I have no problem with waiting until your finals are done. We can ask reverend to set the game to quickhost only until Sunday (I think that's the right term - the effect I mean is the turn won't host until everyone has played, no matter how long it takes).
As for setting an artificial deadline for everyone to go to war - I'm not so keen on that. Though the way this game is going it could be the only way it will ever end.
Sorry, was a bit swamped with projects for my studies. Server restarted with pure quickhost (hosting as soon as all turns are in). Will switch back to 48 hours quickhost on Monday unless you say otherwise.
Please note that I will use the restart on Monday to update the server to version 2.16. As with all recent versions, the server will still be compatible with 2.15, but the battlereplays can't be trusted if you play using 2.15.