On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Alex Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Arguably, one of the reasons Agora's survived so long is not just that > the players are generally opposed to mass ruleset replacements (which > have a tendency to kill nomics outright: look at what happened to > Nomicapolis), but that the rules themselves make mass replacements very > difficult. The Black Repeals would probably have destroyed Agora if they > actually worked (seeing as they attempted to repeal every rule without > replacing them with anything), but they didn't. > > Resetting the entire ruleset down to one rule is also a very bad idea > due to the high chance that it ends up flawed in some way that either > makes the game outright unplayable, or else contains a scam that allows > someone to take complete control, who is subsequently incautious in what > they do with the power. The first scenario happened in B Nomic; the > second scenario also almost happened at one stage ("almost" in two > senses, given that it didn't even in the ruleset everyone thought they > were using, and additionally given that most of the gameplay of B turned > out to never have existed in the first place). > > -- > ais523 >
But hey, Blognomic seems to get away with mass rule changes every so often. Couldn't Agora survive a one time ruleset reset if we are careful? -Henri
