One note about the gunboat games;
Since they are GUNBOAT games and not normal or public press if someone needed a pause and warned the other players about it in the forums then OBVIOUSLY they would figure out his identity and then we would have another metagaming situation.
So geniuses in gunboat games noone can talk about it in the forums.
As far as the game is concerned my personal opinion is that it wasn't metagaming.
It was England's mistake that he stupidly revealed his identity.
If you reveal your identity then OBVIOUSLY that will influence the other players' game.
Also, examining how the player played in the past and take decision based on that is not metagaming. It's called not being a moron.
I'm really surprised. You are supposed to be clever kids.
Why do we even have to discuss such self explanatory and boring childis stuff in the forum?
If you can't stand losing just get out of the cup instead of creating completely stupid accusation about warnings in pausing gunboat games or metagaming cause someone was stupid enough to reveal his identity (and then he used his own mistake to ask for cancelling the game just because things were not exactly working greatly for him...)
That said I m crawling back to my cave.