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| irish-pete 9/19/2003 23:09:52 [ report this post ] |
 Subject: Recouping Postponement TimeMessage: If you clear your own postponement time, do you recapture that time? or is it lost forever? |
| olympio 9/20/2003 00:00:21 [ report this post ] | it Message: it sets the time left in the game to what it would be if ur opponent just moved |
| cairo 9/20/2003 03:15:03 [ report this post ] | Maybe Message: irish-pete's question is to be understood as: Do he loose the postponement time he initially set for? I don't know the answer :-(( Best wishes Cairo |
| irish-pete 9/20/2003 04:07:34 [ report this post ] | Correctomundo Message: cairo is right -- in two ways. First, he is correct in understanding what I was asking. Second, he is also correct in not knowing the answer to my question. :) In other words, if you set the time for 1 week but then you can continue playing after 2 days, can you just clear the time and be awarded the 5 unused days back? Or, does clearing the time mean that you lost the 5 days? |
| nestorix 9/20/2003 04:12:25 [ report this post ] | Time Message: If you cancel the postpone in games with 3 days per move the time will be reset on 3 days. With tournamentgames is for me unclear what will happen with the time. |
| irish-pete 9/20/2003 05:03:17 [ report this post ] | Nextorix Message: You seem to be saying that the time is lost -- you now have x (in my example, 5) days less vacation time (plus the two that you used). |
| pujetero 9/20/2003 05:10:54 [ report this post ] | I lost 8 days Message: -For some months I had connection problems. -I postponed my games 20 days in order to fix the problem without losing the active games. -12 days later I cancelled the postponement, but the 8 days that I had left I lost them. :( -Luckyly still I have left 60 days and I do not believe that it uses them. |
| chuckventimiglia 9/20/2003 06:54:56 [ report this post ] | I know that the original time.... Message: is lost because I have postponed and came back early and the entire time was counted against my 120/yr total. For me it is no big deal because I think 120day/yr is way too much anyhow. :-] But back to the original question, yes all the time is lost. Chuck |
| irish-pete 9/20/2003 07:09:48 [ report this post ] | Which raises the question... Message: Might it not be better to have a different rule for subscribers that allows them to recapture time for use later? Everyone wants to know what they get for the money. Isn't it about time to add some things which don't cost the site anything? I would even be willing to have less time than the 120 days if I could recapture my time. That would mean I could do a better job of using it. Certainly, I don't use 120 days and don't need it but the system is a bit inflexible now, which I think is, 1) if you recapture, you lose it, and 2) you can't use it for 2 weeks after the end of your time. |
| olympio 9/20/2003 09:52:00 [ report this post ] | irish-pete Message: I understood your question and I answered it in the very first reply in this thread. In a 3 day game for example, you set a 5 day postponement. Two days later you cancel the postponement, then it would be set for 2 days 23 hours (3 days but just rounded down 1 minute) In all postponed games when you cancel the postponement (in them individually) then the time is set to exactly what it would be if there was no postponement and your opponent had JUST moved. |
| mormel12 9/22/2003 03:51:16 [ report this post ] | olympio Message: read the whole thread again, especially the messages from cairo 9/20/2003 03:15:03 and irish-pete 9/20/2003 04:07:34 never mind:) greetings |
| irish-pete 9/22/2003 04:11:31 [ report this post ] | Yes but Message: the time you contributed to the postponement is now lost. Seems to put a person between a rock and a hard place. Either he doesn't move (then no one can cancell his time), thus everyone suffers OR he clears his time and he wastes all the unused time, also a tragedy. That setup does not seem to prod anyone into moving faster. Wouldn't it be better to have a different structure that gives less vacation time but much more flexibility in using it? Win, Win situation!!!!!! |
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