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Greetinx everybody

Again a new player has appeared out of the blue taking over the last open race slot. And again it is obvious that no turn will ever be delivered.

Whoever thinks it's a good idea to generate fake accounts and enforce games to start earlier: It is not! An unplayed race always creates an unbalance and will cause the game to take an unnatural course.

I'd like to suggest to freeze the game until a replacement has been found.

Cheers,
Mike

My suggestion has always been that if a player fails to submit their first turn then the site should kick that player from the game, and reset the game status to "joining" until a new player is found. Can keep the game universe as-is, just send out turn-1 player files to the new player whenever one is found.

It should wait out the weekend before any measures...

Regarding user johnnymccuerdo, they joined recently so we're not dealing with a "join half a year ago and then forget" issue here. This would normally make me cautiously optimistic, but, well, I've been cautiously optimistic quite some times...

Regarding James T. Plagerism's idea: we tried that literally, didn't work. Therefore, maybe we should try a variation. If you don't insist on having the game change status, I could set it to manual host runs, and wait until we have a replacement. (Doing this in an automatic way would need some implementation, but in a safer way than changing the game's status.)

--Stefan

I have two games running, both nearing their ends. Two which I try to join, but those are waiting for players since... more than half a year already? I could replace the Rebel in case there is nothing happening. Only thing is that I will ask for a holiday break of around 10 days at the end of July

Matt

An unplayed race always creates an unbalance and will cause the game to take an unnatural course.

I would totally agree concerning almost any race - besides Rebels.

In our case we may killrace and start.

I have two games running, both nearing their ends. Two which I try to join, but those are waiting for players since... more than half a year already? I could replace the Rebel in case there is nothing happening. Only thing is that I will ask for a holiday break of around 10 days at the end of July

Thanks for your offer.

I have set the host interval to 14 days. If nothing has happened by tomorrow evening, I will enroll you to the game. (Bring up the pause again later - applies to everyone.)

--Stefan

snouka in Re: Rebel player:

I have two games running, both nearing their ends. Two which I try to join, but those are waiting for players since... more than half a year already? I could replace the Rebel in case there is nothing happening. Only thing is that I will ask for a holiday break of around 10 days at the end of July

Thanks for your offer.

Added you to the game. Unfortunately, the software was (again) smarter than me. Removing a player means all-turns-in means host runs. And I thought I had added a grace timer just for that. I hope it's still ok.

--Stefan

All good Stefan, I accept the challenge Thanks for adding me!