Edmond Dantes wrote: > I register.
Hi, do you have a preferred nickname? > I have no idea what's going on. Here's a copy of the greeting I sent JonnyRotten earlier today: > Welcome to the Agoran community! http://agoranomic.org/ offers a > good set of initial pointers, here are a few additions/corrections: > > * By social convention, all your actions should be performed in > agora-business, unless you're an officer (in which case your > reports and other duties go to agora-official) or the main lists > malfunction (in which case use one or both backup lists). > > a-o and a-b redirect replies to agora-discussion by default, > remember to change this if your reply contains any actions. > > * Serving as an officer is voluntary (you must accept your nomination > unless you're the incumbent), likewise serving as a judge (you must > change your posture away from supine). > > You can get a proposal (typically including one or more rule > changes) distributed (to be voted on) by playing a Distrib-u-Matic > card, or Without Objection (typically reserved for obviously-needed > bug fixes). If your proposal would touch any rules with Power > 1, > then you should request an Adoption Index at least as high as the > highest such value. Proposals with AI >= 2 are Democratic > (basically one vote per player), others are Ordinary by default > (voting power depends on caste and can be further altered on a > per-proposal basis). Rule 2152 specifies words to declare something > impossible, possible-but-penalized, or formally-discouraged. > > * Large portions of gameplay are regulated by voluntary contracts. > > Large portions of the economy are tracked near-real-time at > http://nomic.bob-space.com/agoralog.aspx (whereas reports sent > to the mailing lists are typically weekly at best). > > * http://zenith.homelinux.net/acronyms/ explains many abbreviations. > > * There are several ways to win; the game keeps going, with only a > directly-relevant portion of the gamestate being reset. > > Please let us know what additional questions you have.
