Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Woo! Proposals!

["Mark Haywood" <mhaywood383@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >See, I've been looking through the ruleset, and I've been finding some
> >things which look a little off, and others that seem to need updating to
> >the
> >current state of affairs, etc. So, I make the following proposals:
> >
> >Proposal 1:
> >{{
> >__What the Hell is an Agent?__
> >
> >In Rule 17, replace the text "Actions occur upon reaching the appropriate
> >Fora. Non-action events--i.e., events not caused by Agents--occur at
> >exactly
> >the times specified in the Rules." with "Actions occur upon reaching the
> >appropriate Fora. Non-action events [[i.e., events not caused by 
> Players]]
> >occur at exactly the times specified in the Rules."
> >}}
>
> Dangerous.  Societies make proposals too.  The rule works, but if your 
> comment wasn't a comment it'd leave society proposals high and dry.

But it is a comment. And it says "i.e.," so Societies could still be argued 
to be included.
> Can you come up with a definition of entities with free will versus 
> entities without free will?

Do you need one?
> >Proposal 2:
> >{{
> >__Yesterday's News__
> >In Rule 22, replace "All dimensions for all players are set to zero" in
> >the
> >bulleted list with  "All dimensions except Respect for all players are 
> set
> >to zero."
> >}}
> >
> >Proposal 3:
> >{{
> >__Solving one of the Quest's Problems__
> >In Rule 33, replace "If at least one of the rules in conflict explicity
> >says
> >of itself that it defers to another rule (or type of rule), then such
> >provisions shall supersede the Chutzpah method for determining
> >precedence."
> >with "If at least one of the rules in conflict explicity says of itself
> >that
> >it defers to or takes precedence over another rule (or type of rule), 
> then
> >such provisions shall supersede the Chutzpah method for determining
> >precedence."
> >}}
> >
> >Proposal 4:
> >{{
> >__Oh Yes, You'll Pay__
> >In Rule 124, replace "When a player's proposal fails, e loses 1d6 points,
> >unless e does not have that many points, in which case eir score simply
> >becomes 0." with "When a player's proposal fails, e loses 1d6 points,
> >unless
> >e does not have that many points, in which case eir BNS are converted to
> >points until they have enough points to cover the loss. If they do not
> >have
> >enough BNS to convert, eir score becomes 0 and they lose all of eir BNS."
> >}}
>
> I think I'd like to keep shillings out of the proposal-making process for 
> now.

I don't see why. If the supply is opened up, then the Bank can't be broken. 
This looks like a minor setback to me.
> >Proposal 5:
> >{{
> >__There was Something Else... Oh Yeah, a Scapegoat!__
> >In Rule 126, add to the lettered list "c) The Plantiff, before a Judge 
> has
> >been chosen, naming a Defendant."
> >}}
> >
> >And... I'm spent.
>
> And you requested a mentor why? :)

I didn't. I was given one. ;)
> 						Glotmorf
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