BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Why “having that card in their Hand when the Game began” rather than “having that card in their Hand at the time it was played”

I’m not trying to make many changes to the structure of the original text except where necessary to fit this in—that seems more like a proposal-level change.

Either Darknight has dropped out, is distracted for exceptional reasons, or isn’t able to check the game as frequently as every 24 hours. I vote against in case it’s the third.

I would like to reserve the right to be away for something more like 48 hours if need be.

This isn’t vastly penalising people who need to be away; it’s just meaning that they foreit one game and don’t hold up someone else’s progress. It seems very unreasonable that a person have to sit inert for 2 days plus waiting for an opponent who won’t make it, when a penalty-free way of automating forfeits can exist.

If you want to be away for more than 48 hours, don’t set your readiness to Yes!  Game actions should have consequences.

@pokes no one is forcing you to play, but if you are going to be offline for that long set your readiness to “No”

The implication here would seem to be that if you know you’re going to be offline for 24 hours, you should turn your Readiness off (otherwise a game might start the minute you drop offline, and be Sfida’d immediately, and then time out as a loss for you).

We’ll see what the vote says, but that feels a bit on the narrow side to me: someone who checks in around the same time every evening, plus or minus an hour, risks being timed out if they’re early one day and late the next.

I just feel like while a loss has no penalty there’s not a good reason to avoid this. If it starts costing something to lose then that’s a different matter…

One of your rivals gaining a Peg while you miss out on the chance to gain one is, I think, a penalty.

I’ll put this up as a proposal with a 48 hour timeout in case Darknight is genuinely AWOL at this point.