Agora tends to go through periods of building game systems (lots of proposal drafting) then periods of playing what we set up (lots of basic transaction messages, trades, gameplay). We're very much in the first mode right now - hopefully not for much longer we've been there since around May - so if there doesn't seem anything obvious to *do* other than writing proposals, that's a situational thing.
On Fri, 22 Sep 2017, ATMunn . wrote: > Thanks for the welcome package, whether it actually worked or not. > > I still have no real idea what I'm going to do; so for now I'll just watch > and see what comes up. I'm sure I'll find something to do > sooner or later. > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Owen Jacobson <o...@grimoire.ca> wrote: > On Sep 21, 2017, at 9:35 AM, ATMunn . <iamingodsa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hey! I'm ATMunn. > > I discovered Agora a little while back, and just decided it sounded > interesting, so I joined. > > > > I've seen some of the messages that have been so far, and honestly I > have no idea what's going on, or what to do. :P > > But it seems like there's a really friendly community here, so I'm > sure you all can help me learn the ropes. > > > > I've also joined the IRC channel. I'm usually quite active on IRC, so > you can pretty much always contact me there (I may > not respond right away though if I'm busy). > > Welcome! > > 10 Fun Things To Do In Agora When You’re Dead: > > * Scam a dictatorship and single-handedly cause a month-long lull in the game. > > * Sit on an eighth of the economic resources and do nothing obvious with > them. (Cough.) > > * Write a proposal that is impossible to vote against. > > * Vote against it anyways. > > * Demonstrate that an innocent-looking mechanic is far more powerful and > useful than anyone intended. > > * Design a subgame. Try to get it enacted into the rules. > > * Run for an office. > > * Run from an office. > > * Find the most unlikely interpretations of the rules and call endless CFJs > to support those interpretations. > > * Win. > > I’ve kicked over a welcome package (Rule 2499) for you. This should give you > enough shinies to put forward several proposals and > calls for judgement, if it catches your fancy to do so. > > Note that by a strict reading of the rules, that action did not work - this > is a known issue and proposals are in flight to fix > that problem. We have an established agreement to keep records as if that the > actions work anyways, and I plan to ratify the > results retroactively once the rules are fixed. Reading up on the history of > this problem might be interesting if you have > interest in how the rules function. > > -o > > > >
