IMO the game has already been “ossified” for a while (or miscalculated/unacknowledged by the consensus so far) because I’m convinced that all actions are regulated.
(by ad absurdiam: Regulated actions are actions that are limited by the rules. Unregulated actions are all actions that aren’t regulated. If we have unregulated actions, the border of what regulated actions are its limit, ergo unregulated actions are limited by something rule-defined and therefore limited by the rules. So they’d have to be regulated. It cant be both regulated and unregulated.) But, yeah. Even if I’m right (which I believe I am, but I might not be), the game is more of a social activity rather than real software. For example, the frequent “oh shiiit” moments where we have to do retroactive changes and fix the ruleset to what we believed it was. As a mental experiment, assuming that we “just accept” the consensus’ interpretation as Agora’s true reality, a solution to ensure Agora’s longevity could be to add not very sane players that believe that, no matter what the Ruleset’s text is, Agora can’t be Ossified. :P On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 at 11:29, ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk < ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 2019-02-22 at 10:24 +0000, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote: > > To be honest I never really understood the problem with ossification > > - surely if the game accidentally ends we can just start a "new one" > > with a similar ruleset and gamestate, minimally modified to deossify > > it? > > Many players care about Agora having been a continuous game that's been > running for a really long length of time. Letting it die and restarting > it would violate that. > > (It's instructive to note what happened to B Nomic; it was also rather > long-running in terms of gameplay, but when the players noticed that it > had been ossified for years, it just died altogether; there were never > enough players interested in a revival.) > > -- > ais523 > >
