If I understand correctly, when a player misses two consecutive phases, the power is put into civil disorder and can be claimed by anyone. Correct? I am not sure where I read that (and I did spend some time poking around the site help, but couldn't find it or anything about CD, I am probably just being an idiot) but I am almost 100% sure that is true.
Do I understand correctly that the player must miss two consecutive *game* phases, regardless of whether the player was actually required to submit moves for that turn? So, for example, imagine I fail to submit orders in a spring move turn, but am not dislodged anywhere. Somewhere halfway across the board someone else is dislodged, so the retreat phase goes forward. Then, come the fall move phase, I also do not submit orders. At this point, even though I haven't done anything in the game for three full phases, I have not missed two consecutive phases, because the two move phases were not consecutive (since there was a retreat phase in between them).
In theory, this could go on forever, and I could sit there not logging onto the game for weeks at a time but never getting put into CD. In practice, that's unlikely to happen, but I believe I have experienced some players hanging around for as much as two game years or so without ever submitting a single move because of this.
Anyway, I mostly just want to make sure I understand this correctly. It took me like a year of playing on this site and wondering "what the @#$%@#, this person hasn't submitted moves in like a (game) year and a half, why haven't they gone into CD yet?" before it occurred to me that the retreat/build phases were messing up the "two consecutive phases" rule - if in fact, that is the rule.
Thanks