cortex posted in the discussion Initial Ruleset in the game group Gfi-Mefi NOMIC
I like cortex’s variation, but how are votes in general handled? Does the admin have to tally the votes up, or is there a built-in polling function? If the former, then that would end up being a LOT of...
View Articlecortex posted in the discussion RULE 000 (discuss) in the game group Gfi-Mefi...
One point per #5 — should we allow for a close of the vote before 24 hours have elapsed if all active players have voted, or just leave it as a firm 24 hours no matter what? Issue of potentially...
View Articlecortex posted in the discussion RULE 301 (discuss) in the game group Gfi-Mefi...
The downside to making it “active” instead of “voting” is that, especially in the first few rounds (where we’re likeliest to have significant attrition), proposals receiving overwhelming majority...
View Articlecortex posted in the discussion RULE 301 (VOTE) in the game group Gfi-Mefi NOMIC
(There is to my eye nothing in the rules that unambiguously suggests otherwise; each player has one vote, but there is no language requiring that the value of that vote be fixed for the duration of the...
View Articlecortex posted in the discussion mod powers in the game group Gfi-Mefi NOMIC
The Nay vote on 000 was mine; it was originally a Yea vote, but I changed it in good faith after the realization that it was possible to do so. However, I did so under the belief that it was well short...
View Articlecortex started the discussion RULE 302 (discuss) in the game group Gfi-Mefi...
Flags and favorites are two kinds of abstract token. At any given time, every player has zero or more of each. At the moment this rules comes into force, each player has zero favorites and zero flags....
View Articlecortex posted in the discussion RULE 302 (discuss) in the game group Gfi-Mefi...
That, and as a metaphor for the consternation associated in some contexts with some self-promotion/self-gratification.
View Articlecortex posted in the discussion RULE 302 (discuss) in the game group Gfi-Mefi...
Actually, to be clear, as stated it’d happen that whichever doubling/nixing item occurred would happen before the flagged-for-self-YEAing item. But nothing but the will of the voting public would...
View Articlecortex posted in the discussion RULE 302 (discuss) in the game group Gfi-Mefi...
I’d be open to changing the names if there’s a lot of dislike for the particular semantic baggage, but given the mefite player base and the long-standing contentiousness of said semantics (favorites in...
View Articlecortex posted in the discussion RULE 302 (discuss) in the game group Gfi-Mefi...
As far as the administrative side of it, I’d be willing to sleep in the bed I’ve proposed we make and take on “keeping track of the goddam tokens” duty so as not to volunteer anyone else as a...
View Articlecortex posted in the discussion Hey Folks -- I'd Like To Make This A Private...
Fine by me; the spacechimp issue alone is a pretty justifiable reason to do it.
View Articlecortex posted in the discussion RULE 302 (discuss) in the game group Gfi-Mefi...
I don’t have a specific purpose for these in mind, but as far as the motivating thoughts: competing, interrelated currencies are interesting to me, and I like the idea of having the mechanisms for...
View Articlecortex commented on the post, How Deus Ex: Invisible War Fails
I am suddenly feeling depressed by the haunting notion that I’m not inflicting Nomic-related nattering on as many innocent bystanders as possible. Should I consult a doctor?
View Articlecortex commented on the post, Nintendo Nintendo.
In another twenty years, they’ll do what grandparents were doing when we were growing up on the NES and call their new console the Nintendo Playing The Mario.
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