DIS: Re: BUS: Recruiting drive

2006-12-18 Thread Ed Murphy
Sherlock wrote: I'd appreciate some feedback on this, which I was thinking of posting at www.nomic.net Looks good to me.

DIS: Re: BUS: Recruiting drive

2006-12-19 Thread Manuel Lanctot
On 12/18/06, Jonathan Fry wrote: I'd appreciate some feedback on this, which I was thinking of posting at www.nomic.net I believe having a better front page at agoranomic.org might help too. Maybe a link to the latest rulesets, a few other interesting bits... The few times I tried to recruit p

DIS: Re: BUS: Recruiting drive

2006-12-19 Thread Kerim Aydin
Manu wrote: I believe having a better front page at agoranomic.org might help too. I strongly agree with this. Simple as it was, Chuck's old front page (mainly just a simple but well layed-out web version of the current ruleset) was a great first introduction. [Making such a thing has been o

DIS: Re: BUS: Recruiting drive

2006-12-19 Thread Joshua Boehme
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:03:31 -0800 (PST) Jonathan Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd appreciate some feedback on this, which I was thinking of posting at > www.nomic.net > > > > Since 1993, Agoran players have proposed almost five thousand pieces of > legislation, enacted over two thous

DIS: Re: BUS: Recruiting drive

2006-12-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
Sherlock wrote: I thought Maud's proposal to= give other Nomics limited voting rights within Agora was one of the best ideas in years. I'd love to see it resurrected in some form in the future. This would be a fine and fresh idea. To take it a step further, we can add David's ideas on contr

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Recruiting drive

2006-12-19 Thread Jonathan Fry
> Once we have someplace like that to send people as an intro, I > think high-traffic posting would be fine. Could the Agora entry at the NomicWiki be used for this? Or perhaps we could set up an Agora Nomic entry at Wikipedia? While one of these couldn't hold a HTML'ed ruleset per se, there

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Recruiting drive

2006-12-19 Thread Michael Slone
On 12/19/06, Jonathan Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Could the Agora entry at the NomicWiki be used for this? Or perhaps we could set up an Agora Nomic entry at Wikipedia? I wouldn't recommend this unless there is an actual publication that makes reference to Agora Nomic specifically. There i

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Recruiting drive

2006-12-19 Thread Manuel Lanctot
On 12/19/06, Michael Slone wrote: It would be nice to have an Agora Nomic wiki (not just part of the Nomic wiki). I'm already hosting the wiki for the excellent Dwarf Fortress game so I could create one in a few mouse clicks if needed. Is it really needed at the moment though? I could see the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Recruiting drive

2006-12-19 Thread Jonathan Fry
> I'm already hosting the wiki for the excellent Dwarf Fortress game > so I could create one in a few mouse clicks if needed. Is it really > needed at the moment though? I could see the use if we still had > card games, Arcadia or any complex sub-game. I can see a general Agora wiki with our curre

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Recruiting drive

2006-12-19 Thread Taral
On 12/19/06, Manuel Lanctot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I believe having a better front page at agoranomic.org might help too. Write one! I'll put it up. -- Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "You can't prove anything." -- Gödel's Incompetence Theorem

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Recruiting drive

2006-12-19 Thread Quazie
On 12/19/06, Jonathan Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm already hosting the wiki for the excellent Dwarf Fortress game > so I could create one in a few mouse clicks if needed. Is it really > needed at the moment though? I could see the use if we still had > card games, Arcadia or any complex

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Recruiting drive

2006-12-19 Thread Taral
On 12/19/06, Quazie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If all of the archives exist in some form, it wouldn't be that hard to make a wiki archive of them[.] Well, ever since I was CotC, the CFJs have been stored in a database for easy processing. -- Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "You can't prove anything

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Recruiting drive

2006-12-19 Thread Quazie
On 12/19/06, Joshua Boehme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:03:31 -0800 (PST) Jonathan Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd appreciate some feedback on this, which I was thinking of posting at www.nomic.net > > > > Since 1993, Agoran players have proposed almost five thous

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Recruiting drive

2006-12-20 Thread Manuel Lanctot
On 12/19/06, Joshua Boehme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That said, what would people be interested in experimenting with in the near future? Economics? Internomic relations? Or something other than what I can think of off the top of my head? I think I've said it before, I like economics simula

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Recruiting drive

2006-12-20 Thread Jonathan Fry
Quazie wrote: > I think it might be interesting to create a sub-game, similar to the card > game we once had, so that > we can have some sort of action occurring as we add more to the now rather > empty (in > comparison to its past) core ruleset. A mini-nomic within agora perhaps, > where creat

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Recruiting drive

2006-12-20 Thread Jonathan Fry
> That said, what would people be interested in experimenting with in the near > future? Economics? > Internomic relations? Or something other than what I can think of off the top > of my head? I thought Maud's proposal to give other Nomics limited voting rights within Agora was one of the best

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Recruiting drive

2006-12-20 Thread Jonathan Fry
Taral wrote: > Write one! I'll put it up. I have no HTML skills, but would be happy to help with content for such a page if someone else were to code it. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Recruiting drive

2006-12-20 Thread Taral
On 12/20/06, Jonathan Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Taral wrote: > Write one! I'll put it up. I have no HTML skills, but would be happy to help with content for such a page if someone else were to code it. Sounds good. -- Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "You can't prove anything." -- Gödel's I

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Recruiting drive

2006-12-20 Thread Manuel Lanctot
On 12/20/06, Taral wrote: On 12/20/06, Jonathan Fry wrote: > > I have no HTML skills, but would be happy to help with content for such a page if someone > else were to code it. Sounds good. I'm a programmer and definitely not a web designer. This is the best website I've made: http://erismud

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Recruiting drive

2006-12-20 Thread Michael Slone
On 12/20/06, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Making a contest to play something we've played before can still be interesting For instance, Mafia. -- Michael Slone

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Recruiting drive

2006-12-21 Thread Grey Knight
--- Joshua Boehme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That said, what would people be interested in experimenting with in > the near future? Economics? Internomic relations? Or something other > than what I can think of off the top of my head? > I was thinking of proposing an "Agoran civilian militia" w

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Recruiting drive

2006-12-21 Thread Grey Knight
--- Jonathan Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Taral wrote: > > Write one! I'll put it up. > > I have no HTML skills, but would be happy to help with content for > such a page if someone else were to code it. > Ah! Well, I have HTML skills, but hate writing content. Shall we dance? God bless, T