not many people want to play games less than 24 hours that arent live games...

Because maybe the check their game only once a day at the same time each day. So this way it is guaranteed to take the full 24 hours for the turn to process. Learn a little patience. Go play some angry bird or something.

Haha.. Baba+1. I just finished Rio pff. ;)

@Cockney - You agreed to the phase length, so quite bitchin about it and shut the fuck up.

I'm with draug. You agree to the phase length, so expect every turn to go the phase length.

It's all point of view. If you force yourself to expect each turn will be the entire phase length, you can be pleasantly surprised when it is shorter. If you expect everyone to finalize, you'll be pissed off when not everyone does.

I like to be fine and pleasantly surprised than anxious and pissed off, myself...

@draugnar
how about u stop telling me to shut the fuck up? twat

@meher @fortknox - im allowed to express an opinion. I appreciate people sometimes log on once a day etc, why they cant press ready once done is beyond me though

im not pissed or anxious- just dont get it?

You realize you're just being unreasonable, here? Do what FK says, and you'll be fine.

Cockney, I guess it depends on how the player's time schedule is structured.

For example, if a player plays at roughly the same time every day, then hitting ready in a 24hour gunboat won't present much of an issue for him/her. This is because he will probably have some time left on the clock every time he logs in.

However, if the player can play once every 24 hours, but doesn't know exactly when in those 24 hours he/she will be able to play, then hitting ready could result in a NMR scenario. For example, if I play at 7am one day and 8pm the next day, that is still 2 moves in 48 hours, but there is a good chance I could NMR if I had hit ready at 7am.

In addition to what others have mentioned about time structuring, etc... a player has every right to think about their moves for the full duration of the phase if they need or want to.

Just to complete, sometimes I don´t have proper time to look carefully at the board (specially when you have many games, or the games are somehow important, like the GB tournament), so I enter provisory moves and don´t finish expecting I can have some time to do a better analisys without risking a NMR.

A good advice to diplomacy In general is that you shouldn´t expect others players to do something just because you want.....

@Cockney - I have a right to express my opinion too. My opinion is your a whiny little bitch and should shut the fuck up.

@Draugnar and @Cockney
You both sure do have that right to express yourselves. And you will find that learning a mature use of that right, where it is channeled into helping and serving others and building forum friendships instead of being used to put down and verbally abuse others is a very satisfying way to exercise that right.

Oh, but flinging poo is so much fun...

I will say this though.

@Cockney - I'm sorry. I was making a point and got carried away. There is no excuse for it.

@Cockney
Some people, like myself, have jobs and kids, man. Some of us don't have the luxury to have more than one designated time of the day to spend maybe 30 minutes to play the game that we love and throw down a few forum posts. But I tell you those people are often the best players cause they have the discipline to make that time to practice a fun game they love. And that means you will have potentially some excellent competitors who will greatly challenge your skill and thus help you become a better player. Not always but that sound like some good BS to flick at you. :)

To be honest though...I am a high school teacher so I can sneak a play once in a while at work. :P