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Setting a Vacation Postponement for Correspondence Games

Is there still no feature to set a vacation flag for correspondence games? I have correspondence games in play but may not be able to make moves in them for the next week or so, but don't want to simply lose or resign the games. Is there a way to set a vacation flag to extend when I need to make my next move by? Saw and old forum post about this from 2015 but no follow or feature I could find.
If you won't have internet access at all during your vacation, the only thing I can think of is to set many conditional premoves, in the hopes that one of them will be executed and thus give you enough time until you return from your vacation.
Have you thought that when somebody agreed to play a 3/5/7day-per-move game with you he wanted to stick exactly with this schedule. He most probably didn't want to play 3 days-per-move till SoChessGoes goes for vacation for a few weeks then 2 moves and then another 2 weeks of waiting because you need to finish some important stuff at work then one move and wait another week because you are not feeling well.

I hope you understood where I am going. You agreed to something and no one should care about your problems. So you either:

- resign
- find a way to make one move per x days
- speak with a person and ask him to take a draw. He should not do this, but he might agree.
I have lost a few games due to this myself, which is why I only rarely play 1-day correspondence games. But still, I think it would be an amazing feature.

But this comes with a problem. Instead of resigning, a sore loser may just "pause" the clock, and never start it.

A solution would be to make the duration of the pause long, but not never-ending (maybe 2 or so weeks). Anyway, I hope to see this feature implemented!
I think this would be a great feature to add. Also, the time control in correspondence chess could benefit from an overall overhaul to more closely resemble time controls used in traditional postal chess (10 moves/30 days or similar) as opposed to simply X days per move.
Days per move is better. It's online, it's meant to be faster!

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