What advantage does “gamestate automatically and platonically updates itself at 23:00, waits for someone to manually update it at some point” have over “gamestate is updated manually, anyone can update it from 23:00”? The confusion seems like a big downside, and tacitly encouraging people to rush in at 23:01 and take some legal action that they know will be fine, without needing to update anyone else’s stats if they don’t feel like calculating a full Reap, seems like a bad direction to head.

can we track the next update reaping time on the immortal’s age? just thought it might be nice.

Ah, I may have missed “no Mortal may take Dynastic actions until” if that wasn’t an edit. But that makes it functionally the same as having the update done non-platonically, really.

[Kevan] That wasn’t an edit. And there is a difference from before where only a single person would do the reaping vs allowing anyone to do it. The prevention of Dynastic actions prevents what you outlined in your first comment while also enforcing the timezone balancing mechanic.

[derrick] that might be fine, perhaps i was being a bit paranoid about GNDT only activities which have stifled a few dynasties in the past. we can see from the previous one that it’s not always necessary to have actions which make blogposts.

“Each Reaping happens on a weekday one hour ahead of the previous Reaping’s time” means most literally to me that the Reaping happens every hour except on weekends.

ah i forgot to make it say on the next day

[card] Am just not seeing much difference between “from time X onwards, any player may perform a Reaping” and “at time X a Reaping happens invisibly, and then any player may calculate and apply the effects of that Reaping”. The latter just has an added side-effect of preventing other game actions for the potentially hours-long gap between time and calculation, where the first would allow it - not sure how good or bad that really is, though.