ackanomic Digest Thursday, January 07 1999 Volume 04 : Issue 006 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Duncan Richer Subject: Acka: Back Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 02:21:46 -0500 (EST) I change my state to Voting. I would ask those players who have maintained updated copies of some of my pages during my absence to let me know, ASAP, where I can get a copy of such updates. Thank you very much for your efforts - they should save me losing a week in getting back up to date. I will pay you for them later, if indeed I have any money right now. I partially approve of the new rule numbering system, however I am disappointed that the way the rules were renumbered leaves little if any room for new rules to be slotted in between existing concepts where appropriate. Last term (i.e. Oct - Dec) I realised that my workload meant I could do little more in Acka than fulfil my office duties. I may therefore need to give up one or more of my offices in order that I can play the game to the extent necessary to actually enjoy it. I have not yet decided which offices I should give up - suggestions on which offices people would be willing to take over are welcomed. Happy New Year! Slakko -- Duncan C. Richer aka Slakko the Lost Warner Brother | Queens' College http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~dcr24/ Ackanomic | U. of Cambridge Web-Harfer, Clerk of the Court, Map-Harfer, Justice | 2nd Year PhD(PMa) ------------------------------ From: JT Subject: Acka: Potato (WoHo) Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 02:31:12 -0500 (EST) WoHo has found the Potato. IdiotBoy has the Tuba. I apologize for this being 2 days late. --JT [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] [ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ] [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ] [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] ------------------------------ From: JT Subject: Acka: A funny thing happened on the way to the University Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 02:45:51 -0500 (EST) On my way to the University the other day to register for my courses in Treasure-Hunting, I happened to glance at the ground (as any good treasure hunter would do while searching for clues) and spotted a small red and blue matchbox lying along the path. Having a curious bent, (and thinking it looked just a slight bit familiar), I picked it up and opened it, and Phoebe hopped out and perched on my shoulder. "*Well*", she said, "it certainly took you long enough to come along. Here I kept getting worried that some other inobservant clod would put their foot down where it shouldn't be and crush me and my box flat." "Hi Phoebe. I'm sorry it took me so long, but life does have a way of getting in the way every once in a while. I do hope you'll forgive me though.", I replied. Phoebe would have cocked an eyebrow, if nanotech fleas had such things (and maybe they do, but if so, I couldn't see it). "Well I suppose I can forgive you this time, especially since you are here now, and no harm came of it. So, do you have any specific questions you'd like to ask me? And have you decided what you are going to do your thesis on? Treasure hunting has always intrigued me you know." "I hadn't given my thesis much thought yet Phoebe, though I was considering doing something on book codes, self-checking treasures, and hidden messages, but I'm not sure. As for specific questions, not really, just a vague gnawing that Acka and it's people are becoming a bit less fun." "Ahh, that.", she answered. "In my many millenium, I've seen Acka slow to a crawl and then launch into a frenzied run. It all depends on how much control the players have versus how much they are forced to do. When the rules force a lot of petty behaviors that have no real meaning or purpose, Ackans become sluggish and surly. They seem at their best when they have control (however tenuous) over their own destinies within our fair city. Of course an Ackan can always emigrate, and that gives them full control of their own destiny, but I've noticed that people tend to stay more when the laws that govern our town are not in a constant state of flux, and when there is some reason to cooperate as well as compete. Lately it seems, everything has emphasized competition and minimalism. While that is good for allowing room for new weeds to grow, one must be careful not to chop down the trees, if you know what I mean." Not quite understanding, I merely smiled and nodded, hoping she would continue. However, she took my nod as acceptance, and as I rounded the corner and started up the stairs to pay the entrance fee to register for my major, she hopped off my shoulder and vanished into the crowd of students along with her matchbox. --JT [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] [ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ] [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ] [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] ------------------------------ From: JT Subject: Acka: Phoebe (Trent) Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 02:47:38 -0500 (EST) Trent has found the matchbox of Phoebe. --JT [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] [ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ] [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ] [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] ------------------------------ From: K 2 Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 4000 Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 22:14:34 -0500 (EST) I retract P4000. K 2 K 2 wrote: > JT wrote: > > > On Wed, 6 Jan 1999 jtraub@dragoncat.net wrote: > > >Proposal 4000 > > >Livix > > >K 2 > > >Due: Wed Jan 13 09:01:10 1999 > > > > > > > > >{{[Update all rule pointers]}} > > > > A proposal (or was it a CSR) passed recently which did this. And in > > fact, searching through the first 10 or so of these changes in the current > > rules document, only the change described in number II below hadn't be > > done, which merely means that the Rule-Harfer missed an update to the > > Official Rules Document even though the rules are correct. Given that > > that CSR passed which should have done this, this proposal is at best > > NULL since none of the renumbering changes would occur as the text they > > try to replace didn't exist. > > > > This is what stems from writing proposals on a less than uptodate copy of the > rules.... of course some of the modifications that it would've made had the > rule pointers not been updated were not simple xxx becomes yyy. > > I retract p4000. > > K 2 ------------------------------ End of ackanomic Digest V4 #6 *****************************