Newbie Game

[boran_blok]

Arakiel said:
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boron_blok - i'm not quite sure what the issue is. it's a 24 hour timer, so as long as you upload your turn *sometime* within the 24hr period you'll be fine. timezone shouldn't matter since it's a 24 hour clock. please elaborate if i'm not understanding your issue. thanks!

1: it's boran

2: this will be a bit harder to explain than my name but i'll try.

if the turn generation is at 21 hrs my time for instance, then i'd have sometimes only 1 hr to make my turn before it's got to be in, or after that time only 2 hrs (okay that should suffice but I do not know how long my empires will get and what other homework i'd have)

but if the turn generation is in the middle of the night somewhere then i'd always have the entire evening without having to watch a clock, just submit when off to bed, hence 00hrs till 18hrs my time (the entire time i'm asleep and/or at school) the turn processing firs best for me.

hope you understand the reasoning behind this.

[Fyron]

Just make the game be 30 hours. It will be close enough to 24 hour rate that it will not be noticeable (especially if you do not have people submitted at the eleventh hour every turn...), and will give leeway for people in very different time zones with limited playing times... I know I have been in games where I was the Last to submit a turn simply because the turn processed in the middle of the night and everyone else in the game was in Europe.

[boran_blok]

Well, 24 wouldbe okay, it gives some regularity imho I mean you know every day when the turn is going to process.

[Fyron]

The turn will process as soon as the Last player uploads his/her turn file for that turn. Unless timed only turns are selected (which only serves to slow down a game), there will be no regularity to the processing of turns. 24 hours is just the maximum limit, when PBW will force execution regardless of whether all players have uploaded their turn files or not. If everyone uploads their files in 1 hour, PBW will process the turn right then and there.

[Salient]

The way you explain it Mr. Fyron turn processing sounds logical and should fit most people on a 24h basis.

Is the next step 48h or can one choose 36h or 40h as well?

[Fyron]

You can choose 25 hours if you want. It is entered per hour.

[boran_blok]

atm as I see it the game is set at 24hr clock, not 24hr timeout.

so if you think it's better to have 24 hr timeout then you should contact arakiel to have him change it.