When a vacation is not enough

The BrainKing's vacation system can save your games even if you don't plan any holidays but suddenly cannot access the web and play before a timeout occurs. It is called automatic vacation and everybody knows this feature (or at least many paying members because nobody else can use it). However, this kind of salvation does not work if you start a game with no days off vacation type, and since there are still many users who don't fully understand all possible types of time control (although we have a nice article on BrainRook site), maybe the particular game invitations (and tournamets) should have this time control much better highlighted and enhanced by a longer description (and possible consequences).

But the point of this entry is different. I have seen an interesting system on another site, which allows a user to give another user an access to his account (limited and temporary). This is how it works:

• A user (Player) marks another user (Friend) as his agent/delegate/substitute/representative/proxy/assistant - what is the correct word for this?
• Friend can login to the Player's account with Player's user name and Friend's password.
• After a pre-defined time period is over (usually a couple of days), the Friend's access to Player's account is disabled and cannot be reactivated in the next 30 days (or something like this).

In order to prevent a panic, nothing like that is planned for BrainKing. At least until a balanced and useful version of this idea is worked out and we are sure that we really need it.