Deadline Exception Failure

[Will the Great]

Hey folks. I'm a player in game #181823. Yesterday August 22nd a deadline exception for August 23rd was proposed and accepted. However today, the Orders phase proceeded to advance as scheduled. What gives? This feature is very poorly documented.

[super_dipsy]

If you mean the latest exception request, it has not been accepted by everyone.

If you mean the earlier one that has finished, I suspect the problem is that unfortunately all times on Playdip are Central European Time (where the servers are). This is the same issue that affects people with things like 'no processing at weekends'. So when someone requested a pause for Aug 23rd, it gives you a pause from midnight to midnight CET. If for example you are on the West Coast, this is actually a pause from 3pm on Aug 22nd - 3pm on Aug 23rd.

Unfortunately there is no way around this issue. For example, trying to fix it for the weekends issue for everyone would mean a 'no weekends' excpetion would turn into a 3 day exception because it would have to allow for people 12 hours ahead and 12 hours behind.

Perhaps what we could do is to put something on the page where you can request a pause that states it is CET. That might help, although in my experience people would ignore it because they wouldn't 'see' it

[condude1]

Perhaps what we could do is to put something on the page where you can request a pause that states it is CET. That might help, although in my experience people would ignore it because they wouldn't 'see' it

Couldn't you just have the message state which phase the extension would start in, assuming no one finalizes? Put a disclaimer about finalization potentially changing it and to double check the time the day it happens.

Although I see the problems inherent with that too...