Re: [spoon-discuss] staggering time zones

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 30, 2004, at 9.56 PM, Zarpint wrote:

> > The problem with the Telephone was that it was susceptible to this 
> > sort
> > of 'camping': it encouraged players to hang around online waiting for
> > Dave to publish the recognizer so they could jump on it and get the
> > small point bonus.
> > 	I think the fear with OSG is that we'll have players who sit around
> > waiting for the end of the nweek so that they can immediately grab the
> > duties before other players can. If we have any strong incentives to
> > fulfill duties (and I definitely think we should), then these players
> > will be at a serious advantage in the game, even if the only reason 
> > why
> > they can camp like this is because they live in a time zone where
> > nweeks end at a comfy 7 PM instead of at 1 in the morning.
>
> Wonko, it seems like a good thing if people are that eager to do 
> duties.
> Everything would always get done.

I'm not convinced of that. It seems equally likely that the easy duties 
would be done by multiple people, while the harder ones would be left 
for "someone else", and consequently would never be done.

--
Wonko

"If I ask you to pay attention to the weight of your body pressing on 
your buttocks as you set reading, you will momentarily stop reading."
	-David G. Myers, _Psychology: Myers in Modules_

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