the three buttons can be hit at any time, stay selected until you select the appropriate cancel button which will show up on the right side when you have selected the choice. Requires all remaining players to select the same button. So if you hit draw and the other 3 remaining players hit draw later, the games draws unless you have cancelled the draw. Pause stops the game untill all unpause. I don't pause because too easy for someone to disappear. Draw means all remaining players with centers get equal share of pot, noncenter players(assuming fall draw) get a survive. Cancel means the game neverr happened. Hope that helps.

Also, to add to BESM's comment, the people who have went into Civil Disorder or who have been defeated don't receive that statistic.

And you need not worry about unpauses as the mods will unpause a game for you if someone goes away. BESM is a bit reactionary in that.

Thanks :)

To add to Draugnar's comment, the mods will unpause a game, but only if the length of the pause was clearly indicated in global chat and/or it has been a really long time (months).

So make sure the timeframe for the pause is clearly indicated so if someone disappears, you can get a mod to unpause it sometime after that deadline has passed, although I'd guess they'll make you wait another week or so just to see if the person is going to come back.

<Pause> BAHH! I have recently instituted a "NO PAUSE" policy...meaning that I won't even ask for one if I suddenly have to go away for the weekend becuase I am SICK AND TIRED of the loser in the game NOT Un-Pausing, and then having to contact a mod.

Better suggestion: Find a damned SITTER for your account. Change your password to something you don't care about, and let someone "sit" your account. Plenty of us are willing to do so, and have enough name-recognition that you ***might*** be able to trust us! lol But...serously....FUCK Pause requests.