Daniel Lepage on Sat, 4 Dec 2004 11:29:52 -0600 (CST)


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Re: [s-d] Re: [s-b] [auto] ?Rodney submits p1954



On Dec 4, 2004, at 12.14 PM, Bryan Donlan wrote:

On Sat,  4 Dec 2004 17:05:07 +0000 (GMT), automailer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<automailer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
?Rodney has submitted a new proposal, p1954.

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Proposal 1954/0: Enforcement of the uninforceable
A New Rule by ?Rodney
Last modified on nweek 74, nday 1

Players have an attribute called Merit.A player starts with 10 merit.
At the end of the Nweek all players gain one Merit.

If a player delibretly attempts to break a rule then e loses 1
Permenent Honor and Merit equal to the Chutzpah of the rule e
attempted to break.

This is unenforcable. We cannot distinguish reliably behind an
accidental rulebreaking and intentional. Moreover, this discourages
scams, which are part of the fun of nomic :)

Scams happen when something is permitted by the rules by accident, and so performing a scam doesn't actually break the rules. But if you try a scam which fails because of a rule you overlooked, then you'd lose some Merit as a result.

I do agree that "deliberately" is unenforceable.

There exists a Game Object known as Jail.If a player has less than 0
merit then e goes to Jail.Players in Jail cannot take Game Actions.
If a player in jail has 0 or more Merit then e ceases to be in Jail

And how would e gain Merit in Jail?

E gets one every nweek (third sentence of the rule).

[[
The point of this is to enforce rules such as Rule 636/1
]]

We don't 'enforce' rules. If a player ignores a rule, eir actions have
no effect. Simple as that.

But this would allow us to pseudo-enforce things that couldn't otherwise be enforced... we could bring back the Cursed Sushi, for example, and while you would be capable of sending normal messages because the rules can't force you not to, we can put you in jail if you send out too many.

--
Wonko

"This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp can be glorked from context" -David Moser, quoted by Douglas Hofstadter in his "Metamagical Themas" column in the January 1981 "Scientific American"

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