RBP13 IT and Tech Issues Thread

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Mostly it's two things:

1. Getting stuck in diplo windows with pauses
2. The risk of missing a pause

Ideally: If everyone plays the same rate they have been, then there isn't any actual change in the time the turns have taken to roll, just less need for pausing.

Even as an RB noob I can see that that isn't how it works in practise. There are always people who will schedule their time to play based on how much time is left on the timer, and not a specific time of the day.

I've made my opinion on missing pauses quite clear - as far as I'm concerned, if you need a pause, it's your responsibility to ask for one, not expect everyone else to babysit you like you're a fucking child.

If you miss a turn because you didn't specifically ask for a pause, you should lose the turn. Tough luck, move on.

If we took that policy you can bet people would stop missing pauses in a real hurry. However, since we apparently don't want to be strict on this, extending the turn timer won't achieve anything.

eh, that would be really unfair to people in the second half of a turn split. If I was at peace, I could play every day and would never cause a delay. But I'm not, and thanks to that don't always have control over when I can play. Its a lot easier for something to come up when you your turn window is 5 hours instead of 24.

I am inclined to agree that it probably would just lengthen the turns. Sometime I feel like Azza plays schedules his turn based on how much is left on the timer. That's probably completely unfair and more a function of my eagerness to play and not being able to until he does, hehe (also our play windows are too close together, unfortunately). In a perfect world the solution is for those in the first half of a timer to play as soon as they can after a turn roll - but not every one chose to be in the first half of a timer, that's probably not practical.

If there are several people who are overwhelmed by the pace I'm ok with lengthening the timer a bit, but we should expect the pace to slow if we do that, because it likely will.