| Jay Campbell on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:19:26 -0700 (MST) |
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| Re: [s-d] More more automation |
Yah, see the previous email: http://lists.ellipsis.cx/archives/spoon-discuss/spoon-discuss-200811/msg00178.html Tyler wrote: > Pardon my ignoracne, but how does an automation script know if you've sent a > message to a public forum to change a sock color? Would you have to send the > message in a certain format? > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 2:40 AM, Jay Campbell <bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > >> More thoughts on that automation script: >> >> I'm going to genericize its idea of objects for ease of adding new >> ownable/transferrable types. >> >> Other jobs it could do: >> - Proposal color tracking >> - Colored proposal profits to corporations >> - Sockholder dividends (for some corps, e.g. not Blue) >> - Ministry holder tracking, usurping and rewards >> - Vote tallying and corporate motion tallying >> - Consultation Answer Consistency tallying >> - Jury verdict tallying >> - Cadavre Exquis, if I ever understand it >> - Public Display approval >> - Plagued objects >> >> The downside is anything run by the bot becomes less easy to change via >> the rules. That's why I'm trying to keep things generic enough that the >> rules can change without the storage engine needing to. >> >> Tasks that still require human judgment: >> - Proposal editing cycles >> - Player activation and inactivation >> - Contract editing and party changes >> - Ministry of Time >> - OCB and the Monster >> - Threat flags and emergencies >> (except maybe counting paranoids) >> >> >> I have a theory that B's perpetual slumps are sometimes triggered by >> legislation that creates unmanageable burdens on its ministers. >> Automation, and a tendency to craft automatable rules, can give us >> interactive gameplay without overloading any ministry inboxes. >> >> For not being a programming nomic, B is set up awfully well for this >> sort of thing... >> >> _______________________________________________ >> spoon-discuss mailing list >> spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/spoon-discuss >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ spoon-discuss mailing list spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/spoon-discuss