Re: [spoon-discuss] Where do we go from here?

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 10:40  PM, Baron von Skippy wrote:

> > > > > > such actions. (because otherwise, the action could change the 
> > > > > > rules to
> > > > > > nullify Dave's veto before Dave got the chance to).
> > > > >
> > > > > Dave's veto could be assumed to be retroactive.
> > > > >
> > > > > > But what happens if you get sick, or go on vacation? Does 
> > > > > > everything
> > > > > > just shut down?
> > > > >
> > > > > You get a new minister?
> > > >
> > > > It is far too complicated to just hot potato on the fly like that, 
> > > > Its like when teh GridMin vannished
> > > -What ever happens when a Minister goes away? This is a problem with 
> > > any Ministry, not just this one. What about a backup Minister? Or 
> > > something like that? And
> > don't ask me what happens if the second Minister goes away as well. 
> > You might as well ask "what if SkyNet blows us all to kingdom come?" 
> > Well, then the Ministry
> > won't be updated, will it?-
> >
> > And the resulting discrepancies, undetermined game state and hassles 
> > don't instantly make you declare this fatally flawed?
> -Not unless you want to destroy all the Ministries for the same reason 
> and give all the work back to Dave. Every new person who does some 
> work increases the odds that we have a pause in some section of the 
> game. This is nothing new. So why is it a big problem now?-

Because small pauses in things like Gnomes and the Force don't make 
that much of a difference. Pauses in things like The Grid, though, have 
been very bad. For a similarly large Ministry, such as your proposed 
Source ministry, I imagine this would be a significant problem.

Actually, I've been thinking about how to take care of pauses in 
ministries in general, because they are bad and annoying. A delay of a 
day or two is only to be expected; we can't reasonably demand that 
every minister check eir email every day. But long delays are bad in 
any ministry, even the small ones.

If we set up a Wiki system, then I can see this working; we could 
establish societies in charge of maintaining things like the Grid, and 
the Duties system can handle all the trivial ministries.

--
Wonko

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