[Calahan]

Wow, don't think I've ever been in a game where 50% of the players staled a single turn. Maybe last turn, the absence of this game's usual 'at least one delay every turn' schedule caught some players out?

Re: The stalers -

I'm hoping the Helheim stale was a one off, since it was Falkor's first in this game. And now that Zeldor has popped his head in again, I'm hoping that will put an end to the Atlantis stales.

WingedDog has hopefully now found a sub for Abysia in the form of AdmiralZhao. A subbing offer for which many thanks are certainly due. So the Abysia stales should now come to an end.

No idea what has happened to Revolution (Ulm). His profile stamp says he hasn't been on the forums since the 27th (two days ago). Which goes some way to explaining the last stale, but less so towards the one immediately before that. Doing a little digging finds me the Asia Twist game which PashaDawg is running. On that thread, PashaDawg makes recent mention of the Caelum player dropping out due to a vacation. And the first post of that game indicates that Caelum is played by Revolution. I will PM Revolution to find out what's happening. And also PM PashaDawg to find out if Caelum in his Asia Twist game was being played by Revolution until recently or not (because if so, then we have an answer for what happened to Revolution)

Executor has posted a sub-hunt thread for Fomoria, but no takers yet as far as I know. Think they will be tricky to find a sub for because they are not a dying nation in any sense (like Abysia probably are), so it's not a question of putting up a last ditch defence. But this then means that anyone coming in will have to put in a huge amount of time to get anything out of them. And players with 5+ hours of free time every few days are pretty hard to come by.

Edit: Sauromatia also staled the last turn, but they have already submitted their current turn, so hoping the stale last turn was a one off for them.

Will keep you all informed with any developments on all of the above.