Re: [spoon-discuss] Games Magazine

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 12:35  AM, Glotmorf wrote:

> On 7/7/03 at 11:17 PM Joel Uckelman wrote:
>
> > Thus spake "Glotmorf":
> > > I can probably fix that with one simple letter to the editor...Do we
> > want=
> > >  that?
> >
> > Anyone who wants to find you guys can type "B Nomic" into Google and 
> > the
> > site
> > will be the first link. You probably don't want dozens of players all
> > trying
> > to join at the same time, either.
>
> Especially with Dave about to quit...?  Hm.
>
> Suppose we *did* get a zillion wannabes.  What if we went the subgame 
> route and stuffed bunches of people into societies with veteran 
> players?  Each society would acknowledge the main game's rules, plus 
> whatever the society came up with, and the societies could 
> collectively change the main game's rules.  Sort of an 
> intra-internomic...

I was once involved in a face-to-face game where the players were 
organized sort of like that. Each player had to be a member of a 'bip'; 
proposals, voting, winning etc. were all things that only bips could 
do, not individual players. Then the bips all had their own secret 
charters that only the members of the bip and the central administrator 
knew; these were binding on bip members (although they could petition 
the admin to force charter changes if the charter was overly 
unpleasant).

It didn't really work, though; we only had maybe 10 players, and almost 
never had more than five or six show up at any given meeting, so it 
basically turned into a one person per player game.

--
Wonko

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