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

["Baron von Skippy" <baronvonskippy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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
-This idea worries me somewhat. I know. Before we take up our meat axes to 
the rules, why not first set up that Corporation idea, move the working 
societies, like, hmm, how about vSOI (I suppose we could also include WBE, 
OrcTech, and AS...), into that pile, then cut Societies? A far more precise 
opreation, more like an actual surgery instead of an amputation.-

                                                  [[BvS]]


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