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Catching the Zs, penelties for no sleep?

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Konsaki

Dec 20 2007, 06:51 PM

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QUOTE (GryMor)

I did around 80 hours once in college, with the last 60 of it being a coding binge. I don't actually remember the last 4 hours I was up but my friends do, as I ran into several of them on my meandering walk back to the dorms and carried on conversations that were coherent, but strongly indicated a need to sleep. File revisions indicated I was doing useful work at the 76 hour mark before finishing the program and wandering off to bed.

Assuming I have no racial max attributes, that would have require at least 9 runs through the test (I was up, walking and talking for the last portion, even if secondary effects demonstrate it was unwise). The first 3 are easy, the next 2 are possible, the last 4 are impossible. In other words, your system caps 'awake' time at 24+Body*(Body + Willpower)/2. Even with 6s across the board, you cap out at 60 hours.

Dont forget Edge...

Wounded Ronin

Dec 20 2007, 06:55 PM

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So we really need to discuss the dissimilarities between SR4 and the real world?

I like simulationism.

Now, once many years ago I'd done an internship at the Columbia University School of Social Work and I'd learned that there'd been a few freak-out-run-around cases of psychosis based on students who had stayed up too much playing Everquest.

The point is that even though there may be some mighty non-sleepers posted on this thread, as little as 48-36 hours has been known to produce delusional psychosis in others. When designing dice tests and the like you need to think in terms of medical averages rather than exceptional individuals.

CircuitBoyBlue View Member Profile	Dec 20 2007, 07:07 PM Post #28
Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 830 Joined: 3-April 04 From: Columbus, Ohio Member No.: 6,215	Yippee! Wounded Ronin thinks I'm an exceptional individual! Actually, the times I've stayed up for insane periods probably did produce pscyhotic symptoms; I probably wouldn't be the best person to ask (I sure didn't notice them, not that I felt good). Once in high school, I found out something distressing, and couldn't sleep for almost 3 days. In college, I used to stay up like that ALL THE TIME writing papers, and once, during some student government shifty BS, I stayed up for about a week making sure there wasn't a purge (I had about a 4 hour nap about 2 days into it, but the feat was still pretty insane). Since leaving college, I've either kept it a lot more sane, or I'm just incapable of it in my old age. Over the summer, I was at MARCON in Columbus, and stayed up for a couple days, but I had the help of espresso vodka and a pretty girl (helpful hint--if you put espresso vodka in a hotel room coffee pot, everyone think you're just walking around the convention with a pot of coffee, and everyone thinks it's normal).

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