Re: [eia] need to speed things up

["Kyle H" <menexenus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    Good points, both.  :-)
    Yes, we should make it clear who is "on the clock" in our emails.
(Perhaps we could make such a pronouncement part of the subject of the email
so that it doesn't get lost?)  And we should also specify how long they have
to respond.  That is, we should write the time of that the email is being
sent in the message.  (Sometimes the time-date stamp on an email is
untrustworthy.)
    And you are probably right that this month has taken longer than most.
Still, we started this game (if memory serves) in June of last year.  That
was 10 months ago.  We have not even completed 9 months of game time.
That's not a very good record even if this has been a particularly slow
month.  [Granted, there was about a month of downtime last summer while we
tried to find a new player for Spain, but still...]

kdh

> I have two other thoughts on expediting the game:
>
> 1. Not long ago we had a situation in which we were waiting for Mike, and
> Mike thought he was waiting for someone else. This could be avoided in the
> future if at the end of every email taking some action it was mentioned
> what has to happen next. That way, anyone could easily determine whether
> we're waiting for them by looking at the "next" section of the last
message.
>
> 2. I suspect that we'll soon be entering a period in which very little
> happens. Months in which there are no battles, e.g., should go quickly.
>
> --
> J.
>

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