There is nothing that can prevent anybody to complain... I think it can be legitime to be frustrated to see that another player gave orders but didn't click ready eg for a univoque retreat or disband... On the other side he knew when he subscribed it was a 3-day or 5-days/phase game. All this is just a question of good will from both sides :-)

I understand the cocept of free speech but when a player during the diplomacy phase gets peed off esp when they are winning about slow phases, and are complaining that one player is going slow ie to the initial phase 3 days . When all h is to do is get others to prevent a solo esp when the combined dip point total of the all the players is less than the individual total of the one complaining player..

Shrugs ...( i would expect more from a " senior " player ..)

@ capt mike ..What is a "univoque". I undesatnd for a disband but in full press a retreat may be really importaant eso to prevent a destroy or to try to retreat to advantage >>when coordinating against a possible solo..with previous warring parties within a game..

I am not sure to understand the whole context but it sounds like just a strategy to upset you. Stand strong and polite.

Hmmm. I see what game you talk about. You should click ready. All other players have done so. But you should discuss with all the other players to give your point of view about who may well make a solo...

I am and I am taking the full 36 hrs... :-)
I undersatnd its just a game ..its the implied " your a loser becaus e I have more dip pointa and you take to long to make moves " I expalianed I chose a long phase because Im not on a lot of the time.

I have cooms with all the players both public and in direct with others..( in game of course)..

Im not asking for any ajudication just want to gauge the overall feeling for players on the site..

In other words, is it right to deliberately take the full phase length each time, even if you know what your moves are, just to pi55 someone off?

Well, it certainly isn't illegal and it's possibly impolite. But unethical or unfair? I don't think so.

Withholding orders is a legitimate, if fairly blunt, diplomatic tool and the phase length is the same for everyone in the game which everyone has signed up to voluntarily.

With that in mind, it seem churlish to complain just because someone is taking their own sweet time.

I think that if you are the last one waiting to order and you know that you can keep the game ticking on by finalising your orders, then it's a good/nice thing to do so. And if you're using that time constructively to try and negotiate a particular move then by all means take all the time that you can.

But if you suspect that someone else is deliberately slowing the game, then I feel that becomes a personal challenge to you to respond to. Use your own diplomatic skill, either to confirm that they are actively negotiating (and find out what), try to speed them up, or use the extra time to negotiate an alliance against them!

It's why I try to avoid a game over 1 day phase length. Eventually you get a player that decides to leave or skip moves because they hate their position. It's especially bad in gunboat games where there isn't the excuse that they are negotiating.

The only real excuse for regularly taking the full time is that they are going to be away from their computer and can't enter moves.