Quote:Originally posted by JayWhy@Mar 19 2017, 11:15 PM

It saves roughly a day.

So here's how updating between rounds goes. Step one, the round ends and I have a bit of a delay. Step two, I notify the updaters to have updates in by a certain date/time, which I have to measure based on if I believe the PBPs will be done quickly enough to notify which teams need updated out of schedule and which ones to leave, as it would be spoiling and illegal under our rules for me to tell updaters who to update. Step three, I then have to set aside a time within my day to do the updates. Sure, it may not be much with just 4 teams, but you have to assess my situation separately from yours. You may have time, but for me, the weekend is my time and during the week I have no time. I work M-F currently, and then I have Saturdays and Sundays jampacked with plans as to make up for the week and to see family and friends. I set aside specific times to accommodate for this, and I'd have to establish extra time for updates, and for doing updates that may not have been done by the deadline.

So to you, it doesn't seem like much to do it and it seems like it could affect a lot. But to me, it takes a good bit to do it, and it doesn't actually affect much as it's mostly middling to low TPE updates where one or two attributes are actually affected by the change and those may throw a player out of whack anyway. At least this way, the GMs know their lines and know what they're working with and can also plan for that.

Would it be easier to get you an assistant? We could create a job where someone ("Assistant TO the Regional Simmer") could just be the guy/girl who updates the sim file and then just send you the file.

That way, when you're ready to sim, you have it all set to go. Saves you time in that retrospect. I know you're busy, and simming isn't always the easiest job, so giving someone a job that helps you seems, i dont know, smart? Unless it makes your life harder somehow.