Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Ruleset Ratification

2019-03-02 Thread James Cook
> Indeed, but I thought I'd point it out so that people were aware. > > In general, rule 1698 triggers should be avoided as much as possible. > The problem is that it (intentionally) defeats Agora's existing > mechanisms for ensuring that we know what the gamestate is; it's better > to have an

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Ruleset Ratification

2019-03-02 Thread ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk
On Sun, 2019-03-03 at 05:16 +, James Cook wrote: > On Sat, 2 Mar 2019 at 05:23, ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk > wrote: > > That said, there is a possible failure state: if every player has at > > least 13 Blots, and nobody has any Ribbons, the adoption of a proposal > > within four weeks would

DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Ruleset Ratification

2019-03-02 Thread James Cook
On Sat, 2 Mar 2019 at 05:23, ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk wrote: > That said, there is a possible failure state: if every player has at > least 13 Blots, and nobody has any Ribbons, the adoption of a proposal > within four weeks would require someone with fewer Blots than that to > register.

Re: DIS: Non-email public fora

2019-03-02 Thread Kerim Aydin
On 2/26/2019 3:34 PM, Owen Jacobson wrote: Do you happen to know which MUD platform Nomic World was based on? Some - LambdaMOO comes to mind - are far more amenable to this sort of use case than, say, Diku or River would have been. I don't remember - this was a time where there was an active

DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Ruleset Ratification

2019-03-02 Thread Kerim Aydin
On 3/1/2019 9:22 PM, ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk wrote: It might, however, be a good idea to close off even this theoretical possibility via some sort of global expungement mechanism (e.g. reintroduce Solitude as a victory condition and have it do a global expunge during the cleanup). Going way

Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2019-03-02 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
I don't see any errors in this draft, but I've just noticed that the previous Promotor report omitted CuddleBeam's proposal "And the next thing you know, Space Ships are going to have more rights than people", which has now been self-ratified out of existence. It was submitted in this message: