Re: [spoon-discuss] hard drive failures...

[Bill Adlam <sagitta_elegans@xxxxxxxxx>]

Let's see, I think we'll need seven ministries to handle the admin's
principal duties.  A Cop to monitor the traffic on spoon-business, and
check players' (and societies') actions are legal.  An Animator to
announce things that happen automatically.  An Electioneer to publish
ballots etc., and to count the votes.  An Absolute Ruler to maintain
the ruleset.  A Rostermonger to track the properties of players and
other game objects.  Randy the dice roller.  And a Sage, Rosemary, to
keep the time.  There may be better titles waiting out there for some
of these individuals.

The Absolute Ruler, Sage and Rostermonger would need to be able to
operate on some of the internals of B Nomic.  The others wouldn't, but
most of them would need to submit reports at the end of each checking
period before Rosemary can restart the clock.  

Some things need to be done in order (e.g. a player plays a Grab Bag,
the Traffic Cop validates the action, other players put down cards, the
clock stops, the Animator announces that some players automatically
draw/put down cards, Randy posts any random draws, and shows which
players end up with which cards, and Rosemary restarts the clock). 
Procedures like this can be made faster if one player holds multiple
ministries.

Sagitta


	
	
		
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