Re: [s-d] Proto: Permissible Game Actions

["Jamie Dallaire" <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:54 AM, Jay Campbell <bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Jamie Dallaire wrote:
> > Not sure how to phrase this properly, but would there be support for
> > something with the end result that:
> >
> > "If you can't or won't calculate it yourself, you can't do it."
> >
>
>
> You obviously have my vote, between ehird's insightful swipe at my chips
> and my automation tools in development.
>
> Simple computation is useful though, like "divide macks equally" and
> "give the remainder to Dave".


Good point. I'm not sure how I feel about that. On the one hand, that kind
of thing is annoying when it is abused. By that I mean that everytime
someone posts something like that, it's up to the Minister in charge of that
PD to figure out just how much that means. I wouldn't be against making
Players do this themselves. Essentially spreading the work around. BUT BUT
BUT Ministers are often the only ones with a good idea of what current
gamestate is, exactly. If PDs aren't up to date, it could be onerous to have
Players figure this stuff out for themselves, especially if several players
end up working out the same thing independently. At that point, we're NOT
spreading the work around, we're multiplying it.

Hmmm....

Maybe this needs exceptions for specific cases?

BP
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