Re: [s-d] [s-b] I would like to join.

["Roger Hicks" <pidgepot@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Geoffrey Spear <geoffspear@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Stefan Carey <sillyman0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  >
>  > Roger Hicks wrote:
>  >  > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 7:23 AM, 0x44 <bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  >  >
>  >  >> Geoffrey Spear wrote:
>  >  >>  > Game time stopped, affecting all subsequent timed events, as soon as
>  >  >>  > the number of Paranoid players reached 4.  The beginning of the State
>  >  >>  > of Emergency is automatic; the start of the Pause is not.
>  >  >>  >
>  >  >>  Game time is stopped, but the ratification of playership is not
>  >  >>  dependent upon game time but on real-time. More than two real days have
>  >  >>  passed, and two players have ratified the Outsider's request to join the
>  >  >>  game as Sillyman. By Rule 4e4, he's a Player. You are correct, however,
>  >  >>  regarding his being a PEP.
>  >  >>
>  >  >>
>  >  > I would consider any timing in rdays to be game time and not real time.
>  >  >
>  >  > BobTHJ
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>  >  I would consider rdays to be real days. And if I am a player, I am a
>  >  PEP, as "For the purposes of this rule, the term "Potential Emergency
>  >  Participant" (or PEP) shall mean each of the current players of the game
>  >  as defined by other rules." However, as there is an uncertainty, I may
>  >  or may not be a player, and thus I am certainly not a PEP. Don't mind me.
>
>  I'd have to agree; your playerhood is most certainly not dependent on
>  when the EC Initialized the Pause, since all changes to timing take
>  place immediately a 4th PEP becomes Paranoid.  Now whether rday
>  changes occur at all during an Emergency is ambiguous at best; if
>  they're "relative to absolute time" they don't occur, if they're
>  "relative to game time" they're delayed, and if they fit in neither
>  category they occur on schedule.
>
If they are "relative to absolute time" then we have a fairly large
problem since the justice system relies on rdays to operate.

BobTHJ
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