Re: [s-d] Re: [auto] Wonko submits p2034

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 12, 2005, at 10.57 AM, cybersanctuary@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > But that's because Dave primarily used Writs of Delay,
> > indicating he'd just be a day or two in getting clock-stopping
> > tasks completed.  Never really liked writs of delay...I felt
> > Dave should just take as long as he needed to, and if it was
> > gonna be more than a day or two the Watch would add
> > perspective.
> >
> > But if all it does is add perspective, perhaps it would be
> > easier if the wiki showed the timestamp for when the Clock was
> > stopped...?  After all, the Watch must necessarily be
> > realtime, unless one wants to be able to turn it off as well.

Technically speaking the Watch can be turned off, when r0 is invoked.

> Maybe the watch could be used for really cool (and quite long) delays? 
> Although
> most people will have forgotten the effect by the time the watch hits 
> it.
>
> When the watch hits wweek X, wweek Y then the player who remembers 
> this rule
> and posts to the forum gets 100 points?

At the moment we almost never get past wweek 0, wday 2. (the watch 
resets every time the Clock turns Off).

> And Glotmorf, I kinda like the Writs of Delay. I suppose it shows that 
> someone
> is on the case and actually cares what they are doing. And I do agree 
> that
> having as long as is neccessary - especially with Dave running the 
> whole
> Admin thing.

But Dave isn't running the whole Admin thing. Back when we had a single 
Administrator who was responsible for everything, the Writs made sense, 
but now we have a large number of fairly disjoint Ministries, and it 
doesn't really make sense that some of them can issue Writs and others 
can't. The important ones have a built-in Writ of Delay system already, 
in that the Clock stops at the 2nd and 3rd Checkpoints until the GM and 
the Chairman have completed their duties.

--
Wonko

"I have never seen anything fill up a vacuum so fast and still suck."
  -- Rob Pike (commenting on the X Window System)

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