Glen-Rhodes wrote:Naivetry wrote:Ah; in that case, I'd only be worried about the amount of spam that could result.
In my opinion, spam will always be a problem, no matter how hard or easy it is. Even without a JavaScript program, people will spam.
It's a quantity thing. At least it takes effort to spam now, which means that the people who are too lazy to bother get weeded out.
Glen-Rhodes wrote:Naivetry wrote:I think all of us have been assuming, based on the way people use recruitment and endorsement scripts already, that you'd be keeping it to yourself.
The way I see it, it's not the telegram that makes recruiting/lobbying/etc. successful. It's what the telegram points to.
As someone who spends a great deal of time plotting and worrying about this... the telegram matters, what the telegram points to matters, the description of the nation sending the telegram matters... but more importantly for the big picture, the sheer quantity of telegrams sent matters, too. It's really just a sophisticated gamble. The more tickets you've placed bets on, the more likely you are to hit a winner. You can hedge your bets or make informed choices about what's most likely to pay off, but in the end if you don't send
enough telegrams, it won't matter how well you've thought out your message or how hard you've worked on making your region welcoming, etc... Conversely, the more TGs you send, the greater margin of safety you'll have.
Linux and the X wrote:Walabamba wrote:I know I couldn't program a script, I have a hard enough time turning on my computer
But you also, I would guess, couldn't perform the same analysis as Unibot has. Should that be banned as well because you can't do it? Why should your inability to do something prevent me from doing it?
Because the ability to engage in political analysis is an essential, integral part of playing the political game. It is not a shortcut to in-game goals; it is what
makes you a good politician. Writing scripts has nothing to do with your political ability. It has to do with your ability to employ a skill-set that is only coincidentally applicable to the political goals it is being made to serve.
Ah; in that case, I'd only be worried about the amount of spam that could result.
Spammers probably use scripts anyway; it's not as though they care about the rules.
I don't mean spam as in links to nonsense material unrelated to NS. I mean spam as in, "For the love of Admin, why are there 18 telegrams about "Repeal 'Condemn Nazi Europe" in my inbox since I checked half an hour ago?"
Hrmph. Should we really pander to the least common denominator?
Do we want the game to have broad appeal or be utterly manipulated by code geeks?
This is a political game. It's not supposed to be about whether or how well you can write scripts. It's supposed to be about things that actually have to do with politics and player interaction.