> On Aug 24, 2017, at 8:35 PM, Alex Smith <ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> wrote: > > On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 20:02 -0700, Gaelan Steele wrote: >> I’ve added some annotations to each section of the online ruleset >> (agoranomic.org/ruleset <http://agoranomic.org/ruleset>). They try to >> give a quick summary of each section, and mention which sections are >> important to understand at the beginning. Thoughts? > > "Miscellaneous" (one of the section headings) is misspelled.
Bah. I’ll do a batch of ruleset fixes tomorrow. > > It strikes me that things that aren't immediately relevant to a new > player should be sent down to the bottom. This includes both things > like Festivals (which are an emergency mechanism that's unlikely to get > used except for counterscamming, or possibly regular scamming; > important to have, unimportant to use 99% of the time), So that’s what festivals are for. > and things that > are fundamental to the game (like rule precedence) but that only come > in relevant when shooting down particularly tortured arguments about > what the rules say. The definitions section, despite being moderately > important in the SLR and FLR (it's historically been somewhere in the > middle, IIRC), could safely be sent near the bottom of the HLR because > of how the links work (unless there's some technical reason to have all > the rulesets in the same order). Currently, the ordering of the rules is defined in one file (rules/index) and used in the generation of all three rulesets. That could change, at the cost of me needing to change things in 2 places when adding rules, etc. While I’m fine with putting festivals at the bottom, I’m not sure how I feel about putting the “fundamental but unimportant” bits at the bottom. While I guess it makes sense for reading the ruleset, it feels rather weird from a logical perspective. > > Some of the section summaries make me think that the current division > into sections isn't as useful as it could be. Ribbons and Patent Titles > go together from the point of view of an experienced player, for > example, but for a new player it doesn't really make sense. (I'd be > inclined to create a "history" section containing the First Speaker > rule, the Agora's Birthday rule, the Reportor, and the Patent Title > rules; these reflect history in different ways but have a similar > purpose. It's no coincidence that the Herald's report is the report > that's historically been most likely to have a history lesson on the > earlier days of Agora. Meanwhile, Ribbons would go along with Trust > Tokens, Apathy, and the like.) There are likely other sections that > could plausibly be split up the same way. Yeah, the section split leaves some things to be desired. I’m not sure about the “history” section; the proposed rules seem only tangentially related, and I don’t think I’d expect to find any of those rules under a “History” section. One of my main goals when organizing the sections at the start of my career was making it easy to guess which section a rule would be under; maybe that’s not as important with ctrl-F. > > -- > ais523
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