TIG CXVII: Admin Thread

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian

Woohooo! We're going on an adventure! 10PM GMT is 3PM my time which is right when I'm eating lunch most days. So that's a tiny bit inconvenient and I might not be able to be here at the last hour. G55 mentioned that I can write the narrations (and not play) so I can always write ahead of time and G55 can submit it. I'm free for the rest of the day though!

Nice to have you here! We'll figure something out about who and when will do the narrations, and I can always put filler posts to be narrated after if you're not around at DL. I was thinking about doing a Barahir theme, because you can have Gorlim haunting his mates, but if you have other narration ideas we can change it up! Let's PM and sort this out.

Originally Posted by BG

It might be interesting, maybe for a game in the future, where the person chosen to be a Ghost gets to log into an anonymous "Ghost" account for a day and no one in the Living thread knows who they are.

Ha!!! That would be brilliant! A shared Ghost account, used solely for these games.

I also see this as an avenue for a lot of pranks, which, if used in moderation, makes it even more brilliant.

[Thinlómien]

As Greenie said, the DL is 2am Finnish time which is... not ideal, but doable. Certainly better than the later deadlines we've had in many games!

I will do my best not to be around for the last 1-2h on weekdays because I do have work in the mornings, but on weekends I will probably be glued to the screen until DL, night owl that I am.

[Galadriel55]

Ah, here's the thing I forgot to check with people. I have not yet determined roles, so this is in no way biased. How long to dead wolves have to "sit" on the mod-info before one of the statements becomes public knowledge? In considering this, I am cognizant that DL is at 2am for a number of you, and therefore doing something brief like 1-2h would be cruel. Waiting for when you lot wake up ~6h after DL or later is a bit cruel to me, because them I end up having to sit up into the Night waiting for the response. 12h is a possibility, it ensures that both I and all members can be awake at the right time, but it leaves less time for the DT to react to the info.

But I have a co-mod! BG, would you be available >6h after DL if you were to post this info?

[Blind Guardian]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

But I have a co-mod! BG, would you be available >6h after DL if you were to post this info?

Yes! That will be around 10PM which would be perfect for me!

Edit: I don't really understand what's going on though. Are you saying that the Night will only be 12 hours long?

Granted I did just wake up so give me some time for my brain to turn on

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian

Yes! That will be around 10PM which would be perfect for me!

Edit: I don't really understand what's going on though. Are you saying that the Night will only be 12 hours long?

Granted I did just wake up so give me some time for my brain to turn on

No no no no. But this is perfect!

Basically, every Night we mods will reveal a little bit of info to the DT, in somewhat vague statements (eg "the wolves did not all vote together"). When a wolf joins the DT, we present them with 2-3 sentence options, and they get to decide which one becomes "published" on the DT. I was thinking what would be the best way to time it so that in a single Night the dead wolves have a reasonable chance to see the statements first, but the Innocent DT also has a reasonable chance to mull it over, make deductions, and possibly select a Ghost.

So if you are game for this, I can PM DeadWolves + yourself with the options, and they will have 6 hours to send you a choice. At DL+6 you will post the answer on the DT. And if for some reason you don't have an answer on time, pick one at random.

I think this timing solution works out for most time zones. Let me know if I'm actually not correct. We have until N2 to figure this out.


Edit: ...wait, hang on. That means the GMT time zone is stuck making a decision between midnight and 6am. Maybe this actually isn't the best time. Uuuugh!

[Blind Guardian]

Is there anyone in England that is playing? Would it be better to have a 6PM GMT deadline? That would be 8PM in Finland, 11AM in Arizona. I would give more room for discussion.

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian

Is there anyone in England that is playing? Would it be better to have a 6PM GMT deadline? That would be 8PM in Finland, 11AM in Arizona. I would give more room for discussion.

There are people from the UK. And the flip side of an earlier GMT DL is also an earlier EST DL (6pm GMT = 2pm EST = middle of workday). There is no good way of doing deadlines, is there?

Let's then leave it at DL+6h for the Dead. The real DL takes priority over the DT. If there is a dead wolf for whom this DL is inconvenient, maybe we can be a bit flexible mid-game with the timing.