I've read this whole thread and had a number of players skip turns in my games, but I can't see any advantage to skipping turns.

If the players that don't miss turns can't capitalize on their own advantage of consecutive turns and opportunities to break continents then they shouldn't be helped by ...

I completely agree with plysprtz.

It sucks to have to skim through 10 games of 6 people each to find which ones I can actually take a turn in. Why those games have their own section at the top.