Vacation

[perseus]

I am going through a busy period at work, or will be in a few weeks.

I could not find how the Vacation system works? Any pointers?

Missed this move.

[savin]

The way the vacation systems works is that the site monitors your games and as soon as it sees you would be about to lose a game by forfeit the vacation system kicks in and it assumes you are on vacation. However, it will only alow you to take 15 days of vacation in a row. On the 16th consecutive day of vacation it will forfeit any games that its your move and the number of days since you last moved is greater than the forfeit days set for the game.

What this tends to mean is if you made a point of moving in all your games on the day before you stoped moving at the site then 4 days later, if you have some 3-day forfeit games, the first game might go into forfeit condition and the vacation system would kick in. So this means that you really c\an take about 18-19 days of not moving at the site. If all your games are 7-day forfeits or more then you could take 22 days before you would start to forfeit games.

The only other rule is that you only can have a total of 30 days of vacation a year.

The other thing I should point out is that the system will think you are on vacation if a single game would have forfeited. SO lets say you come back and have 30 games pending and make moves in 29 of them. The next morning the system wioll see that last game is about to forfeit and will count the day as a vacation day even though you have been moving. The advanatge of this is people can go on vacation and still make moves in afew games if they get the chance since the system will consider they are on vacation for the other games.

[Stan Steliga]

Thanks Savin - the only thing I would add is that 21 and 30-day forfeit timeout games are NEVER able to be saved by the vacation process.