Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: testing collective punishment

2019-02-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
This rather takes away from the elegance of a single rule. Here's a "simple" option: Repeal threshold: N Agoran Consent, where N is the maximum of 1 and 10/(A+1) rounded up to the nearest 0.1, and A is the number of weeks the rule has been continuously appeased. (Sequence: 10, 5, 3.4, 2.5,

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: testing collective punishment

2019-02-16 Thread James Cook
On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 at 17:04, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Ok, hopefully last time! > > I withdraw the proposal Ritual Sacrifice from the pool. > > I submit the following proposal, Ritual Sacrifice, AI-1: > > > Create a Rule entitled

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: testing collective punishment

2019-02-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
On 2/16/2019 9:52 AM, James Cook wrote: On the one hand, I am inclined to vote against it --- will it encourage people to be selective about which rules they follow? What's interesting to me about this is that it's a collective decision - as long as one person follows it, everyone is followi

DIS: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread D. Margaux
We must ensure that the Ritual is appeased. I therefore humbly submit to the Agoran public this proto contract: /// This contract is to be known as The Church of The Ritual. Parties to the contract are the faithful; nonparties are heathens. A player can become faithful by announcement upon tra

DIS: proto: communications redux

2019-02-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
Well I think some of the communications CFJs have given enough basis for some fixes now... Proto - communications fixes Enact the following clause (possibly in R859, but there might be a better place if we don't want to mess with R859): If the rules state that certain information must b

Re: DIS: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
I think the proposed fix to Telnaior's scam includes an amendment such that offices can only be defined by the Rules. On 2/16/2019 10:15 AM, D. Margaux wrote: We must ensure that the Ritual is appeased. I therefore humbly submit to the Agoran public this proto contract: /// This contract is

Re: DIS: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread D. Margaux
Thanks—if there’s any interest in this, we can fix that for sure. > On Feb 16, 2019, at 1:21 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > I think the proposed fix to Telnaior's scam includes an amendment such that > offices can only be defined by the Rules. > >> On 2/16/2019 10:15 AM, D. Margaux wrote: >> We

Re: DIS: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread Cuddle Beam
I'm interested👌 On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 7:26 PM D. Margaux wrote: > Thanks—if there’s any interest in this, we can fix that for sure. > > > On Feb 16, 2019, at 1:21 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > > > I think the proposed fix to Telnaior's scam includes an amendment such > that > > offices can

DIS: random history: the pariah

2019-02-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
The discussion of encouraging rules breakages and heresy reminded me of this gem by ais523 (for context, Rests=Blots and 24 was the exile threshold). Rule 2312/0 (Power=1.7) The Pariah The Pariah is an elected office, with no reports. Whenever a player becomes the Pariah, that play

Re: DIS: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread Aris Merchant
I believe that under long-standing contract construction rules, contracts can pretend that they can do rule things even if the rules don’t think so. The effect is that the contract behaves as closely as possible to the way in which it would were it a rule. -Aris On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 10:24 AM K

Re: DIS: random history: the pariah

2019-02-16 Thread ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk
On Sat, 2019-02-16 at 10:46 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: > The discussion of encouraging rules breakages and heresy reminded me > of this gem by ais523 (for context, Rests=Blots and 24 was the exile > threshold). Believe it or not, this actually had ulterior motives. In particular, I wanted to increa

DIS: Re: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread D. Margaux
I _love_ the idea of enforcing minor rule violations against a pariah. Hilarious. Some revisions to the protocontract below— /// This contract is to be known as The Church of The Ritual. Parties to the contract are the faithful; nonparties are heathens. A heathen can become faithful by annou

Re: DIS: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
Well, it's unclear to me if a judge would say "that office works just like you would expect except the ADoP doesn't have to track it" or "contracts can't do that, so those clauses are void". IMO it's just worth a little precaution with an easily-added clause (eg. when contracts didn't have min

Re: DIS: Re: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread Aris Merchant
I don’t much like the idea of enforcing minor violations against someone who hasn’t agreed to it. It doesn’t quite seem fair. -Aris On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 11:31 AM D. Margaux wrote: > I _love_ the idea of enforcing minor rule violations against a pariah. > Hilarious. > > Some revisions to the

Re: DIS: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
Aris, The more I think about it, the more I think that a judge should throw it out. Contracts are made under the intent that they are binding under the rules. If a rule specifically says that a contract can't do X, the parties to the contract have agreed that the rules say the contract doesn'

Re: DIS: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread Cuddle Beam
We could use a deposit system like when you deposit for rent. On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 9:08 PM Kerim Aydin wrote: > > Aris, > > The more I think about it, the more I think that a judge should throw it > out. Contracts are made under the intent that they are binding under the > rules. If a rule

Re: DIS: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
On 2/16/2019 12:11 PM, Cuddle Beam wrote: We could use a deposit system like when you deposit for rent. Oh I think D. Margaux's fix does the job; I was responding to Aris's more general statement that "under long-standing contract construction rules, contracts can pretend that they can do rul

Re: DIS: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread Aris Merchant
I think that’s incorrect. Unless the rules explicitly say “the contract can’t punish someone for X”, he meaning of a statement on the part of the rules that a person can’t be considered bound to a contract is that the rules won’t consider them bound. Contracts can have their own subjective opinions

Re: DIS: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread Aris Merchant
That got sent before I had a chance to proofread it; my apologies for the embarrassingly large number of spelling mistakes. -Aris On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 12:36 PM Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think that’s incorrect. Unless the rules explicitly say “the contract

Re: DIS: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
On 2/16/2019 12:36 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: > Unless the rules explicitly say “the contract > can’t punish someone for X”, he meaning of a statement on the part of the > rules that a person can’t be considered bound to a contract is that the > rules won’t consider them bound. If Telnaior's prop

Re: DIS: Re: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread D. Margaux
> On Feb 16, 2019, at 2:58 PM, Aris Merchant > wrote: > > I don’t much like the idea of enforcing minor violations against someone > who hasn’t agreed to it. It doesn’t quite seem fair. Well, the heretic can point eir finger at all of the faithful for abetting heresy...

Re: DIS: Re: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread D. Margaux
> On Feb 16, 2019, at 5:25 PM, D. Margaux wrote: > > > >> On Feb 16, 2019, at 2:58 PM, Aris Merchant >> wrote: >> >> I don’t much like the idea of enforcing minor violations against someone >> who hasn’t agreed to it. It doesn’t quite seem fair. > > Well, the heretic can point eir finger

Re: DIS: Re: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread Cuddle Beam
Maybe an Inquisitor to coordinate the consensus-shunning process and otherwise suggest appropriately religious punishments. On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 at 00:17, D. Margaux wrote: > > > > On Feb 16, 2019, at 5:25 PM, D. Margaux wrote: > > > > > > > >> On Feb 16, 2019, at 2:58 PM, Aris Merchant < > thou

Re: DIS: Re: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread D. Margaux
> On Feb 16, 2019, at 6:54 PM, Cuddle Beam wrote: > > Maybe an Inquisitor to coordinate the consensus-shunning process and > otherwise suggest appropriately religious punishments. I like it!!! Maybe if there is a heretic in a given week, then the Inquisitor can be an office imposed on the f

Re: DIS: Re: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread Cuddle Beam
Or it could just be the Priest, really Also, I suggest to be able to waive a Collect by submitting a sufficiently impressive work of venerative literature or art (it would also be a way to add more made-up creed and fun roleplay to this) On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 at 00:54, Cuddle Beam wrote: > Maybe

Re: DIS: Re: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread Aris Merchant
In case this changes anyone’s plans, I have an idea to change the ritual to make it harder to perform. Doing it successfully should require consulting the time, phase of the moon, the way the last three people have performed it, the current zodiac sign, and other such things. -Aris On Sat, Feb 16

Re: DIS: Re: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread Cuddle Beam
Religion is strikingly similar to a government lol. Maybe have the Priest’s focus be the devout and the Inquisitor’s focus be the pagans. On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 at 00:57, D. Margaux wrote: > > > > On Feb 16, 2019, at 6:54 PM, Cuddle Beam wrote: > > > > Maybe an Inquisitor to coordinate the consen

Re: DIS: Re: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread D. Margaux
> On Feb 16, 2019, at 6:59 PM, Cuddle Beam wrote: > > Or it could just be the Priest, really Yes except that as currently worded, if there is a heretic, then the priesthood remains vacant. We could say that, when/if a player becomes a heretic, then the most recent priest becomes the inquisi

Re: DIS: Re: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread Cuddle Beam
I’d prefer that mundane tedium (such as just checking some website for the star’s current position or just running some kind of calculation) wasn’t a factor. FMPOV it doesn’t add more fun, it’s like playing chess but now with weights on your wrists. On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 at 01:04, Aris Merchant < th

Re: DIS: Re: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread Aris Merchant
Hmm. So the point is that I want to add enough variables that doing it correctly is a challenge. That way it’s really easy to accidentally mess up. Any ideas on how to do that without adding too much tedium? -Aris On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 4:15 PM Cuddle Beam wrote: > I’d prefer that mundane tedi

Re: DIS: Re: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk
On Sat, 2019-02-16 at 16:16 -0800, Aris Merchant wrote: > Hmm. So the point is that I want to add enough variables that doing it > correctly is a challenge. That way it’s really easy to accidentally mess > up. Any ideas on how to do that without adding too much tedium? FRC-style, perhaps? Every ti

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: testing collective punishment

2019-02-16 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Fri, 15 Feb 2019, Aris Merchant wrote: BlogNomic almost actually passed something like that once. We sent someone over to caution them that such an unfortunate plan would result in an Agoran invasion (okay, ais actually did it sua sponte, but my version sounds better). Wait, BlogNomic legis

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: testing collective punishment

2019-02-16 Thread Aris Merchant
I rather hoped the “mutatis mutandis” was implied. -Aris On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 4:27 PM Ørjan Johansen wrote: > On Fri, 15 Feb 2019, Aris Merchant wrote: > > > BlogNomic almost actually passed something like that once. We sent > someone > > over to caution them that such an unfortunate plan wo

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: testing collective punishment

2019-02-16 Thread Ørjan Johansen
My reading justifies the Agoran invasion better. Greetings, Ørjan. On Sat, 16 Feb 2019, Aris Merchant wrote: I rather hoped the “mutatis mutandis” was implied. -Aris On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 4:27 PM Ørjan Johansen wrote: On Fri, 15 Feb 2019, Aris Merchant wrote: BlogNomic almost actually

Re: DIS: Re: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
On 2/16/2019 4:16 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: Hmm. So the point is that I want to add enough variables that doing it correctly is a challenge. That way it’s really easy to accidentally mess up. Any ideas on how to do that without adding too much tedium? Regardless of the detailed steps needed, y

Re: DIS: Re: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
On 2/16/2019 4:21 PM, ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk wrote: On Sat, 2019-02-16 at 16:16 -0800, Aris Merchant wrote: Hmm. So the point is that I want to add enough variables that doing it correctly is a challenge. That way it’s really easy to accidentally mess up. Any ideas on how to do that without

Re: DIS: Re: Church of Ritual

2019-02-16 Thread Gaelan Steele
Just as something to keep in mind: failed appeasement attempts should punish the failed appeaser, but not Agora as a whole (assuming that someone else comes along and does it correctly). Gaelan > On Feb 16, 2019, at 5:02 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On 2/16/2019 4:16 PM, Aris Merchant wrote:

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: testing collective punishment

2019-02-16 Thread Cuddle Beam
We could just win it in the normal way next time and declare an Agora theme... On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 at 01:32, Ørjan Johansen wrote: > My reading justifies the Agoran invasion better. > > Greetings, > Ørjan. > > On Sat, 16 Feb 2019, Aris Merchant wrote: > > > I rather hoped the “mutatis mutandis”

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: testing collective punishment

2019-02-16 Thread Gaelan Steele
Consider me interested. Gaelan > On Feb 16, 2019, at 10:33 PM, Cuddle Beam wrote: > > We could just win it in the normal way next time and declare an Agora > theme... > > On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 at 01:32, Ørjan Johansen wrote: > >> My reading justifies the Agoran invasion better. >> >> Greeting

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: testing collective punishment

2019-02-16 Thread Cuddle Beam
It would’ve been pretty easy to win last dynasty with a coordinated team (wealth was pretty unambiguous from the start in the form of Clues: Emperor-given info on a series of data a la Cluedo; wealth could be easy shared because you just needed to know it. Unsurprisingly, a team of two players won.