[Discuss] Activity (was: The state of the game)

[Gloria Santos]

On Jul 10, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>
> >
> > A good system for working out if a suggestion is a good idea is asking
> > yourself this: Is there any time I wouldn't use this option if it was
> > available?  If the answer is "no" (which it is in this case), then
> > it's a bad idea.
> >
> > There would need a be a serious disadvantage to using it if it was
> > going to be balanced. (Adding 50% to the journey time, prehaps - if
> > you're taking a round-about route to hide where's you're going, it's
> > going to take longer).



On 7/10/06, Timothy Collett <danaris at mac.com> replied:

That actually sounds like a very *good* idea--not only useful and
> balanced, but also a way to negate a lot of the advantage of late-
> turn loggers.  The exact amount of the travel time penalty might need
> to be fine-tuned, but the general idea seems sound to me.



Agreed there.  Much better than my ridiculous idea of being able to simulate
a late turn movement without having to log in at late turn...




Another idea, that could be either instead of or alongside that,
> would be penalizing misdirecting for several hours, then cancelling
> that misdirect.  After all, to look like you're going toward Region
> A, it would seem that you'd have to actually make some progress
> *toward* Region A, wouldn't it?



Yes, I was thinking that would be quite realistic.  If I am moving from
Region A to Region B, an in the last minute want to go to Region C, I'd have
to travel back the distance from Region B to Region A, then move to C.
Hours should be lost if I do that.


Thus, I propose making cancelling a misdirect it cost you a number of
> hours proportional to the amount of the turn you've spent that way
> (still with the current 1-hour minimum).  Which sounds pretty
> confusing, but just means:
> If it takes 8 hours to travel from Region A to Region B, and you
> start misdirecting to Region B four hours after sunrise, then cancel
> that misdirection two hours before sunset (thus misdirecting for 6 RL
> hours, or half the turn), you lose 4 hours, rather than 1.



Make the lost hours equal to half the travel time from Region A to Region B?




> I can foresee *very* rare circumstances when this would bite someone
> who *wasn't* trying to make a late-turn redirect, but I think that
> the penalties are realistic and reasonable enough that it shouldn't
> be too much of a problem.  However, I'm sure there are aspects I've
> missed...



Yeah, but it would be one of the many easy-to-deal-with "oops, I messed up!"
moments everyone has from time to time.
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