[spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Mining Fix

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/16/03 at 11:24 AM Daniel Lepage wrote:

>I propose:
>{{
>__Mining Fix__
>
>[[Summary: Fix the wording of the Mining Rule to use Regions, if
>Regions pass.
>
>Note: The wording at the moment is actually really dumb... it amounts
>to "there must exist a Service Mall", because it only stipulates that
>there must be a list of squares, not that said squares must be non-void
>or fulfill any other requirements.]]
>
>If the proposal entitled __Connectivity__ failed, ignore the rest of
>this proposal. Otherwise, in r1077 [[Mining the Grid]], replace the text
>"There must exist a sequential list of locations, each of which must be
>adjacent to the next, with the first being the location to be mined,
>and the last being the location of a Service Mall. It is the
>responsibility of the Miner to provide such a list if one is requested."
>with
>"The location to be mined must be in a Region of Non-Void squares that
>also contains a Service Mall."
>}}

I'm still here.  Perhaps Iain has, in eir resurrection, sapped all my energy.  Or perhaps it's the college curriculum.  Been working on my website and attaching minisites to it.  All in the name of Social Technology(tm).

Regarding the list of locations in mining...Basically, the original intent was to make it necessary that a path be tracable between a square to be mined and a service mall...a navigable path.  Thus would be prevented mining to China, since the square becomes un-navigable after it gets four levels deep.  You could still mine to China, but in the course of doing so you'd need to make a terrace-sided pit.

Of course, this didn't exactly come out in the actual phrasing.  Wonko is right; all that was necessary was the existence of a service mall, since, in an XYZ environment, a "location" doesn't necessarily contain a navigable square.

But Wonko's attempt to fix this is as yet insufficient: What constitutes a "region"?  Do the squares, for example, have to be contiguous?

						Glotmorf

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