i dont see the away problem at all.
Their just obstacles that are their. i even learnd to embrace the away status as kind of a tactical device. leave it as it is. if people are really annoyed about players that faded out completely and wont come back then they should work to get rid if them. if they arent, why bother? its like trying to get rid of those far away island which just divert your reinforcments. its part of the game. on the other side people may actually think fond of tactics that involve doing nothing for 3 rounds to divert an enemy to another direction.

I say. Keep it as it is. its no actual problem.

I am not really satisfied with the current situation about away players. Usually the away player has a large stack, but someone takes advantage of it by conquering all countries around it and leaving one die on each of them (the large stack is away anyway). Or even worse: it was a tactics of the "away" player and he comes back and conquers all the countries which have then one die on them.

why trust a silly away sign anyhow? who told you theyre no threat to you anymore who told you they just dont use it as a defensive measure?

True, but sometimes someone else wins when he gambles that the player is really away (and is). This non-deterministical thing should not be part of the game like the rolls are.

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