Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] NWEEK 32 BALLOT

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/27/03 at 10:28 PM Baron von Skippy wrote:

>> >Proposal 1303/1: Half a league, half a league, half a league onward!
>> >		 (Baron von Skippy)
>>
>>Shelve.  Demonstrate to me there's enough activity on the grid to justify
>>restricting movement thereon.
>-What's restricting movement? This is meant to increase activity, not
>restrict.-

An army is an impassible object.  Someone could use armies as a barrier to keep players from reaching certain places on the grid.  Aside from recreational slaughter, I assumed that's what they were for.

>> >Proposal 1307/0: Patriarchy (Baron von Skippy)
>>
>>No.  I can understand an election system or a rotation system, but a
>>Council of Elders as a ruling party would probably, without a big influx
>of
>>new players, turn the game into an all-arch game.  Besides, I note this
>>conveniently excludes your fellow Underlord.
>-We can deal with the first problem when we come to it in May, when my
>fellow Underlord becomes a Patriarch, and the second problem... well, I
>wasn't intending to exclude him, and he'll be a patriarch in three and a
>half months, after he serves his year.-

Eir becoming an Arch was a side issue.  Thing is, if you divide the game into the ruling elders and the powerless newbies, won't this tend to result in fewer newbies?  Either people won't join because they'd be powerless from the outset, or they'd eventually become part of the power.  After a while you've got all ruling class and no subjects.

						Glotmorf

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