Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Proposal: Calibration

Failed 7 against, 1 for, with the Arbiter… abstaining?  In any case, Failed.

~Greth

Adminned at 07 Jul 2006 18:01:59 UTC

Time travelling is inherantly inaccurate.  Time machines need to be regularly recalibrated to ensure proper function.

Reword Rule 2.9 ‘The Continuum’ to the following:

Each Traveler is permitted to specify an algebraic Formula (to be tracked in the GNDT) relating six global time travel variables: ‘x’, ’y’, ’z’, ’w’, ‘t’, and ‘c’. A Formula is an equation relating least two distinct variables from this list. Each Formula must be well formed and in simplest terms, contain no transcendental functions, and not evaluate to indeterminate forms explicitly. A legal Formula must assign exactly one variable to the right hand side.  The variable ‘c’ may never appear on the right hand side of a Formula, with the exception of the Calibration Formula.  The Calibration Formula is tracked in the second GNDT, along with the time travel variables.

Some examples of legal Formulas are ‘x+y=t’, ‘300w/z = y’, and ‘x^2-t/(x+y) +1 = w’.

The Arbiter may erase any Formula that does not satisfy the above conditions, or edit any Formula for game / plot purposes.

A Traveler may, no more than once every seventy-two hours, edit one Formula in either GNDT, as long as the resulting Formula is legal.

Often, a Traveler may change one, and only one, of the values of ‘x’, ‘y’, ‘z’, ‘w’, or ‘t’ as permitted by any of the legal Formulas that exist in the GNDT (provided that division by zero does not occur), then giving notice on the front page that this has happened.  E must also recalculate the value of ‘c’ accordingly.

If ‘t’ is greater than 6000, it becomes 6000. If ‘x’ is greater than 12, it becomes 12. If ‘y’ is greater than 31, it becomes 31.  If ‘c’ is greater than 365, it becomes 365.

If ‘t’ is less than -15000, it becomes -15000. If ‘x’ is less than 0, it becomes 0. If ‘y’ is less than 0, it becomes 0.  If ‘c’ is less than 0, it becomes 0.

Often, a Traveler may attempt a Time Jump.  To do this, e first rolls DICEC and DICE2 in the GNDT, where C is the real portion of the value of ‘c’, rounded to the nearest integer.

If the second DICE roll is 1, e sets eir TL to [t]/[x]/([y] + first DICE roll), ensuring that this is normalised to a valid date (e.g. 1440/1/41 normalises to 1440/2/10).

If the second roll is 2, e instead sets eir TL to [t]/[x]/([y] - first DICE roll), normalising as necessary.

In the above, [t], [x], and [y] are the real parts of ‘t’, ‘x’, and ‘y’ rounded to the nearest integer.

The variables ‘x’, ‘y’, ‘z’, ‘w’, ‘t’, and ‘c’ shall be real numbers. If any of these variables should become complex, set the imaginary part to zero.

Add two columns to the second GNDT, namely ‘c’ and ‘Calibration Formula’. 

Set the Calibration Formula to ‘(t/100)+(x/15)+(y/15)+(z/15)+(w/15)=c’.

Use this formula to calculate the value of ‘c’, and set accordingly.

 

Comments

Coldspell:

05-07-2006 21:31:41 UTC

for

Bucky:

05-07-2006 22:34:43 UTC

for

Bucky:

06-07-2006 01:37:01 UTC

Actually, CoV,  against as there would be no way of travelling large time spans.

Kevan: he/him

06-07-2006 04:40:28 UTC

against

Angry Grasshopper:

06-07-2006 06:20:23 UTC

The number ([y] - first DICE roll) might often end up being set to one, but other than this point I don’t see any trouble. What is your trouble, Bucky?

for

Thelonious:

06-07-2006 08:33:59 UTC

against Complicated enough already.

ChronosPhaenon:

06-07-2006 12:44:30 UTC

against more than enough variables already

Purplebeard:

06-07-2006 18:10:30 UTC

against

Hix:

06-07-2006 20:39:24 UTC

for This Proposal currently represents the quickest-to-implement solution to the “single Traveller changing several variables at once” problem.

Hix:

06-07-2006 22:08:49 UTC

Ah, I didn’t see “Proposal:Subtleties”.  If only I could imperial to change my vote to abstain.

kaddar:

07-07-2006 14:31:49 UTC

I’m not really sure if I can vote yet , I’ve posted my announcement of arrival, but haven’t waited to be added to the active list or given a GNDT account, let me know if this is invalid because of that, against

Bucky:

07-07-2006 16:09:43 UTC

It’s valid now.

Coldspell:

07-07-2006 16:30:45 UTC

against CoV