Stan wrote:
> In the FTF format of the game if a player quits and no replacement is
> available then that power's units just stand and fend for themselves.
And the players around the abandoned Power benefit greatly,
since they suddenly have access to a supply of undefended
Centers.
> Why doesn't the same apply in PBEM games - or at least after a
> reasonable waiting period of , say , a week?
Most Judge-moderated PBeM games operate under some variation of
the Electronic Protocol House Rules, which specify that all games
must be NoNMR (if No Moves are Received for a power, the turn will
not be adjudicated). Eric Klien, publisher of the Dip 'zines,
Protocol and Electronic Protocol, felt that NMRs/abandonments
unbalanced the game, so he instituted a NoNMR rule for games in
his 'zines. This got codified in the EPHR, and has influenced
Judge play ever since.
Eric Hunter.
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