On 11/16/2017 11:09 PM, Owen Jacobson wrote:
Just saying it is "a record" seems a bit broad. I don't know how you would make
that more specific without being over-complicated, though.
I just kept this wording from the original maps rules. I don't know how else to
say it.
Defining this in terms of a set of platonic entities (or, for that matter, a
set of assets, but I think a set of platonic entities is probably a better fit
here), plus switches associated with those entities, would do it. The rules for
manipulating switches and the rules for requiring an officer to report on
switches are fairly robust.
Sure. That does seem to work.
Re-enact rule 1997/2 (Power=1), renaming it to "Defined Land Types" with
the text:
In addition to Aether, the Land types Black and White are defined.
Re-enact rule 1998/2 (Power=1) "Land Topology" with the text:
Two Units of Land are Adjacent if they have the same Latitude, and
their Longitudes differ by exactly one; or they have the same
Longitude, and their Latitudes differ by exactly one.
The Penguin Distance between two given Units of Land is the
minimum number of Single Waddles required to Travel from one of
the given Units to the other given Unit, where one Single Waddle
is the Penguin Distance required to Travel from one Unit of Land
to an Adjacent Unit of Land.
You're using Penguin Distance in the definition of Penguin Distance, which is a
little confusing.
I left this part untouched because I thought I understood the concept. I guess
that there are some extra details in there though.
It’s Manhattan distance, which is clear enough, but defining it in terms of
itself is a bit awkward.
A recursive definition would define the unit Single Waddle distance in terms of
the base measures (Latitude and Longitude), and then define the Penguin
Distance in terms of Single Waddles. A direct definition would be less clear,
but easier to compute, and would specify how to compute the Penguin Distance
directly from the Latitude and Longitude:
The Penguin Distance between two Units of Land is the sum of the absolute
magnitude of the difference in Longitude between the two Units and the absolute
magnitude of the difference in Latitude between the two Units.
I looked up "absolute magnitude" and I only found stuff relating to star
brightness. Please clarify this.
Maybe rename Quarries to Mines and have them create shinies.
Quarries were supposed to create shinies. But here's a different idea. Maybe
Quarries/Mines create a currency called Ore, and Ores can be turned into
shinies by Refinery zmetah.
Let's expand this even further -- Quarries have their own inventories where ore
is kept and players have to go and take out the ore and bring it to the
refinery to exchange eir ores for shinies.
In context of G.’s SimAgora proposal and the associated output currencies,
perhaps:
* Define three “base” resources, and associated Zmet types. Let’s pretend
they’re Ores, Fungi, and Chipmunks.
* Define three “refined” resources (G.’s Sports, Coupons, and Widgets), and
associated Zmet types.
* To produce a Sports using a Zmet, the owner must destroy an Ore and a Fungus
that they own.
* To produce a Coupon using a Zmet, the owner must destroy an Ore and a
Chipmunk (sorry, lil fella).
* To produce a Widget using a Zmet, the owner must destroy a Fungus and a
Chipmunk (seriously, you need to stop hanging around in the Widget factory,
mousie).
Some tinkering with the relative rates of production and consumption would
produce some incentive to specialize, without giving a single specialist sole
control over the resulting economy.
-o
Okay, so here's my plan:
1. Ditch shinies.
2. Three different production zmetah exist: Farm, Mine, Orchard.
3. Farms produce Corn and Cotton.
4. Mines produce Stone and Ore.
5. Orchards produce Fruit and Lumber.
6. Some number of refinery zmetah exist.
7. Cotton can be refined into cloth.
8. Ore can be refined into bars.
9. Lumber can be refined into paper.
10. Corn and Fruit can be consumed to allow you to move.
11. Stone and Lumber are used to build zmetah.
12. Proposals and reports and such are written on Paper and Cloth.
13. Bars are used as the new official currency of Agora.
14. Agora can create any of the above assets and give it to entities --
for reports and such.
This way, each production zmet creates one refinable resource and one
unrefinable resource, thereby balancing them.
--
Trigon
