[Micah]

Kuritza, your suggested compensation is about as useful as a band-aid on a severed limb. It not only leaves Ermor worse off in terms of army losses and positioning, but provinces and forts as well. It also doesn't do anything to help Zeldor "catch up" with you or the rest of the players, leaving you with a three turn time advantage on top of the damage inflicted.

The only acceptable solutions to restore some semblance of balance to the game involve stales or rollbacks, IMO, though Zeldor can decide what he's willing to accept if there's still a discussion going on. There is likely going to have to be meaningful compromise for anything to be salvaged from this wreck, and your weak suggestions make me doubt that you're really that interested in reaching an agreement if it harms you in any way. You sat back for a full week while Ermor staled and didn't say a word as far as I can tell, so you're at least somewhat complicit in letting things get to this point.

That being said, I don't think it would be unreasonable for any staling agreement to restrict attacks on you, since you didn't attack Ermor while he was staling. It IS reasonable for you to lose 2 or 3 turns worth of forging/research/etc. so that you don't gain a time advantage over Ermor.

I still believe that 2 immediate stales would be sufficient, or some 3/1 hybrid scheme, but 2 turns of stales with a turn of preparation is an extremely weak solution in comparison to the damage that was done while Ermor was staling, since he had armies completely surrounded and wiped out, retreats cut and forts sieged and stormed, all of which can't really be done in 2 turns if your opponent simply moves a province away from the border.

Just my thoughts on the matter, as an experienced player and a (mostly) neutral observer, though I obviously would like to come up with a solution that works for Zeldor since I was supposed to be subbing for him, so take that bias as you will.