BlogNomic: Steady Mercury

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Proposal: Steady Mercury

Timed out 6-1. Enacted by card.

Adminned at 01 Jun 2017 15:36:29 UTC

Replace “Temperature is a value in Blognomickian Temperature Units, which is an integer (which can be negative) and can be employed as XXX BTU, where XXX is the temperature value in Blognomickian Temperature Units.” with:-

Temperature is a value in degrees Celsius, which is an integer which can be negative. References to “°C” are considered to refer to degrees Celsius.

Replace “The default temperature for a Camp is 0 BTU.” with “The default temperature for a Camp is 20°C”.

Replace “-500 BTU” with “-25°C” and “500 BTU” (if it exists in the ruleset) with “25°C”.

Replace “-1000 BTU” with “-50°C”.

If “That camp’s Temperature increases by 100 BTU, but up to a maximum of 300 BTU” exists in the ruleset, replace it with “That camp’s Temperature increases by 5°C, but up to a maximum of 70°C”.

Replacing the fictional unit of measurement with the more intuitive Celsius.

Comments

Madrid:

30-05-2017 15:59:19 UTC

I’m cool with either way so greentick.

Madrid:

30-05-2017 15:59:58 UTC

potential greentick*, in case there is some error or something someone else finds/points out.

card:

30-05-2017 16:20:06 UTC

It’s only “intuitive” to some because they have learned and used the Celsius scale for a long time. It has the same intuitiveness to me as BTU since I’m used to Fahrenheit.

I don’t see any mechanical difference this might make other than changing what the Handyman could do to the ruleset.

Cpt_Koen:

30-05-2017 16:22:58 UTC

Shouldn’t we also explicitly change the Gamestate to reflect the changes in temperature? For instance, the wiki page Camps state that Base Camp and Boot Camp both have a temperature of 0°C.

Cpt_Koen:

30-05-2017 16:24:04 UTC

Also, a default temperature of 20°C for an camp in Antarctic seems pretty hot to me. I was imagining the camps covered in snow and ice.

Kevan: he/him

30-05-2017 16:29:22 UTC

And that’s the thing about fictional units, we could all be using different interpretations of what “0 BTU” feels like, without realising until rules started contradicting each other. (I was assuming it was the temperature inside a heated tent, or around a campfire.)