Axis & Allies.org 2013 Support Drive

Thanks for the clarifications. Useful stuff.

Massive corporate ISPs like AT&T and Comcast are only a relatively recent thing. Expecting a massive corporation to do the right thing is naive. If they can profit from it, they’ll screw consumers.

Regulations like these are a necessary evil to prevent monopolies. If you look at the 3-tier system in the US for alcohol. It seems weird but it has been an effective anti-trust tool allowing competition from much smaller businesses. Compare this to New Zealand, Australia, or UK, and the smaller alcohol manufacturers just can’t compete against tied houses. Market forces can’t change the actions of a monopoly. If one company prevents a consumer from seeing a new product, the market may not even know they want that delicious, delicious thing because the monopoly fears anything new and does what it can to destroy the new thing.

My only optimism is that cities are starting/planning to invest in infrastructure like fiber and doing it right but just laying the fiber and allowing private companies to maintain it and provide access over it.

@Midnight_Reaper:

@Young:

@Midnight_Reaper:

It will probably be February/March before I get them hammered out completely (I’m currently arguing about them in the House Rules forum as we speak) but I have a full up set of rules I could send you now. I suspect you would prefer one clean set of rules, so unless you tell me otherwise I’ll send you an email in early March with the full up set of house rules for you to read, play, and react to. As I’ve said before, I never claimed to be the second coming of either Larry Harris or Max Michael. Just somebody who found something to tinker with a long time ago.

-Midnight_Reaper

Send me one version in March after all modifications have been made… Cheers.

Will do. Just the idea of this coming to pass has me grinning from ear to ear.

-Midnight_Reaper

Young Grasshopper,

I plan to finish stitching the rules back together this weekend and sending you a copy Sunday night. My $50 is still ready if you’re still up for this.

-Midnight_Reaper