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

["Martin R Crowther" <cybersanctuary@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I know Dave isn't running it anymore - I meant back when he was. I suppose 
you're right with the Writs as well, they really aren't too much use now 
things are as spread out as they are.

It's a pity I missed out on the whole creation of BNomic - it looked like 
fun. I actually discovered Nomic about that time as well... oh well! (Am 
reading through the actual post archives now - haphazardly. Especially since 
I found them and can get to them at work.:D

RW



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Lepage" <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "discussion list for B Nomic" <spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: [s-d] Re: [auto] Wonko submits p2034


> 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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