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Adrian's post with discussion
My abridged comment:
the only alternative i can come up with that doesn't require the entire playsim to be server-side-only is to have a decentralized mmo (w/opt-in federation if there's to be any at all) where individual admins are strongly encouraged by both word and UX to actively vet players and run instances in a way that's conductive to ppl identifying with it as part of a communityWhich raises the question: what sort of design features would encourage this?
Brainstorming some beneath the cut.
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I am aware that all of this offloads a lot of power and responsibility onto a server admin. Perhaps there's some way to distribute this authority in a communally-controlled server setup, but that is beyond the scope of this brainstorm.
Wired: Ghibli Midworld movie
Inspired:
( Imagine 50 Shades. Now imagine having taken Twilight's core concepts and run in exactly the opposite direction. )
What is attempted here is a "reboot" of the American constitution, based on what's changed over the past 200+ years and also on concerns that would have been unthinkable, or at least unmentionable, to that sausage party of Enlightenment gentry that gave us our current version.
The only restrictions I'm trying to stick to are to make sure each numbered amendment roughly corresponds in spirit with the interests addressed by the original, and to make each one of them a single long sentence without numbered lists. Everything else is subject to radical alteration - especially the ones where I only replaced a word or two.
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The rights protected in this bill are subject to the interests of the Crown in combatting actual threats to either human life or its own capacity to enable human flourishing, which onus shall at all times be on the Crown to establish beyond a reasonable doubt: provided that, at all times, the rights shall be read broadly and purposively in full and proper account for the environmental and socioeconomic context that may apply at the time and place, and any arrangement by the Crown or agent or contractor thereof to avoid these protections shall be of no effect.
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Velexiraptor posted a brief reflection on what a "magic" system should do in a game.
In another thread of hers I had half-jokingly made a comment along the lines of ~I'd rather we had the opposite [of making martial classes function with moves in a similar manner to spellcasters], just give the scene some hitpoints and if you magic it hard enough with a big enough wand it changes~.
Meanwhile, my primary model for doing anything remotely like this, Mage: the Ascension, I mostly remember as being literally unplayable since I just ended up constantly second-guessing and self-censoring as to what I could or could not do given this sphere and that effect and where was all this mass and energy coming from and if I could make a grain of sand appear where previously there wasn't one could I also make that same raw energy and level the entire city block etc. etc. etc. - in other words not very good guidance as to objective checks and balances.
So here are some notes on what those checks and balances might look like:( Read more... )
Obviously this is incomplete and cannot be played on its own - it's meant at this time to be no more than a conceptual framework. Felt cute, might delete later and whatnot.
First, let's establish a few observations:
- The gym fights take place in a big stadium where presumably people are watching.
- The Pokémon actually want to fight, and get something out of it.
- The Pokémon are "kicked out" when defeated while out of "motivation", which implies that this is at least in part a choice to stay, or at least its state of mind is a relevant consideration.
- The Pokémon are not directly motivated by coins gained, as they cannot interact with the coins directly at all.
Everything about the lore and the aesthetic and the in-battle mechanics is geared towards ritual social violence, but the social dynamic for the actual players is almost pure resource predation: all your incentives have you getting in through the path of least resistance and avoid engagement as long as possible until it's time to collect the reward (possibly through your opposing-team alt account created for this purpose, if your gym is particularly well hidden).
So with that in mind, I'd like to imagine going to a better monstrous pocket dimension. I can think of a few marketing, accessibility and lore reasons why nothing remotely like this will ever reach PoGo, but hey, if I ever get to develop an AR monster fighting app...
( Basically, the monster's honour must be satisfied before it is willing to leave. Also, chairs. )
And, of course, anyone would be able to spectate any ongoing fight.
