Change in PPT Timing

[OrbitingDeath]

This is still an april fools joke right?

[Oles]

Guarantee this is something HO pushed to happen, deadlines were never an issue when i was PPT head because I made sure they were closed when the deadline happened. Seems easy and yet it's an issue somehow

[Opera_Phantom]

Just to clear this up, we knew the best way to do it was to close threads at the deadline, but sometimes nobody from the PPT was online at the right time. It doesn't help knowing that some submissions were hours later, but this isn't something we never thought anout as you can imagine.

[NicholasTheGreat]

People are acting like this 15 minute rule was made to be super strict.  When I was head I interpreted it as "Hey, get it done early, so you aren't late."  I think common sense should reign here.  Good that you are changing it, but imo it wasn't a problem before this.

The problem i see is that people don't know its not super strict. There have been a few time where I've realised inhavent done predictions and the time is :50 or :55. I've though I missed the deadline so there's no point doing them. It's a much fairer system to be uniform.

[DarknessRising]

Guarantee this is something HO pushed to happen, deadlines were never an issue when i was PPT head because I made sure they were closed when the deadline happened. Seems easy and yet it's an issue somehow

HO had absolutely nothing to do with this decision. The PPT team all supported and Sid asked me if it needs HO approval and the answer was no, and they could change it as deemed fit.

We are hoping that the tool that allows you to create threads with a end time where the thread will be automatically locked will take out any concern over human error going forward if we can get it working.

[AdamS]

closing predictions when the sim actually starts is a very logical move

there really hasnt been a reason to keep it at quarter til for a very very long time