lethal
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Going without sleep is tied to a multitude of chronic health problems once you start getting past the 24 hour mark, and on top of that you'll have a lot of mental health and emotional issues during sleep deprivation. Frustration, irritability, hallucinations, inability to focus, difficulty regulating emotions, and trouble handling basic tasks among many other things. I don't think that encouraging sleep deprivation is a good business model.
You're right that a great solution would be to have a timer that could be started daily and only lasted about 10-14 hours. This gets rid of the physical and mental health risks involved in trying to push yourself to compete through sleep deprivation over 17 days. It would also basically negate the massive advantage people who had multiples playing on one account would have (even though this should be handled by EU staff.)
Something else to add is that the world record for no sleep hovered around 12 days for a long time with a good amount of competition, and only 2 people were ever verified to beat that before Guiness stopped monitoring any record attempts because of health risks.
What I'm trying to say with the last part is, the amount of people who can stay up for 17 days straight throughout the entire world can probably be counted on one hand. So anyone who was mining for 24 hours for the entire event is nearly guaranteed to have had multiple people on their account, which is against EULA and should be grounds for disqualification from the event at a minimum.
You're right that a great solution would be to have a timer that could be started daily and only lasted about 10-14 hours. This gets rid of the physical and mental health risks involved in trying to push yourself to compete through sleep deprivation over 17 days. It would also basically negate the massive advantage people who had multiples playing on one account would have (even though this should be handled by EU staff.)
Something else to add is that the world record for no sleep hovered around 12 days for a long time with a good amount of competition, and only 2 people were ever verified to beat that before Guiness stopped monitoring any record attempts because of health risks.
What I'm trying to say with the last part is, the amount of people who can stay up for 17 days straight throughout the entire world can probably be counted on one hand. So anyone who was mining for 24 hours for the entire event is nearly guaranteed to have had multiple people on their account, which is against EULA and should be grounds for disqualification from the event at a minimum.