[quote=@The Mighty Hero]
We are waiting on me. I'm trying to get off work early because we are dead slow. If I don't I will have a post sometime after 1800 EST. no battle-yet. Anyone who has DMed on this site before, what do you find works best for combat? Trying to schedule it when a battle occurs or auto hitting for players not available?
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There are two options I've seen used:

1) During combat, each person simply PMs (or writes in OOC) what their actions and rolls are. There's little flavor in this method, although a brief one-line description or a quote could be added. This is the fastest method, as people don't need to write up a full post, and thus take up potentially hours or days of downtime. The DM takes the actions and places all the info into a single DM Post (edited for new actions), then mentions when the next person is up (in OOC, since edits don't send a new mention).

2) Each person writes a full post during combat. This allows for a lot of creativity, but can get a bit annoying for those whose actions are almost always the same thing. It also takes longer, as each person has to write up a full post. Typically, waiting 48 hrs between turns is not uncommon with this method, which means a full round can take a week or longer. 

For this RP, I'd recommend the former. It gets us into and through combat a lot faster. I definitely do NOT recommend trying to do anything live. There are far too many people and I know I would nearly always be unable to participate. 

Also, [@Cardamonelaw] - My PC directly addressed yours before you would have left. Would you like to comment? Otherwise, you're going to be out of the RP for a fairly long time, if that PC ever really rejoins.