Sorry if I was over-historicating myself.
On one hand, long digressions on philosophy have always been a part of Agora, that's not going away. The recent talk about academics, essays and theses, and new players asking lots of questions, kicked it up a notch so maybe I started doing that too much , I'll dial it back myself. On the other hand, that's always been part of Agora, but it has to be balanced by plenty of working game play (functioning economy and so forth) so the long digressions are a minor side show. So people can blip over the philosophy they find boring and "just play". But the "just play" bits seem to have lots of arcane agency-ing that I've lost track of myself. And the recent scams set poor cultural precedents on scamming, perhaps (same thing happened a couple years back with Fool's scam - it was a burst of activity that then killed things because everyone got bored while it was sorted). And of course, with this high volume, it's hard to wade through at all no matter what's going on. FWIW, the contributions I noted from you in your short tenure seemed quite worthwhile! Hope you might stay tuned to see if it settles down to more regular gameplay in a month or so... On Mon, 29 May 2017, grok (caleb vines) wrote: > I was really excited to play legislative-based, classic nomic style Agora. > That's not what I'm getting. All this psuedo-philosophy of the rules > stuff is really frustrating to me, especially since it's all getting > dismissed or ruled false anyways. > I spent a long time reading the rules in depth before I started, and really > wanted to do it up right. Apparently that isn't a requirement or > expectation, so I have no interest in playing. > > And it's a shame, because I was really, REALLY excited to join a nomic with > so much history and prestige. But it just doesn't feel like a nomic > to me right now. > > I'll keep an eye on the lists to see if it gets better in a month, but I'm > not getting my hopes up. > > > I deregister as a player. > > > -grok >
