Agora Nomic is the longest continuously running Nomic known. Agora started in 1993 and has been going on ever since. For many years, Agora maintained a roster of around 20 players. The number of watchers - people who are observing the game and perhaps participating in discussions - is often even higher than the number of players. In early 2001 Agora was hit by the Slashdot effect, and for a while its population was up to about 30 active players - this seems to have been only a temporary thing at the time. For quite a while since then, they generally had around 12 players. Agora is now back up to 30 players again, but not all are active, and even some of the active players do nothing except to object to attempts to deactivate them. However, Agora is always ready to welcome still more players (you can join by subscribing to the lists, then sending a message to agora-business stating that you register).
Agorans take their Nomic very seriously. Many regard it as much as exercise in philosophy, political science and group dynamics as a game. But they are not above silliness and having fun.
Since Agora has been running so long, almost everything has already been tried (and repealed) a couple of times. Still, people keep coming up with strange new ideas. You're welcome to start watching or playing if you're interested.
Wiki pages on some historical incidents in Agora:
- WalrusScam (1994-02/1994-03)
- BlackRepeals (1994-04/1994-05)
- MousetrapScam (1995)
- RishoAgoraWar (1997-05)
- AckaAgoraWar (1999-07/1999-08)
- PineapplePartnership (2007-03)
Wiki pages on other aspects of Agora:
Relations to other nomics:
- originated in the collapse of NomicWorld
- had a war against Rishonomic
- was a charter member of InterNomic
- had a war against AckaNomic
- was briefly protector of B Nomic
- officially recognises other nomics
- PerlNomic, and Rootnomic participate in Agora via partnerships
- The FantasyRulesCommittee awards points to Agoran players through a contest
Web pages:
http://www.agoranomic.org official web page- http://agora.qoid.us/current_flr.txt current rules, with annotations and FAQs
- http://nomic.info/perlnomic/?mode=asc;dir=agora-proposals;column=Name recent historical proposals (note that the most recent proposals are not currently archived anywhere but mailing list archives)
- http://www.fysh.org/~zefram/agora/ slightly older historical rules and proposals
- http://www.periware.org/agora/ much older historical proposals
- http://zenith.homelinux.net/cotc/ judicial reports (http://cfj.qoid.us/ mirror)
- http://zenith.homelinux.net/awj/ Agoran Weekly Journal (historical)
- http://zenith.homelinux.net/winners/ List of winners
This web page on the NomicWiki is maintained by the Ambassador as required by rule 2135.
Agora is an EmailNomic, presently occupying five mailing lists. Most traffic goes to the three main lists, segregated according to status. In case the main lists break down, as they have in the past, there are two backup lists. To subscribe to the mailing lists, or view archives of play within the last few years:
- http://www.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/agora-official official reports (used for reports that rules require players to submit)
- http://www.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/agora-business general business (place used for most game actions; things here generally change the gamestate)
- http://www.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/agora-discussion discussion (actions here generally do not affect the game)
- http://www.listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/agora backup
- http://yoyo.its.monash.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/nomic backup
The IRC channel at irc://irc.freenode.net:6667/##nomic is also an official Discussion Forum for Agora (http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.freenode.net&channel=%23%23nomic web access).
Current players (30 June 2009):
- ais523
- allispaul
- Ben Daniel (inactive)
- BobTHJ
- comex (under the name c.)
- coppro
- C-walker
- Dvorak Herring
- ehird (inactive)
- Gravity Circumference Line Deja Vu Cardboard Duck e^(-kt) (formerly Goethe)
- gwen (inactive)
- ihope (also known as Warrigal or kerlo, currently with a nick that's generally abbreviated to Tom)
- Luke Lockart (inactive)
- Manu (inactive)
- modulus (inactive)
- Murphy
- OscarMeyr (inactive)
- Pavitra
- pikhq
- Quazie (inactive)
- Randy Olshaw (inactive)
- Rodlen
- Schrodinger's Cat (inactive)
- Sgeo
- Siege
- Spitemaster (inactive)
- Taral (formerly known as Goddess Eris)
- teucer
- thespyguy (inactive)
- Tiger
- woggle
- Wooble
- Yally
- zeckalpha
- TheNormishPartnership2 (partnership)
- PeoplesBankOfAgora (partnership)
- schwa (partnership)
- and several contracts, which are disputedly players due to a bug
Some former players:
(The official Registrar's report lists over 70 former players of Agora)
- Andre
- Antimatter
- TheBankOfAgora (partnership)
- Blob
- Cecilius
- Chuck
- Craig
- Crito
- dcuman
- ehird
- elJefe
- favor
- GreyKnight
- Harlequin
- Jeremy
- Kelly
- Kolja
- lee
- Levi
- Maud
- Michael
- Morendil
- Oerjan
- Palnatoke
- Peter
- PerlNomicPartnership (partnership)
- PineapplePartnership (partnership)
- pTang
- Riail
- Sherlock
- Sir Toby
- sproingie
- Steve
- Swann
- Syllepsis
- t
- Vanyel
- Waggie
- Wes