Sunday, April 27, 2025

Clockwatching

The Clocktower proposal had feedback to “just ask people” and I’ve now withdrawn it, so here’s a blog post with that question.

How long do people generally expect to take to submit their Routes this dynasty, not including time taken waiting for private negotiations to get responses?

Comments

ais523:

27-04-2025 17:33:25 UTC

I expect to take 8-12 hours between checks of private messages for negotiations, and to submit as soon as the negotiations are complete.

Darknight: he/him

27-04-2025 18:01:34 UTC

I want to try to be on par with ais but it’ll probably be abit longer depending on who I’m paired with, as pm’s can obviously vary in speed

JonathanDark: he/him

27-04-2025 18:19:34 UTC

24 hours for me

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

27-04-2025 19:01:57 UTC

My personal clock is likely to be 24-36 hours

qenya: she/they

27-04-2025 21:19:31 UTC

As ais523 said on the proposal, the phrasing confuses me a bit because, well, the entirety of the planning phase is “waiting for private negotiations to get responses”, right? If there were no private negotiations there would be no need to wait at all.

Some timescales that might be helpful:

I check my messages and the blog every few hours while I’m awake, but generally only have time to read through things in detail or talk at length once a day, and occasionally miss a day. It’s been my experience so far that private negotiations for one team take 2-3 days if everyone is paying attention. I think a reasonable timescale for a single cycle of patrols-planning-breakin would be 4-6 days.

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