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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jackelope King" data-source="post: 3800796" data-attributes="member: 31454">But this really doesn't follow. For example, I'm in charge of digital audio recording lectures in class. Sometimes, though, the microphone cuts out and stops recording on the computer. It's pretty easy for me to stroll on up and jiggle the cord until the computer recognizes it again. I have no problem doing this. But a lot of the people who volunteer to help with recording are baffled by this. All the cords look the same, and they just want to know why we can't get a new cord.Now there is something to be said for the different ways we use the recording system. I know more about computer hardware and this computer in particular that I can fix the microphone, whereas many of my classmates do not. However, that doesn't excuse the fact that the source of the problem for many other students could be resolved if IST would just get us a new cord.The problems we're seeing are similar. Sure, there are plenty of ways a group can short-cut around the problems and keep the game fun by using different playstyles. You described some of these patches earlier, RC, when you replied to pemerton that a party could be enabled to go on cleanup duty after slaying the BBEG by having the BBEG's death provide them with the healing potions and disposeable resources they need to do the job. (I personally think this is a little contrived, but that is irrelevant here.) But just because people know a system well enough to avoid pitfalls experienced by others doesn't mean that there are no problems with the system. Certainly different approaches to the system can be more or less successful depending on the system, but that doesn't mean a problem doesn't exist.In summary, just because we know how to side-step the 15-minute adventuring day and provide supplimentary resources necessary to keep the game going doesn't mean that the 15-minute adventuring day problem and limited resources aren't necessarily a problem. It's like the software guys blaming the users for bugs. Sure, it could be someone attempting to play Minesweeper in Quicken, but it might also be someone trying to balance their checkbook and Quicken keeps crashing on them.</blockquote>

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