On 3/30/25 9:01 PM, Katherina Walshe-Grey via agora-discussion wrote:
It occurs to me that it would be significantly simpler (and therefore easier to draft, with fewer likely bugs) for the Collar to just allocate boards privately to everyone else and not play emself, in a sort of "GM" role. It's customary in Agora for us to carefully write game mechanics so that the tracking officers can play in full too, and I wonder if we make life unnecessarily hard for ourselves by doing so. I wouldn't be surprised if there were someone who'd be willing to take it up; it doesn't sound like a whole lot of effort after the initial setup. (Heck, I'd consider it myself.) (The most obvious downside is that the game would have to reset if the officeholder changed, but officer turnover has been quite low recently.)
I think there's a way around even that... if the Collar publishes a commitment to the player's board, the player can subsequently prove the selection without that Collar's involvement. That solves the key person risk (a.k.a. the "hit by a bus" problem).
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