[s-b] State of Extreme Emergency

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I hereby recognize a State of Emergency, suggesting spoon-business as 
the Forum and Peter as the Emergency Coordinator (if e's willing).

Basically, bnomic.org is now down, possibly for good. The hard drive 
crashed spectacularly, and Dave describes the machine's current state 
as a "$300 paperweight". The odds of recovering anything are not good, 
and those of resuscitation even worse.

The mailing lists obviously still work since they're on nomic.net. I 
also have a recent enough copy of the wiki that I could probably 
reconstruct a fair portion of it, and I do have copies of the all the 
scripts that have been running the game, so I could set everything up 
again out of my nomic.net account.

But I don't have a recent ruleset copy, and that is a Bad Thing.

So I'm calling a State of Emergency.

If we can't muster enough players for that, then the game is over, and 
justifiably so, because there's no point in playing this game if it's 
just Peter and I.

But if there are still players out there who remember what this game 
used to be, who remember the glory days of the Grid and GremBall, who 
know that we're one of the longest running nomics out there right now 
and refuse to let this die, and who are willing to fight to preserve 
the mirth and mayhem that we've always been so proud of, then we can 
keep this game alive. We have web space, we have mailing lists, we have 
ideas; all we need is player commitment.

This also might be a good time to ponder the problems of the game - why 
has activity dwindled so much of late? What could be done to make the 
game more interesting?

We have a lot of crap in our rules, and now we have a reason to get rid 
of it all and make ourselves an exciting game again.

So, who's willing to help revitalize this game?

--
Wonko

"How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?"
	-Charles De Gaulle
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