On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Ed Murphy wrote:
> Proposal: Scheduled actions
> (AI = 3, please)
I think this is a Bad Idea. It essentially destroys all aspects of
gameplay where working against any kind of deadline is important; or
any play where what you do depends on what others have done; think
'A
On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 16:48 -0700, Ed Murphy wrote:
> Billy Pilgrim wrote:
>
> > Indeed. Another thing, from B experience, that this should probably
> > spell out is how what time an action takes place at is actually
> > specified. Otherwise, things like "one second after X happens" or, more
> > p
comex wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Ed Murphy wrote:
>> with this text:
>>
>> Where the rules define an action that CAN be performed "by
>> announcement", a person performs that action by unambiguously
>> and clearly specifying the action and announcing that e performs
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Ed Murphy wrote:
> with this text:
>
> Where the rules define an action that CAN be performed "by
> announcement", a person performs that action by unambiguously
> and clearly specifying the action and announcing that e performs
> it, or that e
Billy Pilgrim wrote:
> Indeed. Another thing, from B experience, that this should probably
> spell out is how what time an action takes place at is actually
> specified. Otherwise, things like "one second after X happens" or, more
> problematic, "one second before X happens", can be quite problema
ehird wrote:
> 2009/4/21 Ed Murphy :
>> Well, that and questions about the physical possibility
>> of something occurring 10^-100 seconds after something else.
>
> happy walrus?
Ye-es.
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Alex Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 14:21 -0400, Geoffrey Spear wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Ed Murphy
> wrote:
> > > Proposal: Scheduled actions
> >
> > This should probably explicitly spell out the order that actions occur
> > in the event
2009/4/21 Ed Murphy :
> Well, that and questions about the physical possibility
> of something occurring 10^-100 seconds after something else.
happy walrus?
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Ed Murphy wrote:
> That's what "integral number of seconds after midnight" is intended
> to prevent.
Hmm? That's not in your proposal.
> Well, that and questions about the physical possibility
> of something occurring 10^-100 seconds after something else.
Well,
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Ed Murphy wrote:
>> AGAINST because I think it's broken: if you're going to do this,
>> explicitly legislate conditional actions instead of the current mess
>> of precedents (and get rid of the conditional voting rule) so we know
>> exactly what sort of conditional
comex wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Ed Murphy wrote:
>> Proposal: Scheduled actions
>> (AI = 3, please)
>>
>> [Not everyone has access to a server with both cron and mail-sending
>> capability. This would allow for things like "At 23:59:59 UTC, if my
>> caste is Alpha, then I spend
On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 14:21 -0400, Geoffrey Spear wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Ed Murphy wrote:
> > Proposal: Scheduled actions
>
> This should probably explicitly spell out the order that actions occur
> in the event multiple actions are scheduled at the same time and the
> order i
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Ed Murphy wrote:
> Proposal: Scheduled actions
> (AI = 3, please)
>
> [Not everyone has access to a server with both cron and mail-sending
> capability. This would allow for things like "At 23:59:59 UTC, if my
> caste is Alpha, then I spend to reduce it" to be
Wooble wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Ed Murphy wrote:
>> Proposal: Scheduled actions
>
> This should probably explicitly spell out the order that actions occur
> in the event multiple actions are scheduled at the same time and the
> order is significant.
I was planning to wait for
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Ed Murphy wrote:
> Proposal: Scheduled actions
This should probably explicitly spell out the order that actions occur
in the event multiple actions are scheduled at the same time and the
order is significant.
Granted this might be a problem even without schedule
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