Re: [spoon-discuss] Wins and resets

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake Rob Speer:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:16:10AM -0600, Orc In A Spacesuit wrote:
> > Next, I belive the purpose of having play continue after a win is 
> > essentially to start the game over, rather than all of us just saying, 
> > "Well, that was fun.  Bye everyone.", and not playing anymore, or starting 
> > a completly new game.  A Nomic did not have such a clause; Rob won, and 
> > that was it.  Game over.  It took nearly half a year for B Nomic to get 
> > started.
> 
> Blah. I'd really hope they weren't that directly related. There was no
> reason that the game couldn't have kept going after the Win (the points
> were reset, even) - except that the server went down for a month or so.
> That put a damper on things.
> 
> -- 
> Rob Speer

What Orc says about not having had a reset rule isn't true at all: A Nomic had such a rule from the beginning. R122/0 was entitled "Post-Win Reset" (http://www.nomic.net/deadgames/a/www/Rules.Categorical.16.html#122.0), and was an initial rule.


-- 
J.


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