[Septimius Severus]

To answer Grudge's question. Generally, players should allow as much time as possible for the admin to act when making delay requests and should both post on the thread and PM. I have honored requests whenever I've been able to get to them, sometimes lucky enough to catch them at the 2 hour mark sometimes not, sometimes without both a PM and public post. Doing all I could to make sure as many players are as happy as possible. As DrP noted, many other people are busy and contrary to what may be thought, your admin has other things to do as well.

This rollback was one I regretted doing more than most (though I regretted all of them). Frankly I found the determined, unrelenting, insistence on a rollback for a single turn stale to be just going overboard (a hint as to the importance of Arco in ACGHHS strategy perhaps). It was authorized largely only due to the inaccurate countdown timer still being present without a full warning and disclaimer to accompany it (which was partly the fault of the admins) even with the warnings that were issued in the thread.

Arco seems to have staled a few times in the past, don't quite know why, so I am guessing this is why Chris felt the need for the extraordinary hoopla. The rollback was done using the old Arco .2h that was sent in after the server hosted to minimize any cheating attempt.

Gandalf's experiment at Dom3 PBEM hasn't turned out exactly the way we hoped (which is why direct connect will be used in the future) but I believe he and I have done our best to satisfy players, as it is ultimately your game people. I am not interested in who wins or loses, just that people submit turns on time, the game keeps moving, and people are enjoying themselves.

So captains you've got three choices:

1. Shall we just move on at this point (and put in a no rollbacks for the remainder of this game policy regardless of any server issue)

2. Should we reverse the rollback (which may be possible I still have the old 13 .2hs)

3. Or shall I call the game now and you will be forced to accept my ruling on the score graph analysis?

#3 will only take place if all agree. PM me your decision. Talk it over amongst yourselves and your teammates. Silence or indecision will result in #1 happening. If you find your team members are quitting it is best you choose option 3. Option 3 will also be pursued if I see mass stales without any agreement. Just to let ya know. These choices will be PM'ed to captains.

Good luck.