On 5/24/20 2:57 PM, James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > Master is secured at power 2. Is there a way to secure asset > ownership? Do we care? > >> A talisman is an asset with ownership restricted to players and Agora. >> If there ever does not exist a talisman for a certain zombie, one is >> created in the possession of Agora. If there ever exists more than one >> talisman for a certain zombie, or more than zero talismans for any other >> person, one talisman for that player is destroyed. Talismans are tracked >> by the Registrar. > I wonder if we could just declare that there's one talisman per zombie > rather than specifying how they're created/destroyed to reach that > state. Somehow trying to say how they're created/destroyed bugs me. > Also I think this could also shorten this part of the slightly, and > would allow the rule text to unashamedly refer to *the* talisman of a > zombie. > > E.g: > > For every zombie, the talisman of that zombie is a unique indestructable asset > with ownership restricted to players and Agora, defaulting to Agora. > Talismans are tracked by the Registrar. > > And then instead of destroying a talisman you transfer it to Agora.
Specifying that it is transferred to Agora would also work under the current draft, but I thought it was cleaner to just rely on destruction/recreation. > > I think this would mean a talisman stops existing when its zombie > ceases to be a zombie, since it ceases to be defined by the rules. If > we're worried about that we could add "The talisman of a zombie is > destroyed when that zombie ceases to be a zombie.". I think you're right about the talisman ceasing to exist, but I'm not sure that "unique" is clearly specified enough - what happens when, through some bug, a rule states that a new one is created when one already exists? In fact, my proto doesn't even make this clear enough - it doesn't specify _which_ talisman is destroyed. > >> - If a zombie has been a zombie for the past 90 days and not had >> Agora for a master during any of that time, destroy one talisman for >> that zombie; > Your implicit definition of "master" may apply only to players. How > about instead "If Agora has not owned a particular talisman for the > past 90 days, destroy that talisman"? (Or cause it to be transferred > to Agora, if you're implementing my first suggestion.) Drat, I thought I had gotten rid of all the references to "master". I'll fix that. -- Jason Cobb
