On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Quazie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The idea sounds fun. Would the players find out that they lost/gained > points per message or per week? If they learned per message would > they learn publicly or privately? (my hope would be privately per > message, but that might make it too easy to determine the rules)
Not really. Even if it was per message and publicly, there is still a huge number of secret rules that might apply to a given message. If some of the rules define some objects or attributes which contestants might have, it gets even more complicated. Here's another idea, by the way: Some of the secret rules you are allowed to look at privately, perhaps by clicking a button on a webform. If you read the rule, then you might gain a huge advantage over the competition, by understanding how the contest works. However, some rules would give you very very little gain, and some are booby-trapped and will severely punish you for reading them. In this case, other contestants might know about the punishment, but not which rule a person attempted to reveal. They might then try to guess which rule the punished contestant most likely attempted to view, and avoid it. Now, if some contestants (this way or another way) gained privileged knowledge about how contest-defined objects work-- or guessed it-- then they might try to fool other contestants by performing invalid actions on purpose, or lying about things. The contest would be persued elsewhere than the public forum, so Rule 2149 would not apply. Like Mao, I guess. With all the rights I'm trying to dodge, you might wonder if this is best suited for a game independent from Agora. But I think it would be more fun when Agoran actions are a factor, and when contestants might win points.
