On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Zefram wrote: > This is why we must not rely on automation. It's why Nomic World died, > leading to the creation of Agora. For Agora to go that route would be > to ignore the lessons of history.
I think Nomic World died because the technology was so heavily dependent on the one or two wizards and their computing resources (in the days when MUDs had to be run by comp-sci departments who were generous with resources). When they left, there was no way to carry on. With offices currently well- distributed and the tech available to just about everyone, it's not an issue. That said, I dislike the lack of flexibility in automated systems generally for nomics, at least I will until someone perfects natural language processing (and at that point, we'll have Turing-passing AI "person" registrations to worry about). Perhaps as an "optional": Anything submitted in that form gets uploaded to the CotC database automatically, saving the CotC a step and making em happy, but e still assigns manually. Otherwise I'm sure a player would come up with an insertion attack (on the Rules if not on the database) in short order... Doing this doesn't need a rules change, it just needs the CotC to implement such a thing and announce its availability. -Goethe
