On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, comex wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Elliott Hird > <penguinoftheg...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> 2009/9/23 Alex Smith <callforjudgem...@yahoo.co.uk>: >>> I didn't; I also claimed that I would try to punish players who >>> attempted to object by stealing/destroying assets... >> >> <ais523> I said I'd only use the mousetrap for a dictatorship >> proposal, and to punish objectors by stealing/destroying assets... > > I'm saying > this as a Punished person-- or, a person who would be Punished if > ais523's scam worked-- if it did work, I got myself into it. A > dictator stealing everyone's assets might not be in the best spirit of > the game, but it's not really against the spirit either as long as > it's temporary.
Interesting tidbit: when we implemented the modern contracts in 2007, I remember thinking and perhaps commenting "maybe we should make the gameplay such that the object of the game is to tie each other into mutually contradicting contracts and thus force a bad outcome... maybe make it a win condition." Never materialized - I think I started a contest draft - but speaking of spirit, maybe we got that win condition (and as an aside, maybe such a far-reaching win should close off the era of complex contracts in Agora). -G.
