On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 16:04, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion <agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On 5/14/2020 7:44 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > Eh, not so much ripping off as a perennial discussion point - whether > > blots are seen as genuine cheating/taboos to be avoided, versus being > > acceptable penalties accumulated during game play, is a pendulum that's > > gone back and forth a few times I think. > > One way we supported both in the past is to name the concepts differently. > We had Crimes and Infractions: > > An entity may be convicted of a Crime only by a judicial finding > > that e has committed that Crime. An entity may be convicted of > > an Infraction only by announcement of a Player authorized by the > > Rules to report the commission of that Infraction. > > The currency of punishment was blots for both (so they were fungible in > that sense), but crimes were "people really shouldn't do this, it's > cheating" and infractions were "the cost of doing business".
That's cool. I do try to follow the rules, as I do in most games I agree to play. The crimes/infractions distinction would suit me particularly well if infractions were not actually rule violations. - Falsifian
