lol You're welcome : )
Happy Birthday Fencer!!!! : ))))

today is his birthday..? by all means, enjoy your day my good man!! oh, you and MsDelete are right, the "draw" bridge is working just the way you say.. it's been a while that i used that button (once or twice) so you tend to forget how it does work.. maybe a delete button won't be needed after all.. lol...
Thanx to both of you.. :)

The draw button is working. When you choose to issue a draw then your opponent is given an opportunity to respond. That is why the games are still showing on your game sheet. After you ask for a draw your opponent has the option to accept or decline the draw.

No, but seriously, I must say Mystery Man, the 'Draw' system is working perfectly well. You see, all game sites (including ItsYourTurn) require you to Wait for your opponent to accept your 'draw' offer. Until such time, the game remains on your move, but you do not move, you wait (unless your opponent declines the offer).

I've almost got all my games in order, with just one person who I'm waiting to accept my draw offer. After that, everything should be back to 'normal'.

Although, there is the 'Books & Stories' DB business that calls for a bit of attention. But there's no rush. It's Fencer's B-day, he should party instead of work! :·)

             ~ MS

I',m not sure if you'll be able to retrieve any of what was lost, but with the asumption that you can not, can you "install" a DELETE button (maybe only temporary) for those (me included) that do not wish to or want to "re-play" games that have already been played, so if we choose, we may delete these games without penalties..? (since the "draw" system doesn't seem to be working properly) Maybe this would put a smile on some of the.. maybe not angry, but unhappy faces..
Thank you Sir'Fencer.. :)

When one chooses to call for a "draw" to a game, clicks on draw, writes a message and then submits, WHY (when i get back to the main page) do i still have that game sitting there, waiting for "ME" to play..?? In fact, all the games i went in and asked for a draw are still on "my turn to play" side of the page and not the opponents side..
Can you please look into this..?? Thanx!!

What happens to all the tournements that havent started that have september dates?

Sorry, harley. I've deleted my post. We got carried away in a discussion about battleboats.

normal procedure for business people is to make back ups daily on different media (zips, tapes or hard disks). This way you have 7 different back ups a week and they can not get corrupted all at the same time!

Alot of other gamesites have these glitches too so we're not the only ones that get knocked of the sites

Err, for what?!

thanks Harley :)

Are there any more questions for CaoZ's interview? I'm going to leave this open a bit longer because of the site going down, and people have been busy sorting things out. So if you have any questions, send me them!

The last interview can be read here... INTERVIEW WITH.... FENCER

It might give you some ideas for questions for CaoZ!

PS, Medic & TR, can you take the guns convo elsewhere please?! Cheers :o)

Gramps, things are backed up, but there was also a problem in that area too. All the backed up files were lost. Its just one of those things.

gramps ... if you read brainking info. it tells you all you need to know there! the site went back to september.. and backups were done regularly.. disks do get corrupted.. even back ups!!!

Seems to me a lot of the recent problem was caused by not backing up often enough. Looks to me like the site was restored back yo July.

May I suggest a weekly backup from now on. This is likely the most embarrassing thing that can possible happen in the computing world. Sort of like a mechanic forgetting to tighten the wheel nuts.

I've said it before and now will do so again:

BrainKing will be a MAJOR success and grow by leaps and bounds in the near future. It's the best gamesite on the Web now, in terms of its management and structure. Once the glitches are worked out there will be no looking back.

^5 b-b. I started to go without saying anything. But, I have to say if I said anything to the whiners here, it would be so harsh I could probably never show my face again. So, I'll abbreviate and just say: games=fun.

And your membership has been extended, Pip39.

pip if you read brainking info its all there :)

games that have been played have come back again people dont know what is going on the discussions are all mixed up NOT BEEN FUNY LIKE BUT PEOPLE SHOULD GET A REFUND FOR THIS

no maneuvers !
heading straight in, guns blarring ...
- no prisoners either ... 0:) ~*~

Me too. We carry six shooters here in Texas, and I'm more used to that. *smirks and walks out*

Mrloupcity, if you take a peek at features board, youll see boats plus is on the to do list :o) I look forward to that version too .

BK was just wanting to know if maybe sometime soon u may add a 5 shoot boat game? TNP as long as they r not me.
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i have a ton of games that i don't know who won or lost ... so if you are playing against me and remember please let me know so i can resign the appropriate games... thanks!! :o)

^5 eddie

if anyone who has a game with me thats back and you know you won it and want me to resign it just ask me and i will no problem i went from like 150 to over 300 games i have no clue what i won or loss ..i do not care if i won or not wins and losses are just that if i won it and you want to just play it thru its all good i just need time to get caught up...thanxx and try not to be to mad at this site.. its still worth the wait for it to be right..good gaming folks....

Fencer, could you please remove all my existing games without affecting my BKR? I had finished all my games with these opponents and will be leaving on extended holiday shorty.

Well there are many different cost to running a game site like this.

1. Hardware - you can look on BrainKing.info to view what hardware is being used now (which is actually too small of machines to run this game site.... but will give you an idea of what it would cost to get hardware like that and/or better.

2. Connection - you need to have the game site connected to the internet with a quick connection (T1)

3. Software - Software that will be on the game site (OS, database, etc...)

4. Programmer (or programming skills) - you will need to know how to program and/or hire someone who can do it for you... someone to "make" the games and trouble shoot them.

5. Database Admin - either you need to know how to run the database, or hire someone who knows how.

6. Other support staff. For a site like BrainKing, Fencer takes care of most of this - but if this site was to grow even larger, sooner or later he would have to get someone to help answer request, e-mails, etc...

... those are the cost that come to the top of my head - I'm sure there are others, I just can't think of them right now.

i wouldn't think it was cheap at all High Tide.. and also what you put into a gamesite would reflect on the cost too!!!!!

does anybody know the cost of running a game site...

Of course. But it will be safer if you send me links to these tournaments, otherwise I could accidentally remove some other games.

Filip
Can you please remove without penalty or advantage to BKR the three ches club running tourneys and all open games associated with them. I will restart the opens afresh when the site has settled down again.

Jason - you should resign all your 5-in-a-line games against me as I cant remember you ever beating me LOL. Fencer, can you keep the game suspension on for a while longer yet - i'm struggling to get thru all my games that are "Nil". Cheers Pal.

no, it's correct.. rather than ending in Nov of '04, it ends in Feb of '05.. just that the year changes in that time period.

so i should tell him to reduce a year from me?

Unbeatable :) he must of pushed too many buttons

he gave me an extra year and 3 months

Fencer said he will add 3 months to all existing memberships. And he did.

my membership was supposed to end at novembre 2004 now it's on 2005 i think there has been a mistake

I came back to check on things, and sucky ducky...looky here! I had finished all my games last month before I left BK, and I return to find a whole set! Reminds me of the early days of IYT....lol

Anyway, since I only play backgammon, I'll be at DailyGammon.com if anyone want to pick up a game. I play under the name picklez...

Fencer et al...wish you all well with this site...

=^..^=

I have had more than one game per opponent, I can't remember which ones I've won and which ones I've lost...Basically, I ask my opponents what they want. Most just want to finish the game (most of my games only had 5-6 moves in them).

I resigned all the games I was lost in...but it did not change anything :)

yes and i have resigned all the games that i know i have lost too . if everyone did the same we would be all sorted in our games

well Jason....seems to me those people that lost...are hoping to win!! so,I'm making it easy on them...by resigning all my games and starting over with fresh ones.

i canned them all, they are games i have already played. not really bothered with the bkr, it will sort itself out over time

the only people who would want to delete games would be the ones that had lost the games already

what would happen if we just refrain from plying these games that come back to haunt us from the past here.. i mean, we already won or lost them and i really can't see replaying the "same" games over again.. OR can we (somehow) just DELETE them, without getting a penalty put against you (your bk ratings) for it..?? then we could start up again with new games.. shoot, i had like 5 tourney games going before the crash.. they just disapeared and that is what i was looking forward to, coming back here from the crash.. :(
How 'bout it Fencer.. can you install a "delete button" with no penalties for us (if we so choose to take that route)..?? :)

just curious
I dont know whose board it was but there was a discussion board that had computer queries and answers and was of great interest (to me anyway)
Will it be resurrected???