Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Society Creation

["Orc In A Spacesuit" <orcinaspacesuit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> On 5/8/03 at 12:04 AM Orc In A Spacesuit wrote:
> > > From: "Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > On 5/7/03 at 8:30 PM Orc In A Spacesuit wrote:
> > > > > From: "Craig" <ragnarok@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > I hereby create a society known as Teucer's First Bank of Bandwidth, or
> > > > > TFBB. Its charter is as follows:
> > > > > {{
> > > > > Whenever Teucer wishes, this society will give em one Bandwidth.
> > > > > }}
> > > > >
> > > > > I give five Bandwidth to TFBB. So, next nweek I get five more, right?
> > > >
> > > > That thtill hathn't been plugged?  I propothe the following:
> > > > {{__Bandwidth in a jar?__
> > > > Change the text of Rule 212, __Bandwidth__, to:
> > > > {{Each player and society has a property called Bandwidth, which is a
> > > > numerical value. No object's Bandwidth may ever exceed 10.  At the
> > > > beginning
> > > > of each nweek, the Bandwidth of each player whose Bandwidth is less than
> > 5
> > > > is increased to 5, and the Bandwidth of all objects that are not players
> > > > and
> > > > have Bandwidth is set to 0.  For objects with Bandwidth, sumbitting a
> > > > proposal costs one Bandwidth.  An object may not submit a proposal if
> > > > doing
> > > > so would result in the object having a negative Bandwidth.  When a 
> > > > player
> > > > joins the game, eir Bandwidth is set to 5.  This rule supercedes rule 
> > > > 19.
> > > > }}
> > >
> > > So.  First you wanted to take away my society's contractural arrangement
> > > capacity because you didn't want me "shamelessly exploiting long-gone
> > > players" (and I assume Iain's recent proposal shows just how exploitative
> > I
> > > was), and now you want to take away the bandwidth I've saved up in M-Tek.
> > >
> > > Precisely what is this bug you have up your butt regarding decapacitating
> > > my society?
> >
> > It has nothing to do with you.  Bandwidth's intent is to keep proposals
> > down
> > to a manageable level each nweek.  The proposal is simply bringing the
> > game
> > into line with that intent.
> >
> > If we want to allow bandwidth storage, we might as well make a rule that
> > says "For each player, there exists a society named "X's Bank", where X is
> > that player's name, with the charter "This society give bandwidth X
> > whenever
> > e states it does.".  At the end of each nweek, all bandwith of each player
> > is transferred to X's Bank."  For otherwise, everyone will just make said
> > society, charter, and automation script.
> > Your proposal won't stop bandwidth storage.  If someone wants to store 
> > bandwidth, all e'd have to do is make enough societies to hold it all, 
> > whether a society could hold five or ten or whatever.
>
> So you're not stopping bandwidth storage.  All you're doing is wiping out 
> what I've got stored.

I could be wrong, but I think you misunderstand.  Each nweek, the Bandwidth 
of everything that is not a player is set to zero.  Meaning that societies 
can't store 5, can't store 10, they can store a whole 0 Bandwidth.  I don't 
see how having multiple societies with 0 Bandwith will help you store 
Bandwidth.

Orc in a Spacesuit

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