1. An accelerated game of Nomic, starting from Agora's initial ruleset (possibly slightly modified if necessary), but made so that timelimits are extremely short. The game would have an immutable rule ending it within a week if it hadn't already, the winner being the player with the most points. Hopefully we would start this game one week before the vigintennial, with the winner being crowned on July 30th.
Well, my own experience with PBM suggests that anything faster than 24 hour cycles will really make continuous participation difficult for most people. Unless, that is, you go all the way to a "live" game, held in a single "sitting" (several hours from beginning to end, on IRC or something).
Now, I myself, having been recently handed a mildly humiliating defeat in another PBM game, and having had yet another one put on hold for a bit, find that I can commit a regular timeslot every day until the end of the month, as would behoove, say, the Speaker of a 24h game.
So, given that time is ticking and that nobody is jumping on this, I'm going to proceed in the spirit of the quote in R1727: I'm starting a 24h game on agora-business imminently.
Once the game is over, if it pleases Agora, the Herald can award the winner a Patent Title or whatever is felt appropriate. Or, if there was not sufficient interest, or the game was in some other way unworthy of Agora's recognition, then it can simply be ignored (and if our presence on agora-business annoys the non-players, we can move).
All aboard! -Dan
