Re: [spoon-discuss] Hello

[Daniel Peter Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Date: Mon Jul 19 11:57:58 EDT 2004
> From: "Norinel" 
> Subject: [spoon-discuss] Hello
>
> Came across this again while looking through other things, and now that 
> I know two of the players from other places, I figure I might as well 
> at least hang around on the lists. I might join if I figure out exactly 
> what's going on at the moment.

We rarely know what's going on ourselves, but I can give you a brief overview of the important bits:

The game started about two and half years ago. It was founded by David Smith, a former player of our predecessor, A Nomic. B Nomic started with a few of the same players, though I think at this point Rob's the only A Nomic veteran still with us. For two and half years, we built an enormously complicated game (the ruleset topped 100 pages for a while, and that's not counting exterior documents like the Card List). But we had one major flaw in most of what we built, which was that it all depended on somebody figuring out when things happened and calculating their effects. This somebody was Dave, our founder and B Nomic's first (and only, so far) Administrator. 
For a while running everything through Dave worked fine - a lot of things took care of themselves, and Dave had lots of free time anyway. But as the game grew larger, it became hard for him to keep up with everything we did, and it became clear that unless we did something drastic, the game would die of administrative overload.
  We did a few semi-drastic things: we scrapped the Grid, a sprawling amalgam of interconnected subgames and amusements that had already driven two Ministers to leave the game from overwork, we started assigning bits of the game to Ministers to track themselves, etc. but I think all that really did was buy us some time.

And so what's happening now is that Dave got a job working as an on-call sysadmin, which means he can't run things for us anymore. So we're working on dismantling the ruleset in preparation for building it up from the basics but in a form that doesn't require an admin.



Ok, so that wasn't as brief as it could of been. But that's where we are. I'm currently the Deputy Administrator (see r1272), responsible for taking care of everything Dave used to do; I in turn have deputized Zarpint to track a few of the most important parts of the gamestate.

One might make the case that it's worth joining the game right now, if only so that once we've fixed everything you can say that you were a player before the Revolution...

Also, if you join right now you can still vote on this nweek's proposals. Voting closes at 8PM EDT tonight (midnight UTC).

-- 
Wonko

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