From: owner-acka-research@wilma.che.utexas.edu (Ackanomic Research Digest) To: acka-research-digest Subject: Ackanomic Research Digest V2 #115 Reply-To: acka-research@wilma.che.utexas.edu Sender: owner-acka-research@wilma.che.utexas.edu Errors-To: owner-acka-research@wilma.che.utexas.edu Precedence: bulk Ackanomic Research Digest Sunday, July 20 1997 Volume 02 : Number 115 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 14:53:12 -0400 From: Malenkai Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 2248 > Proposal 2248 > You notice you have no gold! --More-- > The Total Wealth of a Player, Undead, or Organization is defined as the > sum of the total number of A it possesses plus the combined values of > all trinkets in its possession. I still think this misses the mark. As I tried to point out last night, why wouldn't I just create Majik then. It seems to push the loophole sideways, but still in view. The thing I don't like about that is that I feel Majiks should somehow be special (like magic), not be a vehicle for bulk trinket creation for the sole purpose of evading taxes. Malenkai ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 17:52:23 -0400 From: Malenkai Subject: Re: Acka: P2223 accepted (More Lucrative Profits) > Votes cast by active players: 15 / 18 = 83.333333% > Yes: 8 No: 5 Present: 4 ...Proposal accepted. > MetaMorph Unity vote did they get a third member? Malenkai clueless ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 18:20:25 -0500 (CDT) From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" Subject: Re: Acka: P2223 accepted (More Lucrative Profits) > Proposal 2223 > More Lucrative Profits > Niccolo Flychuck > > Votes cast by active players: 15 / 18 = 83.333333% > Yes: 8 No: 5 Present: 4 ...Proposal accepted. > YES votes: > /dev/joe > Niccolo Flychuck > Mr. Lunatic Fringe > Rex Mundi > Malenkai > Alfvaen > Robert Sevin > MetaMorph Unity vote MetaMorph has only two members, so they do not get a unity vote. (Even if they still had three members, the third one they used to have was a member of another party, so no unity vote could have been cast.) The remaining 7 to 5 vote causes the proposal to be rejected. The players above thus score 3 points each for anti-voting, which brings Malenkai to 195 points, 4 away from the Magic Number. (If he had not submitted proposal 2220, which was rejected, he would have 199 points now and would win the cycle.) /dev/joe ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 21:52:44 -0500 (CDT) From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" Subject: Re: Acka: P2225 rejected (Homing Entities) > Proposal 2225 > Homing Entities > Calvin N Hobbes > > Votes cast by active players: 16 / 18 = 88.888889% > Yes: 8 No: 7 Present: 1 ...Proposal rejected. > > > YES votes: > Malenkai As of this proposal, Malenkai has won the cycle. I am too busy now writing a paper on electrostatic precipitators to harf the end-of-cycle, but all the usual stuff happens. I will calculate the end-of-cycle scores and post them, though, so others can figure out what else happens. /dev/joe ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 20:18:56 -0700 From: **Alexandre Muniz Subject: Re: Acka: P2225 rejected (Homing Entities) Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote: > > > Proposal 2225 > > Homing Entities [snip] > As of this proposal, Malenkai has won the cycle. I am too busy now > writing a paper on electrostatic precipitators to harf the end-of-cycle, > but all the usual stuff happens. I will calculate the end-of-cycle scores > and post them, though, so others can figure out what else happens. > > /dev/joe *blurp* **two-star ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 23:42:36 -0400 From: Malenkai Subject: Acka: Modesty, scoring, and anti-voting Does anyone else agree that these things are broken? Since I'd like to do away with both points and anti-voting, I'm not sure how much I can suggest, but if we want to keep this stuff, I would suggest the following: 3 pts for a modest proposal, 1 point for a yes or *no* anti vote. I think Modesty is way overused -- mabye not overused, but overscored, when you consider the relative scoring of 5 points for the author and 0 points for anyone else (because 90% of then pass), and *no* anti-voting is worthless. Malenkai part of the anti-voting problem ------------------------------ End of Ackanomic Research Digest V2 #115 ****************************************