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

2018-05-25 Thread Cuddle Beam
Yes, and: >If you want to make it more real, you just have to get other people to agree with you. The R101 thing was just to make it more "convincing" and have the belief-magic kickstarted, and to have the splinter itself have some kind of umbilical formal connection (which can then be severed

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

2018-05-25 Thread Kerim Aydin
We've done splinter subnomics (like FRC) many times. If the uniqueness of this idea is that they "share" R101, what happens if one branch votes to Amend R101. Either there's now two versions (showing that these are just two separate nomics that aren't linked - done before) or the different

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: