spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: First Proposals of the Nweek!

[Eric Gerlach <egerlach@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:16 PM 2002-02-01 -0500, you wrote:
> Okay, I submit the follwoing three proposals:
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> First of all, a faster means of movement:
> {{
> __Run, Run, As Fast As You Can!__

I don't think grid movement has to happen more often... This isn't meant to 
be a fast-paced game... Moving farther is okay though.  I'm cool with 
that.  I'll prolly circumvent vehicles if you're playing football 
though.  (Because running to the endzone is easy if you can move seven 
units at a time :)

You should also specify *how* your movement should be allowed to 
occur.  Refer to Rob's reply to my original Football proposal.

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> Secondly, something to do with the masses of Gremlins on the Grid:
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> __Let's Get Ready To GREMBALL!!!!__

The more I read it, the less I like GremBall and this proposal.  My 
football proposal was created as a *reasonable* diversion... I don't want 
it to take up more emails than the main part of the game.  The Grid is cool 
and all, but we're here to play Nomic.  We shouldn't be *trying* to make 
the volume of emails and the work for the admin greater...

> Append to rule 301 the sentence 'The distance between two squares is the
> square root of (the difference in x-values of the squares squared plus the
> difference in y-values of the squares squared)'

You should put this in a proposal on it's own.  It's a good part of this 
proposal, and I'd like to see it in the rules.

> __Hungry Hungry Hippos__
> __The Game__
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> If a player who is holding a Gremlin is Eaten by a Hippo, e and all players
> on eir team gain 2 points, and e loses possession of that Gremlin before
> being teleported by the Hippo.

So the point of the game is to get eaten by hippos?

You should do something to make sure that players on the roster don't have 
to play the game.  Currently everyone is playing GremBall.  What if I don't 
want to?

> {{
> __Magnets__

Don't we have enough of these sorts of things???? Really now....

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> And finally, back from the Grave, Administrative Abilities!
> {{
> __Broadening Horizons__

This sounds good to me.

Bean