[Nomic] Winning the game
Adam Biltcliffe
nomic-talk at srcf.ucam.org
Thu Sep 23 00:41:01 2004
On Sep 23 2004, Stuart Moore wrote:
> Proposal: Twelve impossible things before breakfast
> The game is deemed to have ended when it is impossible for the game
> state to change at any point in the future. The person who made the last
> change to the game state will be declared the winner.
>
> For the purposes of this rule, if the last game action is a Consensus of
> Opinion, then the member of the list of voters who proposed the rule
> will be deemed to have changed the game state and therefore won the game
> - not the last person to vote on that Consensus of opinion.
Egad, no. If we want to encourage creativity, the last thing we want is for
players to make rules which cause the game to stagnate.
Also, under this rule a valid winning strategy is for me to murder all of
the other players and then remove myself from the game.
adam