Peekee wrote: >Can any entity win? non-players, fish, rocks? Interesting question, and I certainly overlooked that in the proto. We don't currently have any formal definition of winning, not even a rule that winning doesn't terminate Agora. (I'd say that's game custom now, though it was explicitly legislated for a long time.)
Currently, if a non-player wins the game, then VLOP does not get reset and the patent title "Champion" is not awarded, so a non-player win is pretty much a null event. What do you think should happen? It seems to me that player status has been gradually losing some of its significance. For example, non-player CFJ initiation (since CFJ 888), and recently we opened up contract law (and hence partnerships) to non-players. So I don't see a big problem with allowing non-players to win, in cases where the method of winning isn't dependent on player-only activity. If calling for judgement can result in a win, then why not let non-players do it? To answer your direct question: CFJ calling is restricted to persons, so a non-person could not win under the proto. (Well, something that stopped being a person after calling for judgement could still win.) Most fish and rocks don't meet the rules' definition of personhood. Non-player humans certainly do. -zefram
