Can we delay host by 6 hours? I'm travelling, and arrive...

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1207 days, 5 hours, 56 minutes ago

dtolman (The Crystal People)

Can we delay host by 6 hours? I'm travelling, and arrive...

Can we delay host by 6 hours? I'm travelling, and arrive back home an hour after host is scheduled to run on Monday. Playing vga on my netbook is... difficult, so it would be appreciated :)

1207 days, 3 hours, 54 minutes ago

RE: Can we delay host by 6 hours? I'm travelling, and arrive...

A delay is fine.

1207 days, 1 hours, 57 minutes ago

RE: Can we delay host by 6 hours? I'm travelling, and arrive...

If there are no objections, I'll adjust the next host time this evening.

1206 days, 22 hours, 6 minutes ago

RE: Can we delay host by 6 hours? I'm travelling, and arrive...

In my opinion. If player asks for a pause more than once, it should be VERY good reason. I think this is first request from Dtolman, so it´s ok for me.

I have been playing many turns in a total disaster hurry (Past 2 weeks we have been moving to new house, and I have been very close to ask for a pause, but... managed to somehow do my turns )

But overall, we should allow pauses only for very good reason

1206 days, 21 hours, 32 minutes ago

commander koski

RE: Can we delay host by 6 hours? I'm travelling, and arrive...

I think everyone should have one timeout plea per game (like in ice hockey!). Or two, at maximum, if it's a really severe situation.

I think that if one's collective is too big, empire too vast or overall coordination too difficult to grasp in time - then you just can't make everything. I've done 15 minute turns in this game, because I haven't had time. I just think it's the name of the game and one aspect of Planets. We are all busy in life, I believe. One skill is to find the correct way of playing the game in manners that one has the required time reserves in order to keep playing succesfully. I've been practising that a lot, and finally getting there, without burning out. There are a few times in a year sudden and drastic events in everybody's life. What I think is awful for the game is that if we all start to have multiple timeouts!

1206 days, 21 hours, 31 minutes ago

commander koski

RE: Can we delay host by 6 hours? I'm travelling, and arrive...

(But this timeout is fine by me)

1206 days, 19 hours, 32 minutes ago

RE: Can we delay host by 6 hours? I'm travelling, and arrive...

LOL - you guys are a bunch of jerks. Now this game is personal :)

And for the record, I've played at least a dozen turns this game while travelling - from the mountains, my car, the shore, cabins, motel rooms... this is the first time host would run while I'm in the air... and I'd not like to miss any last minute emails from allies.

Plus I'm tired of taking turns on this $^%&#&^# netbook :)

1206 days, 18 hours, 49 minutes ago

commander koski

RE: Can we delay host by 6 hours? I'm travelling, and arrive...

I bought a Samsung Galaxy s7 Edge - one main reason for it was that I'm able to do my turns with it if necessary - costly, but worth it... ;) Have done turns in train etc.

1204 days, 20 hours, 45 minutes ago

RE: Can we delay host by 6 hours? I'm travelling, and arrive...

I didn't manage to decipher a yes or no from the discussion above so I didn't set up a delay.

1204 days, 19 hours, 53 minutes ago

commander koski

RE: Can we delay host by 6 hours? I'm travelling, and arrive...

What? Nobody was really against a flimsy 6 hour delay, right? So let's set it if nobody is against it, ok? This was just a discussion of delays in principle and that one shouldn't ask for it unless a real need is around, am I not correct?