[BNomic-Public] Fwd: ellipsis.cx

[Daniel Lepage]

Ladies and Gentlemen of B Nomic,
	I managed to get ahold of Joel. He says:


> Anyway, my DSL modem/router died on Thursday morning, and the telco 
> wanted to charge me $378 (!) for a new one. Instead, I found one on 
> ebay yesterday, and it's already on its way. I should have it tomorrow 
> or Wednesday, at which point things will come back up.
>
> When that happens, I want to collect addresses for everyone who wants 
> to be notified when things are down, so I can do that next time 
> something unexpected happens. Also, I'm presently considering having a 
> spare server at a remote location that will take over all mail 
> functionality if charybdis goes down.

This means that the game will be able to function again starting in the 
next few days.

Thus, the emergency is no longer strictly necessary.

However, I don't think we have any way of reversing the process to come 
off of an emergency short of finishing the Process.
Since there is no longer any real need to fix things via emergency, I 
suggest that we use this as a time to consider the rules and fix the 
various things that don't work so well.

I'd like to come back from this emergency with at the very least a 
cleaner gamestate - a lot of things are currently unknown to us, like 
the existence of some societies, or the amount of BNS I have (it 
accumulates each nweek, but we haven't heard of it in a while).

I intend to craft a "Refresh" prop to clean things up a bit.

I also think we should assume that the forum and admin have selected, 
and start gathering refresh props right now, so everything gets 
advanced a day. If nobody objects before midnight UTC, I say we do 
that, so that the pause turns on just before midnight and immediately 
advances a day.

-- 
Wonko