Re: [s-d] [s-b] My votes (finally!)

["Jamie Dallaire" <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx>]

So, is the short conclusion of this that, short of player infiltration or,
ahem, extra-legal activities (potentially of dubious legality in both nomic-
and real-world terms), the only really effective way of holding a "war"
between two nomics would be for each participant to deliberately build
provisions into its own ruleset that allow for the other nomic to attack
somehow?

Billy Pilgrim


On 11/15/07, Geoffrey Spear <geoffspear@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Nomicapolis recently had an incredibly complex combat system and rules
> put into place that would allow others nomic to control territories,
> put into place at the same time B's foreign relations rule was
> enacted.  This was done almost entirely to allow B Nomic to wage war
> within Nomicapolis.
>
> Unfortunately, the combat system was so complex that no one in
> Nomicapolis ever tried to even make a single move, and it was recently
> discarded along with most of the rest of the ruleset in a Revolution.
>
> I still think it was a good idea, but the mechanics were fairly ugly.
>
> Speaking of Diplomacy, when we were coming up with ideas for the
> combat system in the first place a bunch of nomicapolis people played
> around on phpDiplomacy and we seem to have lost a player who's now
> very active in diplom and vanished from the world of nomic.  so it
> goes.
>
> --Wooble
>
> On Nov 15, 2007 11:46 AM, Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Nov 14, 2007, at 11:31 AM, Roger Hicks wrote:
> >
> > > On Nov 14, 2007 9:29 AM, Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >> 173: War (comex)
> > >> Against. We've had enough trouble with internomic relations in the
> > >> past (ask anyone in Nomicron).
> > >
> > > OK, being a (mostly inactive) player of Nomicron, I'm curious. Care to
> > > go into detail?
> >
> > A while ago we had two players who joined Nomicron. They got into
> > some argument with some of the other players there; I don't know the
> > details, but it degenerated into both sides swearing at each other
> > and calling each other names. At the same time, by coincidence, we'd
> > been discussing on s-d how one nomic could meaningfully 'wage war' on
> > another, and one of the suggestions was that a few of the attacking
> > nomic's players could join the other game and basically undermine it,
> > masquerading as serious players.
> >
> > This unfortunate timing led to a number of Nomicron players believing
> > that the two players arguing were actually plants in an attempt by B
> > to destroy Nomicron. This kind of strained relations between the two
> > nomics, which was a shame because we were both thinking about trying
> > to start up some sort of Internomic.
> >
> > We've still never successfully interacted with another nomic in any
> > meaningful way. The furthest along any of our efforts ever got was
> > the founding of a joint market with Thermodynomic, but Thermo died
> > out due to player disinterest before anything useful could come of it.
> >
> > If we want to wage war on Agora, by the way, I think it would be much
> > more exciting to do so in some official context. By which I mean, an
> > Inter-nomic game of Risk or Diplomacy :-D
> >
> > --
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> >
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