On Tuesday 24 June 2008 7:40:01 Ian Kelly wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Ben Caplan > > Define "game action". Does this include contract-defined actions? > That's the intent. Perhaps s/game action/regulated action/ This still isn't clear to me. It determines unambiguously whether a given statement contains zero or nonzero game actions, but not how finely actions should be divided. I would actually much rather have an explicit list of parsimonious actions.
Here's another example case: If I deposit 4 4 crops to the [R]BoA, is that one action or four? If the deposit rate is 25, does that mean the Bank takes 100 actions? > > Here's an alternate form, which should prevent scams while also > > allowing more activity: > > Parsimonious actions *cost* 1 persimmon each. > In the interests of accurate recordkeeping, it should still be > possible to perform parsimonious actions with no persimmons, just > illegal. Also, extra persimmons wouldn't be worth much in this model. "Whenever a person performs a parsimonious action, if e owns any persimmons, one persimmon that e owns is destroyed. A person SHALL NOT perform a parsimonious action if e owns no persimmons. A person SHALL NOT transfer all eir persimmons." > > If no active first-class > > player has 5 or more persimmons, any player CAN by announcement as a > > liberal action create one persimmon in the possession of each active > > first-class player. > I doubt that this condition would ever arise in practice, and the > effort needed to check it would be hideous. It would arise all the time if persimmons were spent as I'm suggesting, and I don't see that the effort involved would be significantly more than that arising from your version. However, for the simplicity of recordkeeping: "Any player CAN by announcement as a liberal action create one persimmon in the possession of each active first-class player. If any active first-class player possesses five or more persimmons, then this action is FORBIDDEN and is not a liberal action, the previous sentence notwithstanding." Pavitra
