[eia] Re: reinforcement phase

["Kyle H" <menexenus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    I reluctantly agree with JJ that we are probably better off doing
political orders separate from reinforcement orders.  I didn't propose it
before because I thought (and still think) that it will slow our turns down
even further.  But as reluctant as I am to add another round of emails to
each turn, I can see that what JJ says is essentially correct.  If we are
going to allow people to revise their reinforcement orders in response to
other people's political orders, then we might as well just separate the two
steps.
    The rules for the reinforcement phase specify that we are all supposed
to do naval reinforcement first and then army reinforcement.  I hope you
will all agree that we should condense these two steps into just one round
of emails, combining naval and army reinforcement.  Luckily the order for
both steps is almost identical - the only difference is that France and GB
switch places.  So it is easy to combine them into one combined
reinforcement phase.  Only the second and seventh steps are split between
France and Great Britain.  It works like this.
    1st step:  Spain sends out both naval and army reinforcement orders.
    **2nd step:  France sends out naval and GB sends out army reinforcement
orders
    3rd step:  Prussia sends out both naval and army reinforcement orders.
    4th step:  Austria sends out both.
    5th setp:  Turkey sends out both.
    6th step:  Russia sends out both.
    **7th step:  France sends out army and GB sends out naval reinforcement
orders.
I think this is the best, most reasonable way to go if we are going to have
a separate round of emails for the reinforcement phase.  If there are any
objections to doing it this way, please express them.
    In his email, Joel suggested that we use the escrow for both the
political phase and the reinforcement phase.  I am opposed to this
suggestion.  We wanted the escrow for the political phase because many of
the steps require simultaneous announcements.  But the reinforcement phase
is separated into major power turns.  Since the reinforcement phase was not
designed to be simultaneous, there is no need to use escrow for that.

kdh

----- Original Message -----
From: "J.J. Young" <jjy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [eia] escrow question


> Hello, all.  I'm back.  As far as the escrow question goes, I think that
> _any_ player should have the right to change their reinforcement orders
> based on others' political orders, especially declarations of war.  After
> all, even if war is not declared directly on you, your situation could be
> vastly different from the one in which you thought you were writing your
> reinforcement orders.  For this reason, I think that we would have people
> going back to rewrite their orders way too often (at least one player
every
> turn, and maybe most of the players in a big shakeup).  So I am proposing
> that we use the escrow email only for political orders, and we send out
our
> reinforcement orders after the political orders from everyone come in.  Of
> course, if you feel that nothing anyone will do in the political phase
could
> affect your reinforcement orders, you can still send them out early - just
> not in the escrow.  I think that doing it this way will not slow us up
very
> much, if at all, and will avoid a lot of confusing backtracking.
>
> -JJY
>
> P.S:  I also propose that we send out a notification when we have sent our
> political orders into the escrow, unless there is some other way to know
who
> has responded.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kyle H" <menexenus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 8:04 PM
> Subject: [eia] escrow question
>
>
> >     Looks like we'll be done with January soon and we will be moving on
to
> > the February political/reinforcement phase.  Mike and others have
> expressed
> > a desire to do our political phase orders using the Escrow account.
> That's
> > fine by me, as long as we all understand that any major power who has
war
> > declared on them should have an opportunity to revise their
reinforcement
> > orders accordingly.
> >     But here's my question:  Joel, do we have to be invited to respond
to
> > the Escrow account, or do we just send our orders to that email address
> > whenever we want?  If we have to be invited first, then please send out
> the
> > invitation soon so that we are ready to get underway as soon as Spain's
> land
> > orders are in.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > kdh
> >
> >
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