Re: DIS: Making small forks in the river that is Agora

2018-05-24 Thread Aris Merchant
You can do this any time you want without rule backing. I am hesitant to enshrine forking in the rules, per Kenyon. But seriously, Agora exists because we collectively believe in it. If you want to create a novelty item like this, you can do so by believing in it. :) If you want to make it more

Re: DIS: Making small forks in the river that is Agora

2018-05-24 Thread Cuddle Beam
It's not for splitting the playerbase, it's mostly just to make novelty items based on the assumptions that sustain the reverie that the game is alive/continuous : P On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 7:23 AM, Kenyon Prater wrote: > With so few players already, splitting the

Re: DIS: Making small forks in the river that is Agora

2018-05-24 Thread Kenyon Prater
With so few players already, splitting the playerbase further seems bad? On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 12:16 AM, Cuddle Beam wrote: > Going off the idea of it's just activity and legal recognition which makes > Agora this "continuous" game so far, what if, from that "stream", we

DIS: Making small forks in the river that is Agora

2018-05-24 Thread Cuddle Beam
Going off the idea of it's just activity and legal recognition which makes Agora this "continuous" game so far, what if, from that "stream", we made a little branching stream? Or many? Maybe you could take a "sapling" of Agora home lol. This is mostly for the philosophical fun of it. Proto:

Re: DIS: reality check

2018-05-24 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Thu, 24 May 2018, Kerim Aydin wrote: FRC launched around Feb-Mar 1993 (it's listed with other committees in the "Seventh Month" summary here: http://www.nomic.net/deadgames/nomicworld/norrish/ which matches my memory of writing the Nomic World committee rules over the 92-93 winter holidays).

DIS: Re: BUS: So I heard you were looking for more players

2018-05-24 Thread Ned Strange
Welcome! I assume your nickname is twg? On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 7:46 AM, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote: > I intend to register as a player at this time. I cause myself to receive a > Welcome Package. > > - twg -- >From V.J. Rada

DIS: Re: BUS: So I heard you were looking for more players

2018-05-24 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
Full disclosure: I've actually been lurking for about a month now, to learn how the game works. I still only have a tenuous grasp on the current gamestate, though (I've lost track of things since the last Cartographor and Treasuror reports; and there hasn't been a Rulekeepor report since I

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Herald][Medal of Honour]

2018-05-24 Thread Kerim Aydin
I and my zombies will vote for whomever, at the end of this week, has given o the most apples (or corn at the apple exchange rate), to be used to move em around the board. (I'm going to keep moving em too but I'm waiting for a report first). On Thu, 24 May 2018, ATMunn wrote: > I vote for

Re: DIS: reality check

2018-05-24 Thread Kerim Aydin
FRC launched around Feb-Mar 1993 (it's listed with other committees in the "Seventh Month" summary here: http://www.nomic.net/deadgames/nomicworld/norrish/ which matches my memory of writing the Nomic World committee rules over the 92-93 winter holidays). A question would be whether its

Re: DIS: reality check

2018-05-24 Thread Aris Merchant
We may not even be the world's longest running internet nomic. Presuming the current FRC broke off directly from the original (which is pretty likely, given the nomenclature and traditions), that's been up longer than us. -Aris On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:56 PM Ned Strange