acka-voting Digest Thursday, December 10 1998 Volume 03 : Issue 223 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3888 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 05:12:17 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3888 let's make it a bit harder Trent Due: Thu Dec 17 05:12:17 1998 in rule 1270 (Puzzle Pieces) replace the following BORING-delimited text BORING Any player (A) other than the Puzzler may create an Ackanomic Puzzle Piece through use of indentured labour. This involves specifying a player (B) who has player (A) as their Overlord, and the Attributes of the Puzzle Piece to be created. When the Puzzle Piece is created, player (B) has their Thrall Attribute set to "". A player may not create a Puzzle Piece which is part of a Winnable Bag by the above procedure. BORING with the following HARDER-delimited text HARDER Any player (A) other than the Puzzler may create a random APP that is not part of a Winnable Bag through use of indentured labour. This involves specifying a player (B) who has player (A) as their Overlord. When the specification is made, player (B) has their Thrall Attribute set to "". HARDER ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3889 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 05:22:48 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3889 Santa's Workshop Trent Due: Thu Dec 17 05:22:48 1998 {{each active player gains a random gadget and a random otzma card}} ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3890 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 05:23:19 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3890 Fix it Trent Due: Thu Dec 17 05:23:18 1998 {{All offices not defined by the rules are destroyed}} ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3891 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 06:23:37 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3891 who says voting is dead? Trent Due: Thu Dec 17 06:23:36 1998 in rule 106, replace "YES, NO or BAA!" with "YES, NO, BAA!, or PLONK" and "The required number of YES votes for a proposal to be accepted is three-fifths of the total number of YES and NO votes legally cast within the prescribed voting period. If that value is 0, however, the required number of YES votes for acceptance is 1" with "The required number of YES votes for a proposal to be accepted is three-fifths of the PASS number, where the PASS number is the total number of votes legally cast less the product of the total number of PLONK votes and BAA! votes legally cast within the prescribed voting period. If that value is 0 or less, however, the required number of YES votes for acceptance is 1." ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3892 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 06:23:48 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3892 Voting is ALIVE!!!! Trent Due: Thu Dec 17 06:23:47 1998 in rule 106, replace "three-fifths" with "a majority" ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3893 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 06:23:59 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3893 ALIVE, I SAY, ALIVE!!!!! Trent Due: Thu Dec 17 06:23:58 1998 in rule 106, replace "seven days" with "six days" ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3894 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 06:24:10 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3894 Repeal snowgod's disease Trent Due: Thu Dec 17 06:24:09 1998 repeal rule 1132 ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3895 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 06:24:21 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3895 oops Trent Due: Thu Dec 17 06:24:20 1998 rename any rule with "Government Type" in its title by replacing "Government" with "Paradigm" ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3896 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 06:24:32 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3896 old references are for Hungarian blacksmiths Trent Due: Thu Dec 17 06:24:31 1998 remove "(not including Capital Offices)" from rule 611 ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3897 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 16:52:14 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3897 not harfy enough for me to try to scam it Trent Due: Thu Dec 17 16:52:13 1998 in rule 594.21 (Good Ballot Stuffer), replace "The possessor of a GBS may flip the harfy lever by publicly announcing they are doing so. Upon doing so, one of the following happens at random and then the GBS then starts to shake and shimmy uncontrollably: 1. The GBS casts a vote for all harfy proposals currently in the voting queue." with "The possessor of a GBS may flip the harfy lever by publicly announcing they are doing so. Upon doing so, the GBS starts to shake and shimmy uncontrollably, and then one of the following happens at random: 1. The GBS casts a YES vote for all harfy proposals currently in the voting queue." ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3898 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 16:59:25 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3898 EXCELSIOR! Trent Due: Thu Dec 17 16:59:24 1998 create a rule 594.15, "Blueprint: Wishy-Washy Ballot Stuffer" with the following WHAT_HAPPENED_TO_USING_THE_ELEMENTS_AS_MY_DELIMTERS?-delimited text WHAT_HAPPENED_TO_USING_THE_ELEMENTS_AS_MY_DELIMTERS? The Wishy-Washy Ballot Stuffer (WBS) is a mechanical gadget. When created it is not broken. The Wishy-Washy Ballot Stuffer is lavender and has 2 levers, the Pesky lever and the Silly lever. The Pesky lever enables the WBS to affect Hearings and Elections. The owner of an WBS may flip the Pesky lever in any given Hearing by privately notifying the Hearing Harfer, and in any Election by privately notifying the Officer responsible for conducting the Election. This notification must be in the same private message as a valid response for the relevant Hearing, or valid vote for the relevant Election. The WBS shall do one of the following, to be determined randomly by the hearing harfer or responsible Officer after the response/voting period is over but before voting results are released: 1) make a response (in a Hearing) or cast a vote (in an Election) identically to their owner. 2) attempt to shut out all Evil Ballot Stuffers as if it were a Good Ballot Stuffer 3) cause a random Ballot stuffer used in the election or hearing to become broken and fail. If the randomly chosen ballot stuffer is itself, it becomes broken without failing. If the WBS does 1), it counts as an EBS for the purposes of rule 360 for the duration of the hearing/election. If the WBS does 2), it counts as a GBS for the purposes of rule 360 for the duration of the hearing/election. The Silly lever is used to randomize Acka (sometimes for good, sometimes for evil). The possessor of an WBS may flip the Silly lever. Upon doing so, the WBS starts to shake and shimmy uncontrollably and does one of the following at random: 1) casts a YES vote for all harfy proposals in the queue. 2) gives its owner a Bonus Vote (provided that no instance limits would be exceeded) 3) switches the scores of two randomly chosen active players 4) switches the amounts of A$ owned by two randomly chosen active players 5) switches who owns it with another randomly chosen Ballot Stuffer Upon a WBS starting to shake and shimmy uncontrollably, one of the following three things happen. A WBS may not be used between the time it starts to shimmy and shake and the time the this random determination is publicly knowable at which time it shall cease to shake and shimmy: 1) The WBS will sputter and die, and thus become broken. 2) The WBS will explode in its operator's face, and thus be destroyed, but not before bellowing a raft of annoying laughter ridiculing its user throughout the land of Acka. 3) The WBS will teleport, and thus change possession to, another random active player. Neither lever may be used if the WBS is broken, and only the player who possesses an WBS may use it, the previous provisions of this Blueprint notwithstanding. A broken WBS may only be fixed as described in the rules or by another Gadget empowered to do so. WHAT_HAPPENED_TO_USING_THE_ELEMENTS_AS_MY_DELIMTERS? ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3899 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 18:14:42 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3899 Resigning Referees JT Due: Thu Dec 17 18:14:41 1998 Amends rule 1250.1 (Games & Contests) Section VI, d by appending the following text delimited by RESIGNATION to the end of that section. RESIGNATION When a referee resigns as per this section, the Speaker may appoint another interested player as Referee, and the game will be suspended until such an appointment is made. RESIGNATION ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3900 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 18:20:36 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3900 I never saw the need for this Jenny Due: Thu Dec 17 18:20:35 1998 Repeal rule 251.1 (True Names) ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3901 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 19:30:35 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3901 Well, if she says so Trent Due: Thu Dec 17 19:30:32 1998 renumber Rule 42 to 1 Add the following to the ruleset, in a rule titled "The Queen's Rule": "jam to-morrow and jam yesterday--but never jam to-day." ------------------------------ End of acka-voting Digest V3 #223 *********************************