[eia] Delays

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think people are going to have to realize that we're going to be moving 
back to the rate that we covered the first game year as nations go back to 
war.  The last year and a half of the game have sailed by as everyone was 
at peace and people were willing to go ahead in the order and not care if 
people after them knew their moves.

The Turkish and Spanish turns have already grown longer as they've been 
running a few land battles every turn, but with Russia, France, Prussia and 
possibly others now going to war as well, the game will slow down.  People 
won't be willing to go ahead in the order when the nations they're at war 
with are after them and in many cases it won't be possible to go 
ahead.  And if one person is delayed for a day or two in answering 
something, everyone will be delayed.  These delays have been happening all 
the time in the last game year, but we didn't notice them since no one 
waited for the person to take their turn, we just jumped ahead and they 
went near the end of a phase rather than in the beginning.

The following potentially slow steps remain
Spain calls allies
Those called answer
Prussia calls allies
Those called answer
If either Spain or Prussia call allies then France and/or Russia may call 
allies

Since Kyle and I can only call each other, we're going to bury our step in 
the escrow, but we probably won't be answering the escrow until after all 
the other steps are taken so we have the potential to be rate determining.

This is going to be a long political phase, followed by a land phase chock 
full of military goodness.  Sorry guys, but the breaks just got hit and 
we're going to be moving into low gear until things settle again.

Mike


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