If the tyrant Erdogan (same thing for Orban and those other autocrat dickbags) is unhappy that's a sign that at least something is going in the right direction.
We don't have our devs on call at all. Infra / platform ops are and I think they get 750€ per on-call week (not more than one week out of four) which includes two calls or two hours of call duration whichever is reached first.
After that it's another 70€ per call or started hour and it's the same if an expert who is not on call is asked to help out with an issue reported to on-call (but they may not answer / decline as there's never an expectation to be "soft on-call")
Overall that's an okay deal and some sorely needed extra money for the ops guys and gals. But all the same I'm happy that my devs don't need to plan their lives around an on-call schedule.
Edit: Ah sorry, didn't even answer all the questions in OP...
We're in Germany and there is a cooldown time after you fielded an emergency on-call report (which is outside of regular working hours by definition) which is either 8 or 10 hours (not entirely sure since my team doesn't do on-call as previously stated) before you are allowed to start your regular work time for the following day.
Not sure how they tally up working hours for payroll but if you wake up to a call at 3am then certainly no one expects you to be online again at 8am. If you get a call at 10pm however then you get to start working normally the next day. (unless that issue took forever to troubleshoot ofc)
On-call rotations are one entire week per person who participates (which is not mandatory) and the participants per pool must be at least four - which is why they are pooling web admins, DBAs and other ops folk together.
That seems to work okay even though every so often more specialized know-how is required than the current on-call tech possesses for the topic at hand and then they request extraordinary assistance as described above.
This kind of headline makes me sick: "Work of art worth X currency" - because of course it's only the financial speculative aspect that makes art valuable and no one cares about anything else. Disgusting.
Bin ich im Grunde dabei, auch wenn das aus einer obsoleten Mentalität was in der Gesellschaft als "richtiger Sport und damit wertvoll" angesehen wird resultiert. Historisch war der Wettbewerb immer gewünscht und gutgeheißen, aber das muss ja nicht so sein.
Freude an der Bewegung sollte viel höher bewertet werden als quantitativ messbare Leistungen oder welches Team die Gewinner von irgendwas sind. Von so einer Vision sind wir weit entfernt, aber die Möglichkeit besteht dennoch.
Wir müssen und wollen inzwischen ja in vielen Bereichen umdenken, wo das früher (Achtung, gleich kommt's) undenkbar war. Vielleicht kann das ja irgendwann tatsächlich so weit gegen, diesen lächerlichen und nicht nachhaltigen Leistungsgedanken loszuwerden, was körperliche Betätigung bei Kindern und Jugendlichen angeht.
Deswegen ja auch der Vorschlag, was sinnvolles und kooperatives zu tun anstatt Individualsport zu quantifizieren (oder Ballspiele, wenn der Sportlehrer mal wieder keine Lust hat)
Im Grunde wird man aber eh nichts finden, was jedem Teilnehmenden Freude macht - aber das heißt ja nicht, dass man sich nicht Mühe geben sollte, mit einer besseren Haltung als "haben wir schon immer so gemacht" an die Sache heran zu gehen.
Auch wenn das bei mir schon mehrere Jahrzehnte her ist... aber ich habe auch damals schon nie den Sinn hinter der Veranstaltung erkannt.
Als jemand, der in seiner Jugend Leichtathletik auf Wettkampfniveau betrieben hat, gab es nie auch nur den Hauch von einer individuellen Herauforderung. Und gleichzeitig habe ich aber immer gesehen, wie ca. die Hälfte der Teilnehmenden einfach jede Sekunde davon gehasst hat und mich für sie zusätzlich schlecht gefühlt.
Im Grunde war es nur eine weitere Bühne für die extravertierteren Persönlichkeiten in der Klasse, sich (selbst bei wenig beachtlicher Performance) gegenüber zurückhaltenderen sichtbar zu machen. Spaß für alle und ein gewisser Purpose stand jedenfalls nie im Mittelpunkt, sondern eher Gehorsam dem System gegenüber.
Würde es sehr begrüßen, wenn hier ein zeitgemäßer Ersatz gefunden wird. Am besten irgendwas, das körperliche Aktivität, soziale Interaktion und kognitive Betätigung miteinander integriert.
I'll be honest, I was a bit nervous when you compared your game to D&D and Shadowrun. Both have famously bad mechanics that shoot themselves in the foot compared to what the absolutely marvelous worldbuilding can do and are only the staples they are because they've been there decades ago...
But from a quick perusal this looks rather promising. I would love to commit some of my time to this project and its community but will have to see whether I can manage to free up some first. So, no promises at this point I'm afraid.
I really love the way you approach this, not as a commercial product but as hopeful community building. Can't give you enough kudos for this! :)
I had been wondering as well. I have been using the app with an alt account since 0.1.7 but never joined the Discord so no news.
Then again it seems like the /kbin API is still in testing as I never saw an update on that front either.
Could also just be a summer slouch as everone is on vacation perhaps? Certainly hope interest in /kbin and Artemis hasn't faded.
So, Gloomhaven and Betrayal at the House on the Hill (D&D edition). It baffles me that they didn't mention the actual D&D board games and instead listed two TTRPG systems plus the trashy campaign module for one of them.
Then again, people who are into D&D often really only are into D&D and not willing to branch out very far so that tracks.
Kind of surprised at Gloomhaven being suggested because it has a dungeon crawl theme over a good Euro hand-management engine and most D&Ders are probably scratching their heads at that.
The Isofarian Guard is amazing if you happen to be up for a story-heavy campaign game to play either solo or with another person. I got the first printing and am exstatic, that they only charge 39€ for the new content and previous backers get all of the updated materials bundled in for free. That is exactly how you turn me into a loyal customer.
On the other hand, Board Game Tycoon decided that everything outside of the US no longer exists, so I can't even buy the Everdell-related stuff I'd like because it simply isn't available in the EU at all. That is how you spit into a (formerly loyal) customer's face.
If the tyrant Erdogan (same thing for Orban and those other autocrat dickbags) is unhappy that's a sign that at least something is going in the right direction.