Re: 1:1 time between campaign and real world

On 6/18/2024 4:34 PM, Alex Schroeder wrote:

lkh <lkh@dwalin.uucp> wrote:

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I feel the real problem is, that STRICT TIME RECORS [were] NOT KEPT ...
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Why is your area so far in the future? Why are other areas so far behind?
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If every group agreed to share a common calender then this shouldn't
be an issue at all.

 I think strict time records are kept (using a bot that keeps track of where
each area is, with notes by referees about past and future events. It's
well recorded all right, but the problem is that there aren't the same
number of games per region. I run the most games, at the moment, and so –
due to strict time record keeping and only loosely coupled calendars – my
region ended up many weeks and months in the future. Now I'm trying to slow
my region down but the alternative would be to convince all the other
referees (some of them inactive at the moment) to speed up, skip ahead,
etc. But it's their region, with their own time records being kept… it’s
hard, socially.

I guess this is a reason why there aren't many games with strict time records and multiple DMs. I think this is an easy problem to run into.
So what's the solution?
I don't know if there would be anything, besides keeping the regions only loosely interconnected, with a lot of ignoring the obvious dating problems.