[Bnomic-private] Stop me before it's too late...

[The Voice]

>From: "Glotmorf" <glotmorf@earthlink.net>
>I have had a vision.
>

Oh crap...


>Imagine a city, perhaps the size of Manhattan, with office buildings, 
>stores, tenements, and perhaps even boroughs and subways.
>
>Imagine the rules to a Nomic game are businesses of varying sizes 
>(depending on the size and/or complexity of the rule), with offices in the 
>city.
>
>Imagine the tradable items in the game are available in the stores.
>
>Imagine entities have homes in the tenements.
>
>Now imagine editing the rules by breaking into the rules' offices and 
>trashing them.  Changing the availability of items by robbing, vandalizing, 
>running protection rackets on or even buying the stores.  Players can be 
>spied on, and possibly robbed, by black-bag operations at their homes.
>
>You don't necessarily know that a given rule has a given office.  The 
>business that represents the rule may have a name, a mission, a 
>product/service line, etc. that hints at the rule, but nothing anywhere 
>says Rule 15 is in Suite 215 at 5th and 47th.  And there are other 
>businesses that serve as red herrings, including ones that seem to compete 
>with the actual rule businesses.  Possibly you can start businesses like 
>that to throw off other players.  And businesses may move around as their 
>office space needs change.
>
>Nuking the city Just Isn't Allowed.
>
>Is this as off the wall as it sounds to me?  Is it desirable?  Is it even 
>possible?  Has it...been done?
>
>						Glotmorf
>

You have stumbled upon an interesting idea, Mr. Morf.  Now the question is, 
can it work?  I don't think it's been done, so if you want to be first, I 
suggest you get of your "Rock On Top Of A Mountain Where I Sit To Get 
Visions (TM)" and actually get out and do it.

Or at least, do it somewhere else.  This game is complicated enough. :)

-0-THE VOICE-0-


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