Well, I am back from my tete-a-tete in Nebraska with a long-time German ex-vegetarian ex-lesbian friend. I think that's all I need say on the matter
I do have orders from everyone. The results are below, but I will not update the map until tomorrow morning.
There was a question about Germany's grace period, and I figure everybody should get the reply. Since the delay was in part the result of an honest mistake, I would have given Guile the benefit of the doubt -- i.e., I would've let his order be late without penalty. However, once his orders were 24 hours late, I opted to treat the situation as an NMR. As such, I alerted him that he was on a 3-day timer per my house rules; three days after the original deadline (i.e. Friday + 3 days = Monday), he would be abandoned if no orders had been received. Orders were received over the weekend.
So, that was my procedure. There are four points I would make from the above. First: this was a fairly unique situation; I do not expect it to happen again. Further, as we get more familiar with seismic orders, I will in the future treat misorders as waived orders. But for at least the first couple rounds, I don't want to be punitive. Second, I am treating this as an NMR for Guile. Strike one. Third, I expect players to be checking email regularly (i.e. every day), and that being the case, errors like this should be fixable within 24 hours. Fourth, I am not at all upset; this is the just standard stuff of keeping the trains on time.
Spring 1901 Seismics (5 succeed, 2 fail):
Austria: Splitting Ser/Rum (Join Bud / Bul) - *ORDER FAILS*
England: Split Den/Kiel - Join Hel/Bal
France: Bel and Ruh split, Bur and Hol connect
Germany: Kie and Mun separate; Ruh and BERLIN connect
Italy: Ion/OFF disconnect Tun/Eas connect
Russia: Split Nwg Sea and Barents Sea, Connect Norway with edge of board
Turkey: Rum and Bul separate; Ser and Black Sea connect - *ORDER FAILS*
Next Deadline (Fall 1901) will be Thursday at 1000 CST. F1901R will be Friday at 1000 CST. F1901Seismics will be Monday the 20th at 1000 CST.
Adam
