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- From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr)
- Subject: NMR vs. No NMR
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 21:18:18 GMT
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- I'll tell you, I really wish it wasn't so looked down on to run games NMR,
- meaning, that after someone blows both the deadline and the grace period,
- their turn would be processed with no orders, meaning that their units
- would just hold... and that they'd be flagged as CD and someone else COULD
- come in and take over.
-
- I found a few games on the Washington judge that had ONE player in CD and
- everyone else's turns in and they'd all been sitting there waiting since
- December 15 for someone to come along and take over or for that person to
- come back. Two weeks they'd been waiting in vain. I submitted orders for
- the CD player and the turn was processed a half hour later. I don't see
- where it would have been so bad for the CD country to simply have held and
- had the turn process. The FAQ (or perhaps it's some of the other info
- files) says that NMR is seen as giving people a gravy train of opportunity
- when someone goes CD. I say "so?" Why do we even bother having such a
- thing as a grace period if they can blow the grace and two weeks later
- have their fellow players still waiting?
-
- Sure, I know that blowing the grace means someone else can come in and
- take over. Apparently that rarely happens. Witness that I'm now
- participating in several games that were waiting for players for as long
- as two weeks after the grace period ended. Would it have been such a bad
- thing to just LET THE GAME GO FORWARD?
-
- Arrrgh.
-