Apologies again for my unexpected absence. I’m now in the contrary position - I have WAY too much internet-enabled leisure time in front of me - so this is just a heads up that I’ll be reassuming my duties from now.
As such, I’m removing rule 2.5 from the ruleset. My sincere thanks to the Astronomer for having kept an eye on things in my absence.
Does that mean that a reworking of Pace is needed? How are people feeling about the slower rate of play?
Yay, Josh is back!
I actually think the Pace Rule works. I’m reading it differently than Kevan.
No, it’s okay, we patched it up to four proposals each over the weekend.
The slower game is interesting. It’s pushing the game very strongly towards self-killing and reproposing ideas until we get them right, which is something that’s come up hypothetically in the past when talking about “protosals”. It feels a bit on the noisy side and the ruleset looks as if it’s spread in more directions than it usually has after a week (I guess because there’s no sense in building too much on parallel proposals which might not survive to the weekend), but a game is happening.
BlogNomic is an online Nomic: a self-modifying game where changing the rules is part of the game. Players make blog posts proposing additions or alterations to the ruleset, discussing and casting votes in the comments: if enough vote in favour, the rules are changed and play continues.
The game has been running since 2003 and resets every month or so. Have a look around the wiki for more information and history. New players are always welcome and can join in the game at any time.
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Kevan: he/him
Good to see you up and online again.
The combination of the week-long proposal system and a small oversight in the Pace rule (which still constrained us to two proposals) actually meant that things didn’t get built up too much in your absence, so that worked out quite well.