Another set of eyesĢ) Always, always, always make sure the RPGA numbers ofĪll players and judges appear correctly on the scoring packet Show is over, have a friend recheck the math and paper¬ Scoring grid called "checked by." Use it, please. That means two things:Ģ) He has to fix any mistakes that might have "acciden¬ġ) There's a line in the upper left-hand comer of the To the database, an actual human must look at the packetĪnd input that data by hand. In order to get the information from the scoring packet Not for the survival of the world we know and love, but forīut all is not perfectly automated in the world of RPGA On the 1st of January, we let out a collective sigh of relief, We don'tĮnvy them that at all, so when the ball dropped at midnight Tors of old had to compute point totals by hand. The dusty lorebooks kept in our locked fileĬabinet tell of ancient days in the Network, when coordina¬ System were to collapse, we'd need to find some way to keep Ries is an important part of what we do here in the Lots of people enjoyĬompetitive play, and keeping track of members' play histo¬ SCORING PACKETS AND THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT Suggestions that are probably the most overlooked.įollowing them will help to ensure error free packets: The scoring packet itself is filled with tips on how youĬan help the process move smoothly. We hate to do that, since it hurts players at the table who While egregious scoring packetĮrrors sometimes cause us to disqualify an entire packet, Three times as long to find a single error as it takes to enterĪn entire error-free packet. Guy to go through your scoring again, often taking twice or Any mistakes or illegible writing forces our packet To put it simply, some of you are pretty sloppy on your Only say that, well, not everyone pays this much attention. Of scoring packets that accumulate here in the office, I can Math were at least complete enough that any mistakes I'd Packets could read my writing, and that my paperwork and I did do my best to make sure that who ever had to input the I didn't treat them like works of art, but BeforeĬoming to work at HQ, I figured most people filled out Often, this is easier said than done, I'm afraid. Those of you who would just as soon we do away with the After aU, what differ¬Įnce does it make if you played Housecleaning 2 in 1997 or inĢ097? Would it really matter if, by some bizarre twist of buggi-įied glitchery, Fellowshumxvel™ members became Paragons,Īnd Paragons became, well, something a little less lofty? What effect would the Y2Kīug have on the megalithic RPGA Points Database? Warm, and relatively free of bullet holes. Most of you, if you worried about the computer glitch atĪll, probably had such trivial concerns as how to keep fed, Would have made aheck of an RPG setting (anyone up fora In itsįirst week, the year 2000 is looking a lot more like the yearġ999 than like a computerless wasteland that, let's face it, We're left with the realities of the ordinary world. Of our society and devolve all of us to cave men and women.Īs it happened, the lack of any major cultural collapseĬhanged the "bug" from infamous to mostly impotent, and Y2K computer bug seemed set to topple the delicate order Posed to stop working two days ago, when the infamous I'm writing this editorial on a computer that was sup¬
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