ehhh I’m not a fan of this approach. I feel like it might actually result in things taking longer, because now the optimal strategy is to do passive actions to delay the round 3 days, and then get your actions in right at the deadline before people have time to respond

Yeah. I would have liked some Puissance earlier today, but I wouldn’t have enjoyed (as Jason was managing unerringly early in the dynasty) someone getting in with big tactical actions right before the shutters came down. I can wait another hour.

If time windows are tricky and Josh won’t always be around when the 12 hours is up, could there be some mileage in allowing any player to start playing the Organ as soon as there’s been a 12-hour gap, and only Josh to turn it off?

I agree with Clucky that this won’t properly fix things. I’m torn on whether or not it’s an improvement over the current situation.

I also agree with the voters that my attempted fix is overly complicated (although I felt I had to try something). But I can’t find anything simpler that works properly.

Maybe there just isn’t a viable fix for the issue? It’s not unknown for dynasties to reach situations where everything you do is simply just trading one timing scam for another.

Oh, another possibility is to make Puissance costs increase over time (and reset when the crypt is entered).

That way, delaying an action to respond to someone else makes it more expensive – it’s still possible, but you wouldn’t do it without a good reason. This would also produce a natural limit on how long the timer could be bumped for, because once the costs had reached +12 there would be no more actions possible.

@Kevan: “I would have liked some Puissance earlier today, but I wouldn’t have enjoyed (as Jason was managing unerringly early in the dynasty) someone getting in with big tactical actions right before the shutters came down.”

For the record I wasn’t really paying attention to when the timer expired. At the beginning, I was just doing what seemed reasonable whenever I happened to check (a few times a day). I have no idea if you’ll believe me about that but /shrug.

For the pun in the title: “Draculacrity” seems to work.

[Jason] As someone who had an eye on doing the same thing, I had nothing but admiration for it!