[Septimius Severus]

I've just had a conversation with Gandalf.

The no rollback policy stands. To allow for the time the game was shut down the current turn (24) will host approximately 48 from now.

To institute delays on Gandalf's server via direct connect, the game must be shut down and restarted. Adjustments need to be made in the various scripts running the game to handle delays. And those adjustments have to be made by Gandalf upon restarting the game and again when the game sucessfully hosts. So what you see on the external timer will not always be accurate until Gandalf adjusts it. I am hoping this lag time will be short, but that's the way Gandalf must apparently do it via direct connect. The last turn actually lasted another 4 hours past when the 56 hours was supposed to expire, so 60 hours had elapsed before the turn actually hosted.

I had left word with Gandalf to allow him to extend the turn if another formal request for a delay was received before the turn was supposed to have hosted. He did not recieve one. I saw the message from Numahr but as I stated, I did not take this as a specific request for a delay. Sorry. Feel free to disagree with the decision, I spent more than an hour in conversation with Gandalf, and this was decided as the best course of action.

I will let Gandalf go into more detail about the specifics of the date math that needs to be done when handling delays. But this is currently handled manually, so Gandalf has to be up and about to make adjustments to timer.