Wednesday, October 25, 2006

IceNomic

In looking at SLICK: The Sortable List of Icehouse's Cool Kindred I did find Nomice. Its a pure nomic variant.

I think there's more to be found here.

Something to do with rule changes.

I think IceNomic would have a large set of base rules than pure nomic.
base rule changes would require consensus (all parties). All other rules (create, modify, delete) would require a majority vote.

A general problem is that minorities would never really get a say.

Here's an IceHouse mechanic to help with that problem.

I'd like to see IceHouse pieces used as an economy for voting and weighing votes. The goal is to not become unbalanced or too complex.

Each player gets a white and black stash large piece. This represents a yes or no vote. If a player is in the minority, they get a small piece. A small piece allows them to attempt to break a tie. If a player has a tie (small piece) and is in the minority on that vote, they get a medium piece. A Medium piece is one extra vote.

Immediate problem: Does the color of the small and medium matter? That in and of itself could be interesting.

More later..