coan.net: Oh i see so it's even more of a tragedy than i thought. So we can't kill the Dragon by any means and it will remain there torturing us!

And it IS the Dragon your problem. Just go to another site with a similar moving disaster, where it snows, for example here----> LINK and see the same kind of disaster. 99% CPU resources are off.

And yes Brainking becomes unbelievably annoying to have it loaded in a tab. I have to close it too all the time.

coan.net: OOPS....

Constellation36: Even if you change the layout, the dragon is still there (just hidden) - and even while hidden takes a lot of resources - I've been playing a lot less on this site since lately I've been watching movies on my PC while playing games.... and of curse this is the only site I can't since the dragon (at least I'm guessing it is the dragon) comes and steals so much of my browsers & computers resources it does not allow me to do much anything else with my computer at the same time.

I've posted about it before on this board, and even recently requested it again on the Feature Requests board - have not heard nothing yet. It is a shame since the winter time is when I usually get the most games played, but this season I've not been able to spend as much time on this site. (My other game sites that I play on are doing quite well though.)

Constellation36: are you taking anger management classes ? if not, I would suggest you start immediately ...

Hi there,

How can someone remove the damn flying Dragon, aka-the-single-most--disgusting-thing-that-gets-in-my-nerves- that is sucking my CPU resources(even 99%) every time it decides to fly?

And i don't mean by changing the castle layout. I like the castle. I just hate the flying CPU resource whirlpool.

pauloaguia: That's a stalemate. Ergo, a draw.

pauloaguia: I hope Fencer will answer, that is an interesting situation. The rules do say "standard Chess rules" except for what was listed, and if that is so - I would guess it is a stalemate & draw.

Hopefully Fencer will confirm or correct this.

Can anybody tell me what would have happened if white had moved the queen to C7? Draw or Win?
Corrida de Reis (pauloaguia vs. jitkasafa)

The rules don't specify what happens in this situation...

coan.net: regarding #1 

coan.net: I see your point. I think your option "1" is a good idea, and prevent abuse of the system which some do. It's getting like KM again in some ways where a loophole has been found in the system and people are cheating on their ratings because of it by only playing games they will win. Or by making it that some just time out just to get the free space (such as pawns) as the game has been delayed so long.

It's not right.

coan.net: i beleive im right in saying didnt Chad at GT try the exact same thing with vacation days not letting you play at all if you had booked vacation and im sure that didnt last very long because it was a really bad idea

but i like to see no vacation days returned after youve used your quota up except in special causes which you should ask Fencer about

my own case is quite simply i do buy my vacation days back because im able to but i dont actually abuse them
its ill health that stops me keeping up with things
so to penalise someone by not gaving any back thou ill health is kinda scary to me

(V): That would not work. I know when I visit my sister-in-law, all she has is dial-up, and I set vacation days - but do try to stop by and play a few games - if playing the few games would take me off of the vacation and make may games time out - that would be bad.

Another example would be if I have about 10 games ready to time out (but on vacation), try to play 1, and then suddenly have the other 9 time out because I did not play fast enough because the system took me off vacation would also be bad.

(So doing that would only slow games down more since it would encourage players to not even try to visit the site if they can)

The things I would like to see fixed:

1. Don't allow people more vacation days if they renew their membership. I know this has been done in the past - sometimes multiple times in a row. If anything, maybe a 1 time thing were you get 10 additional vacation days if a membership is purchased, but never more then 10 days. (even though I would like to see it as 0).

2. .... there was something else I was just thinking about, but it escapes me right now.

Fencer: Yep, but why can't there be a little update to the holiday system. If you move on a day then you can't be classed as being on holiday. As it is upto the player to play the least time games first as I think most of us do so we keep our holiday for genuine reasons.

Fencer:

BrainKing has just turned to 2009, so all vacation counters should be reset.

rod03801: yes and it is unfortunate that something can't be done about it as well.....a bad loop in the system it is.......
and the person you are talking about is paid up to 2014, surely that indicates he is rorting the system when it comes to moves, and it was only a couple days ago he was whingeing and whining about not being able to get another paid up year..........

Hrqls: There are a couple players (or at least one, that many know about) who has had at least 90 (possibly 120!) vacation days in 2008 because of doing this. Not fair at all to the other players in any tournaments they are holding up.

Bernice: that will have to mean he has to buy another year of membership every 7 weeks (35 days + 7 weekends) .. i dont think anyone will do this just to prolong a game

rabbitoid: all he has to do is what the other person does on here........buy another years member ship, and you can go months without even moving....he does this when he is losing a game, just to make it difficult for other people in tournaments..

Fencer: Thanks, good to know.

rabbitoid: No. If someone sets vacation days for the next year, the counter will be properly deducted.

by the way: I have this opponent who sets vacation days for next year, out of his stock from this year. Then, come Jan 1st, he can add to them.

This is surely not the way this is intended to work. why, in a couple of years he can set 365 off days! Now, if I could figure out the way to make this gimmick work for me on my job -

Why this guy ever paid for a black rook, if he goes this far to find loopholes in order not to move in games, is beyond me.

Fencer: Ok thanks, i couldn't quite remember but i thought that was the case.

furbster: Yes.

Do we get new vacation days as of January 1st?

Pedro Martínez:  thanks  

Artful Dodger: I woudn't call it a "grace period", but games time out approx. 5-6 minutes after the time runs out.

Artful Dodger: i think its checked once every hour ... but i could be mistaken :)

WinterAngel: there is a webtv fellowship, I believe...you may join and find the answer to your questions there.

http://brainking.com/en/ShowFellowship?fid=85

is there a grace period for timing out on games or do they time out exactly when time runs out?

Vikings: ah so..................thanks for that............

Bernice: It wont let you move your piece that is in the 6 spot because you wouldn't then be able to move a second piece so you have to move your piece that is in the 11 spot first

Hyper Backgammon (Bernice vs. Pepi®)

can someone look at this and tell me why it wont let me move

rabbitoid:guess it depends on which way you look at it :O)

rabbitoid: Yes a smile when it comes to the thought of my Grandkids.. haha.. way different then when the babies were my children..

ScarletRose: no objection to the description, but do you mean to tell us that with you, during the administration of the treatment, the subject resembles, even remotely, to a smiley? lucky you!

Eriisa: Don't forget the wiping, especially on those icky teething ones.

 Tuesday:  

Eriisa:Man was I confused until I remembered my original question ...  Thanks!

ScarletRose:There's no sticky strips on my smileys!!

alanback: Settings > Javascript....



THEN you lay them on the table.. get some powder and a fresh diaper.. Then.. tear back the sticky strap.. and discard the icky poohie diaper.. Dust with powder and restrap the new diaper..

alanback: first you lay them on the table.. get some powder and a fresh diaper.. Then.. tear back the sticky strap.. and discard the icky poohie diaper..
Dust with powder and restrap the new diaper..

How can I change my favorite smileys?

pauloaguia: you are right... I guess this one has too many sides for an easy, one size fits all, solution.

Czuch: I can see some reasons why people could prefer to still receive those messages.
I think you still have the hability to get out of the fellowship... or you can always ask the BB to kick you out

Fencer, if you are going to change some pawn things around.... when you revert back to a pawn, you should not receive group fellowship messages anymore, my box is full of them, and I cant even get in there to change my preferences, it should just be automatic?

Hrqls: Funny thing was that the lady at MS did not know anything about the policy... I had to send a copy of the email to her from the laptop company. That's when they/she said sorry.

(V): a free copy of xp sp3 ? nice! i should call them as well ;)

please move this discussion to the computer board

rabbitoid: I don't.... I've only seen two articles on MS recently. This one and another which reported a mess up by MS over a patch that caused some people to lose the internet connection thanks to compatibility problems with a firewall program.

.... I in that case had to phone MS to find out which patch to remove.

.... Oh there has been one incident regarding MS though over policy which I took them to task relating to a laptop makers ability to keep software before a certain date that was basically essential if the laptop went unstable and needing a complete wipe and reload.

..... In the end MS said sorry and sent me a free copy of XP sp3 for my partners laptop.