You can just set the NMR policy on serious :)

Setting to “serious” or setting turn to 91 I think does the opposite. It allows multiple moves to process before kicking, 91 moves in fact.

Time added is in phase lengths but I am not sure what it means to add time after a player is kicked. What happens then, the game can’t cancel surely. So it only seems to make sense if the delay setting means number of days after a player fails to submit but before he is booted

That is what I am hoping. My goal is to prevent any moves getting processed as all Holds. But give an absent player 2 days to return, effectively with the game on pause. If he does not return in 2 days he is kicked.

(I suppose this could be abused by a late player effectively turning a 1 day phase length continuously into a 3 day phase length. (Hence the possibly equally unsatisfactory default settings)

I guess I’m not the only one uncertain on this. Anyone have a more definite view?

It's really simple.
1.) With the turns setting you can set how long this setting should affect your game. Usually the first few turns are crucial for a proper game, so players usually want the first 2-5 turns without an "all-hold" order. If you set this to 90 or greater it will be in effect all the game.
2.) If the game catches a NMR, it will send the country in CD and repeat the same turn, so a replacement can be found. This will be repeated so many times as you set in the "Delay-option". So with a parameter of 2 you get 2 extensions of a turn before the game proceeds without a replacement. A parameter of 90 or greater will always wait for a player with a valid order.

So you want the "Serious" setting for your game.

Finally I completely understand!!!
+1 to the thread, and to Oli for the explanation

Finally I understand, too! Good explanation. Perhaps the explanation in the game creation environment should be improved though.

Got it. Thanks a lot!!
Agreed, the explanation in the section isn’t clear on this. Also, I interpreted “serious” meaning a game with serious players, hence thought it meant looser not tighter setting regarding NMR ie with serious players, no one does NMR so less restrictive rules is still safe. That too would benefit from a footnote too perhaps