Tyler on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:22:11 -0700 (MST)


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Re: [s-d] More more automation


Never mind. Pardon my not reading all messages before replying.

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Tyler <wisety@xxxxxxxxx> 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...
>>
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>  -Tyler
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