Re: DIS: Wow - Proposal Competitions are crazy powerful.

2017-05-26 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
What if we had different pseudo-stocks each tied to different actions and costs. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On May 26, 2017, at 2:39 PM, Nic Evans wrote: > > On 05/26/2017 01:00 PM, CuddleBeam wrote: >> >But why would people

Re: DIS: Wow - Proposal Competitions are crazy powerful.

2017-05-26 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
The numbers also sound very cool. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On May 26, 2017, at 2:11 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > On Fri, 26 May 2017, CuddleBeam wrote: >>> But why would people want to do that? If I own every

Re: Re: DIS: Wow - Proposal Competitions are crazy powerful.

2017-05-26 Thread CuddleBeam
>Typically you need to make the end goal something players already value, like a win. What if we call the token SUPER win

Re: DIS: Wow - Proposal Competitions are crazy powerful.

2017-05-26 Thread Nic Evans
On 05/26/2017 01:00 PM, CuddleBeam wrote: >But why would people want to do that? If I own every instance of the word 'office' in the ruleset, is there anything I can do with that? Or are those purely for speculating on their future value? Achieving more of an arbitrary token that denotes

Re: Re: DIS: Wow - Proposal Competitions are crazy powerful.

2017-05-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 26 May 2017, CuddleBeam wrote: > >But why would people want to do that? If I own every instance of the word > >'office' in the ruleset, > is there anything I can do with that? Or are those purely for speculating on > their future value? > Achieving more of an arbitrary token that

Re: DIS: Wow - Proposal Competitions are crazy powerful.

2017-05-26 Thread Martin Rönsch
That seems fun. After establishing the stock market people and organizations could claim shares in words which can then be further traded. But why would people want to do that? If I own every instance of the word 'office' in the ruleset, is there anything I can do with that? Or are those

Re: Re: DIS: Wow - Proposal Competitions are crazy powerful.

2017-05-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
There was an Agoran Drinking Song once. Can't remember the full thing, but the final lines were: 'Cause every one must have eir Torah Rules that they find divine. Agora, pass one more amphora Pour me one more cup of wine! On Fri, 26 May 2017, CuddleBeam wrote: > >religion themed rulesystems

Re: Re: DIS: Wow - Proposal Competitions are crazy powerful.

2017-05-26 Thread CuddleBeam
>religion themed rulesystems We already have a "religion" system here. To imagine it, imagine the "Agora ruleset" is now called "Bible", "Quran", or something similar. Replace "bad sport" in our ruleset with "sinner". Now look at all of our conflicts over considering what is cardable or not.

Re: DIS: Wow - Proposal Competitions are crazy powerful.

2017-05-26 Thread Gaelan Steele
A stock market could be interesting. Stocks could be real (tied to actual stock data) or just simulated Gaelan > On May 25, 2017, at 11:01 PM, Quazie wrote: > > I ENCOURAGE someone to come up with an interesting proposal competition. > > I SUGGEST that the economy is

Re: DIS: Wow - Proposal Competitions are crazy powerful.

2017-05-26 Thread Martin Rönsch
Am 26.05.2017 um 08:01 schrieb Quazie: I ENCOURAGE someone to come up with an interesting proposal competition. I SUGGEST that the economy is an interesting objective. I SUGGEST that judicial reform is an interesting objective. I SUGGEST that theming the game is an interesting objective. How

Re: DIS: Wow - Proposal Competitions are crazy powerful.

2017-05-26 Thread Quazie
They are a weekly free distribution of all competition proposals. They bypass pending and they bypass the economy. There is no limit to the number of proposals one may submit. On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 05:06 CuddleBeam wrote: > >Proposal Competitions are crazy powerful.

Re: DIS: Wow - Proposal Competitions are crazy powerful.

2017-05-26 Thread CuddleBeam
>Proposal Competitions are crazy powerful. I... don't see how proposal competitions are particularly powerful. I might be missing something though.

DIS: Wow - Proposal Competitions are crazy powerful.

2017-05-26 Thread Quazie
I ENCOURAGE someone to come up with an interesting proposal competition. I SUGGEST that the economy is an interesting objective. I SUGGEST that judicial reform is an interesting objective. I SUGGEST that theming the game is an interesting objective. How in the world have we not had a Proposal