-

To anyone who may be wondering:


* Yes, there is a bug which affects the July Action (or there was when I wrote this).

* Yes, most of my board points are the result of this bug.

* No, I am not attempting to cheat. Even if the bug remains unfixed and I finish among the top ten, I will not accept a prize as long as I have any such unearned points.

Fencer: How can that be correct? The vast majority of the boards haven't been posted to and you can only get 2 points per board per hour. GC, BK, Birthdays, Music, Jokes, and a small handful of others have been posted to. I'd guess 15, maybe 20 boards at a maximum, but some of these have only been posted to one or twice all day, though others like GC and BK usually get something per hour. In 9 hours there's no way that these few boards can provide 1200 points.

playBunny: Not a big deal. I still think it's not a bug but I can check.

On the first day of this action I went to every single DB, since then I just counted about 90 boards that have not been posted to since that time. Like PB said, there are only so many boards with any action on them.... so even if you have 20 boards with action every hour and you check them every hour for 24 hours straight, that is still only 960 points!

Czuch Czuckers: Are you bored Chuck? hehe

Stevie: Im still upset that i stayed up all night to read every DB and join all these fellowships and read all those boards etc and accumulated a lot of points, only to wake up and have them all removed!

Czuch Czuckers:

Czuch Czuckers: the least you could have done was post something on all those empty boards as you passed by

volant: I did a few....:)

Czuch Czuckers:

volant: I didnt want to give everyone more posts to read! LOL

Czuch Czuckers: thx for giving me a new post to read. 2 points

Vikings: bingo, thank you too!

by resigning a game that won't be over for 10-12 moves is only costing me points! please don't resign anymore games!

who is collecting action points

I have no understanding what this is about. What do these points do? Is it just something to keep busy or what?

Pbarb2: it's the contest that showed up on your main page july 1st. you can win a 1,2 or 3 year membership or 200 brains
Fencer July Action 2006/06/30, 17:01:09
Modified by Fencer (2006/07/01, 00:46:13)
1) Good news! Thanks to Eriisa we could reactivate the PayPal option, so there are no more problems to use PayPal for any payments on BrainKing.

2) July Action! Let us try something different this month. In order to test what our site is capable of (and to give our users another chance to compete), July is the Month of Action Points. If this test period produces good results, the system of points can continue in the following months as well. And let us start with some attractive prizes:
1. place: 3 years Brain Rook membership
2. - 3. place: 2 years Brain Rook membership
4. - 5. place: 1 year Brain Rook membership
6. - 10. place: 200 Brains
Please read the rules and other information here. As you can see, the system works separately for paying members and pawns, which means there will be 20 prizes to award. It is also possible to give the prize to another user if you win and do not want to use it.
And, of course, suggestions to improve this system are welcome.

Pbarb2: Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason.

Fencer: LOL To tell you the truth I deleted it accidentally ..No wonder I don't know what is going on. Sorry..
Thanks Vikings.
Oh by the way I love the idea of using Pay Pal, again..Thanks Erlisa..

Fencer: Trying to create a high volume to test the server capabilities?

Czuch Czuckers: Yes, besides other things.

Fencer, did you decide what to do with pawns who have more games(from being an ex-paying member)?

I've been here a while. Really enjoy it. Like the "unlimited" moves for even non-paying members. That seems fair.

mako887:

Since this new points system, everybody seems to be taking their moves sooooooooooooooooo much fasterrrrrrrrrrrrrrr now . WEll done Fencer

WatfordFC: It is a perception that isn't seen by a lot of other players, they are still soooooooo slow. LOL

Well I worked out how he is doing it by following his actions.

He is just simply going to a url and then increasing the number by 1 each time. I did this a few times and it is amazing what boards you see that normally you cannot.

Just try this, go to the following links

http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=109
http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=110
http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=111
http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=112
http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=113
http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=114

etc etc, go down 1 by 1 or go up 1 by 1. I would suggest going down but I havent tried it all the way.

WatfordFC: I'll agree with that, even the "known" slow movers are moving daily. Heck I have a game that started last year sometime and with this new system I might even finsh it this year

See, like Fencer said..there is a reason!!

Dolittle: yeah,but for people like me that are very competitive..the lack of sleep is killing me!! LMAO!! I'm far from the top but refuse to give up without a fight!!

What happens if a Rook membership expires during the period of the contest, for instance on the 29. of July, and the member becomes a Pawn? Does he compete with the other Pawns?

pawnme: LOL

Dolittle:

whopper: If a paying member expires, he stays at the paying members chart for the rest of the month. And if a pawn upgrades to a payed membership, he is moved to the next chart immediately, of course.

Fencer: with 2 points per board once an hour , even if 10 different boards have new messages every hour and if someone stays up 24 hours to read all 10 boards every hour , that totals to 2 X 10 X 24 = 480 and ofcoarse no one can be here 24 hours at least no day by day. since its summer holidays , ive been here 15 - 16 hours daily and reading boards every hour and the max points i got were 200 something. kotDB has openly said that there is a bug and hes making points to prove it but besides that there are other people now who have 400+ points for boards per day ..i noticed 2 - 3 , sahar , the lamer and peca. my question is can we get rid of points for boards so that evryone gets points for making moves. that way i think there will be no cheating.

WatfordFC: Now he can concentrate on Autopass to speed other games up also then ;o)

Stevie: Yes, i think that is a good idea.

WatfordFC: Youll soon see, that its not a good idea to agree with me on this one Ali hehehehe

Stevie: Why, i think its an excellent idea.

WatfordFC: just to give you a thuimbs up..it's been discussed and discussed and is the ONE subject that we're not going to get into...I think..right????

then again..we DID get the gammon cube

baddessi: ok, didnt know it had been discussed before, if it had ben didnt know what the outcome was, i take it, it was a no, no then lol

WatfordFC: yep- like Reza said..a BIG no...Fencer said NO and to let it GO.....

baddessi: ok, sorry

Shame its one of the best things for a lot of games,, and its only site that dont have it