Re: DIS: subgame proto attempt

2013-12-18 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
On 18 December 2013 06:36, Ørjan Johansen oer...@nvg.ntnu.no wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2013, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: If the Ant Farm Manifesto states that a player's (Agoran) score would change, the Ant Farmer SHALL announce that change as soon as possible, and that announcement, if true,

Re: DIS: subgame proto attempt

2013-12-18 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Wed, 18 Dec 2013, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: On 18 December 2013 06:36, Ørjan Johansen oer...@nvg.ntnu.no wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2013, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: If the Ant Farm Manifesto states that a player's (Agoran) score would change, the Ant Farmer SHALL announce that change as soon

Re: DIS: subgame proto attempt

2013-12-18 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 18 Dec 2013, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: On 18 December 2013 06:36, Ørjan Johansen oer...@nvg.ntnu.no wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2013, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: If the Ant Farm Manifesto states that a player's (Agoran) score would change, the Ant Farmer SHALL announce that change as

Re: DIS: subgame proto attempt

2013-12-18 Thread Sean Hunt
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.eduwrote: I think for score, the safest thing to do is self-ratify, and if no-one brings up the falsehood in a week, well, someone got away with something and that's that. _

Re: DIS: subgame proto attempt

2013-12-18 Thread Tanner Swett
On Dec 18, 2013, at 12:32 AM, Ørjan Johansen wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2013, Tanner Swett wrote: Med. Af. Syria, Carthage, Spain Not sure how much historical accuracy you're going for here, but I think historically Roman Africa contained and started with (defeated) Carthage. Yeah, historical

Re: DIS: subgame proto attempt

2013-12-17 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 17 Dec 2013, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: Two things: - I'd like it to reset every now and then, so that it's clear that the point is to really go to town. Either a fixed time interval, or when anyone wins, the entire Ant Farm Manifesto reverts to, say, that state. Good idea; do you

Re: DIS: subgame proto attempt

2013-12-17 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
On 17 December 2013 17:21, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2013, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: Two things: - I'd like it to reset every now and then, so that it's clear that the point is to really go to town. Either a fixed time interval, or when anyone wins, the entire

Re: DIS: subgame proto attempt

2013-12-17 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 17 Dec 2013, Tanner Swett wrote: Going with the idea that a subgame should ideally be fun and interesting right off the bat, rather than merely providing a mechanism for being made interesting, I'm currently working on a draft set of rules for Fall of the Republic. (Naturally, I'm

Re: DIS: subgame proto attempt

2013-12-17 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Tue, 17 Dec 2013, Tanner Swett wrote: Med. Af. Syria, Carthage, Spain Not sure how much historical accuracy you're going for here, but I think historically Roman Africa contained and started with (defeated) Carthage. I guess that was all the Republic had down there; Egypt didn't get

Re: DIS: subgame proto attempt

2013-12-17 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Tue, 17 Dec 2013, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: If the Ant Farm Manifesto states that a player's (Agoran) score would change, the Ant Farmer SHALL announce that change as soon as possible, and that announcement, if true, changes the player's score as announced. I get a bit nervous

DIS: subgame proto attempt

2013-12-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
[How simple can we make this; one rule?] Create the following rule, The Ant Farm: There exists an Ant Farm, which is an asset belonging to itself. There exists a document called the Ant Farm Manifesto, which is maintained by the Ant Farmer, which is an office. The Ant Farm

Re: DIS: subgame proto attempt

2013-12-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
[Players in recent conversation (and everyone!). Pls comment if this is the sort of thing that you might have in mind]. The ANT FARM MANIFESTO 1. Beans, Grains, and Drops are each currencies (collectively 'crops'; each currency is a 'crop type'). 2. When a

Re: DIS: subgame proto attempt

2013-12-16 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
On 16 December 2013 23:42, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: [Players in recent conversation (and everyone!). Pls comment if this is the sort of thing that you might have in mind]. The ANT FARM MANIFESTO 1. Beans, Grains, and Drops are each currencies (collectively