Re: [s-d] Re: [s-b] [auto] PlayerPersonman submits p1941

[Jeremy Cook <athena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 05:37:36PM -0800, Jake Eakle wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/4/04 5:26 PM, "Jeremy Cook" <athena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 05:07:21PM -0800, Jake Eakle wrote:
> > 
> >>> Add this to a book containing a compilation of distinct sorts of things
> >>> which
> >>> individuals who play B Nomic may play on any Board which is part of B Nomic
> >>> and not part of Political Go, if such a thing is part of B Nomic:
> > 
> > I don't understand that sentence at all.
> 
> In non-void, this reads (correctly, i believe):
> 
> "Add the follwoing to the Book of Piece:"
> 
> Step by step, the phrases refer to:
> 
> individuals who play B Nomic:
> Players
> 
> distinct sorts of things which [players] may play on any Board which is part
> of B Nomic and not part of Political Go:
> Pieces. (unless there is a third board I'm not aware of)
> 
> a book containing a compilation of [pieces], if such a thing exists:
> The Book of Piece (Unless there is a second such compilation I'm not aware
> of)
> 
Personman, these things aren't at all the same. What happens when we get
another Board (whatever a Board is)? What if we create a group of
Outsiders who participate in B Nomic, but who aren't capital P-players?
What if we let non-Pieces on the board?

> 
> 
> > It would be nice to know what a Board is. And I can't read that symbol:
> > it looks like tilde-L-T-box to me.
> >
> 
> um... a board is defined as well as it needs to be under r1900. And that
> symbol is a T. I think the wiki screwed it up cause of the single quotes or
> something. I'll fix it.
>  
No, The Board is defined.

Did you intend to move pieces between games, which is what it looks
like?


> >>> 
> >>> A Transport's actions follow:
> >>> 
> >>> *Shift it to any orthagonally adjoining location.
> >>> *Do away with any thing in a location orthagonally adjoining its own, and
> >>> build a copy of this thing in a random location on any Board which is part
> >>> of
> >>> B Nomic and not part of Political Go. An individual who plays B Nomic who
> >>> owns
> >>> a copy of a thing which a Transport acts upon in this fashion must pay 20~ (
> >>> for Transportation Costs) to any individual who plays B Nomic who owns a
> >>> Transport that did an action causing said copy to go into play. If an
> >>> individual who plays B Nomic has paid for Transportation Costs for such a
> >>> copy, that individual must not do so again.
> > 
> > I don't understand: so if you steal someone's piece, they have to pay
> > you 20 tildex?
> > Shouldn't it be that you have to pay them 20 tildex in compensation?
> > 
> You don't steal their piece, you just make a copy of it (keep in mind 'copy'
> includes copying who controlled it) and move that copy somewhere random, and
> then they pay you for moving their piece. It's kind of meant to be poking
> fun at beaurocracies, who are always performing 'services' you don't want
> and then charging you for them, but it's also just a pretty good piece.

If it weren't for the 20 Tildex, and you changed "a Board" to "The
Board", and "thing" to "Piece", this might work. But then it wouldn't be
void.

Zarpint
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