Right. You can also get very different gameplay starting from precisely the same initial rules - look at Agora vs. B in the era when its ruleset was derived from an Agoran one. That's because even if the rules start the same, they evolve - that's what makes it nomic!
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Jonathan Rouillard <jonathan.rouill...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Max Schutz <maxschutz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> wait explain how the deuce they are faster than us at proposals a nomic is a >> nomic is a nomic isn't it >> >> > > A nomic I've played (in meatspace, mind you) had a proposal turnaround > time of about 30 seconds. The player read eir proposal aloud, people > voted on it immediately and we moved on. > > Nomic isn't a specific game, really, it's a class of self-modifying > games. You can get very different games (BlogNomic vs Agora vs B) > which are still all nomics. > > ~ Roujo
