Old Thread: IMPORTANT Change Coming to Vacation Use!

Well, I must admit I don't like this new rule at all. One of the reasons I became a premium member was to escape of the time management in order not to lose on-time. This new rule seems to call back the time management in order not to lose vacation days for nothing. It's definitely a step back IMO.

I usually have more than 10 games and less than 20 games (21 right now) which is hardly to be consider "an overload".
While you may have a very strict time schedule and you can cope with it, it's OK. All depends of your job, your family, your obligations.  I don't always know if tomorrow I will have internet connection or time to look over the games. Auto-vacation was helping me in this respect.
Usually I cannot use the computer on weekends (going out with the kids, wife getting mad seeing me in front of the computer on weekends, shopping, ...). I use to solve this by playing moves Friday late and again Monday as soon as I could. Thanks to auto-vacation I was losing only few hours. Not any more  :(
I hope you see my point.

Well, bad luck for me, 'cause some of the games I play are two days move and I took them a while ago, because I didn't knew this was coming.

Being a virtual world, vacation means for me whenever I cannot be in front of the computer to play the moves, either that I'm out of the town, out of the country, out of the house or inside the house but outside my computer room. If you are looking from the physical perspective, vacation is when you are outside your town. But you are virtual, so you can actually play chess even when you are in the physical vacation, from am internet cafe. Thus goes away your vacation definition ...

Thanks for advice bsramus, but seems like my definition and my idea of vacation is not at all opposite to chess.com. Surprisingly, in fact it's the same definition as I gave in my previous post !  Here is the quote from chess.com:

<<  What is vacation abuse and the policies regarding this?

Solution:
Vacation abuse is when a player uses the vacation time to intentionally delay a game which is completely and hopelessly lost. Please only use vacation time in an honest matter when you are away from the site for an extended period of time.  >>

How long is extended though?

I'm tended to say "longer that the period of time you have to move in the earliest game".

Well, I CANNOT it's a totally different than I DON'T WANT.

Premium members get at least 30 days vacation per year - so this does allow for quite a few 'unable to get back in time' episodes - even when there is a one day minimum.

no they get 24, just as basic members...

That's not what the site map shows ...

	Basic	Gold	Platinum	Diamond
Vacation Time	Max 30 Days	Max 60 Days	Max 90 Days	Max 90 Days

Also see: vacation-it-does-add-up.

that's maximum, not per year

Haven't you got some homework to do?

yes I have so much that I can't even get myself to doing it...

What about the initial 7 days that everyone gets? In the first year, everyone gets 30 days - not 24. 

well ok but I'm past the first year

Before we know it, you'll be suggesting moves in the next Magnus v World match. So no need for homework, right?

"I knew him back when he complained about his homework."

I bet Magnus hates just doing his homework ... calculating fishing quotas and such.

Stick to the informational lists Mr. Wookiee, leave the national stereotyping to me.

Since prawn aren't the only thing that eats prawn, I'd think having accurate counts of fishing quotas would be of concern to you.