I don't see any need to reserve a post either, in fact the only reason to do so is if you are in the process of doing a thread-hop, and then your post should only be "reserved" for as long as it takes you to add the link to the first post. You should then edit the reserved spot to add a proper post to it.<br/><br/>Please don't reserve posts.<br/><br/>If we reach large game status and people are still doing it I and my fellow GMs will delete them if they are there for longer than an hour!<br/><br/>Time jumps:<br/><br/>I'm pretty flexible regarding game time.<br/><br/>Blinkin and I did a sunset scene, which should clearly indicate that evening is approaching. However, I've not specified what the season is on Mars. We are in the Southern hemisphere, remember, at 40° South 57° East by this map... (http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/target/marsmap1b.jpg)<br/><br/>So in winter, sunset would occur before 6:00pm and in summer after 6:00pm The seasonal variation in day light hours would be about the same as New York (Actually the corresponding location on earth is smack in the middle of  where the Southern ocean meets the Indian Ocean.<br/><br/>I think I've more or less got an idea in my head that it should be early spring. Oh, okay, pretty good guess. Actually according to the website I just found (http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar) it would be Vernal Equinox or thereabouts, so Sunset would be at about 6:00pm.<br/><br/>Anyway, the point is, I'm happy to be flexible regarding time, as long as it keeps moving forward....<br/><br/>However if people would prefer a more rigid timekeeping I can do a time signal post in each thread. What I don't want to do, though, is have three hours pass between someone saying something and getting a reply!<br/><br/>I would prefer to move time on when it seems appropriate in each thread, rather than at the same point in all threads, or simply have players move things on by implication in their posts.