[BNomic-Public] Miniplayers

[Baron von Skippy baronvonskippy@xxxxxxxxxxx]

> >>>>> I had an idea: What if we allowed people to join the game not as 
>full
> >>>>> players, but as 'miniplayers' - people who could only do things like
> >> run
> >>>>> around on the Grid, buy stocks, etc. So people who like the idea of
> >> the
> >>>>> Grid
> >>>>> could do the Grid thing, but they wouldn't have to worry about 
>making
> >>>>> proposals or voting on things. For them, the Grid IS the game. For 
>us,
> >>>> they
> >>>>> provide a way of making the Grid more interesting. Also, if they can
> >> use
> >>>>> the
> >>>>> Stock Market, then they can provide that randomness we were talking
> >> about
> >>>> -
> >>>>> if three dozen people are buying and selling stock, no single player
> >> can
> >>>>> exert too much influence, but the prices can still be based on how
> >> well
> >>>>> they
> >>>>> sell.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is this a good idea, or am I nuts?
> >>>>> I suppose those aren't mutually exclusive conditions, are they?
> >>>>
> >>>> You're not nuts, or at least not in this respect.  uin had a similar
> >> idea
> >>>> with...what did he call them?  "Disinterested" players?  People who
> >> didn't
> >>>> participate in the grid, weren't subject to the sushi or gremlins or
> >>>> anything like that, that only were involved in proposals, voting and
> >>>> judging.  I was against it at the time because it amounted to him
> >> affecting
> >>>> the game but not being affected by it, which I found objectionable.
> >>>>
> >>>> What you're suggesting is the crystallization of subsets of the game 
>as
> >>>> games in their own right, with a policy-making layer over top...sort 
>of
> >>>> like if the management of neopets.com was a nomic game.  Interesting
> >> idea,
> >>>> but wouldn't it take rather a lot of work to make the subgames
> >> something
> >>>> people would want to play in their own right?  At the moment, neither
> >> grid
> >>>> football nor gremball are up to the standards of average pbm games...
> >>>>
> >>>> Glotmorf
> >>>>
> >>> -Well, so far as there not being appreciably interesting subsets to 
>the
> >>> Game, that might be about to change a bit, or more accurately a metric
> >>> buttload.. In any case, even if we as full players don't see the point
> >> to go
> >>> to a lower position, doesn't mean that others wouldn't be willing to
> >> assume
> >>> those positions. I think this is a viable thing to do, and so long as 
>it
> >>> didn't resemble Disintrest too much, I'd be willing to back it.-
> >>
> >> I suppose the people this most needs the approval of is the Ministers -
> >> after all, they'd be the ones who'd have to track all the Miniplayers.
> >> Although perhaps it would be better to have a Minister of Miniplayers - 
>The
> >> MiniMin, say - who would track all their attributes...
> >>
> >> As for the fact the football and gremball aren't up to pbm standards...
> >> wait.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Wonko
> >>
> > -How about Mini Me instead of MiniMin? It's funnier, and I've seen the 
>new
> > Austin Powers movie too many times... mole.-
>
>We could appoint a Minister to name the MiniMin... We could call em the
>MiniMinMin.
>
>And if we chose a Miniplayer to do it, e'd be the MiniMiniMinMin.
>
>Teehee!
>
>--
>Wonko
>Is having far too much fun with this.
>
-And if that Miniplayer was a 1/8 sized clone dog, they would be Mini Rin 
Tin Tin the Mini Mini Min Min. And if they were a heathen from Scandanavia, 
they'd be Mini Rin Tin Tin the Sin Fin Mini Mini Min Min. And if they had 
lost their teeth in an unfortunate luge accident and had metal dentures, 
they'd be Mini Rin Tin Tin the Sin Fin Mini Mini Min Min and eir Tin Grin.

Okay, someone else's turn... hmm, you folks should be exposed to Complex 
Complex...-

                                                   [[BvS]]


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