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

[Wonko]

Quoth Glotmorf,

> I have had a vision.
> 
> 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?

Off the wall? 
Yes, but so what? You should hear some of the ideas I've had for Nomic Games
(one of which involved 24 or more seperate rulesets)

Desirable?
Not in this game. But maybe, when it's all over, we can start again like
that...

Possible?
You'd need a really good admin, maybe even two or three, just to keep track
of where everything is. Ministries would often be hard to do - so much
knowledge is known only to the admins, the Ministers would often have to
make multiple queries for info in order to do anything. But it could be
done.

Been Done?
Frankly, outside of your message and some crazed speculations I had back
when the Grid was first developed, I've never seen ANY mention of rules even
having physical locations. I'm almost certain that it's never been done.


Just out of curiosity, has there ever been a game run by multiple admins
before?


-- 
Wonko