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coan.net: 5 days will work for many Americans, but among Europeans, a three week vacation is rather common.
But I don't mind people being on vacation. I don't mind people taking the full amount of time sometimes. What I do mind is people that are on-line almost everyday, and for almost all of their moves wait till it's almost the deadline. Well, coan.net, you know which class of people I mean, don't you?
I'd like for games to progress steadily on average, while still allowing people to take vacations or the occasional break. A time control that combines Fisher + vacation days is what I'd like. Unfortunally, BK doesn't offer that possibility.
AbigailII: I think what you really need is a speed rating of each player.
Something that before excepting a game with someone will tell you weather or not they will likely on average play daily or wait until the last possible second.
This value should be: *boldly shown on the screen where you accept games. *calculated independently for each game(I play ludo games quicker then say chess games) as well as an overal show in the format [this game/all games] ? should be used if no games of that type have been played for a while.
Suggested formula to calculate: 1) 10*average time taken/average time allowed shown to 1 decimal. 2) average number of days/move shown to 1 decimal.
in each of these systems lower number means faster players. for method 1 players could get values greater then 10 if they often take advantage of weekends and vacations as formula should just compute based on time restraints shown.
I.E. 5 day with vacation and weekend would give you *14.0 if you waited to the last second without using vacation time *16.0 if you used up 1 vacation day for each move you made also *1.9 if on average you played 1 move a day but took a week off every 4th week