Helga, a double shot of lemonade for my fine, considerate Prussian ally!
Bill's emails seem to be working very well in helping get his opponents to confirm the end game result. Now, I also happen to know that each of you receive an automatically generated reminder from the DoR System to do this as well. Many of you seem to just ignore them, moreso if you happened to lose the particular battle in question.
Unbeknownst to Bill ( I might have mentioned my intention to him actually), or really anyone else for that matter, I am on the verge of sending a club wide email to every officer in this club. It will clearly instruct you as to how to reset your DoR Password on your own, without any assistance. This seems to be the most common excuse...er, reason...that officers give me for not being able to properly register their games. In addition to the email, I am going to post the instructions in the forum as an Announcement so that the procedure will always be accessible to everyone. Now I do realize that some of you really do hate computers, and everything that goes with them, but you are playing complicated, Napoleonic simulations on your computer, so the argument of technical limitations does not really ring true to me. If you can execute a turn, and successfully send a BTE file, you can certainly register games in the DoR System. Just my perspective for whatever it is worth. Not even enough to buy a cup of coffee, I am sure.
Oh, there is one more small detail about the mass email that I will soon send. After explaining how you can reset your DoR Password without any need for assistance, I am going to request that each and every one of you log into the DoR System. You don't have to confirm a game or anything, you just have to successfully login. After a period of time, I am going to pull the DoR Administrative log and see exactly who has not logged in. You would be amazed at the number of 'active' officers who have never logged into the DoR System to register a game. Now remember, our DoR System has been in place going on two years now. Makes you wonder doesn't it? It does me.
Once I compile the list of officers that have not logged in per my request, I am going to present it to the respective Army Commanders and we are going to have a discussion as to why these officers are still listed as 'active' and have not been redesignated as 'reserves'. Maybe this is not the case for anyone, I will not actually know until this process is concluded. Either way, I do intend to find out.
