[Micah]

1) It's not really anyone's fault that Zeldor staled, he took reasonable precautions and tried to find a sub instead of holding up the game by asking for a delay. It didn't work out properly, and now everyone should be willing to compromise a bit to try to sort things out. It's a crappy situation, so crappy things have to happen to resolve it, trying to dump all of the responsibility and consequences on Zeldor for something that was in large part not his fault isn't a good solution.

2) Claiming that you don't benefit from your biggest rival losing a quarter of his provinces, 3 turns worth of orders, and sizable forces and positioning is farcical.

You should "suffer" because otherwise you gain a sizable advantage for no in-game reason, just an administrative failure. And I don't see how a few stales with no one attacking you really constitutes a large degree of suffering anyhow.

As to why I think 100% compensation is ideal: Because, as I said, I don't believe Zeldor should be punished in-game for an out-of-game oversight that was far from exclusively his fault, so 100% seems like an ideal number to shoot for.

That being said, I think both of my proposed solutions are somewhat conservative, and that he'll come out in worse relative shape than he was in 3 turns back. Obviously a perfect compensation is impossible, but I think my suggestions would hit about 80-90%, leaving Zeldor slightly worse off, but as close as we can get to an equitable solution while making sure he doesn't actually come out ahead.

It may be reasonable to allow Jotun's army in 262 to retreat if immediate stales occur, but looking at Zeldor's turn that is the only exposed army he has access to. Marignon's assaults wiped him off the islands wholesale and he now has nothing there to counterattack with. Watering that down even further with a full turn of preparation is so weak as to be be nearly useless.