Re: [spoon-discuss] Discussion Question: Ends of Ndays

[Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Glotmorf,

> Okay, I know the basic argument is in favor of existentialism, that the game
> state exists as a result of player actions regardless of what the website or
> the admin actually says, etc.  But at the same time, I find it useful to know
> what we all think the game state looks like after the smoke clears and after
> the dust settles.
> 
> On the one hand, Dave is entitled to a life, which includes relocation,
> re-employment, system downtimes, sleep, sanity checks, what-have-you.  I have
> never begrudged him these things and I never will.
> 
> On the other hand, we might never get to see what's there after the smoke
> clears, especially if we keep those tire fires going.
> 
> So...We've already got an end-of-nweek clock stoppage while waiting for the
> update.  We've already got an end-of-pre-voting-period clock stoppage while
> waiting for the ballot to be determined.
> 
> Do we want an end-of-nday clock stoppage while waiting for a Recognizer?
> 
> As we've demonstrated over the last two or three nweeks, a clock stoppage
> doesn't really stop us from functioning.

Yes, but having 10 per nweek probably would - it would mean that an nweek
would be at least 20 days long, and probably 3 or 4 days longer. That would
slow this game down to the point where most people would probably quit out
of boredom.

I think things will be much easier now that free Bandwidth week is
essentially over.

-- 
Wonko

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