Additional turn time for Holidays

[KGB]

Last year I recall Snotling added an extra day or two to all game times for the Christmas-New Years time frame for those of us who are traveling and have infrequent access to do our turns.

Are you guys going to do that again this year?

KGB

[SnotlinG]

Yes,
tomorrow i will add something like that, that we will have enabled for the holiday period.... probably an additional 48h to every turn...

[Moonknight]

Awesome, this is much appreciated and needed!

[kenc80]

If you guys just played 5 day turns you wouldnt have to worry about this...which brings me to my frequent request that I wish ladder games could be a full 3 days turn time to eliminate weekend travel concerns.

[KGB]

If you guys just played 5 day turns you wouldnt have to worry about this...

Nice in theory.

However I don't set up all the games I join and if I waited for 5 day turn games I might be lucky to play one new game a month.

Most players are setting up games with 1-2 days max. My guess is this is to eliminate those players who are new to the site, sign up for a game and never play and it takes 15 days to get them kicked out. In larger 6-8 player games if you get a couple such players it takes 30+ days to get to turn 4 by which time most other players have lost interest in that game.

KGB

[ezras]

Thanks for the extra time.

KGB is spot on with the turn time. Our ability to set the limits when setting up games is what makes this work.

[SnotlinG]

Additional holiday-time is now active.
I have increased with 4 days (I noticed in the beta3(!) code that that was the change we did last year )

[SnotlinG]

Additional holiday-time has now been disabled again.
All new turns will use the normal standard turn-time...

[kenc80]

KGB: Nice in theory.

However I don't set up all the games I join and if I waited for 5 day turn games I might be lucky to play one new game a month.

Most players are setting up games with 1-2 days max. My guess is this is to eliminate those players who are new to the site, sign up for a game and never play and it takes 15 days to get them kicked out. In larger 6-8 player games if you get a couple such players it takes 30+ days to get to turn 4 by which time most other players have lost interest in that game.

But you KGB like me, do prefer the 5 day turns right? They are nice in case travel or something comes up in rl. They are definitely slower though. I don't mind the pace. Except for our game at Middle-East from 2010 we are still playing, most games are pretty quick, even at the 5-day turn pace

[KGB]

Kenc80,

But you KGB like me, do prefer the 5 day turns right? They are nice in case travel or something comes up in rl.

Absolutely I prefer 5 day turns for the real life reasons you suggest.

When I play 1-1 games against players I know, who play regular turns, and aren't dropping out/off the site I always play the longer turn times. But in MP games unless you have control over who is playing (password game) it gets a bit tougher to pull off the 5 day turn times.

KGB