Re: [spoon-discuss] y'know...

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/10/02 at 10:48 PM David E. Smith wrote:

>One of the easiest ways to get rid of the biggest problems this nweek
>seems to have suffered (thus far -- the nweek is far from over) would just
>be to excise the whole concept of socieities entirely.
>
>You don't try to fix the cancer, you just chop it right out. (As a regular
>smoker, I know all about cancer. ;)
>
>Yes, this does mean excising a very small amount of possibly-healthy
>tissue (the Upper House, which IIRC has not yet overturned a single damn
>thing), but getting rid of all the ugliness (gnome scams, bandwidth
>cheats, and massive headaches on the part of just about everyone) far
>outweights that minimal cost. Hey, surgery is still far from a precise
>science.
>
>The Grid is not, at least not yet, beyond repair (though for the time
>being, I'm not sure 3D anything is overly wise). But the whole concept of
>Societies was, is, and will almost certainly continue to be, fundamentally
>flawed.
>
>If people want to team up, well, they're still certainly free to do so;
>there's no need for massive rules and mechanics for that sort of thing. A
>couple of players can get together and call themselves 'M-Tek' and all
>agree to vote 'yes' on each other's proposals. Hell, there's no real
>reason we couldn't have 'vSOI Membership Cards' that anyone can buy for
>twenty points that give you a lifetime discount on gnomes. The massive
>bureaucratic overhead, and logistical headaches, imposed by Societies
>simply isn't worth the minimal payoff.
>
>...dave

There's reasons for societies.  Yes, we can all agree to do stuff, but with nothing binding us, it becomes Nomic Diplomacy. (Just stop and listen to the chorus of "Hmmm"s.) There's things with pooling of resources that just can't work without some entity independent of a player.

And by the way, the Upper House has too overturned a few things.  I distinctly remember doing so.  I can find them if need be...

						Glotmorf


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