> On Jun 16, 2021, at 10:05 PM, Rebecca Lee via agora-discussion > <agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > Ribbons being switches is very dumb. Read this sentence and weep: "For each > type of Ribbon, <type> Ribbon Ownership is a secured negative boolean > person switch, tracked by the Tailor in eir monthly report.". It makes > ribbons seem very complicated but actually they're really simple.
I'd argue that ribbons are actually a lot more like switches than assets: - You either have one or you don't - You can't have multiple of a ribbon - You can't transfer ribbons They're obviously not a perfect fit for either, so you have to do a bit of shoehorning either way, but I think switches are a simpler mapping than assets are. Gaelan > Proto: > > Title: Ribbons are assets > AI: 3 > Text: In rule 2438 "Ribbons", replace > > "For each type of Ribbon, <type> Ribbon Ownership is a secured > negative boolean person switch, tracked by the Tailor in eir > monthly report." > > with > > "Each type of ribbon is an indestructible fixed asset tracked by the > Tailor in eir monthly report. Other rules notwithstanding, no entity > other than a player can ever own a ribbon. If a non-player would own a > ribbon, that ribbon is destroyed." > > In the same rule, replace > > "When a person wins this way, for each type of Ribbon, that person's > <type> Ribbon Ownership is flipped to False." > > with > > "When a person wins this way, each of their ribbons is destroyed." > > > [Note that an "indestructible asset" can still be destroyed by its > backing document, just not in any other way] > > -- > From R. Lee
