[War_ooc] [War] Russia: "Winter's End"

[pentaj2 at Scranton.edu]

There's some merit to that idea. But:

One: I'm not sure it's as difficult as made out to be. Can we at 
least -try- it for a week or two? If it really doesn't work, we can 
say "February was a short month, nothing happened" or something.

Two: I don't want to tie us into RL the calendar much, so that we can 
stop and pound on things more without being hurried along by the flow 
of time IRL. One of the problems WAR has had is that we can often be 
bowled over by the passage of time as posts take a while to write. I 
think it'd encourage better-quality writing if we don't link ourselves 
to the RL flow of time.

Three: We're going to confront this issue whether it's March or 
January, in that it's just not easy to put out a decent post in an 
hour or two (in my experience) on most occasions. Perhaps I'm more 
sensitive to this because I *do* play the US, and the US is more date-
sensitive in terms of "X has to be done by Y date" (the inauguration, 
for example, *had* to happen on January 20 under the 22nd Amendment, 
the budget has to be submitted the first week of February (if I 
remember right), so on and so forth). Better, I think, to decouple 
Game time from RL time at the beginning than to leave it as something 
we bicker over.

(It's already hard enough to play the US, at least let me have the 
chance to pace myself!)

Four: Often, there's a lot of reasons why the WR slips from the GMs' 
minds.

Linking the WR to time gives everybody a huge motivator to make sure 
the WR gets out regularly, which isn't easy. The WR, to be honest, 
shouldn't just be a GM thing to worry about. The playerbase should 
also keep an eye on it; whether it be reading the things closely (to 
digress for a moment, don't just skim it. I, personally, weigh what I 
write, and I often try to leave subtle clues and hints in the WR, 
particularly when I've seemingly left you with impossible situations; 
I don't, in fact, give people impossible situations. I just am not the 
type to spoonfeed you. Plus...We do work on them, argue over em. At 
least read what we write.), reminding us to do them (especially 
important when I start voc rehab), or just looking for holes in our 
thought patterns. Or, even better, helping us out occasionally. If you 
have the skills, someone to help us with maps, doing really good maps, 
is -always- a good thing, for example.

While I may love my GF, I do not intend to just agree with her. She 
knows this, but I figure I'll state it publicly. If I ever seem to be 
just folding on an argument, I hope you'll all smack me.:)

John
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Why not let the January date as having happened in January, then simply kick
the game to March after John's post?

Kay

(Lurking no longer!)

On 3/7/07, pentaj2 at scranton.edu <pentaj2 at scranton.edu> wrote:
>
> Let's try it? Please?
>
>
>  Yeah...
>
> Speaking of this January thing, that strikes me as far too hard to
> maintain.  I know the whole reason it was instituted was so John can have a
> brand new Presidential term in the US, but it may be better for the game as
> a whole to just kick it to March.
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