DIS: jumbled thoughts

2010-07-15 Thread comex
Agora badly needs more players, but the current barrier to entry is much higher than it should be. Not only do you have to sign up for three mailing lists (if you don't, you can't even look at the archives to get a sense of how the game is played), you have to understand a long ruleset without

Re: DIS: jumbled thoughts

2010-07-15 Thread Aaron Goldfein
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 15:52, comex com...@gmail.com wrote: Agora badly needs more players, but the current barrier to entry is much higher than it should be. Not only do you have to sign up for three mailing lists (if you don't, you can't even look at the archives to get a sense of how the

Re: DIS: jumbled thoughts

2010-07-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, comex wrote: Agora badly needs more players, but the current barrier to entry is much higher than it should be. Not only do you have to sign up for three mailing lists (if you don't, you can't even look at the archives to get a sense of how the game is played), you have

Re: DIS: jumbled thoughts

2010-07-15 Thread Ed Murphy
Yally wrote: Perhaps we should have a contest. Each player can submit a new player's guide. Thereafter, Agora votes on which guide is the best and that player is awarded a win. Then we can combine the best parts of each guide to create one truly excellent guide. Fragment: Q. What do I do

Re: DIS: jumbled thoughts

2010-07-15 Thread Ed Murphy
G. wrote: It was Murphy that wrote a good FAQ I think a while back? Be nice to see that up-front. In particular, perhaps a re-organization/update of the agoranomic.org front page with such a FAQ front and center? Here's the last version. Obviously it needs some updating, as well as

Re: DIS: jumbled thoughts

2010-07-15 Thread comex
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Ed Murphy emurph...@socal.rr.com wrote: Yally wrote: Perhaps we should have a contest. Each player can submit a new player's guide. Thereafter, Agora votes on which guide is the best and that player is awarded a win. Then we can combine the best parts of each

Re: DIS: jumbled thoughts

2010-07-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, comex wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Ed Murphy emurph...@socal.rr.com wrote: Yally wrote: Perhaps we should have a contest. Each player can submit a new player's guide. Thereafter, Agora votes on which guide is the best and that player is awarded a win. Then we

Re: DIS: jumbled thoughts

2010-07-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, Ed Murphy wrote: Yally wrote: Perhaps we should have a contest. Each player can submit a new player's guide. Thereafter, Agora votes on which guide is the best and that player is awarded a win. Then we can combine the best parts of each guide to create one truly