| Glotmorf on 2 Sep 2003 04:22:05 -0000 |
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On 9/2/03 at 12:02 AM Daniel Lepage wrote: >>I would like to point out that Glotmorf's "Hey, let's take over OrcTech" >>not-quite-a-scam is just another gaping flaw in the society system. (Like >>phantom voting, which STILL hasn't been fixed even though it's been a >>problem for just about the entire history of this game. Like all the >>various and sundry society wars. Like... well, I could go on, but any >>reasonable person -- by which I mean basically everyone but Glotmorf -- >>can see why societies need to go.) >> >>Anyway, Glotmorf changes eir name to Orc, takes over OrcTech, rewrites its >>charter. (I'll assume that at some point in the near future Glotmorf will >>change eir name back, so I'm not gonna go through all the ugliness >>involved in rewriting the players database table.) > > >Since everybody seems to be acknowledging that this happened, I'll >just assume that some Mailman bug was responsible for my never >getting the message where Glotmorf did this. > Or rather, e tried to do this, and failed - Orc is, as per >r14, a 'former player'; e is still, therefore, part of the gamestate, >albeit one without any abilities. Thus, for Glotmorf to change eir >name to 'Orc in a Spacesuit' is a violation of r2, which stipulates >that all entities must have unique names. Tsk. Dude, r14 clearly says a former player "ceases to be a player in this game, and ceases to be bound by its rules. In addition, e ceases to be anything else defined within the scope of this game", which, I should think, includes a uniquely named object. If the entity originally known within the scope of this game as Orc in a Spacesuit has ceased to be anything defined within the scope of this game, then e is in fact not part of the gamestate. I consider this the fault of the wording of r14. I would be more sympathetic about this, perhaps, if its current wording wasn't the doing of the entity originally known as Orc in a Spacesuit... Glotmorf ----- The Ivory Mini-Tower: a blog study in Social Technology. http://ix.1sound.com/ivoryminitower _______________________________________________ spoon-discuss mailing list spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/spoon-discuss