Re: [spoon-discuss] Proto-prop: Patents

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, October 6, 2003, at 04:29 PM, Mark Karasek wrote:

> Well, the reason I created this was for, as Glotmorf
> said, "sole-source vendor societies", so that the
> societies wouldn't have to be specifically mentioned
> in the rules. There's no problem with objects that
> anyone can create being defined in the rules, because
> no game entities need to be mentioned. Also, I was
> considering adding a bit about being able to make a
> patent you hold Public Domain, at which point a rule
> would be created defining the object, the patent would
> cease to exist, and anyone could create objects of
> that type.

Perhaps instead of having 'technologies' either owned by a sole 
proprietor or in the Public Domain, entities could gain the plans for 
certain technologies through various methods; for example, vSOI could 
create and patent Gnomes, and thus be the only one capable of creating 
them; but if vSOI taught some other organization, or that organization 
"stole the plans", so to speak, they'd also be able to create gnomes, 
teach others, be stolen from, etc.

It might be even more interesting if individual members of societies 
could, say, teach other players by notifying Dave privately; everyone 
would know that somebody in vSOI leaked the plans for gnome vats to 
OrcTech, but nobody would know who...

Of course, secret data can get difficult, especially if we can't find a 
better way of submitting and tracking it than having Dave slog through 
everything. But I imagine we could come up with something.


I do think we should develop some sort of material resource before 
doing this, though - I'd rather build gnomes out of Stuff than out of 
Points.

--
Wonko

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