Re: DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer goes to uni, Attn. Herald

2019-06-08 Thread James Cook
I enjoyed both essays, and not having much experience with nomics, I found them informative. The beginner's strategy guide seems pretty straightforward, its individual parts obvious in retrospect, but I think there's a lot of value in seeing everything in one place --- I think if you ask me what th

Re: DIS: Proposed Birthday Tournament Regulations Discussion

2019-06-08 Thread Cuddle Beam
Even with a net payout of zero, there’s always the Blognomic classic of two (or more, but generally two) co-conspirators randomly rolling among themselves which of them will be the ‘winner’ of the two, with the other being the ‘donator’. It generally pops up in dynasties with a format where player

DIS: Overpowered Deputies

2019-06-08 Thread Jason Cobb
Looking at both Rule 2160 ("Deputisation") and Rule 2472 ("Office Incompatibilities"), it appears (to me) that a Player CAN (temporarily or not) deputise for an office that is incompatible with one that e already holds. Since Rule 2160 is of higher Power than the Rule 2472, a (non-temporary) de

Re: DIS: Proposed Birthday Tournament Regulations Discussion

2019-06-08 Thread Kerim Aydin
I'd submit 3 "impossible" riddles per week for 21 points guaranteed - can't see a block against that? Similar "riddle-making" games I've seen have penalties (e.g. 0 points) if no one else gets the riddle to penalize making them too hard. Also, two players could cross-invent a bunch of riddles

DIS: Proposed Birthday Tournament Regulations Discussion

2019-06-08 Thread Rance Bedwell
[I intend to add a section as follows: Gamemaster's weekly report:  The gamemaster SHALL publish a weekly report that tracks:  1. each riddle that has been published, the riddler, the date published, the plain text answer if the decryption key has already been published;  2. each published guess,

DIS: Re: BUS: Right Action

2019-06-08 Thread Charles Walker
On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 at 04:13, Owen Jacobson wrote: > I pay 4 coins to Walker. Thanks, o. -- Walker