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

[Gloria Santos]

On 7/10/06, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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).
>
> I don't like the idea of using real life times to determine in game
> costs.  If you haven't spent any hours, no time has passed - that's
> the the time pool means.  I prefer my "half the length of the journey"
> method of calculating it - that should apply to canceling movement and
> misdirecting, as a misdirect is really just an automated "move and
> then cancel".



I believe Timothy's idea was that if you cancel immediately, because you
made a mistake, then your penalty is not as much as if you cancel several
hours later in a late turn move.

Does that make sense?
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