Re: [s-d] [s-b] Make it Better

["Craig Daniel" <teucer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Elliott Hird
<penguinofthegods@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I submit a Refresh Proposal, titled "Make it Better", with the body
> being
> located at http://b.nomic.net/index.php?title=User:Ehird/
> Make_it_Better&oldid=8963&action=raw

For the record: while this is primarily ehird's work, I've looked over
it and given him a fair bit of input.

As I see it, the major, apocalyptic bugs right now mostly result from
the attempt to define every characteristic an object can have in terms
of range and scope combined with random stupid mistakes. As I see it
the biggest two are these: First, why the hell do we apply a Repealed
property to rules rather than destroying them? That would work if
there weren't things that refer to "if the rules allow" or some such
and don't specify *active* rules. Second, We accidentally repealed all
ministries. Whoops.

This fixes both of those, and all the other major crises currently in effect.

Urgent, but not game-breaking, is the stupid Outsider/External Force
language (which I believe is unambiguous, but it's sure as hell
confusing). Again, ehird's refresh fixes that one.

Everything else is either a less urgent but useful minor upgrade or
the big things from the addition of gameplay. These don't seem to me
like they *have* to be part of a refresh, and I was thinking of
submitting my own refresh proposal that excluded those and submitting
proposals in case people didn't want to be doing such big changes
using emergencies. However, we're almost out of time to get them in,
and during said time I'm going to need to eat dinner and whatnot - so
this is not the time for me to be going through the final version and
editing it. Ergo, I encourage anyone who wants to keep the little
things as they are for now to vote for this to get the fixes through,
then undo the little changes by proposal if you don't like them. Or,
better yet, replace them with things that maintain the upgrade but do
it better; I have some thoughts in that particular direction myself,
but it didn't seem like the place to be spending Emergency time.
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