Gentlemen,

I regret to inform you that our British player, Ethan, has yet to submit build orders. My house rules state:

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If a player has not submitted orders to the GM
by the deadline it shall invoke the following procedure:
In
the first year of a game, the player making the NMR will be immediately
removed from the game. That turn will not be adjudicated until a
replacement player has been found and a reasonable period of diplomacy
provided for.
As it is still the first game year, I should remove Ethan from the game and await a replacement player. Yet since Ethan did submit orders for both spring and fall, I am not completely opposed to leniency. I am going to begin searching for a replacement, and if one is found before we hear from Ethan, he will get the position. But if, before a replacement is found, Ethan does contact us, submit his orders, confirm his commitment to the game, and pledge to send preliminaries orders for the remainder of the game, I am inclined to let him keep his position. Of course if anyone objects, and believes I should strictly enforce the rule no matter how long it takes to find a replacement, then Ethan will not be allowed to resume playing.


I suppose I should apologize for this situation. Maybe it would have been better to have limited access to this game to players who have demonstrated that they do in fact play the games they sign onto. But I generally prefer to trust people until they give me a reason not to, and if GMs aren't willing to let unproven players play, how are they supposed to prove their reliability?


I am curious as to how active Ethan has been in this game. Does he regularly send press? Has anyone heard from him since the fall results were published?

Robert