[Nomic] Some rules

Carrie Oliver nomic-talk at srcf.ucam.org
Wed Dec 15 18:41:01 2004


On 15 Dec 2004 16:44:37 +0000, Adam Biltcliffe <amgb2@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Dec 14 2004, Carrie Oliver wrote:
> 
> > Hey, its about time something happened so I have been busy inventing
> > some rules, even if they are not very good they may atleast get this
> > going again...
> >
> > Board again!
> > This is the world as we know it, and I feel fine.
> > There be pirates in this game, Yarrrrr!
> > The coordinates of power.
> > The Navigator
> 
> I vote in favour of all the above-named proposals. I have a couple of minor
> issues with the phrasing of the last one, but in the interests of
> expediency I shall allow it to pass and propose the following rule myself:
> 
> ----------
> The Navigator II
> 
> If at any point a rule exists whose name ends with 'The Navigator', the
> following two changes shall be made to the rules, overriding Rule 2,
> Mutability of the Rules:
> 
> 1) The rule in question shall be altered to read as follows:
> 
> "The duty of the Navigator shall be to make the contents of the List of
> Locations available to all players upon request."
> 
> 2) The rule 'The Navigator II' shall be deleted from the ruleset.
> ----------
> 
> I also propose a new rule:
> 
> ----------
> Casting Adrift
> 
> If a player has not selected an initial location on the Board within three
> days of the point at which that player could first have done so, any other
> player may declare that player to be 'cast adrift' at any non-island
> location on the board, which becomes the adrift player's new location.
> 
> Rather than the starting situation specified in 'This is the world as we
> know it, and I feel fine' and 'There be pirates in this game, Yarrrrr!',
> the adrift player's location shall *not* be an island, and their ship shall
> be a 'small plank of wood'. ----------
> 

I vote aye to casting adrift.

Does Navigator II not mean that there is no longer a specified navigator?

Carrie