BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Hmm… no, I think that the Ghost students have noticeably higher grades than non-Ghosts. The only Alive student who was really close was Blacky, and even that doesn’t take into account that Blacky had no score in UBE. If you’re going to do this then you should probably take Ghost access to Lord Marvolo’s lessons away as well. Otherwise targeting exemption from the Library facilities at zombies is a bit too much of a debuff.

per Josh, at the moment william (The student formerly known as ghost), Kevan (zombie) as well as myself and fuzzylogic (alive) have good grades. So the rules are quite well balanced as they are now.

@Josh - my argument is that ghost grades are high only because we are studying in classes, not because we are ghosts.

I’m studying in most classes that I can and my grades aren’t anywhere near yours. There are a few reasons for that. I’m freer with spells and disruptions, I’ve had some very bad luck with other people’s disruptions etc - but still, ghosts do have clear advantages.

What clear advantages do ghosts have? I only submitted this proposal because I seriously believe that ghosts currently have no advantages that offset the fact that they can’t declare victory, study in the library, or be targeted by things that only target alive/zombie students.

The only supposed advantage to being a ghost is currently limited by the rate at which classes may be posted by the Headmaster.

Firstly, the advantage may not be an advantage to you, but it is still an advantage. If you can only access the site once a day for five minutes, then your ability to catch windows of overlap is sharply diminished.

Secondly, your thinking still ignores Lord Marvolo’s lessons, which ghosts and only ghosts can take with impunity - for zombies they almost certainly do preclude attending at least one of the Headmaster’s lessons, especially as the Headmaster seems loathe to actually close those lessons after 24 hours.

Thirdly, all of that aside, removing the restrictions on ghosts while not removing them from zombies is unfair as zombies have next to no structural advantage at all to compensate for the loss of library privileges.

I’ve definitely missed out on a few classes by being a non-Ghost, and have only caught others by the skin of my teeth. I don’t really have a feel for what that adds up to, though - maybe two or three lessons per week?

I’d support either one of these changes, but not both.

I love the pun in the title.

(^_^)

S/K