[BNomic-Public] Fwd: ellipsis.cx

[Baron von Skippy]

>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.

-Oops.-
>
>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.

-Sounds good. I suggest a second LiM revolution - the rules are in desperate 
need of a good defragmenting to clear up some issues of precedence, and 
there are a lot of scraps of old ideas still scattered throughout. Major 
concepts do seem to put down a lot of roots in this game, don't they?-
>
>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).

-Yeah... okay, I'll take a look and see how long that's been - I may be able 
to get the Bank up and running again by poking through the archives. 
Shouldn't be too hard to find all the things that changed people's charm in 
the last 15 nweeks or so. I can't get started on that for a week, though, so 
don't expect anything before the 23rd at the earliest. In the interim, 
someone come up with something to do with BNS. We're going to have about 
three people with more than 10,000 of the things, and another large group of 
5-9,000, and there is nothing to spend the stuff on.-
>
>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.
>
-M'kay.-

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