On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 4:37 PM Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion <agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > I'd like to fix zombie auctions, but the current rules are complex and > I am not sure the best way to approach it. I was working on a proto > that created an Escrow Trust which would hold assets up for auction... > except that zombies aren't assets and therefore cannot be transferred; > we already have a weird patch in for auctions to work at all but > trying to make it work for an Escrow Trust would require a bunch of > work in the zombie rules to deal with the "agora as master" thing to > mean an unowned zombie. > > Here are a bunch of (not necessarily mutually-exclusive) ideas: > > - Implement the Escrow Trust ideas, and to make them work for Zombies, one of: > - Make zombie ownership 'act like' an asset, extending the possible > values to include an Escrow Trust and adjusting the zombie rules > accordingly. > - Change zombie status to a boolean switch with an ownership asset > that relies on asset, not switch, rules, and do the same. > - Try to unify assets and asset-like switches in the rules, and do the same. > - Explicitly special-case the way that zombie auctions work. > - Change the auction rules to address these and all other (currently > nonexistent) auctions of assets not owned by players. > - Remove the auction rules and: > - Refactor auctions to actually be a form of Agoran decision, with > some bespoke handling for zombies. > - Make bespoke, smaller-scope rules for the zombie auction.
I've been thinking for a while that zombies should be transferable assets. It's really simple to implement too: You just need to create a "control idol" or something, and say that a zombie's owner is defined as the owner of their control idol. -Aris
