Re: [s-d] [s-b] the Pause

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know who defined the current era boundaries, but they all  
coincide with very major overhauls to the mechanics of the game.  
Personally, I think the current definitions are missing an Era  
boundary. The way I'd define them:

Era 1 lasts from the founding of the game until Dave's retirement as  
Administrator. This was followed by general chaos before we managed to  
get things going again.

The Second Era was the turbulent period when we tried various  
administrative styles, starting with me being a player and the Admin  
at the same time and ending with a Wiki and hierarchy of Ministers  
much like the present system. Also, throughout that period we proposed  
away virtually all of the old rules, and rewrote the few that were left.

The Second Era ended when bnomic.org crashed, and we rewrote the rules  
completely (for the second time). Thus began the Third Era.

After several lapses into nonactivity and bursts of temporary glory,  
the game pretty much petered out in 2006. After more than five months  
of virtually nothing happening, we started back up and reset a lot of  
the rules.

This is the Fourth Era, and it is The Now.


Whoever defined the current eras, IMHO, missed the change from the  
first to the second. It wasn't quite as epic as the others, in the  
sense that we didn't completely change everything overnight, but it  
was definitely very different from the First and Third Eras, and so  
deserves to be its own Era.

Anyway, my point is that Era boundaries are reserved for complete  
overhauls of the game. Merely resetting points is nothing special (in  
fact, it's happened multiple times in almost every Era, including once  
when almost every numerical property of each player was changed to an  
indeterminate value. Dave and Antonio will probably remember DimShips.).

-- 
Wonko

On Dec 14, 2007, at 9:30 PM, Mike McGann wrote:

> On Dec 14, 2007 8:53 PM, Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Wooble, on what grounds do you declare this the beginning of a new  
>> era?
>> <http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/spoon-discuss>
>>
>
> If your RP passes, would it be grounds for a new era since it does a  
> hard
> reset of points and macks (or did I miss something?) Wooble is level  
> 9--who
> am I going to get now to run me through the Terrible Trouble at  
> Tragidore?
>
> - Hose
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