Re: [s-d] More more automation

[Tyler <wisety@xxxxxxxxx>]

Pardon my ignoracne, but how does an automation script know if you've sent a
message to a public forum to change a sock color? Would you have to send the
message in a certain format?

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 2:40 AM, Jay Campbell <bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>
> More thoughts on that automation script:
>
> I'm going to genericize its idea of objects for ease of adding new
> ownable/transferrable types.
>
> Other jobs it could do:
> - Proposal color tracking
> - Colored proposal profits to corporations
> - Sockholder dividends (for some corps, e.g. not Blue)
> - Ministry holder tracking, usurping and rewards
> - Vote tallying and corporate motion tallying
> - Consultation Answer Consistency tallying
> - Jury verdict tallying
> - Cadavre Exquis, if I ever understand it
> - Public Display approval
> - Plagued objects
>
> The downside is anything run by the bot becomes less easy to change via
> the rules. That's why I'm trying to keep things generic enough that the
> rules can change without the storage engine needing to.
>
> Tasks that still require human judgment:
> - Proposal editing cycles
> - Player activation and inactivation
> - Contract editing and party changes
> - Ministry of Time
> - OCB and the Monster
> - Threat flags and emergencies
>    (except maybe counting paranoids)
>
>
> I have a theory that B's perpetual slumps are sometimes triggered by
> legislation that creates unmanageable burdens on its ministers.
> Automation, and a tendency to craft automatable rules, can give us
> interactive gameplay without overloading any ministry inboxes.
>
> For not being a programming nomic, B is set up awfully well for this
> sort of thing...
>
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 -Tyler
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