Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: zeckalpha is to be registered.

2009-06-01 Thread Michael Norrish
Kerim Aydin wrote: On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Michael Norrish wrote: Kyle Marek-Spartz wrote: I assumed... Hazing of sorts. Makes sense to weed out those unwilling to put up with criticism and informs initiates about some of the subtleties of the Agoran way. Clever. I'm kinda glad I never had to

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: zeckalpha is to be registered.

2009-06-01 Thread Benjamin Caplan
Michael Norrish wrote: PS: would people be interested in a Zendo contest/sub-game? (See http://www.koryheath.com/games/zendo/design-history, for example.) Sounds neat. Turn-based games (e.g., nomic) tend to be made less so when played by email. Does anyone see any outstanding gameplay issues

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: zeckalpha is to be registered.

2009-06-01 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Michael Norrish wrote: PS: would people be interested in a Zendo contest/sub-game? (See http://www.koryheath.com/games/zendo/design-history, for example.) That sounds a contest we played a little while ago. The contestmaster came up with a secret rule for assigning

RE: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: zeckalpha is to be registered.

2009-06-01 Thread Alexander Smith
Michael wrote: Kyle Marek-Spartz wrote: I assumed... Hazing of sorts. Makes sense to weed out those unwilling to put up with criticism and informs initiates about some of the subtleties of the Agoran way. Clever. I'm kinda glad I never had to bother with it :-) I just love the way that

RE: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: zeckalpha is to be registered.

2009-06-01 Thread Alexander Smith
G. wrote: On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Michael Norrish wrote: PS: would people be interested in a Zendo contest/sub-game? (See http://www.koryheath.com/games/zendo/design-history, for example.) That sounds a contest we played a little while ago. The contestmaster came up with a secret rule for

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: zeckalpha is to be registered.

2009-06-01 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Alexander Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: It could have been interesting, but it collapsed when Iammars became inactive, and I don't think there have been any attempts to resurrect it since. I made an attempt to resurrect it and got no interest at all.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: zeckalpha is to be registered.

2009-06-01 Thread Ed Murphy
Michael wrote: PS: would people be interested in a Zendo contest/sub-game? (See http://www.koryheath.com/games/zendo/design-history, for example.) Yes.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: zeckalpha is to be registered.

2009-05-31 Thread Sean Hunt
Kyle Marek-Spartz wrote: Unnecessary... According to 869 this is the phrasing necessary for registration. The verb to be registered means to become a player (i.e., to have one's citizenship changed from Unregistered to Registered), and the verb to be deregistered means to cease

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: zeckalpha is to be registered.

2009-05-31 Thread Kyle Marek-Spartz
I assumed... Hazing of sorts. Makes sense to weed out those unwilling to put up with criticism and informs initiates about some of the subtleties of the Agoran way. Clever. Kyle Marek-Spartz On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Sean Hunt ride...@gmail.com wrote: Kyle Marek-Spartz wrote:

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: zeckalpha is to be registered.

2009-05-31 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sun, 31 May 2009, Kyle Marek-Spartz wrote: I assumed... Hazing of sorts. Makes sense to weed out those unwilling to put up with criticism and informs initiates about some of the subtleties of the Agoran way. Clever. Maybe this should be in the FAQ? The ironic thing is, the reason R869 is

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: zeckalpha is to be registered.

2009-05-31 Thread Michael Norrish
Kyle Marek-Spartz wrote: I assumed... Hazing of sorts. Makes sense to weed out those unwilling to put up with criticism and informs initiates about some of the subtleties of the Agoran way. Clever. I'm kinda glad I never had to bother with it :-) Michael.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: zeckalpha is to be registered.

2009-05-31 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Michael Norrish wrote: Kyle Marek-Spartz wrote: I assumed... Hazing of sorts. Makes sense to weed out those unwilling to put up with criticism and informs initiates about some of the subtleties of the Agoran way. Clever. I'm kinda glad I never had to bother with it :-)

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: zeckalpha is to be registered.

2009-05-31 Thread Elliott Hird
He has bouts of existance, it's not too rare :-) On 2009-06-01, Sean Hunt ride...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Norrish wrote: Kyle Marek-Spartz wrote: I assumed... Hazing of sorts. Makes sense to weed out those unwilling to put up with criticism and informs initiates about some of the subtleties

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: zeckalpha is to be registered.

2009-05-30 Thread Charles Walker
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Kyle Marek-Spartz zeckal...@gmail.comwrote: zeckalpha is to be registered. Welcome. You may find the following useful if you've never played before: [ With thanks to Murphy ] Agora Nomic FAQ last updated 4/22/09 Q. What's with the funny pronouns? A.

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: zeckalpha is to be registered.

2009-05-30 Thread Alex Smith
On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 08:55 -0400, Geoffrey Spear wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Kyle Marek-Spartz zeckal...@gmail.com wrote: zeckalpha is to be registered. Welcome, maybe. I CFJ on: {{zeckalpha is a Player.}} Evidence: above-quoted grammatically-problematic message. I take

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: zeckalpha is to be registered.

2009-05-30 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/5/30 Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk: I take it that Kyle Marek-Spartz /is/ zeckalpha? That attempted registration would almost certainly fail if zeckalpha was someone else. (Unless there was a submarine act-on-behalf contract, which would get us into even more confusing realms of rule

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: zeckalpha is to be registered.

2009-05-30 Thread Kyle Marek-Spartz
Unnecessary... According to 869 this is the phrasing necessary for registration. The verb to be registered means to become a player (i.e., to have one's citizenship changed from Unregistered to Registered), and the verb to be deregistered means to cease to be a player (i.e., to