Any player may pay a certain amount of money to delay a proposal in commission and hearings. To do so, a player simply has to pay (publicly) A$200 to a senator of his choice and specify a unique, single proposal to be suspended. As soon as the senator accepts payment, then the proposal chosen is made dormant.
Proposal 752 - Wed May 15 00:34:36 EDT 1996
Gnome Tribe
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
Decision: Rejected
There exists a tribe of Gnomes from which the Gnome buddy is from. All the members of this tribe are legal members of Ackanomic. The tribe is very powerful and is rumored to be the keeper of much knowledge and artifacts.If any artifact (gum, potato, etc) is left unused for over 16 days, then it is said to have been captured by the tribe elders and stored in the Big Blue Hut in the center of the village. A object stored in the Big Blue Hut cannot be used in Ackanomic until recovered by a player. The Speaker is in charge of keeping a list of what is in the Big Blue Hut. That list is secret and must never be made public.
Currency and bonds are not artifacts or objects subject to such a capture. Nor is anything that can be reasonably thought to be alive. Such as players for example, or another Gnome.
Should the voting Gnome be killed, disapear, or otherwise not be present or allowed to vote anymore, then the Gnome is said to have be taken back to the tribe's village. In such a case, the tribe elders send another member of the tribe to Ackanomic to act as the voting gnome.
Proposal 753 - Wed May 15 00:34:36 EDT 1996
Recovery Mission
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
Decision: Rejected
If there is no Gnome Tribe with a Big Blue Hut, then this rule is dormant.Six players are needed to recapture an object from the Big Blue Hut. Two to juggle and distract the gnome population, who loves juggling. Two to go around the village shouting "The circus is in town! The circus is in town!..." One to go and ask the gnome elders the answer to the question "What do Gnomes want?". And a sixth to go and seak into the Big Blue Hut and capture one of the objects. The Speaker will send him the list privately, and the player sneaking in can pick one of them.
The player that picked the object now owns it and the object and its ownership will be regulated by any and all approriate rules that may exist.
Proposal 754 - Wed May 15 00:34:36 EDT 1996
The Big Bad Orks
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
Decision: Rejected
There exists a big bad tribe of Orks that live just outside the limits of Ackanomic. The only thing they want is to overun Ackanomic, storm the senate and capture all the political officer. But even more, they want to plunder Ackanomic's legendary treasury and all the wealth it contains.Every wednesday, the Orks will try to invade Ackanomic. If there is no entity to stop them, then they are successful and take with them all the currency from the FM and put all the political officers on holiday for three days (they were hurt). Also, all artifacts and objects are damaged and need fixing. They are inoperative for seven days.
If they are stopped, then they are said to have been contained at the city gates and the population of Ackanomic is victorious.
Proposal 755 - Wed May 15 00:34:36 EDT 1996
The Nice Elves.
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
Decision: Rejected
There exists a tribe of Elves, tall and good and nice folks, who live outside the realm of Ackanomic. But they hate orks, and are allies of Ackanomic.The Elves are very powerful, and are strong enough to stop any attacks from the Big Bad Orks and any other entity that may attack Ackanomic. But they are often on travels and quests. If the people of Acka need the Elves, then one of the players needs to leave on a quest to find them. It takes a day for the quest to be successful and to bring them back. So in order to have them help on a friday for example, a player must begin his quest on the thursday.
A player may begin his quest by making a public broadcast to that effect. The player is put on vacation for the rest of that day.
Proposal 756 - Wed May 15 00:34:36 EDT 1996
Where are the Elves?!
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
Decision: Rejected
If no allies are here to help Acka push back an attack from the outside, a general call to arms can be issued by any player.If the Gnome tribe exists, then they send twenty of their best warriors to the fight, in which case only 4 players are needed to push back the assault.
If only players are available as fighters, then 8 of them are needed to stop the invasion.
Any player can respond to the call to arms, even those on vacation. They do so by making their intention to protect the motherland (ackanomic) to the public forum.
If not enough fighters can be found, then the ennemy assault cannot be stopped.
Proposal 757 - Wed May 15 00:34:36 EDT 1996
Mercenaries
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
Decision: Rejected
If the situation is desperate and not enough fighters can be found to protect Acka, then a political officer may order the Financier to go find some recruits from outside Acka and pay them to fight as mercenaries. The Financier may use whatever assets exist in the Treasury to recruit the mercenaries.Observers are the mercenaries of choice, although _anyone_ who is not a player and sends a message to Acka saying they are willing to lend a hand will count as one extra fighter.
If the fighting goes in Acka's favor, then the mercenaries will be paid whatever they were promised, short of pushing the treasury into debt. The currency paid is put into dormant accounts, which cannot be transfered out of Acka (except under inter/metanomic rules) but are there ready so that when the mercenary becomes a member of Acka, that money is theirs.
If Acka is not victorious, then the mercenaries are said to be pushed back and never make it into the city to help. They are not paid anything.
Proposal 758 - Wed May 15 00:34:36 EDT 1996
Black Rider
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
Decision: Rejected
There exist an evil rider, all dressed in black, that rides for eternity in the desolate plains far beyond Acka's walls in search of a magical item only he knows how to use properly: the Gumball. The weapon of the rider is a long beautiful sword that glitters in the darkness.If on the day an attack is made on Ackanomic, someone chews the gumball, then the Black Rider feels the magical power of the gum as it is improperly used (did you really think it's for chewing??), calling him - no, it's not alive, it's magic. He will ride like lightning to the aid of who ever is attacking Acka. And two extra fighters are needed by Acka to counter the evil rider and stop the invasion.
The only thing the Rider is affraid of is the Magic Potato. Because it is magic, of course, having been created in ancient times by a master magician whose name cannot be told.
During the day the fighting takes place, and if the Rider is attacking, the person who has the magic potato may try to tackle the rider. He has a one in four chance of succeeding (heck, that Rider is fast) and it will be a random roll by the speaker. If the player is successful, then the Rider falls to the ground, and cowers away in shame, leaving his sword behind. The player now owns the sword. The Rider cannot attack for twenty days, the time to get a new sword from a distant village of giant orks far beyond the horizon.
If the Rider is tackled, then any attack that was taking place is immediately routed and Ackanomic is victorious.
If the attack is successful, then the gumball is captured by the Rider, on top of any other effect this defeat for Acka may bring. He rides aways with the Gumball split in half and each bit pushed into his ears.
Proposal 759 - Wed May 15 00:34:36 EDT 1996
Raid Into The Badlands.
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
Decision: Rejected
If the Gumball has been lost to the Black Rider, then this rule is awake, otherwise it is dormant.The person holding the magic potato may make a raid into the badlands the Rider is in, for three days, trying once every day to tackle him (one in six chance, dice roll by speaker). If successful, the player recovers the gumball, takes the Rider's sword and is welcomed triumphantly back in Acka.
Otherwise, with the aid of the Gumball, the Black Rider is gathering ork troops and evil humans from distant realms, ready to recreate the mighty evil empire he once ruled. Already, he is strong and ready to march onto the good and friendly castle of our elvish allies.
They have come to ask for our help, saying that the entire world is in danger. If Acka can gather 12 fighters and a magic potato then the forces of good could triumph. Mercenaries can be recuited to fight with the elves.
The attack will take place three days after the Gumball is lost.
Once the attack begins, the siege will continue for as many days as fighters that were sent. Each day, the person holding the magic potato has a one in six chance (random roll by the speaker) of catching the Black Rider.
If by the end of the siege, the Black Rider hasn't been captured, then the Elvish kingdom is destroyed, and the few that survive seek refuge in Ackanomic, coming with the fighter as they return. Ackanomic is then put under siege by the Black Rider and all its players are put on vacation, except the person holding the magic potato. He can continue trying to catch the Black Rider.
If the Rider is caught at the Elvish castle, then all is well, the Orks are defeated and everyone is happy. If caught at Ackanomic, the orks are also routed, but the weakened Elvish kingdom will not be able to help Ackanomic for 24 days. In both cases, the player capturing the Rider gets his sword and the Rider has to wonder for twenty days to get another.
Proposal 760 - Wed May 15 00:34:36 EDT 1996
The Gnomes Like Growing Potatos.
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
Decision: Rejected
If there is a Gnome tribe in Ackanomic, then the elders of that tribe are said to have a magic potato plantation, from the seeds of the Original Potato (tm). If the Magic Potato in play in Acka cannot be found, is lost, is damaged, is destroyed or is otherwise unavailable, the speaker can ask the Gnome elders for another Magic Potato.The elders are kind and know that this is for the good of Ackanomic, and will give a new magic Potato.
Proposal 761 - Wed May 15 00:35:23 EDT 1996
Parades
Brinjal (Simon Clarke)
Decision: Accepted
Whenever a proposal whose number ends with the digits "76" is adopted, an Ackanomic Parade shall be held, with the player who made the proposal as the Guest of Honour.The Guest of Honour has seven days from the adoption of the proposal to publish an interesting description of the parade. Failure to comply with this requirement, if and when proved, will result in ten points being deducted from the score of the Guest of Honour.
All players will take part in the Parade, and will receive one point for so doing.
The player in possession of the Great Trombone of Ackanomia, if such an entity exists, will lead the Parade and receive not one but ten points.
Any player on Vacation will be represented by an identical replica of themselves, provided for the occasion by the Ackanomic Institute of Genetic Replication, if such exists. Otherwise they will be represented by a cardboard cutout on wheels, which will lower the whole tone of the occasion, so any points they would have received as a result of the Parade will be withheld.
Proposal 762 - Wed May 15 00:36:59 EDT 1996
The Great Trombone of Ackanomia
Brinjal (Simon Clarke)
Decision: Accepted
The Great Trombone of Ackanomia is hereby created. It is unique, and will always either be in the possession of one player, or be Somewhere Else. Upon the adoption of this rule, the Great Trombone is Somewhere Else.Whenever the Great Trombone is Somewhere Else, the first player to make a valid public claim will take possession of it. A claim is only valid if the player concerned has a score of exactly 76 points.
Whenever the score of the player who possesses the Great Trombone exceeds 152 points, they lose possession of the Great Trombone, and it returns to Somewhere Else.
If the player who possesses the Great Trombone leaves the game, they automatically relinquish possession of it, and the Great Trombone is once again said to be Somewhere Else.
The Great Trombone is protected, and cannot be transferred or destroyed except as described by the rules.
Proposal 763 - Thu May 16 15:26:36 EDT 1996
Repeal 729
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
Decision: Retracted by author
Repeal rule 729
Proposal 764 - Thu May 16 15:26:59 EDT 1996
Repeal 728
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
Decision: Retracted by author
Repeal rule 728
Proposal 765 - Thu May 16 15:27:14 EDT 1996
The Earth is NOT FLAT
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
Decision: Rejected
Anyone who says that the earth is round will be have the right to have the initials "KW" (knowledgeably wise, not kiwi) after their name as a symbol of great strength of character, endurance through the ignorance of the masses, and courage through martyrdom.No other rule may refer to these initials, refer to them or alter their meaning.
Proposal 766 - Thu May 16 16:16:09 EDT 1996
Fire Declared Illegal
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
Decision: Rejected
Anyone caught setting fire to anything will face a fine of no less than A$200 and no more than A$1000. Also, the criminal will face a prison sentence of no less than 1 week without parole.The residents of Ackanomic are encourage to use environmentaly friendly methods to keep warm or fuel their, hum... hobbies.
Proposal 767 - Thu May 16 16:16:29 EDT 1996
Nothing Important
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
Decision: Accepted
The Ackanomic Afterlife hereby exists. It is unique and all other rules referring to this location use the definition below.It is the name of a luxurious palace near the Senate. A player that has "entered" this palace can do so as per another rule, not directly of his own decision. This palace magically heals all burns, and the ashes of players have been known to spontaneous "decombust" back into the player when put there.
A player may leave the palace whenever he wants.
Proposal 768 - Thu May 16 16:33:38 EDT 1996
Power To The People (aka: The Hacksaw)
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
Decision: Rejected
This rule grants each and every player of ackanomic who voted yes for this proposal, the right to each repeal one single mutable rule of their choice.To repeal a rule, a player must send the number of the rule to be destroyed to the speaker. That rule will be removed from the rule set. If no rule has that number, the player forfeits this privileged. This power stands indefinitely, until such time when all repeals granted by this rule are used up. At that time, this rule repeals itself.
This rule cannot be repealed by someone who voted yes for it.
Proposal 769 - Fri May 17 01:36:05 EDT 1996
No Orphaned Entities
/dev/joe (Joseph DeVincentis)
Decision: Rejected
This proposal shall create a new rule, titled "No Orphaned Entities", with the following text:If at any time there exists any entity (hereafter called "Foo") which was created by any rule, and the rule which created Foo has been repealed, or has been amended so that it would no longer create Foo, and no other rule would also create Foo if Foo did not exist, then this rule destroys Foo. If at any time there exists any entity (hereafter called "Bar") created by another entity, and the creating entity does not exist, then this rule destroys Bar. Rules, proposals, and votes will not be destroyed by this rule.
Proposal 770 - Fri May 17 01:37:38 EDT 1996
Fixing Rule Changes
/dev/joe (Joseph DeVincentis)
Decision: Rejected
I propose the rule change below, repealing one rule and creating another.1. Repeal rule 446, titled "Unanimity is a Great Thing".
[[ Rule 446 reads as follows:
This rule does not apply to proposals that amend, repeal, or transmute rules. It only applies to proposals that create new rules. When such a proposal passes unanimously, creating a mutable rule, that new rule automatically becomes an immutable rule, retaining the same rule number it had prior to this transmutation. Any proposal that is voted against unanimously creates a new rule as if it had been voted for unanimously. This rule then becomes an immutable rule, following the procedure described previously. ]]2. Create a new rule, titled "No Rule-changing rules", with the text that follows:
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I. Rules may not be created, amended, repealed, transmuted, or otherwise changed except as permitted in this rule. This rule takes precedence over all other mutable rules that attempt to change other rules or create ways that rules can be changed. [[Sorry about the global precedence, but it is needed for this rule to work.]] For the rest of this rule, "changed" shall be used in reference to rules to mean "created, amended, repealed, transmuted, or otherwise changed."II. Rules may be changed by valid Rule Changes which are the result of accepted Proposals, in the manner that Proposals and Rule Changes are defined by other rules. Only a Proposal may create a Rule Change and only a Player may create a Proposal.
III. Rules may amend or repeal themselves, or transmute themselves to become mutable.
IV. Rules may be changed according to an Executive Order, or the report from a Constitutional Convention, or a Common Sense Report, if such entities exist, and if the rule changes are accepted by the people in accordance to the rules that define these entities.
V. Rules may be changed by other procedures defined by the rules, should such procedures exist, and provided that the procedures comply with the following restrictions:
V.1. The rules defining such procedures must provide a method by which players opposed to changes in the rules can try to prevent them from taking effect. (By voting, by simply announcing their opposition, etc.)
V.2. The rules must require that the proposed changes are publically announced, and must allow a minimum of 3 days from the time the change is announced before the change takes effect, during which the players opposed to the change try to prevent it from taking effect.
V.3. The rules must not allow a rule change to succeed if N players act to oppose the proposal in the proper way. N is equal to 1 plus 1/3 of the number of active players, rounded down to a whole number.
Proposal 771 - Fri May 17 01:38:51 EDT 1996
Amending "Numbering Proposals"
/dev/joe (Joseph DeVincentis)
Decision: Retracted by author
The rule entitled "Numbering Proposals" shall be amended as follows. The second paragraph shall be changed from:"Each rule has a number. If a rule change creating a new rule does not assign it a number, the new rule's number shall be the least integer greater than all rule numbers previously used.
to:
"Each rule has a number. If a rule change creating a new rule does not assign it a number, the new rule's number shall be the number of the proposal that created it.
and the following shall be appended to the end of the rule:
"This is the first sentence of the second part of the rule 'Numbering Proposals.'
"If there does not exist a rule titled 'No Rule-changing Rules' at the time that this part of this rule takes effect, then at that time, all rules with numbers greater than 642, including this rule, shall be renumbered, giving each rule the number of the proposal that created it. The ARN for such rules will be changed similarly.
"If there exists a rule titled 'No Rule-changing Rules' at the time that this part of this rule takes effect, then 3 days after this part of this rule takes effect, all rules with numbers greater than 642, including this rule, shall be renumbered, giving each rule the number of the rule that created it. The ARN for such rules will be changed similarly. Any player opposed to this change may declare their opposition by sending a public message containing the text '____ thinks the rule numbers should stay screwed up!' where ____ is filled in with his Official Ackanomic Name. If at any time within the 3 days after this part of this rule takes effect, N players have declared this, where N is equal to 1 plus 1/3 the number of active players, rounded down to a whole number, then the changes described in this part of the rule will not occur, and the rule numbers will remain screwed up, although new rules will still be numbered properly.
"5 days after this part of this rule takes effect, this rule shall be amended by deleting this part of the rule, including the sentences which mark the beginning and end of this part of the rule.
"This is the last sentence of the second part of the rule 'Numbering Proposals.'"
[[ As it is written now, 'Numbering Proposals' made the next new rule after proposal 642 passed become rule 643, even though it was proposal 648 which created it. Game Custom seems to be that the rules are referred to by the number of the proposals that created them, but this rule differs from this custom, and I intend to fix this, both for the future (with the minor change to the text) and for the new rules which have been created since that time. It also shows how additional rule-changing rules can be created if "No Rule-changing Rules" is passed. ]]
Proposal 772 - Fri May 17 01:39:33 EDT 1996
Repeal 729
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
Decision: Rejected
Repeal rule 729, as stated below: >The Earth is flat. Contradiction of this fact is Heresy. > >If, in a public message, a player refers to the Earth being round, >or implies that this may be the case, any other player may call for >a Witchhunt, by publically posting that they are doing so. > >During the Witchhunt, which lasts 3 days, players send their votes >to the tabulator (hereafter referred to as the Witchfinder General) >containing the name of the alleged Heretic. Players can vote either >"No! E said the Earth is flat", or "BURN THE WITCH!" > >After the Witchhunt is over, a simple majority (50% or more) will >determine whether or not the alleged Heretic has been burned.The >Witchfinder General will publicly announce the outcome. > >If the witch has been burned, e shall enter the Ackanomic afterlife, >should such a place exist. E shall be excommunicated from the >Ackanomic Catholic Church, should such an organisation exist. And >e shall lose 10 points.
Proposal 773 - Fri May 17 01:39:51 EDT 1996
Repeal 728
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
Decision: Rejected
Repeal rule 728, as below: >If an adopted proposal contains the phrase "cows eat grass", >then the proposer who proposed the change is said to be silly, >and shall score 5 points. > >[[ This rule does not apply to this rule. ]]
Proposal 774 - Fri May 17 14:01:09 EDT 1996
Auto-Vacation
Wayne (Wayne Sheppard)
Decision: Accepted
If a quorum is not met on a proposal, all players who abstained on the proposal shall be placed on vacation.
Proposal 775 - Fri May 17 18:04:37 EDT 1996
Church
Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
Decision: Accepted
1.a Let there be a new type of Ackanomic entity called a Church b. If Organization is defined, then a Church is a type of Organization c. A Church is a Protected entity. 2. a. Any may Player may declare eir intent to found a Church. A Church is officially recognized when the player has three Followers in addition to eirself. b. The Player who founded the Church will be known as the Church Founder. c.Any Player who joins the Church will be known as a Follower d. Once a Church has been officially recognized, a public anouncement will be made by the Speaker to that effect. The anouncement must include the name of the Church, the name of the Founder, the names of all the members, and a document called Church Dogma.Church Dogma includes any infomation concerning the Church that the Founder wishes to make public. 3. a.Each Church may have a Church Policy. b.Church Policy is an internal Church document. c.All Church members must abide by Church Policy as long as they are members of the Church. d. The initial Church Policy will be set by the Founder. Church Policy may only change according to Church Policy e. A Church is not obliged to divulge Church Policy, in whole or in part, in a public forum. f. Church Policy has no effect over the power to ordain Priests. It cannot take this power away from the Founder, neither can it give this power to anyone else. g. Church Policy cannot prevent a Church member from leaving a Church 4.a. The Church Founder has the power to ordain Priests. b. A Founder may ordain a Player as a Priest iff that Player is a member of eir Church. c. The Founder may delegate any of his duties or authorities to the Priesthood, except for the power to ordain Priests. d.In the absence of the Founder, the most senior Priest will perform the duites, and have the authority of the Founder, except for the power to ordain Priests. If seniority is not defined in Church Policy, then the most senior Priest, will the one who has been Priest for the longest duration of time. e. If a decision is to be made by the Priesthood, and no method for making such decisions is defined in Church Policy, then the decision will be made by a simple majority rule. In case of a tie, then seniority is taken into account. [[the side that has the greater total seniority is considered to have the majority]]. If seniority is not defined in Church Policy, the the seniority of a Priest will be defined as the length of time that has passed since that Player has been ordained as a Priest in that Church. If there is still a tie after this, then the Founder will break the tie. 5. a. A Church may define its own alternative terminology for the Church specific terms defined in this rule. b. Any terms that the Church intends to use in a public forum, must be defined in Church Dogma. c. If undefined terminology is used by Church members in a public forum, any player may publically request the Church to provide an explain of that term. The Church must respond within 4 days with an explanation it finds suitable. A Church may provide such an explanation even if no request was made. d. A Church mailing list is not considered a public forum. 6. A player may not be a member of more that one Church at the same time. 7. a.When a player wishes to join a Church, e may communicate this fact to the Church Founder either publically or privately. b. If Church Policy has nothing to say on accepting new members, then Church membership will be up to the Founder. c. Whenever a new player joins a Church, the Church Founder must make a public anouncement to that effect. d. A player may leave a Church at any time. 8. a. A Church must always have at least one Priest. b. A Church must always have at least at four members, including Priests. c. For purposes of membership, the Church Founder is considered a Priest d. Any function that can be performed by a Priest, can also be performed by the Church Founder. e. If at any time a Church does not its membership criteria, that is, it either has less than four members, or has no Priest, it is officially disbanded. When a Church is disbanded, apublic anouncement is made to that effect. f. If a Priest refuses to recognize that the Church has been disbanded, then the remaining Church members may be known as a Cult. a Cult has no official status whatsoever. 9. Church, Church membership, Foundership, Priesthood, and Church Dogma are Protected.
Proposal 776 - Fri May 17 23:50:32 EDT 1996
It Came From Outer Space
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
Decision: Rejected
Any proposal that contains the letters "U", "F" and "O" anywhere in its text, in capital, will be subject to an attack by the Mind-Reversal-Laser from the Green Ship from Outer Space, which is deemed to exist by the existance of this rule.The effect will be that every vote "for" that proposal will count as a vote "against", and vice versa. Also, the points awarded to each players will be negated. So if a player would have had -5 points, then she would get 5 points.
Proposal 777 - Fri May 17 23:50:32 EDT 1996
The Lost Planet
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
Decision: Rejected
Scientists in Ackanomic have discovered that the origins of its (sometime) sentient inhabitants, the players, are not as clear cut as was once believed. No longer do they believe we evolved from primitive origins here, on planet Ackanomic, but rather that we are the children of a crashed colonization ship of a great space civilization.For this reason, every 37 days, when Ackanomic is perfectly aligned for excellent subspace transmition, all the players must make a public broadcast saying:
"This is planet Ackanomic reporting: Come in Nanoo-Zoltar."If a player sends the message, then she will receive 4 points. If a player fails to send that message, then she will lose 7 points.
Proposal 778 - Fri May 17 23:50:32 EDT 1996
The Space Station
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
Decision: Rejected
Any player who would be branded a Heretic may seek refuge on the Space Station. The space station is a place of commerce and diplomacy for wonderers, entrepreneurs, diplomats, a port of call, a home away from home for a quarter of a million humans and aliens alike. A place of refuge for anyone scared of (their) shadows, or of getting their heads crushed by a Klingon task force. Whatever those maybe.Any player may seek refuge on the space station by making a public statement saying she is going there. A player on the station is not on vacation. The player is no longer a Heretic, and she can never again be called a heretic. While on the station, she may also get biogenic implants so that she is made non-flammable. That means she cannot be affected by any fire.
Proposal 779 - Sat May 18 00:08:32 EDT 1996
Succession Proceedings
Malenkai (Randy Hall)
Decision: Accepted
[[Hopefully this will never have to be invoked. Its nice to have something in place, though, just in case. This is pretty much the same as the RFC with this is not a name's comments worked in]]1) Should the current Speaker perform no game actions for a fortnight, players may invoke Succession Proceedings (SPS). If this is true, SPS are officially invoked upon 3 or more players posting to the public forum that they wish them to be invoked.
2) Should the current Speaker perform any game action, including, but not limited to, posting to the main forum, SPS are immediately terminated.
3) Upon SPS being invoked, one of the players invoking them must send a message to the current Speaker stating what is going on, with the subject line "Ackanomic: Official: SPS". If the current Speaker responds to the message in the public forum within 3 days, SPS is immediately terminated.
4) If the current Speaker does not respond, an Acting Speaker is selected by the following procedure: (Note that the "work" required by this procedure (sorting the offices, offering the positions, etc), can be done by anyone in the game. If the procedure is stalled at a particular point because a piece of work is not done, and no one steps forward to do it for three days, the SPS is terminated)
4a) All office holders (functional, political, and otherwise) are candidates for succession, with the following exceptions: The current Speaker, regardless of any other offices he or she holds, is not a candidate. The holder of any office which explicitly cannot be held by the Speaker is ineligable. A player on vacation is ineligable.
4b) The occupied offices are listed, sorted by the rule number which created them (lowest rule number/office on "top" of the list, rule numbers increasing from there). Any offices excluded by 4a) are not listed. [[This allows for additional offices to be created without having to come up with a succession list in this rule]]
4c) The player holding the office at the top of the list is offered the position of Acting Speaker. They have 2 days to accept or decline the position. No reply is taken as a decline. If the office has multiple seats (e.g. Senate), players within the office are sorted alphabetically by Ackanomic Name.
4d) If a player declines, they, and all offices they hold, are struck from the succession list.
4e) If all players decline, then the 3 players who first invoked SPS will become the Acting Speaker as a group.
5) Upon selection of a Acting Speaker, the following will occur:
5a) The Acting Speaker will, regretablly, invoke "No dead players allowed" or its equivelent, on the current Speaker. This clause superceeds all mutable rules which only give the Speaker this priveledge. If the procedure to remove dead players from the game is undefined, then the Acting Speaker will use "Permissability of the Unprohibited" to remove the dead Speaker. If this is illegal or impossible for any reason, the current Speaker is considered Impeached, and loses the title.
5b) The Acting Speaker will carry on all other duties and responsibilities of the Speaker. This clause superceeds all mutable rules which only give the Speaker certain duties and responsibilities.
5c) Upon the current Speaker responding to 5a, the SPS will be terminated, and there will be no Acting Speaker.
5d) Upon the current Speaker not responding to 5a, the Acting Speaker will hold an election for Speaker under the rules for doing so. If those rules are undefined, the following will happen:
5e) The Acting Speaker will become the Speaker if the Acting Speaker is an individual. If the Acting Speaker is a group, that group will decide among itself which of its members will become the Speaker, and that person will become the Speaker. If the group fails to decide within 3 days, the first person who called for the SPS will become the Speaker.
6) Upon the termination of SPS for any reason, clause 1) must again be satisfied for them to be initiated again.
Proposal 780 - Sat May 18 03:37:28 EDT 1996
The Vows At Langemoor
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
Decision: Rejected
I hereby vow to fight by whatever means at my disposal, those whose petty interpretations of the rules are used to claw toward themselves the murky scraps of an advantage.Or those who see the rules as 'holy' text to be follow exactly, each letter of the way. Those would meanly narrow the ideals of each proposal to their own absurd agendas. Those whose idea of Ackanomic is a place where each and every detail must be spelled out in triplicate and filled with a dozen officers."
The players who vote for this rule will be known as the Independent Free Thinkers. Those who vote against this rule will be known as the Strict Constructionists.
The results of the vote for this rule will be attached at the end of this proposal. That is, the list of people who voted for, and the list of those who voted against.
Proposal 781 - Sat May 18 03:37:28 EDT 1996
Ackae Recognized For Its Work.
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
Decision: Rejected
Ackanomic acknowledges the existence of Ackae as formed by the publication of its charter (more than a month before this proposal), independently of this rule. No other entity, organization, etc, may name itself Ackae. "Doyen of Ackae", "Ackaen" are terms specific and unique to Ackae.
Proposal 782 - Sat May 18 03:37:28 EDT 1996
The Langemoor Commission
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
Decision: Rejected
If any entity in this rule is not recognized or defined by the rules, then the rule is dormant.The Langemoor Commission (LC) will have as its head the Doyen of Ackae. The Senate will choose by straight majority one of its members to sit on the LC. Just as will the OotF choose in the same manner one of its members to sit on the LC.
The Langemoor Commission has as its sole guideline, the duty to provide the warmth and moderation of human fairness to the cold, unfeeling interpretations of the rules. This means it should always be bias toward making sure interpretations of the rules are simple, easy, friendly, broad when granting powers to all players, narrow when punishing, restricting activity, granting powers to a few or a single player.
The LC can overrule an AOJ or CFJ or the likes which emanate from Judge(s), Justice(s), provided the following conditions are met.
(1) The LC is unanimous in its decision.
(2) Within 3 days of the overruling, at least 5 other people have made a public message supporting the LC decision to overrule.Should the overruling be legal, then it can never be undone, except by an entity which is granted the specific power to overrule the LC itself. The new CFJ ruling will be recorded as the official ruling, citing "LC" as the judge. No members of the LC can be impeached for work on the LC, or removed from the LC, except by the normal process through which members are chosen as stated above.
Proposal 783 - Sat May 18 03:37:28 EDT 1996
New Guidelines For Judges and Justices.
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
Decision: Rejected
A judge must remember that while the Rules are cold and specific in their language, the players who live by those rules are alive, not objects.A judge must provide fairness and broadmindedness in interpreting the rules and traditions. Never can he hide behind the comfortable letter of the law. Instead, the Judge should be willing to solve problems, be as positive as she can while staying within the bounds of the rules. This may mean that discontented players may try to overrule, but the good judge must never be afraid of that, and should not consider this as a factor when reaching a decision.
All judges must be as broad as possible when interpreting rules that grant powers to the players. If a rule could be interpreted, by tradition or intent as referring to all the players, then it should be so.
Proposal 784 - Sat May 18 03:37:28 EDT 1996
The Citrus And Orange Prize.
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
Decision: Rejected
The Orange Prize recognizes those players who are helpful, friendly, broad minded and fair as players of Ackanomic. The Citrus Prize is one that recognizes officially a player that has been especially nit-picking. Examples include: - "he" cannot refer to a "she" or vice-versa... - "gnomes" just doesn't say "gnome"... - Saying something like "the rules don't allow that", when the rules never directly forbid it... - Etc... Both prizes will be awarded by the Speaker to the player of her choice in the first week of every month. Neither of the prizes _must_ be awarded, but should be only to highlight obvious cases of either when possible.
Proposal 785 - Sat May 18 03:37:28 EDT 1996
Killer 13th.
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain)
Decision: Rejected
Every 13th of the month, any person who has one or more proposal that fails or passes will have the right to repeal one mutable rule of their choice.To do so, they must send, on that 13th, the number of a rule to be repealed to the Speaker. If the rule exists and is mutable, it will be repealed. Otherwise, it is ignored and the person forfeits this power that time.
Proposal 786 - Sat May 18 11:22:30 EDT 1996
Gadgets
Mohammed (Jason Orendorff)
Decision: Accepted
A new rule titled "Gadgets" will be created, reading as follows:-----
(i) A Gadget's Blueprint is the Blueprint that defines the class of Gadget to which that Gadget belongs. If a Gadget's Blueprint exists, the Gadget behaves in the manner defined by the Blueprint, and may be manipulated in accordance with it.(ii) A Gadget has at most one owner. The ownership of a Gadget may be transferred from one Player to another by mutual consent, but both Players must write messages to the Inventor notifying him of the transfer. The time of the transfer is the time of the later of the two messages.
(iii) The ability to create Gadgets is a Privelege of the Inventor. The Inventor may create a Gadget only by performing these tasks, in this order:
(a) choosing a type from those defined by existing Blueprints.
(b) announcing publicly that a new Gadget of that type is being made. This cannot be done if the Inventor is already in the process of making a Gadget.
(c) building the gadget. This task is completed when the Inventor has spent at least three days building, and the Blueprint defining the type of Gadget to be made has existed for at least one week. The Gadget is created at the end of this time. It has no owner.
(d) announcing publicly that the new Gadget has been built and that the auction for that Gadget has begun.
(e) holding an auction. The auction begins with the Inventor's announcement that it has begin and ends three days later. During this time, a message to the Inventor from another player offering a positive amount of currency for the Gadget is a bid. At the end of the auction, a bid is valid if the player who sent it has at least the amount of currency he or she offerred.
(f) determining the Gadget's owner. When the auction is over, if no valid bids were sent, the Gadget is destroyed. Otherwise, the player who set the valid bid offering the most currency is the winner of the auction. The amount of currency the winner offered in the winning bid is deducted from his or her account, and ownership of the new Gadget is transferred to him or her.
(iv) If, during the creation process, the Inventor's Priveleges are suspended, the process is paused. If, during the creation process, the Inventor leaves office, no new Gadget is created, or the new Gadget is destroyed (whichever case applies). The process is then aborted and cannot be continued by the succeeding Inventor.
(v) A Gadget's owner can destroy it by publicly announcing that he or she is doing so, unless the Gadget's Blueprint specifies that it is indestructible.
(vi) A Gadget may create, destroy, or manipulate a protected entity if its Blueprint so specifies. [So, Gadgets can affect other Gadgets, create points, and so on, as long as this behavior does not conflict with the Rules.]
Proposal 787 - Sat May 18 11:24:25 EDT 1996
Exception to the Rule
snowgod (Phil Ackley)
Decision: Retracted by author
This rule acknowledges that the is an exception to every rule.
Proposal 788 - Sat May 18 11:24:57 EDT 1996
Another waste of time proposal
snowgod (Phil Ackley)
Decision: Rejected
This rule acknowledges that there is a sucker born every minute.
Proposal 789 - Sat May 18 11:25:36 EDT 1996
Another fool Proposal
snowgod (Phil Ackley)
Decision: Rejected
This rule acknowledges that you can fool all of the players some of the time, and some of the players all of the time, but you can't fool all of the players all of the time.
Proposal 790 - Sat May 18 11:26:18 EDT 1996
Fat Lady
snowgod (Phil Ackley)
Decision: Accepted
This rule creates an Acknomic entity known as the Fat Lady. The Fat Lady cannot be owned or controlled except as described in the rules.The Fat Lady shall sing only if a player wins the game in accordance with the rules. The speaker is required to announce that the Fat Lady is singing upon a winner being declared, and the Fat Lady will not sing until the speaker announces that she is doing so.
Furthermore, the game cannot be over till the Fat Lady sings.
This rule take precendence over all other rules dealing with end-of-game conditions.
Proposal 791 - Sun May 19 02:13:10 EDT 1996
Numbering and Renumbering proposals
/dev/joe (Joseph DeVincentis)
Decision: Retracted by author
1. The rule entitled "Numbering Proposals" shall be amende to read, in full:The Promoter shall give each proposal a number for reference. This number shall be the least positive integer greater than all proposal numbers already taken.
Each rule has an effective ordinal number, hereafter referred to simply as the rule's number. If a rule change creates one new rule, and does not assign it a number, the new rule's number shall be X, where X is the number of the proposal that created it. If there is already a rule with the effective ordinal number X, then the rule will instead be assigned the number X.Y, where Y is the lowest positive integer such that X.Y is not the number of any other rule.
If a rule change creates more than one new rule, and does not assign them numbers, then each new rule shall receive be numbered in the form X.Y where X is the number of the proposal that created it, and Y is a positive integer; each new rule, in the order that the rules appear in the proposal, shall be assigned the lowest available Y such that X.Y is not the number of any other rule.
If a rule change attempts to assign a rule a number which is not of one of the forms 'X' or 'X.Y', where X and Y represent any positive integers, or if it attempts to assign a rule a number already assigned to another rule, then that part of the proposal is ignored and the above process is used to assign it a number.
Rule numbers and proposal numbers are protected.
[[ Current text of 'Numbering Proposals':
The Promoter shall give each proposal a number for reference. This number shall be the least positive integer greater than all proposal numbers already taken.Each rule has a number. If a rule change creating a new rule does not assign it a number, the new rule's number shall be the least integer greater than all rule numbers previously used.
Rule numbers and proposal numbers are protected.
]]
[[ As it is written now, 'Numbering Proposals' made the next new rule after proposal 642 passed become rule 643, even though it was proposal 648 which created it. Game Custom seems to be that the rules are referred to by the number of the proposals that created them, but this rule differs from this custom, and I intend to fix this, both for the future (with the amendment in part 1 of the proposal) and for the new rules which have been created since that time (with 'Renumbering Proposals' below).'Renumbering Proposals' also shows how additional rule-changing rules can be created if "No Rule-changing Rules" is passed.
I also added the phrase "effective ordinal number" back into the 'Numbering Proposals' rule, since the other rules that relate to rule numbers use this term, and I added additional checks to ensure that no rule is ever assigned the same number as another rule.]]
3. Rule 210, 'Resolving Conflicts', shall be amended by adding this text at the end of the rule:
2. A new rule shall be created, entitled 'Renumbering Proposals', with the following text:
If there does not exist a rule titled 'No Rule-changing Rules' at the time that this rule takes effect, then at that time, all rules with numbers greater than 642, including this rule, shall be renumbered, giving each rule the number of the proposal that created it. The ARN for such rules will be changed similarly.
If there exists a rule titled 'No Rule-changing Rules' at the time that this rule takes effect, then 3 days after this rule takes effect, all rules with numbers greater than 642, including this rule, shall be renumbered, giving each rule the number of the rule that created it. The ARN for such rules will be changed similarly. Any player opposed to this change may declare their opposition by sending a public message containing the text '____ thinks the rule numbers should stay screwed up!' where ____ is filled in with his Official Ackanomic Name. If at any time within the 3 days after this rule takes effect, N players have declared this, where N is equal to 1 plus 1/3 the number of active players, rounded down to a whole number, then the changes described in this rule will not occur, and the rule numbers will remain screwed up, although new rules will still be numbered properly.
[[ Below are some other changes necessary to make this work. ]]
3. Rule 210, 'Resolving Conflicts', shall be amended by adding this text at the end of the rule:
Hereafter, 'number' refers to a rule's effective ordinal number. Lowest number is defined as follows:
1. Each rule has a number of the form 'X' or 'X.Y' where X and Y may be any positive integers.
2. Among a set of rules, the rule(s) with the lowest value of X are considered to have the lowest number(s).
3. If a rule has the number X and one or more other rules have number(s) of the form 'X.Y', for the same X and any Y, then the rule with the number 'X' has the lowest number among these rules.
4. Among a set of rules with the same X, all of which have numbers of the form 'X.Y', the rule with the lowest value of Y is considered to have the lowest number.[[ Currently 'Resolving Conflicts' reads as follows:
If two or more mutable rules conflict with one another, or if two or more immutable rules conflict with one another, then the rule with the lowest effective ordinal number takes precedence. If at least one of the rules in conflict explicitly says of itself that it defers to another rule (or type of rule) or takes precedence over another rule (or type of rule), then such provisions shall supercede the numerical method for determining precedence. If two or more rules claim to take precedence over one another, or to defer to one another, then the numerical method must again govern.]]4. Rule 522, 'Absolute Reference Number', shall be amended by changing the sentence "The ARN must be a positive integer." to "The ARN must be in one of the forms 'X' or 'X.Y', where X and Y represent any positive integers."
Proposal 792 - Sun May 19 15:45:53 EDT 1996
Head Start
Bascule (Matt Black)
Decision: Accepted
When a new player joins the game of Ackanomic, the Registrar should mail her or him the following:1. Instructions on how to vote, with a copy of the current nomicbot help file, if such a thing exists.
2. An explanation of how to submit proposals.
3. A glossary of acronyms and explanations of said acronyms, including but not limited to the following: CFJ, AOJ, ARN, RFC, CSRR.
Proposal 793 - Sun May 19 15:46:18 EDT 1996
No Proposal Bribery
/dev/joe (Joseph DeVincentis)
Decision: Accepted
This proposal will create a new rule, entitled 'No Proposal Bribery', with the following text:A proposal is invalid if the rule change or resolution it contains discriminates in any way between players based on the way they vote on that proposal. If a proposal adds, changes, or repeals rules that generate effects (including but not limited to score changes) based on the way players vote, then the additions, changes, or repeals in that proposal shall not apply to that proposal.
Proposal 794 - Sun May 19 21:40:52 EDT 1996
Numbering and Renumbering Proposals
/dev/joe (Joseph DeVincentis)
Decision: Accepted
[[ This is the same as retracted proposal 791, but without the extra section 3 header. ]]1. The rule entitled "Numbering Proposals" shall be amende to read, in full:
The Promoter shall give each proposal a number for reference. This number shall be the least positive integer greater than all proposal numbers already taken.
Each rule has an effective ordinal number, hereafter referred to simply as the rule's number. If a rule change creates one new rule, and does not assign it a number, the new rule's number shall be X, where X is the number of the proposal that created it. If there is already a rule with the effective ordinal number X, then the rule will instead be assigned the number X.Y, where Y is the lowest positive integer such that X.Y is not the number of any other rule.
If a rule change creates more than one new rule, and does not assign them numbers, then each new rule shall receive be numbered in the form X.Y where X is the number of the proposal that created it, and Y is a positive integer; each new rule, in the order that the rules appear in the proposal, shall be assigned the lowest available Y such that X.Y is not the number of any other rule.
If a rule change attempts to assign a rule a number which is not of one of the forms 'X' or 'X.Y', where X and Y represent any positive integers, or if it attempts to assign a rule a number already assigned to another rule, then that part of the proposal is ignored and the above process is used to assign it a number.
Rule numbers and proposal numbers are protected.
[[ Current text of 'Numbering Proposals':
The Promoter shall give each proposal a number for reference. This number shall be the least positive integer greater than all proposal numbers already taken.Each rule has a number. If a rule change creating a new rule does not assign it a number, the new rule's number shall be the least integer greater than all rule numbers previously used.
Rule numbers and proposal numbers are protected.
]]
[[ As it is written now, 'Numbering Proposals' made the next new rule after proposal 642 passed become rule 643, even though it was proposal 648 which created it. Game Custom seems to be that the rules are referred to by the number of the proposals that created them, but this rule differs from this custom, and I intend to fix this, both for the future (with the amendment in part 1 of the proposal) and for the new rules which have been created since that time (with 'Renumbering Proposals' below).'Renumbering Proposals' also shows how additional rule-changing rules can be created if "No Rule-changing Rules" is passed.
I also added the phrase "effective ordinal number" back into the 'Numbering Proposals' rule, since the other rules that relate to rule numbers use this term, and I added additional checks to ensure that no rule is ever assigned the same number as another rule.]]
2. A new rule shall be created, entitled 'Renumbering Proposals', with the following text:
If there does not exist a rule titled 'No Rule-changing Rules' at the time that this rule takes effect, then at that time, all rules with numbers greater than 642, including this rule, shall be renumbered, giving each rule the number of the proposal that created it. The ARN for such rules will be changed similarly.
If there exists a rule titled 'No Rule-changing Rules' at the time that this rule takes effect, then 3 days after this rule takes effect, all rules with numbers greater than 642, including this rule, shall be renumbered, giving each rule the number of the rule that created it. The ARN for such rules will be changed similarly. Any player opposed to this change may declare their opposition by sending a public message containing the text '____ thinks the rule numbers should stay screwed up!' where ____ is filled in with his Official Ackanomic Name. If at any time within the 3 days after this rule takes effect, N players have declared this, where N is equal to 1 plus 1/3 the number of active players, rounded down to a whole number, then the changes described in this rule will not occur, and the rule numbers will remain screwed up, although new rules will still be numbered properly.
[[ Below are some other changes necessary to make this work. ]]
3. Rule 210, 'Resolving Conflicts', shall be amended by adding this text at the end of the rule:
Hereafter, 'number' refers to a rule's effective ordinal number.
Lowest number is defined as follows:
1. Each rule has a number of the form 'X' or 'X.Y' where X and Y may be any positive integers.
2. Among a set of rules, the rule(s) with the lowest value of X are considered to have the lowest number(s).
3. If a rule has the number X and one or more other rules have number(s) of the form 'X.Y', for the same X and any Y, then the rule with the number 'X' has the lowest number among these rules.
4. Among a set of rules with the same X, all of which have numbers of the form 'X.Y', the rule with the lowest value of Y is considered to have the lowest number.[[ Currently 'Resolving Conflicts' reads as follows:
If two or more mutable rules conflict with one another, or if two or more immutable rules conflict with one another, then the rule with the lowest effective ordinal number takes precedence. If at least one of the rules in conflict explicitly says of itself that it defers to another rule (or type of rule) or takes precedence over another rule (or type of rule), then such provisions shall supercede the numerical method for determining precedence. If two or more rules claim to take precedence over one another, or to defer to one another, then the numerical method must again govern.]]4. Rule 522, 'Absolute Reference Number', shall be amended by changing the sentence "The ARN must be a positive integer." to "The ARN must be in one of the forms 'X' or 'X.Y', where X and Y represent any positive integers."
Proposal 795 - Mon May 20 15:06:25 EDT 1996
Blatant Elitism
Bascule (Matt Black)
Decision: Rejected
This rule allows any player of Ackanomic to assume a title, based on their current score. No player may use any title on this list except the title that their score entitles them to. Observers may use the title Harmless.[[ This table is best viewed using a non-proportional font, eg Courier ]]
Score Title 0 or below Harmless 1-20 Mostly Harmless 21-40 Poor 41-70 Average 71-100 Above Average 101-150 Competent 151-200 Dangerous 201-250 Deadly 251 or over EliteIf a player assumes a title which requires a score higher than their own, in addition to any penalties required by other rules, that player is deemed to have been ambushed by Thargoids in hyperspace and blasted into a million pieces, leading to the replacement of any Military lasers in the player's possession by Pulse lasers, and the loss of 1 point.
Proposal 796 - Tue May 21 00:13:57 EDT 1996
Make 452 mutable
this is not a name (Mike Epstein)
Decision: Accepted
The passage of this proposal would make Rule 452 mutable.[[
Rule 452/1 (Immutable)
Rule TitlesEach Rule shall have a Title. Each Proposal shall also have a Title. When a Proposal is submitted, the player that submits it may indicate the Title for the Proposal. If the player doesn't indicate a Title for the Proposal then the Promoter shall select a Title.
If the Proposal passes and the Proposal creates a New Rule, then the New Rule shall have the Title of the Proposal. If the Proposal amends or mutates a Rule, the Title of the Rule shall remain unchanged.
Once a Rule has a Title, the only way that the Rule may have its Title changed is if a Proposal is passed which changes the Title.
Created by Proposal 452, Mar 14 1996
Transmuted to Immutable by Rule 446, Mar 14 1996]]
Proposal 797 - Tue May 21 01:19:35 EDT 1996
Festival of Torkola
Malenkai (Randy Hall)
Decision: Accepted
1) This rule defines the Festival of Torkola, a period of much merriment and mirth in the land of Ackanomia, where players concentrate on enjoying the existing rules, and relatively inactive players may participate in ways other than just voting.2) A Festival of Torkola (hereafter "Festival") has a duration of 1 to 10 days. Only one Festival may be going on at a time. Its length cannot be changed while it is going on.
3) There is no limit to the number of Festivals that can occur in a given time period, except as in 2) above.
4) During a Festival, it is illegal for the Promoter or anyone else to distribute a Proposal for voting. This clause superceeds any mutable rule which would require or allow the Promoter, or anyone else, to do so. This specifically applies to Proposals. Not Resolutions, not CFJs, not Recall Petitions, etc. Just Proposals.
5) A Festival is started in one of 3 ways:
5a) Upon the passage of a Resolution or Proposal that specifies that a Festival of a given length start on a given date, relative to when it is passed. E.g: "Upon passage of this, a Festival of Torkola will start on the day following, and last for 7 days". Note that clause 2) cannot be violated. Note that this is e.g., it doesn't happen when this rule is passed.
5b) Upon distributation of any proposal whose last 2 digits are "00", the Promoter may declare a Festival to start on the day following the distributation of the proposal. He or she shall also determine the length. The Promoter is strongly encouraged, but not required, to do this. He or she must consider the state of the game and popular opinion when making this decision. This clause superceeds or augments all mutable rules which define the priveledges of the Promoter, and all mutable rules which would deny the Promoter this priveledge. This shall be a Priveledge of the office of Promoter. [ie, a Festival can occur every 100 proposals].
5c) Upon failure of any 3 consecutive proposals/resolutions due to Quorum not being met, a Festival of 5 days will automatically start on the day following the public disclosure of the 3rd failure. Any failures which occur during a Festival or before the known start date of one shall not count. e.g, if 6 proposals fail on a Saturday, the first 3 are sufficient to start a festival on Sunday, and the other failures shall be ignored.
Proposal 798 - Tue May 21 17:14:48 EDT 1996
Palindromes are Inherently Amusing
mr cwm (Eric Murray)
Decision: Accepted
In this order, three point shall be subtracted from the score of mr cwm, three points shall be added to the score of this is not a name, and this paragraph shall be stricken from this Rule.Upon each creation of a Rule fulfilling all three of the following conditions:
(1) the Rule has a game effect in addition to its own addition to the Ackanomic Rule Set and any effect claimed under this Rule
(2) each word in the Rule exists either in the Ackanomic Rule Set previous to the creation of the Rule, or in an electronically accessable dictionary of the English language selected by the Web-Harfer, should that office exist, provided that such dictionary is not under the control of any Player
(3) the text of the Rule is palindromic, that is, the text of the Rule would be the same, character by character, forward and backward if all alphabetic characters were lower-case, and anything other than alphabetic characters and numeric digits was removed.the Player that submitted the Proposal that created the Rule shall:
(1) have eight (8) points added to his or her score
(2) receive the honorific title "Sage o' Doe Gas" to hold until such time as another Player receives points under this Rule.
Proposal 799 - Sat May 25 01:26:41 EDT 1996
Repealing ARNs
Mohammed (Jason Orendorff)
Decision: Accepted
The rule titled "Absolute Reference Number" shall be repealed.Unless a proposal has passed to modify it, that rule reads:
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Rule 522/0 (Mutable)
Absolute Reference NumberEvery rule shall have both an effective ordinal number and an absolute reference number (hereafter referred to as ARN). The ARN must be a positive integer.
All rules, at the time of the creation of this rule, already have effective ordinal numbers assigned to them, and there are rules that describe how to generate the effective ordinal number for any new or amended rule. The instant this rule is adopted and goes into effect, all currently existing rules will have an ARN assigned to them. The ARN for such rules will be the same as their effective ordinal number.
Whenever a new rule is created (by whatever means) it will be assigned an ARN. The ARN of the newly created rule will be identical to the effective ordinal number assigned to it. Whenever a rule is amended or transmuted, or modified in any way, it will retain its previous ARN. Any rule, when it is repealed, will retain its ARN.
No two rules may have the same ARN. If a case ever arises when a rule is to be assigned an ARN that is already assigned to a rule (or repealed rule), then the Speaker will select a different ARN and give it to the new rule. The Speaker must select an ARN that is not currently assigned to any rule (or repealed rule), and the Speaker will try and select an ARN that will not be assigned to any other rules in the future).
[The ARN will be helpful in organizing the Web Page as well as giving an absolute reference to any rule. Currently it is impossible to refer to a rule by number, because the effective ordinal number of the rule might change.]
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Proposal 800 - Sat May 25 01:27:14 EDT 1996
Subject Lines
Mohammed (Jason Orendorff)
Decision: Accepted
1. The rule titled "Limited Subject Line Lengths" shall be modified to read, in full:=====
A message is a public message if, and only if, it is distributed to all registered Players and the subject line contains either "Ackanomic:" or "Acka:".
=====[[That rule currently reads:
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Rule 622/4 (Mutable)
"Limited Subject Line Lengths"In order to make handling this game easier on all players, all subject lines should have standard components. All Ackanomic messages will use the following system to determine the appropriate subject line:
The subject line (hereafter referred to as SL) for a message containing voting results ought to be of the form (omitting quotation marks) : "Ackanomic: Pnum Voting Results" (where Pnum is the number of the proposal in question). The key word that cannot be altered is the word "Results".
The SL for a message containing a proposal should follow the form: "Ackanomic: Proposal Pnum" (where Pnum is the number of the proposal in question). They key word that cannot be altered is the word "Proposal".
The SL for a message containing a Call For Judgement shall follow the form: "Ackanomic: CFJ Pnum" (where Pnum is the number of the proposal in question). The key word that cannot be altered is "CFJ".
The SL for a message containing any official announcement, news, or other "official" Ackanomic business shall follow the form: "Ackanomic: Official". The key word that cannot be altered is "Official".
The SL for a message containing a draft proposal shall have the following form: "Ackanomic: RFC (text)" (where (text) is not required, but encouraged). The key word that cannot be altered is "RFC". [Note that the acronym RFC stands for "Request For Comment"].
The SL for a message that is a general discussion follows the form: "Ackanomic: Discussion (Topic)" (where (Topic) is NOT required, but may be used to explain the topic of the message). The key word that cannot be altered is "Discussion".
The SL for any message that does not fit into one of the above categories, unless it is defined by some other rule, shall be of the form : "Ackanomic: Misc (Explanation)" (where (Explanation) is not required, but may explain what the topic of the message is). The key word that cannot be altered is "Misc".
Players should use these subjects for any message sent concerning the game. Minor variations are allowed in all cases, as long as the key word remains unchanged, and if the SL begins with the standard "Ackanomic" (or "re: Ackanomic, or minor variants thereof). If a player fails to use these standardized subjects, they will recieve a penalty of a deduction of one point from their score.
The abbreviation Acka is an acceptable substitute for the word Ackanomic in all cases.
=====As one of the players who most frequently violates this rule, I'm seeking to reduce it to a more or less harmless form. Note that this also cuts something like 50 lines of text from the rule set. :o) ]]
2. The rule titled "Tammany" shall be modified in the following way: section (xi) shall be removed.
[[It currently reads:
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Rule 554/0 (Mutable)
Tammany[...]
(xi) The use of subject lines that follow the form "Ackanomic: Bribe" shall be allowed without penalty. This section has precedence over any all mutable Rules.
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