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Xox said:
Well I am back and I see you reassigned my position.
Of all the delays i have had in these games it seems quite unreasonable to have replaced me so quickly. Other games i have been in have been delayed WEEKS to accomidate others people's personal schedules or technical difficulties. This is the first time I have had to ask for such a delay for myself.
I see Hellboy even mentioned givng me the two days I needed and then he instead replaces me the same day.
I do want to say I really do appreciate those of you who spoke up in favor of waiting for me.
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Well, sorry about how that all went down, Xox. In all honesty, your previous experience with other games has no relevance here. What does have relevance is the game protocol that I proposed and the players' reasonable expectations, given the description of the game I proposed (and yes, this includes your expectations).
The one thing I regret is that I did not state my expectations in the case where a player loses access to the server. In this case, in my opinion, the courteous thing to do is to contact the game host with two pieces of information: ETA on resolution of the problem and the player password. Yes, if your computer is broken this will difficult, but I think not
that difficult (whether by internet cafe, friend's computer or work computer, all you had to do was get web access and get on the forum for 5 minutes, and send a PM, or an email, to me).
I should have written this expectation when I proposed the game, and for that lack, I apologize. If it helps to make this more palatable, when you talk about all the delays you have experienced in other games, well, it is for exactly that reason that I impose the policies that you may view as draconian.
Please also note that the last time you played a turn was sometime before the Sat am host. The one indirect and vague communication I got from you came on Saturday evening, and it was a request for a delay, and arrived via PM from another player. It included no information whatsoever as to how long of a delay you wanted, or when you might possibly come back. I held that delay through to Monday morning, when I decided (based on still having no direct contact from you, and no ETA on resolution of the problem), that the game would be best served by reassignment of the position.
Without communication from you, and most especially no idea of when you might return, I simply don't see how the game could've been well served by an arbitrarily long delay. Yes, I could've allowed your position to stale multiple times, but then reassignment would've been more difficult, and the position might have been crippled by the time I decided to reassign.
Again, I do apologize for not having made this policy clear up front. That much is definitely my bad. I hope this doesn't leave too much of a sour taste in your mouth, and that any future encounters we have on this forum are not tainted by this experience.
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