Slow the Ticker, Please

[Wu Han]

Hello,

I just want to put this here to continue a bit of an informal discussion we've had on Discord regarding slowing the ticker. There, we had a sizeable group in favour of changing the ticker from 1 in-game month per 8 hours, to 1 in-game month per 12 hours. However, I don't think many players saw that discussion and thus I wanted to post here.

Personally, I am strongly in favour of this change, as I think it provides more time for slower, more considered RP – particularly as many of us are busy with real world obligations. I also just think 2 months per day and one year every six days is clean and neat, rather than 3 per day, year per four days.

I am (perhaps) not the best advocate for this change, as I am endemically behind in my posts, but selfishly I think this would help myself and any other players who like to engage in planned out, long-term RP arcs. Providing more time also helps with balancing other game-related time demands, like updating the wiki, doing design stuff, participating in international orgs, global publications, etc., outside of strictly national news RP. I encourage any players who support this to indicate so below. Opponents, of course, are also welcome to weigh in... but I don't like your position!

Anyway, just wanted to officially open discussion on this. I am not aware of the extent to which this might be a bigger coding issue than it seems on the surface so apologies in advance if I am proposing something that would require a greater deal of work than it would otherwise seem.

Thanks folks.