(February 11th, 2014, 00:33)Dhalphir Wrote: I don't have a problem with people needing to pause. Shit happens!
I do have a problem with people being inconsiderate and not having the courtesy to let people know that they need a pause when they need one.
Expecting others to watch the timer and pause for you is unreasonable, as is asking for a reload should others not pause for you.
I think there is a difference between needing a pause when you are given 24 hours to play - where we expect some notification - and needing a pause when you are in e.g. a 3-way split and the first two players left you with four hours to play. The latter case is going to result in genuinely needing a pause very frequently. There's no value in someone posting "I might need a pause if player X doesn't play by xx:xx" every single turn. Multiply that by the number of players in the latter half of the turn and it would just be obnoxious.
I'm not in the game and I don't know what your timer is running at, but if it's really still a 24 hour timer then expecting that to work in late game world wars is IMO unreasonable. (Even if it's just a plethora of 2-way splits and no 3-ways.) By the way, I haven't heard from anyone calling for those in the first half of the split to ask for pauses if they can't play within a few hours. Seems like you should be consistent about that if you are calling out people in the second half.