I just checked my remaining vacation days, I was down to 7 or 8 days I think, but it shows I have full vacation! (30 days for members). I know vacation has been reset in the past due to outages or crashes, but I don't recall any such outage recently. Anyone know why vacation was reset?
Well, as someone who only had two vacation days left, I was very pleasantly surprised by this! Would be forfeiting games currently if that didn't happen. :)
Sure, now that I'm all caught up on my games! :P For a while, I was playing 150 games or so, and I was using vacation days all the time. Now I am down to 50 games, and I have 100+ hours left in all of them.
I only joined two years ago, and don't yet have sophisticated methods for estimating the vacation days I will need. Sometimes there just are two-week periods where I simply don't have the time or energy to play at LG, and sometimes learning a new game gets so exciting that I get into way too many monthly tournaments at once.
Despite the downsides, I think that vacation days are a great solution to an complex problem. I'd rather wait a day or two extra on a game (and play the other games in the meantime) than have my opponents play rushed moves because of timeout and lose otherwise very intense games because of that.