Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Foomp

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 11:11  PM, Glotmorf wrote:

> On 7/16/03 at 11:04 PM Craig wrote:
>
> > > So why does it make a difference *where* in the Process?
> >
> > My (possibly faulty) recollection had been that the SoE ended when 
> > people
> > stopped recognizing it.
>
> Without immediately going and looking at the rules, that may well be 
> true.  Which is sort of my point.  When people recognize a state of 
> emergency, the Process begins.  Nowhere in the Process, except 
> possibly within a refresh prop, is there a point of ceasing to 
> recognize a state of emergency.  Therefore, we theoretically would 
> launch another Process as soon as one ended unless we made a point of 
> including in the winning refresh prop the cessation of recognition of 
> a state of emergency.  And since we theoretically don't know which 
> refresh prop will be implemented, ALL refresh props would have to 
> declare the cessation of recognition.  Which seems like a sort of 
> empty ritual when we could just as easily make cessation of 
> recognition part of the Process.
>
> I personally would prefer the cessation of recognition go just before 
> the Pause begins, since it requires deliberate, game-perpetuating 
> effort to get as far as the Pause, but there are two termination 
> points within the Pause.

It's not that we recognize a 'state of emergency'; it's that a majority 
of all players must agree that an emergency has occurred; when this 
happens, it sets of r0.

--
Wonko

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