Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament Fix

2020-07-04 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 2:46 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > > > On 7/4/2020 2:09 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > > On 7/4/20 3:52 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > >> > >> On 7/4/2020 12:40 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus: > >>> Unless > >>> ex

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament Fix

2020-07-04 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
On 7/4/20 5:45 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > > On 7/4/2020 2:09 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: >> On 7/4/20 3:52 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: >>> >>> On 7/4/2020 12:40 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus: Unless explicitly permitted

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament Fix

2020-07-04 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 7/4/2020 2:09 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > On 7/4/20 3:52 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: >> >> On 7/4/2020 12:40 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus: >>> Unless >>> explicitly permitted by the Diplonomic 2020 rules, all Contestants >>> SHALL NOT m

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament Fix

2020-07-04 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
On 7/4/20 3:52 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > > On 7/4/2020 12:40 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus: >> Unless >> explicitly permitted by the Diplonomic 2020 rules, all Contestants >> SHALL NOT make use of loopholes in the underlying game of >> Diplomacy in

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament Fix

2020-07-04 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 7/4/2020 1:00 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: > On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 12:56 PM Kerim Aydin wrote: > >> >> On 7/4/2020 12:40 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus: >>> Unless >>> explicitly permitted by the Diplonomic 2020 rules, all Contestants >>> SHALL NOT make use of loopholes in

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament Fix

2020-07-04 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 12:56 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > On 7/4/2020 12:40 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus: > > Unless > > explicitly permitted by the Diplonomic 2020 rules, all Contestants > > SHALL NOT make use of loopho

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament Regulations

2020-06-29 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
On 6/28/20 9:43 PM, James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > Sorry, I didn't get around to reading these until now. Thanks for > going to the effort to write these! Comments inline. > >> 4. The judge is the final arbitor on matters of this tournament, and eir >> decisions can overturned if and onl

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament Regulations

2020-06-28 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
On 6/28/20 8:31 PM, omd via agora-discussion wrote: > >> The Gamemaster CAN, by announcement, amend >> the gamestate by substituting one Contestant into all instances of >> another Contestant. > > Extra space, and it’s pretty unclear what this means. It's intended to allow me to replace a Cont

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament

2017-06-28 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
As Herald, I would be happy to run an additional Blitz Nomic game separate from this. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On Jun 28, 2017, at 3:53 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > On Wed, 28 Jun 2017, Aaron Goldfein wrote: >> Haven't interacted with Agor

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament

2017-06-28 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 28 Jun 2017, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > Haven't interacted with Agora for a while, but I remembered Agora's birthday > was coming up > and wanted to see what was going on with that. Maybe I've just been out of > the loop for too > long, but this birthday tournament spawned out of a very

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament

2017-06-28 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I was not aware that was the intent of this rules, so this is what I came up with. I used this because we were discussing the idea and I thought this would be a good dry run. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On Jun 28, 2017, at 2:32 PM, Aaron Goldfein

Re: Re: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament

2017-06-26 Thread CuddleBeam
>No, it only allows me to limit eir game actions because it only allows internal actions, if you look at the rules. ...I don't see that. Maybe I'm missing something though - in which case, please point out what I'm missing. What I'm finding is: "However, the Herald may remove participants or l

Re: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament

2017-06-26 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
No, it only allows me to limit eir game actions because it only allows internal actions, if you look at the rules. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 4:30 PM, CuddleBeam wrote: > "limit eir actions" > > While I endorse that PSS can do well as a sole Judge for the Tourn

Re: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament

2017-06-26 Thread CuddleBeam
"limit eir actions" While I endorse that PSS can do well as a sole Judge for the Tourney, t-that provision is way too much power for a mere mortal imo. Limiting the ability to propose! To comment! To vote! To register! To *do* *anything*. Too much! But the rest looks solid and better, altho

Re: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament

2017-06-26 Thread CuddleBeam
Imo the metagame of how I think the tournament is supposed to work will be something like this: You give 3 daily Karma and gain 3 daily Karma due to symmetric trades ("Aiyo I give u a Karma for a Karma" "ok sounds cool, ty") and end up with a huge tie with everyone else who has done the same (dili

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament

2017-06-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 26 Jun 2017, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > The winner of this tournament shall be the person who is able to gain > the most karma, described below, over the course of the 4 week game. What if there's a tie? If you want ties to have multiple winners, typical is to use "person

Re: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament

2017-06-26 Thread CuddleBeam
For 10 shinies (or a similar favor) I'm up for being someone's meatpuppet for purposes of winning the tournament (You can't publicly post about your actions, but I could publicly post them for you, for example, as well as feed you Karma). Please contact me privately to cuddleb...@gmail.com if you'

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament

2017-06-23 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 23 Jun 2017, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > What other name might be good? Kudos or Karma are a couple options.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament

2017-06-23 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
What other name might be good? Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On Jun 23, 2017, at 8:47 AM, Quazie wrote: > > Different name please - will be easy to confuse with trust tokens > On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 08:46 Publius Scribonius Scholasticus > wrote: