Maybe we could use a metaphor or just something similar and illustrative? "A player may begin to Chant for a particular action (...) When a player has been Chanting for (...)"
"Chant", "Spellcast" or "Summon"; perhaps. Fantasy-themed things for 'charging up' to do something. Could be any other theme too. Just to open up more words we could resort to. On Thursday, May 18, 2023, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < [email protected]> wrote: > There's a bit of a discussion on Discord right now, that "intend" (or > synonyms like "plan") have an implication of "doing in future, not > now" in many contexts, which adds to the confusion for registration - > and has specifically called out in the past in terms of "consent now" > versus "consent later". A verb like "desire" as in "desires to become > a player at that time" might work better as it better indicates "wants > to/consents to right now". > > -G. > > On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 11:33 AM Yachay Wayllukuq via agora-discussion > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hm. We should probably use different words for registration "intents" and > > tabled "intents". > > > > In fact, I think it could be good to keyword things in the ruleset, sort > of > > like how MTG and plenty of other games do it, like; [Lifesteal] or > [Flash]. > > I believe we already have something like it in "Mother, May I?", but > > perhaps it could be productive to expand it to the ruleset's terms in > > general. Like that, it's much more obvious that it's some agora-specific > > language for a certain mechanic and it doesn't mean what it reads on the > > tin. > > > > On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 8:22 PM ais523 via agora-discussion < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2023-05-18 at 11:16 -0700, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion > wrote: > > > > hehe we can still fool old players sometimes - "intend" has a > > > > "specific meaning" for registration as well as for other contexts, so > > > > beokirby registered exactly as per the rules: > > > > > > > > > An Unregistered person CAN (unless explicitly forbidden or > > > > > prevented by the rules) register by publishing a message that > > > > > indicates reasonably clearly and reasonably unambiguously > that e > > > > > intends to become a player at that time. > > > > > > It's still worth warning the new players, though, because "intend" > > > wording works for registration, and (for a different reason) for the > > > first step in taking a tabled action, but doesn't work for anything > > > else. > > > > > > IIRC the reason it works for registration is partly that new players > > > kept getting it wrong, and partly because we wanted to change the > > > registration rules to have an entire new set of "did my registration > > > work?" CFJs. That change was ages ago now, though, so I might be > > > misremembering the details. > > > > > > -- > > > ais523 > > > >
