Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Foreign affairs

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

> >>What if the dominant scorekeeping unit isn't used to determine wins? 
> Say,
> >>for example, a Nomic with lots of currencies, but *no* way to win?
> >-Then... well, then their money is next to worthless, isn't it? Actually,
> >I've been thinking about this. In the happy afterglow of a post-win 
> reset,
> >we have no points here, but according to that little formula, our points
> >are
> >still only worth 1S. Maybe the commission should set exchange rates based
> >on
> >actual holdings?-
>
> Did someone else win when I wasn't looking?
-Not yet, anyway.-
> >>Is War ever going to do anything?
> >-Haven't there been Nomic wars in the past? Besides, if two games really
> >hate each other, they need an outlet somehow.-
>
> Not necessarily hate.  Ultima Online has guild wars on its non-PK realms.  
> Consentual war.
-Well, in that event, they don't need an outlet as badly.-
> >>It never says they can't be.
> >-Feh.-
>
> Actually...my memory's a bit fuzzy...Did Wonko's carryable instarule prop 
> pass?  If so, that means instarules can be possessed.  Throw in offers and 
> they can be bought and sold...
-Well, if the as-yet-unnamed decides they can be traded, it will be so, but 
they're only applicable to this game, so I don't see that happenening. We'd 
be better off making sure they aren't for sale - people who don't like us 
could screw us up by making a whole lot of Insta-Rules to foul something up 
for a bit.-
> >>How about the Nomic Associative Treaty Organization? Or the United 
> Nomics?
> >-Nomanon. The Nomsaw Pact. The Commonwealth of Independent Nomics. The
> >United Federation of Nomics. The Organization of Purchaseable-item
> >Exporting
> >Nomics...-
>
> Nombody. (Let's get drunk and be nombody.)
-I had one more idea... NAFTA, the Nomics Associative Free Trade Agreement.-
> 						Glotmorf

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