On Sat, 2013-08-03 at 19:50 -0400, Fool wrote: > If I pull a Lindrum, then Agora is formally continuous, in that the game > played one day is the legal continuation of the game played on the > previous day. If you start another game, there's a discontinuity. > However, as we've seen, this continuity is rather illusory. No! It's one of the main reasons I play. In B Nomic, we spent /months/ trying to reconstruct the ruleset from disaster.
Ratification become broken a little over a year ago. Reconstructing a year of gameplay is a reasonably minor price to pay to get things back to normal. However, it's not helped at all via sources of uncertainty. For instance, one method to fix the problem would have been to find one player who had certainly been continuously registered since ratification broke, and for every other player to deregister, with that remaining player assuming Assessor and Promotor and fixing the ruleset via proposal. This would neatly get around the vast majority of sources of uncertainty. Due to your scam, though, this method of fixing things is no longer open to us, because now there are no players who have certainly been continuously registered since ratification broke. This means that more effort will be needed to reconstruct the gamestate, but - if you /stop trying to mess things up/ - we should still be able to manage it. Fixing the ratification issue is my top priority in Agora at the moment. Not knowing whether your scam has worked is making it a lot harder, though. (Here's an example of what may have gone wrong, for instance: Wooble used to believe (maybe still does) that agora-business is actually not a public forum, in which case your registration failed, in which case the scam failed because you weren't a player. That would mean that we had no way to make you unambiguously the only player, so we can't shift our gamestate to match yours. It'd make things much simpler if you just undid the scam voluntarily, but I'm not even sure if there's an unambiguously working way for you to undo it. Destroying the promises and waiting a month for us to reregister manually / Teucer to fix it would probably work, though.) -- ais523
