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I think it is to late for the races 8-10. 7 may has a chance to come up if this race find early an alliance partner. It may be a option to wait for a replacement for this race. But not for the another. A automatic drop function would be usefull, but question is how much time Stefan has for this. Such a option is more important than a "Hello Admin just drop player from game_x race_y".

Dworin (player 7) has sought a replacement, unsuccessfully. Unfortunately, this site is still too small to have an abundancy of possible replacements. The others haven't ever submitted turns. For this game, I sent a reminder, but didn't get anything back.

Also usefull may be a delay host function, working hmmm like hmmm. Ok, not so easy to define. May be a no Host function like "if x-races not in" or "if a race without *.trn not in made the last x turns without problems" or....

I am tossing ideas around how to solve that. One idea would be some sort of karma system: submitting turns gives you karma, which you can use to "buy" host delays. This could be used by people on vacation, so they don't lose that many turns.

Another idea I'm considering (vaguely related) is to start games with a weekly schedule, not a 3x weekly one. It seems game starts still come as a surprise to many. Ooops, I'm on the Maledives sitting below the palm tree, slurping caipirinhas, and now I have to submit three turns a week?

I appreciate any input. I won't be able to make major changes to the host software this year, but I hope next year to be better. And I'm always available for manual interventions which I could do, if it must be, in the lunch breaks :-) However, some sort of auto-kick probably would get a high priority. I was hoping to not need it :-(

--Stefan