Re: Dead-line idea.

From: spamfree@metropolis.net.au (Henry Penninkilampi)

Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0000

In article <F33F3.17759$FW3.17886@news21.bellglobal.com>, "Vance Scott"
<vances@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>     After reading some of the posts on "The Death of PBM" I had an idea
> about dead-lines. Anyways, the idea is simply that their be two dead-lines
> the one you tell your players about and the one you actually use. It seems
> to me that, never having run a pbm, it would be likely that most late orders
> are barely late. Having the true deadline be a day or two later would give
> those late players an extra grace period and produce less unhappy players
> that the GM would have to deal with.
>
>     A key component to this idea working is that the players don't know that
> the true dead-line is actually say two days later. If this idea is already
> employed, or it has some flaw that I don't recognize to my inexperience feel
> free to comment.

The biggest problem with it, in my opinion, is that every day of 'grace'
you give to the tardy players results in *all* of your players having one
less day to actually do their turns.

Why penalise the folks who got their turns in on time just to keep the
slackers happy?

Henry.

References

Dead-line idea.
"Vance Scott" <vances@sympatico.ca>
Sun, 19 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0000