Re: [spoon-discuss] Re:The Direct Approach.

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 1, 2004, at 7.18 PM, Araltaln wrote:

> My point is, while an automated system would work great for ruleset 
> changes, it would take a good deal of work to create one that would be 
> great for gamestate changes. Not, mind you, that at least having an 
> automated way to deal with the simple cases is a bad thing, but we 
> probably need to start with a method that has players in charge of 
> everything, and automate from there. Which, come to think of it, you 
> said anyway, bd. So I'm not sure what my point is, just that I have 
> one.

I was imagining something that would only automate changes to the 
ruleset itself; a proposal that required other actions would simply 
list them at the end, and the various ministers and duty-fillers would 
take care of it.
So a prop might say:
{{
DELETE r25
CREATE {{
__The World in Black and White__

There exists an object called the Chessboard. The Chessboard consists 
of a 20x20 grid of Squares, each of which may hold one Piece.

<snip>
}}
AMEND r27 {{
REPLACE {{ If a player's score equals or exceeds 1000 points, that 
player is immediately awarded a Win. }} {{ If a player possess 2.8?? or 
more, that player is immediately awarded a Win. }}
REMOVE {{
 C. The Circuit Breaker
 The following rule is created immediately after any player is awarded 
a Win:

 {{ __No Win For You__ {* Win, 9 *}
 Players may not win.

 This rule may not be repealed within an nweek of its creation.
 }}
}}
}}

DO {{
Give each player 5 points.
Set the Clock to nweek 2, nday 11.
Set each player's entropy to 0.
}}
}}

And that would be the prop. The script would look at this, read in the 
REPEAL, CREATE, and AMEND blocks, performing the appropriate changes, 
and then would, say, send a message to the public forum listing the 
contents of all DO blocks from passed props; we'd then send a Roster 
Minister/Roster Duty-filler to tweak the scores and entropies, while 
somebody else reset the clock.

--
Wonko

Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, 
expressed in M&Ms: 250
     -Harper's Index, October 1989

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