Re: [s-d] [s-b] This game is boring, let's have an Emergency.

[James Baxter <jebaxter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:36:55 -0500
> From: teucer@xxxxxxxxx
> To: spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [s-b] [s-d]  This game is boring, let's have an Emergency.
> 
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Elliott Hird
> <penguinofthegods@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 23 December 2010 20:54, Craig Daniel <teucer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> One, pragmatism.
> >
> > THIS IS B.
> >
> > EVERYTHING MUST BE TAKEN EXTREMELY LITERALLY AND PLATONICALLY.
> >
> > IF WHAT YOU'RE REASONING BREAKS THE GAME, YOU'RE DOING IT CORRECTLY,
> > KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
> 
> Oddly, B was founded as a very pragmatic game. In fact, I'd say under
> game custom as it was at the end of era one, era two works just fine.
> But in case we want to replatonize ourselves into that (and frankly I
> *like* platonic play):
> 
> I offer an alliance to Wooble. Then I recognize an emergency.
> 
> http://web.archive.org/web/20041205140215/www.bnomic.org/static/rules.html
 
I believe the ruleset may have changed between then and the end of era 1. Changes after the end of era 1 may have also had effect. We can't be sure if that is the correct ruleset since it is from about 4 months before the server crash.

> is the most recent ruleset I can find, and I believe the absence of
> *all of the ministers* is an emergency; under these rules, "I
> recognize an emergency" is the preferred way of doing this.
> 
> Things to know about these rules:
> 
> 1. There is a card game. It involves the following cards:
> http://web.archive.org/web/20041205131207/www.bnomic.org/display_all_cards.psp
> 
> 2. There is a subgame called Political Go, or PGo for short. I
> remember playing this one; it's good times.
> 
> 3. There's also a board, and stuff happens on it in accordance with
> the Book of Piece. I can't find a copy of that, so we'll have to write
> a new one.
> 
> 4. Game custom is that multiple comments within a rule don't trigger
> the dreaded comment bug. (The relevant text: "Excepting any text in
> this Rule prior to and including this sentence, any text appearing
> within doubled square brackets ("[[" and "]]") shall be considered
> "comment" text. Comment text shall not have the force of Rule; its
> purpose is solely elucidative or demonstrative.") This is important,
> since every single rule ends with a comment.
> 
> 5. All Societies have been destroyed for lack of members.
> 
> In case of other ways things could conceivably be:
> 
> I begin recognizing a state of emergency. I push my panic button. He
> is pushing his panic button. I become Paranoid. I intend to initiate
> an emergency.
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