                                Concept : Time

NAME
   Time - Definitions of BTU and ETL

Level: Expert

Because  of the unique nature of Empire governments, (i.e. the decision makers
spend most of their time on vacation.  Hmmm, not so unique actually), and  the
fact that ideally the Empire "environment" will mirror the "real" world, vari-
ous heuristics dealing with time have been implemented.

The first is the Bureaucratic Time Unit (BTU) concept which keeps track of the
potential for doing "work" possessed by your government.

The  second heuristic, (i.e. hack), is the Elapsed Time Limit (ETL) which lim-
its the amount of time that players may be logged on each day.  The ETL is not
cumulative  and is reset to some particular value, (often two hours, check the
"version" command to be sure), every night at midnight.

The ETL and BTU counts are displayed with each command prompt as follows:
   [##:##] Command :
The first "##" is the Elapsed Time today, in minutes.  This number starts at 0
every midnight.  The second "##" is the number of BTU's remaining.

SEE ALSO
   Innards, version, BTU, Playing

