[BNomic-Public] Metarules

[Daniel Lepage]

On Monday, December 15, 2003, at 12:45 PM, Baron von Skippy wrote:

>> However, I don't think we have any way of reversing the process to 
>> come off of an emergency short of finishing the Process.
>> Since there is no longer any real need to fix things via emergency, I 
>> suggest that we use this as a time to consider the rules and fix the 
>> various things that don't work so well.
>
> -Sounds good. I suggest a second LiM revolution - the rules are in 
> desperate need of a good defragmenting to clear up some issues of 
> precedence, and there are a lot of scraps of old ideas still scattered 
> throughout. Major concepts do seem to put down a lot of roots in this 
> game, don't they?-

I don't really like the Less is More idea; the size of the grid rule 
really irritated me. I do realize that this is a reversal of a position 
I once took on this, since I think I was partially responsible for the 
obscene size of that rule, but looking at it now, I think that too many 
things interact with each other to justify putting every rule into one 
big rule - for example, Hands on the Grid belonged in the Grid rule, 
but also in the voting rule.

What might make things look better, though, is using RuleBooks. We can 
gather the rules that you would want to put into a single massive rule, 
and put them all into Rulebooks for that rule instead.

Until nomic.net comes back, we can't look at the full ruleset, but I 
suspect almost all the rules can be conglomerated into a couple 
rulebooks.

>> I'd like to come back from this emergency with at the very least a 
>> cleaner gamestate - a lot of things are currently unknown to us, like 
>> the existence of some societies, or the amount of BNS I have (it 
>> accumulates each nweek, but we haven't heard of it in a while).
>
> -Yeah... okay, I'll take a look and see how long that's been - I may 
> be able to get the Bank up and running again by poking through the 
> archives. Shouldn't be too hard to find all the things that changed 
> people's charm in the last 15 nweeks or so. I can't get started on 
> that for a week, though, so don't expect anything before the 23rd at 
> the earliest. In the interim, someone come up with something to do 
> with BNS. We're going to have about three people with more than 10,000 
> of the things, and another large group of 5-9,000, and there is 
> nothing to spend the stuff on.-

Lots of things modify Charm - proposal passage/failure does it, a 
couple poetic forms do, as does the creation of a new form using the 
form created... some drinks alter it too, as do Wins... Overall, it 
might be a lot easier just to say "give all BNS to the bank, then give 
4000 BNS to each player".

-- 
Wonko

P.S. I've emailed Dave and Joel to request copies of the current rules, 
societies, and Roster, so I may have that soon. If not, they'll 
probably be online within a day or two anyway.