Thursday, September 01, 2011

Large GNDT correction

Bateleur stole a slime mold from Hello Kitty of Doom, ate from it, and gave it to Ienpw III.  He did this about 32 hours after Hello Kitty of Doom fell asleep.  I have returned the slime mold and undone the eating.


For future reference: Please note that you only have 24 hours from when a Survivor falls asleep to steal their stuff; you cannot assume you can steal from them just because they slept ‘yesterday’.

Comments

bateleur:

01-09-2011 06:51:26 UTC

Ah, sorry - I assumed that because the GNDT field didn’t record times of day for anything that this is exactly what it meant. (We use timestamps on blog posts for all other business.)

This needs fixing for two reasons:

1) Because trawling GNDT logs is no fun.
2) Because people log on at different times of day and with different frequency.

Would it be better to add timestamps to the GNDT fields or amend GNDT related posts to refer to calendar days instead of hours?

Kevan: he/him

01-09-2011 08:51:17 UTC

Hmm. I opted for “24 hours” rather than “today” or “today or yesterday” so that players from every timezone would get a fair chance to rifle through a sleeper’s pockets, and so that players who lived in a timezone where it was easy to be awake at 11:59pm UTC could’t just sleep at the very end of a calendar day to keep their pockets accessible for the minimum number of hours.

Maybe “today or yesterday” is okay, though, given how easy it is to empty someone’s pockets completely in 24 hours.