I think you could replace absolute magnitude with any of "modulus", "magnitude", or "absolute value".
On 11/17/2017 06:28 PM, Reuben Staley wrote: > On 11/16/2017 11:09 PM, Owen Jacobson wrote: >> >>>> Just saying it is "a record" seems a bit broad. I don't know how >>>> you would make that more specific without being over-complicated, >>>> though. >>> >>> I just kept this wording from the original maps rules. I don't know >>> how else to say it. >> >> Defining this in terms of a set of platonic entities (or, for that >> matter, a set of assets, but I think a set of platonic entities is >> probably a better fit here), plus switches associated with those >> entities, would do it. The rules for manipulating switches and the >> rules for requiring an officer to report on switches are fairly robust. > > Sure. That does seem to work. > >>> >>>>> Re-enact rule 1997/2 (Power=1), renaming it to "Defined Land >>>>> Types" with >>>>> the text: >>>>> >>>>> In addition to Aether, the Land types Black and White are >>>>> defined. >>>>> >>>>> Re-enact rule 1998/2 (Power=1) "Land Topology" with the text: >>>>> >>>>> Two Units of Land are Adjacent if they have the same >>>>> Latitude, and >>>>> their Longitudes differ by exactly one; or they have the same >>>>> Longitude, and their Latitudes differ by exactly one. >>>>> >>>>> The Penguin Distance between two given Units of Land is the >>>>> minimum number of Single Waddles required to Travel from >>>>> one of >>>>> the given Units to the other given Unit, where one Single >>>>> Waddle >>>>> is the Penguin Distance required to Travel from one Unit >>>>> of Land >>>>> to an Adjacent Unit of Land. >>>> You're using Penguin Distance in the definition of Penguin >>>> Distance, which is a little confusing. >>> >>> I left this part untouched because I thought I understood the >>> concept. I guess that there are some extra details in there though. >> >> It’s Manhattan distance, which is clear enough, but defining it in >> terms of itself is a bit awkward. >> >> A recursive definition would define the unit Single Waddle distance >> in terms of the base measures (Latitude and Longitude), and then >> define the Penguin Distance in terms of Single Waddles. A direct >> definition would be less clear, but easier to compute, and would >> specify how to compute the Penguin Distance directly from the >> Latitude and Longitude: >> >> The Penguin Distance between two Units of Land is the sum of the >> absolute magnitude of the difference in Longitude between the two >> Units and the absolute magnitude of the difference in Latitude >> between the two Units. > > I looked up "absolute magnitude" and I only found stuff relating to > star brightness. Please clarify this. > >>>> Maybe rename Quarries to Mines and have them create shinies. >>> >>> Quarries were supposed to create shinies. But here's a different >>> idea. Maybe Quarries/Mines create a currency called Ore, and Ores >>> can be turned into shinies by Refinery zmetah. >>> >>> Let's expand this even further -- Quarries have their own >>> inventories where ore is kept and players have to go and take out >>> the ore and bring it to the refinery to exchange eir ores for shinies. >> >> In context of G.’s SimAgora proposal and the associated output >> currencies, perhaps: >> >> * Define three “base” resources, and associated Zmet types. Let’s >> pretend they’re Ores, Fungi, and Chipmunks. >> >> * Define three “refined” resources (G.’s Sports, Coupons, and >> Widgets), and associated Zmet types. >> >> * To produce a Sports using a Zmet, the owner must destroy an Ore and >> a Fungus that they own. >> >> * To produce a Coupon using a Zmet, the owner must destroy an Ore and >> a Chipmunk (sorry, lil fella). >> >> * To produce a Widget using a Zmet, the owner must destroy a Fungus >> and a Chipmunk (seriously, you need to stop hanging around in the >> Widget factory, mousie). >> >> Some tinkering with the relative rates of production and consumption >> would produce some incentive to specialize, without giving a single >> specialist sole control over the resulting economy. >> >> -o > > Okay, so here's my plan: > > 1. Ditch shinies. > > 2. Three different production zmetah exist: Farm, Mine, Orchard. > > 3. Farms produce Corn and Cotton. > > 4. Mines produce Stone and Ore. > > 5. Orchards produce Fruit and Lumber. > > 6. Some number of refinery zmetah exist. > > 7. Cotton can be refined into cloth. > > 8. Ore can be refined into bars. > > 9. Lumber can be refined into paper. > > 10. Corn and Fruit can be consumed to allow you to move. > > 11. Stone and Lumber are used to build zmetah. > > 12. Proposals and reports and such are written on Paper and Cloth. > > 13. Bars are used as the new official currency of Agora. > > 14. Agora can create any of the above assets and give it to entities > -- for reports and such. > > This way, each production zmet creates one refinable resource and one > unrefinable resource, thereby balancing them. > -- ---- Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
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