On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 13:47 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, ais523 wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 12:44 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > Alternate thought as I'm typing this: awarding Medals seems like a > > > > particularly Speaker or President type job. > > > > > > Follow-up irony: BlogNomic's Critic is what I'd always hoped Agora's > > > Speaker would be. > > > > I need to go write a thesis some time as to why that tends to cause > > problems in practice when it's tied to wins. (Because it is, but it's > > nontrivial to explain why.) > > Come to think of it, the last time Agora had a sufficiently powerful > Speaker it was a wholly elected position orthogonal to winning. Other > times of powerful elected officers have been interesting in a good way, > too (e.g. Poobah). Succession list was maybe 50/50 (ascension based > on accumulation of game position that was only partly winning-governed).
Agreed, I like powerful offices. (They seem likely to have fun interactions with Promises, too.) I've been tempted to propose to reintroduce coloured VCs just so that we had something resembling an economy, but something more Caste-style would be interesting too, if unique. Any suggestions? -- ais523
