[Nomic] Winning the game

Stuart Moore nomic-talk at srcf.ucam.org
Thu Sep 23 00:43:01 2004


Adam Biltcliffe wrote:
> 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.

Fair enough, it doesn't need to be the unique way of winning

> 
> 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.

I really really hope this needs no answer.