And we have a problem with energy/concentration regeneration. Astalos probably exhausted himself there, but thanks to the whole roleplaying taking a lot longer than the action, he had regenerated some when it was his turn again. Or players could simply wait with posting their next roleplay until they have regenerated enough.
Maybe we need a game mechanic of characters entering an "action scene", which halts regneration, storing everything that would have regenerated and when the character exits the action scene, he gets it all at once (so nothing is lost, but people don't regenerate in game-time seconds what should've taken hours or days) ?
I'm not opposed to this idea, it would also be relatively easy to just have people post their actual concentration/mana used and self police, but a delay would work as easily, ultimately I think a certamen is really the only place where we need a hard stop. Everyone else in a scene will actively be collecting power as well. I fully expect that concentration will ultimately be the limiting factor for most casters. Hence I myself dumped a lot into two intents and spread the rest out among the bases.
