Re: DIS: Official rules?

2015-08-17 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015, Kerim Aydin wrote: Copy-paste from here: https://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/rkeep/current_slr.txt Rule 1688/7 (Power=3) The Power of an entity is a non-negative rational number. An (T is under the 6). From here:

Re: DIS: Official rules?

2015-08-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 17 Aug 2015, omd wrote: On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 7:35 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: By the way, did you notice that the copy in the archives indents the Rule Text a couple extra spaces? But not the

Re: DIS: Official rules?

2015-08-16 Thread omd
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 7:35 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: By the way, did you notice that the copy in the archives indents the Rule Text a couple extra spaces? But not the dividing . So if you look in the

Re: DIS: Official rules?

2015-08-16 Thread omd
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: I'm sending that same textfile from the command line... somewhere in lines that aren't flush, an extra space appears? You can see that didn't happen when I was the Rulekeepor:

Re: DIS: Official rules?

2015-08-16 Thread Alex Smith
On Fri, 2015-08-14 at 16:00 -0400, omd wrote: - More generally, there should be a guide for new players. For inspiration, here is a 20-year-old(!) Agora Guidebook: http://agora.qoid.us/www.fysh.org/~zefram/agora/agora_vanyel0/agora/guidebook.html It's surprising how much has changed, and how

Re: DIS: Official rules?

2015-08-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 15 Aug 2015, omd wrote: On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 7:15 AM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: Hey omd, Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? The Ruleset is whitespace- inconsequential; formatting is wholly at Rulekeepor discretion - the only thing that would break

Re: DIS: Official rules?

2015-08-15 Thread omd
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: By the way, did you notice that the copy in the archives indents the Rule Text a couple extra spaces? But not the dividing . So if you look in the archives, the text runs over the -. Heh, I've never noticed

Re: DIS: Official rules?

2015-08-15 Thread omd
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 7:15 AM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: Hey omd, Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? The Ruleset is whitespace- inconsequential; formatting is wholly at Rulekeepor discretion - the only thing that would break in non-fixed width is the Town

Re: DIS: Official rules?

2015-08-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, omd wrote: Somewhat related non-homepage-related ideas: - Non-fixed-width ruleset Hey omd, Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? The Ruleset is whitespace- inconsequential; formatting is wholly at Rulekeepor discretion - the only thing that would break in

Re: DIS: Official rules?

2015-08-14 Thread omd
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Travis Briggs audiod...@gmail.com wrote: As someone who is thinking about registering, I was just wondering, what is the canonical source of current rules? The link on the homepage points to a text file that says go see http://agora.qoid.us/current_flr.txt;

Re: DIS: Official rules?

2015-08-14 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, Travis Briggs wrote: As someone who is thinking about registering, I was just wondering, what is the canonical source of current rules? The link on the homepage points to a text file that says go see  http://agora.qoid.us/current_flr.txt; which itself is dated 24

DIS: Official rules?

2015-08-14 Thread Travis Briggs
As someone who is thinking about registering, I was just wondering, what is the canonical source of current rules? The link on the homepage points to a text file that says go see http://agora.qoid.us/current_flr.txt; which itself is dated 24 November 2014. Thanks, -Travis

Re: DIS: Official rules?

2015-08-14 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, omd wrote: Somewhat related non-homepage-related ideas: - Non-fixed-width ruleset - Better rule browser - Searchable Case Database I should note, in general I prefer a database approach to the git approach you prefer... I noticed you called me out in Hacker News for

Re: DIS: Official rules?

2015-08-14 Thread omd
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, omd wrote: Somewhat related non-homepage-related ideas: - Non-fixed-width ruleset - Better rule browser - Searchable Case Database That's existed for a long time, I just haven't mentioned it much

Re: DIS: Official rules?

2015-08-14 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, omd wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, omd wrote: - Mention that reading the entire ruleset is not a requirement for joining. - More generally, there should be a guide for new players. Honestly,

Re: DIS: Official rules?

2015-08-14 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, omd wrote: Databases work too. Of course, for something mutable like the ruleset (as opposed to CFJs) there needs to be some robust history mechanism. As long as there's that, it can be converted to text for posterity anyway, while currently I'd have to either grab the

Re: DIS: Official rules?

2015-08-14 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, omd wrote: - Mention that reading the entire ruleset is not a requirement for joining. - More generally, there should be a guide for new players. Honestly, rather than a guidebook, maybe we should strive to set up some gameplay activity that can be jumped into with a New

Re: DIS: Official rules?

2015-08-14 Thread omd
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, omd wrote: - Mention that reading the entire ruleset is not a requirement for joining. - More generally, there should be a guide for new players. Honestly, rather than a guidebook, maybe we should