Re: [Nomicmarket] Re: [Thermo] (unknown)

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, May 2, 2003, at 08:27  PM, Doctor Ducker wrote:
> A lot of this is what I was thinking the Home Nomic sections of the 
> Market Nomic's ruleset were
> for, and why I thought that each individual Nomic needed a set of 
> rules for "prepping" eir
> things for introduction into the Market.
>
> Let me give an example sequence:
>
> 1) I declare that I'm going to market.
> 2) The Thermo ruleset, says that all my Thermo::Player possessions 
> then enter a state known as
> "At the Market".  [These rules need to be defined]
> 3) The Thermo specific sub-ruleset of the Market examines my 
> Thermo::Player's possessions, and
> establishes appropriate objects in the possession of my Market::Trader 
> self. [These rules also
> need to be defined]
> 4) My Market:Trader self trades a Coin for, say, 1,000 BNS.
> 5) I declare that I'm leaving the Market.
> 6) The Thermo ruleset examines my Market::Trader's possessions, 
> compares that with what my
> Thermo::Player "At the Market" possesions are, and then creates and 
> destroys things within
> Thermo as appropriate. [More rules needing to be defined]
>
> The equivalent set of actions could happen for a B Nomic Player.
>
> Essentially both games (a home Nomic, and the Market) need some sort 
> of synchronization rules.
> You're message passing somewhat does this, but it isn't going to 
> function very well between our
> two Nomics at present, as, as far as I understand things, none of B's 
> objects can exist within
> Thermo, and what few object types Thermo has might not be creatable 
> within B (I don't know for
> sure), thus no reason to trade.  Thus what we need is a medium for 
> exchange, the problem as I
> see it is figuring this out.

B Nomic, at least, could have rules that say that when we get a 
TransactionCompleted(TransactionID) event, with a TransactionID 
describing an exchange of an object that doesn't exist here, a generic 
object gets created to represent it...

I don't know how well that would translate to Thermo, not knowing the 
ruleset.

--
Wonko

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