Re: DIS: Second draft of fees

2010-01-14 Thread comex
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote:      An attempt to performed a fee-based action is also implicitly a      claim to be in possession of sufficient ergs to perform the      action, and such a claim is self-ratifying.  If the claim is      erroneous but

Re: DIS: Second draft of fees

2010-01-14 Thread comex
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Aaron Goldfein aarongoldf...@gmail.com wrote: I would think the Power Station Manager would be primarily responsible for tracking transactions and ensuring that no player exceed eir weekly allowance of ergs. If e's already doing that, it probably wouldn't be

DIS: Second draft of fees

2010-01-12 Thread Kerim Aydin
Proto: new system v0.2 [Keeps major arcana, puts in basic fee-based system] [Took all the wording/bug fix suggestions. Under the principle of minimizing amount of change in a given overhaul (yes I learned my lesson from Cards) I've left the major arcana positions, leadership tokens, etc. as

Re: DIS: Second draft of fees

2010-01-12 Thread Sean Hunt
On 01/12/2010 11:06 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: Create the following rule, Energy, power-2: Ergs are a class of fixed assets and a measure of each Player's energy; to increase or decrease an entity's energy is to change the number of ergs in eir possession. Ownership of Ergs is

Re: DIS: Second draft of fees

2010-01-12 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Sean Hunt wrote: A thought: Because all ergs are destroyed each week, it makes no sense for the PSM to have to publish a report once a week. I was thinking it was useful to publish a list of spending (e.g. actions performed in the prior week). But maybe that's not

Re: DIS: Second draft of fees

2010-01-12 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Kerim Aydin wrote: Title: Minister without Portfolio. Title: Majority Leader. And yes I just caught the little cut/no paste vanishing act here...

Re: DIS: Second draft of fees

2010-01-12 Thread Sean Hunt
On 01/12/2010 11:19 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Sean Hunt wrote: A thought: Because all ergs are destroyed each week, it makes no sense for the PSM to have to publish a report once a week. I was thinking it was useful to publish a list of spending (e.g. actions performed in

Re: DIS: Second draft of fees

2010-01-12 Thread Sean Hunt
On 01/12/2010 11:06 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: An attempt to performed a fee-based action is also implicitly a claim to be in possession of sufficient ergs to perform the action, and such a claim is self-ratifying. If the claim is erroneous but self-ratifies, then the

Re: DIS: Second draft of fees

2010-01-12 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Sean Hunt wrote: On 01/12/2010 11:19 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Sean Hunt wrote: A thought: Because all ergs are destroyed each week, it makes no sense for the PSM to have to publish a report once a week. I was thinking it was useful to publish a

Re: DIS: Second draft of fees

2010-01-12 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Sean Hunt wrote: These should all be charges of ergs, not fees (no semantic reason, it's just an extension of the metaphor). Ooh, good one. Making Rest destruction be 1 erg seems low; that means even the most basic of players can abolish 4 of eir own Rests per week.

Re: DIS: Second draft of fees

2010-01-12 Thread Aaron Goldfein
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Sean Hunt ride...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/12/2010 11:19 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Sean Hunt wrote: A thought: Because all ergs are destroyed each week, it makes no sense for the PSM to have to publish a report once a week. I was thinking