Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Log

2010-07-25 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > Yeah. See. I'm not a traitor. I was just trying to stimulate this kind > of original thought. If I had a shiny new spaceship my first thought would be to see what all the buttons did, too.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Log

2010-07-25 Thread Aaron Goldfein
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 22:56, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, ais523 wrote: >> On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 19:53 -0700, Ed Murphy wrote: >> > OTOH, if the trip fails then the Enemy gains a Leadership Token (R2293: >> > 1/3 of a win or -4 Rests or +7 ergs), whereas if the trip succeeds the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Log

2010-07-25 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, ais523 wrote: > On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 19:53 -0700, Ed Murphy wrote: > > OTOH, if the trip fails then the Enemy gains a Leadership Token (R2293: > > 1/3 of a win or -4 Rests or +7 ergs), whereas if the trip succeeds then > > everyone still aboard gains a capacitor (+1 erg the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Log

2010-07-25 Thread ais523
On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 19:53 -0700, Ed Murphy wrote: > OTOH, if the trip fails then the Enemy gains a Leadership Token (R2293: > 1/3 of a win or -4 Rests or +7 ergs), whereas if the trip succeeds then > everyone still aboard gains a capacitor (+1 erg the next week); so if it > looks like the ship is

DIS: Re: BUS: Log

2010-07-25 Thread Ed Murphy
ais523 wrote: > On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 18:44 -0500, Aaron Goldfein wrote: >> I press the Record the Captain's Log button. > > I intend, with 2 support, to initiate a mutiny. > (Basically: if nobody succeeds in getting the support, then Yally gets a > bonus, and wins if he manages it twice in a mon

DIS: To repair listlessness

2010-07-25 Thread Kerim Aydin
Proto: Reinventing The List (AI-2) Create the following rule, The List of Succession, Power=2: The List of Succession is an ordered list of all current players except the current Speaker. The first (1st) position is the "highest" ("top") position on the list and the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Journey

2010-07-25 Thread comex
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> Good catch. A rule that encourages incorrect judgements is a rather bad >> thing. > > How about something like "To be appropriate, such a judgement (as long as it > involves interpretation of contest instructions and does not conflict with > t

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Journey

2010-07-25 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010, ais523 wrote: > On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 17:35 -0400, comex wrote: > > >If a court case arises with respect to the conduct of the contest > > >or the application and interpretation of its instructions, the > > >courts SHOULD give primacy of interpretation to the co

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: It was a good try

2010-07-25 Thread comex
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > Proposal: It was a good try (AI = 1, II = 1) > > Repeal Rules 2297-2302. > > End Proposal > > I pay a fee to make the above Distributable. AGAINST. Please propose instead to fix the gameplay, there's nothing intrinsically wrong with it.

DIS: Re: BUS: A wild asteroid appeared!

2010-07-25 Thread comex
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 5:52 PM, comex wrote: > This should be pretty easy to defeat, but there are only two hours > before the Shuttle rams into it... Note, however, that arguably the start-of-week action happens first, so pressing buttons won't take effect until after the Shuttle is destroyed.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Journey

2010-07-25 Thread ais523
On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 17:35 -0400, comex wrote: > >If a court case arises with respect to the conduct of the contest > >or the application and interpretation of its instructions, the > >courts SHOULD give primacy of interpretation to the contestmaster's > >interpretations, SHOULD ju

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Journey

2010-07-25 Thread comex
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Proto:  Contests Yet Again - Very Simple, in one rule. > >    A player CAN make a document into a Contest without 3 objections. >    The player doing so becomes the Contestmaster.  The Contest SHOULD >    be a list of instructions for playing a

DIS: Re: BUS: The Job Isn't Getting Done

2010-07-25 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > I intend, with 4 supporters, to initiate an election to decide the > holder of the PSM office. comex's last weekly report as PSM was in > May. Considering we just had a PSM election that everyone ignored, this seems fairly unlikely to help.

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [IADoP] Organization Chart

2010-07-25 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 4:42 PM, ais523 wrote: > On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 16:39 -0400, Wooble wrote: >> From: System Administrator >> Subject: OFF: [IADoP] Organization Chart > > Err, what? That's what happens when you leave a shell logged in as root for wiztesting in nethack.

DIS: Re: OFF: [IADoP] Organization Chart

2010-07-25 Thread ais523
On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 16:39 -0400, Wooble wrote: > From: System Administrator > Subject: OFF: [IADoP] Organization Chart Err, what? -- ais523

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Journey

2010-07-25 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010, Ed Murphy wrote: > Tiger wrote: > > > I'm sorry about that, and I think I knew beforehand that I wouldn't be > > able to create something that big that stood up to Agora's standards > > of rigour. Still, it was adopted, and now I'm just unsure about > > whether to view the i

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Journey

2010-07-25 Thread Ed Murphy
Tiger wrote: > I'm sorry about that, and I think I knew beforehand that I wouldn't be > able to create something that big that stood up to Agora's standards > of rigour. Still, it was adopted, and now I'm just unsure about > whether to view the inevitable CFJs as hindering the gameplay, or as a >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Journey

2010-07-25 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
On 23 July 2010 22:00, comex wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Aaron Goldfein > wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:13, Geoffrey Spear wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:00 PM, comex wrote: I CFJ on the statement: "comex has a Leadership Token." >>> >>> I disfavor this case. >>

DIS: Re: BUS: Journey

2010-07-25 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
On 23 July 2010 21:14, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:13, Geoffrey Spear wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:00 PM, comex wrote: >>> I CFJ on the statement: "comex has a Leadership Token." >> >> I disfavor this case. > > Me too. Also, comex, no. Don't do it. The whole Space A