Re: DIS: [Ambassador-at-Large] Note on nommit

2013-08-14 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Craig Daniel teu...@pobox.com wrote: Agora has never been invaded that I'm aware of, My first registration was part of a very ineffective invasion (from Nomicapolis, IIRC). -- Wooble

Re: DIS: [Ambassador-at-Large] Note on nommit

2013-08-14 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, Geoffrey Spear wrote: On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Craig Daniel teu...@pobox.com wrote: Agora has never been invaded that I'm aware of, My first registration was part of a very ineffective invasion (from Nomicapolis, IIRC). So ineffective that Agora never noticed?

Re: DIS: [Ambassador-at-Large] Note on nommit

2013-08-13 Thread Max Schutz
so we are allowed to be part of more than one nomic at once? On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Charles Walker charles.w.wal...@gmail.comwrote: nommit has gone into a convention. Seems like a good time to join. http://www.reddit.com/r/nommit/comments/1k8d78/new_game_convention/

Re: DIS: [Ambassador-at-Large] Note on nommit

2013-08-13 Thread Craig Daniel
Absolutely! Nothing wrong with it, any more than there's something wrong with playing two games of chess at once. Less, even, since outside of showing off it's considered polite to give the one chess game you're in all your attention until it ends. On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Max Schutz

Re: DIS: [Ambassador-at-Large] Note on nommit

2013-08-13 Thread Jonathan Rouillard
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Craig Daniel teu...@pobox.com wrote: Absolutely! Nothing wrong with it, any more than there's something wrong with playing two games of chess at once. Less, even, since outside of showing off it's considered polite to give the one chess game you're in all your

Re: DIS: [Ambassador-at-Large] Note on nommit

2013-08-13 Thread Craig Daniel
Yes. When such an attempt is underway, it's not uncommon for the nomic on the receiving end to try to quickly pass a rule barring players of the other from joining. Sometimes that even works. Agora has never been invaded that I'm aware of, but is still a little paranoid about it and has more

Re: DIS: [Ambassador-at-Large] Note on nommit

2013-08-13 Thread Max Schutz
well i heard something about being in multiple nomics and people using that to try and take over a nomic On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Jonathan Rouillard jonathan.rouill...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Craig Daniel teu...@pobox.com wrote: Absolutely! Nothing wrong

Re: DIS: [Ambassador-at-Large] Note on nommit

2013-08-13 Thread James Beirne
Absolutely! Nothing wrong with it, any more than there's something wrong with playing two games of chess at once. Now I'm getting ideas for Bughouse nomic Well, unless there's a rule in one of the Nomics that prevent you from joining another. =P I lololed Gerontocracy is the current

Re: DIS: [Ambassador-at-Large] Note on nommit

2013-08-13 Thread Craig Daniel
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:51 PM, James Beirne james.m.bei...@gmail.comwrote: Absolutely! Nothing wrong with it, any more than there's something wrong with playing two games of chess at once. Now I'm getting ideas for Bughouse nomic Any rule that gets repealed from Nomic A becomes a part of

Re: DIS: [Ambassador-at-Large] Note on nommit

2013-08-13 Thread James Beirne
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Craig Daniel teu...@pobox.com wrote: Absolutely! Nothing wrong with it, any more than there's something wrong with playing two games of chess at once. Now I'm getting ideas for Bughouse nomic Any rule that gets repealed from Nomic A becomes a part of

Re: DIS: [Ambassador-at-Large] Note on nommit

2013-08-13 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Tue, 13 Aug 2013, Craig Daniel wrote: Agora has never been invaded that I'm aware of, but is still a little paranoid about it and has more robust mechanisms for trying to stop such things in a hurry. Agora _has_ invaded other nomics though. I vaguely think the first time we did so

Re: DIS: [Ambassador-at-Large] Note on nommit

2013-08-13 Thread Fool
On 13/08/2013 2:48 PM, Craig Daniel wrote: Less, even, since outside of showing off it's considered polite to give the one chess game you're in all your attention until it ends. Though I think the difference here is between live games and play-by-mail, not between nomic and chess :)