acka-voting Digest Friday, December 25 1998 Volume 03 : Issue 240 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Acka: Proposal 3924 accepted From: jtraub@dragoncat.net Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 01:51:32 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3924 Yes votes: 9/12: proposal accepted Yes: Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) /dev/joe (Vulcan) else...if Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) ThinMan (Vulcan) O Olde Alpha JT (The Razor Boomerangs) Eric. (The Razor Boomerangs) No: smallpox blanket (Klingon) K 2 Calvin N Hobbes Baa: Vynd (Vulcan) Wild Card Abstain r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) IdiotBoy (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) NY E NJ (The Razor Boomerangs) rufus two-star Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Euphrates Slakko (SPAM) Danek Subject: Acka: Proposal 3924 Proposal 3924 Making Puzzler Work again JT Due: Fri Dec 25 00:41:54 1998 Status: accepted {{[ Well, with the demise of thralls, puzzler became sort of pointless. This creates a few new ways to gain puzzle pieces. ]}} Amend rule 910 (The Ackanomicon) by inserting the following PUZZLE delimited text at the end of the list of available pages. PUZZLE Strange Object (6 pages): The reader of these pages makes a strange journey to a mystical place. Upon the reader posting a short description of this journey, they shall return to Ackanomic with a random APP. The reader has three days to post this description, and until they do, or for three days (whichever is shorter) the player is treated as if they are on a Moon of Acka although they are really only gone in spirit and not in body. PUZZLE Amend rule 913 (Parades) by replacing "All players will take part in the Parade, and will receive one point for so doing." with "All players will take part in the Parade, and will receive one point for so doing. The Guest of Honour will also recieve a puzzle piece of eir choice as long as that piece is not part of a Winnable Bag." Amend rule 1211 (Boons of the Ancients) in the following manners: Remove the text "[weights sum to 100 in this case]". {{[This won't be true, and I see no need to keep it there.]}} Insert the following text as delimited by PUZZLING after section 9h). PUZZLING The Gods are Puzzled. The player recieves an APP of eir choice. This piece may be part of a Winnable Bag. (1) PUZZLING Amend rule 1270 (Puzzle Pieces) by removing any paragraph starting with "Any player (A) other than the Puzzler" if such a paragraph exists. ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 3925 rejected From: jtraub@dragoncat.net Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 03:46:44 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3925 Yes votes: 6/13: proposal rejected Yes: Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) /dev/joe (Vulcan) else...if Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) O Olde Alpha Eric. (The Razor Boomerangs) No: smallpox blanket (Klingon) K 2 Calvin N Hobbes Vynd (Vulcan) Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) ThinMan (Vulcan) JT (The Razor Boomerangs) Baa: Wild Card Abstain r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) IdiotBoy (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) NY E NJ (The Razor Boomerangs) rufus two-star Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Euphrates Slakko (SPAM) Danek Subject: Acka: Proposal 3925 Proposal 3925 Well if we can all vote, who needs anarchy? Trent Due: Fri Dec 25 03:27:23 1998 Status: rejected i was young and foolish then, i feel old and foolish now {{[now that there are no drastically abusable things (fel pop, govs/paradigms where only an elect few can vote, etc... there's no reason for 3 days of anarchy. Anarchy sucks, as i'm sure we all remember. 2 weeks (3 weeks for most of us) without proposals wasnt any fun, and even 3 days per rebellion is a bit much for me.]}} In rule 320 (Paradigms), replace the text beginning with the 5th paragraph and continuing to the end of the rule with the following LIKE_BUTTER delimited text LIKE_BUTTER If ever more than 50% of all voting players have a rebelliousness characteristic of "on" and any player points this out publicly, then the following events will happen: 1. All players have their rebelliousness characteristic changed to "off". 2. The OiCoRT should pick a Random Paradigm Type other than the Paradigm type active imediately before the Revolution. If that Paradigm Type specifies any other random determinations are to be made at this point then e should do that too. This Paradigm shall become active immediately All rules in this rulesuite take precedence over all other rules. This rule takes precedence over all other rules in this rulesuite. [Link to the paradigms] LIKE_BUTTER repeal rule 320.1 (Paradigm Type: Anarchy) -- Trent Acting CotC, Acting Map-Harfer, Butthead, Crazy French-Scotsman, Daring Adventurer, Dungeon Master, Really Weird, Rules-Harfer, Worker Caste, Weird ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 3926 rejected From: jtraub@dragoncat.net Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 03:46:54 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3926 Yes votes: 5/14: proposal rejected Yes: Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) else...if Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) Eric. (The Razor Boomerangs) No: smallpox blanket (Klingon) IdiotBoy (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) K 2 /dev/joe (Vulcan) Calvin N Hobbes Vynd (Vulcan) JT (The Razor Boomerangs) ThinMan (Vulcan) O Olde Alpha Baa: Wild Card Abstain r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) NY E NJ (The Razor Boomerangs) rufus two-star Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Euphrates Slakko (SPAM) Danek Subject: Acka: Proposal 3926 Proposal 3926 BOOM BOOM BOOM Trent Due: Fri Dec 25 03:29:10 1998 Status: rejected I was young and foolish then, i feel old and foolish now. Insert the following KABLOOIE-delimited text as Rule 1190, "Mad Bomber Rule Suite" KABLOOIE A player who has lost at least 3 honour and has been in gaol during the current cycle may become a Mad Bomber by publically expressing eir desire to do so. A Mad Bomber can make a mad bomb through the following procedure: 1) E must renounce the world and technology, and spend a week in the Wilds. During this time, e may not post more than 3 messages per day [as if e were in gaol]. At the commencement of this time, e must compose a haiku stating eir intent to do so. A player may not attempt this step more than once per calender month. 2) E must make the bomb and attatch a fuse. This can only be done if e owns a mechanical gadget, an antiquity worth at least A$50 [before the 30% interest], and a garment out of which to make the fuse. While still in the Wilds, e publicly posts a sonnet describing the process of making the bomb out of these components. At this time, if the action succeeds, the garment and gadget are destroyed and the trinket is given to the treasury. Then the Mad Bomber is given a Mad Bomb. Mad Bombs are nonunique, tradeable entities. If e leaves the wilds before making the bomb, e must fulfill the first step again. A Mad Bomber can only make one Bomb per creation, and must fully specify which e is making in eir sonnet. If e does not, the creation fails. To use a Mad Bomb, it must be thrown. Only a Mad Bomber may throw a Mad Bomb. To do so, e must compose a sestina describing the throwing of the bomb, and specify a target that is a location in Ackanomic other than the location of the Mad Bomber. When a bomb is thrown, it has a chance of hitting its target of twice the value of the dexterity characteristic of the Mad Bomber. It has a chance of hitting a random target equal to the value of the strength characteristic of the Mad Bomber. It has a chance of going off as if it had not been thrown anywhere, in the location of the Mad Bomber, equal to the greater of 10 and (40 - the intelligence and wisdom characteristics of the Mad Bomber). The denominator for the determination is equal to the sum of the chances. Exactly one day after a bomb hits its target, it goes off and is destroyed A Member of the Mad Bomber Rule Suite with the title "Mad Bomb Type: XXX", where XXX is replaced with a legal name, defines XXX as a type of Mad Bomb. Such rules may include restrictions on the materials used to make the bomb, the effects that various bombs have on various locations, and any other effect related to the Mad Bomb. If no effect is defined for an interaction of a Mad Bomb type and a location, then the bomb is a dud and explodes harmlessly in a scented cloud of potpourri. The Scaremonger is Custodian of the Mad Bomber Rule Suite and makes all random determinations for Mad Bombs (unless otherwise specified) KABLOOIE Add the following STINK-delimited text as rule 1190.1 , "Mad Bomb Type: Fertilizer Bomb" STINK Fertilizer Bomb Effects on Locations: The Library: The Vault of the Book gets all stinky and covered with fertilizer and no one can enter it for the rest of the month. The Wilds: Bombing The Wilds causes a Wildebeest Stampede, provided that no wildebeest stampede has occurred in the past week. During a Wildebeest stampede, all the animals rumble bandy through Acka. When this happens: The Goose, the Little Lamb, and Phoebe and her Matchbox go Somewhere Else, and all donkeys bray noisily. Then Wildebeests stampede over all unsheltered Ackans, causing em to lose 10 points. Any Player who has a lariat may attempt to lariat a Wildebeest. This is a test of dexterity against the Wildebeest's 17. If this succeeds, the player must wrestle the wildebeest. This is a test of strength against the wildebeest's 20. If a player successfully wrestles a wildebeest, e gets to keep it as a nonunique, tradeable enitity, and becomes a Daring Adventurer. The owner of a Wildebeest may make Wild Wooly Wildebeest Milk as a public action. WWWM is a Frink. The owner of a Wildebeest may also pay the treasury A$10 to make a Wooly Fur Sweater. If a Wildebeest lariating fails, the player who attempted to lariat loses another 5 points for more trampling. Finally, at the end of a stampede, The Brass Monkey climbs to the top of the tallest building in Acka and proclaims "The Makers of the Wildebeest Stampede shall be awarded 10 bonus points!" With that, the Mad Bomber who made the bomb and the Mad Bomber who thew the bomb each gain 10 points. If the same bomber did both, e gets all 20 points. The Ackanomic Institute of Genetic Replication A hole is blown in the containment chamber and the mutants are let loose. There are a total number of mutants equal to twice the number of active players, and they run around until all of them are caught. Mutants are Pesky. Mutants are entities. If a player catches a mutant, e is deemed to have returned it, and is given a random Boon of the Ancients. A player may catch at most one mutant each day. A mutant can be caught by: Hiding in the wilds near the river and luring a mutant with food or frink has a 20% chance of capturing a mutant. A player may try to lariat mutants if e has a lariat. This costs the SHF for a lassoing licence and has a 50% chance of working. A player may try to catch a mutant if e has a BWG Laser or a Highlander's Sword. This has a half chance of destroying the mutant and a half chance of catching it. The above may be tried at most once per day A random active player who has not yet caught a mutant that day automatically catches a mutant each tuesday at noon. If any moon becomes full, all the mutants get frightened and run back to the AIGR. Ackanomic Printing Guild two rules are randomly chosen. The Scaremonger picks a adjective from the lower numbered rule, and the Harfmeister picks a adjective from the higher numbered rule. The two adjectives switch places in the rules. A Moon of Ackanomic: A chunk of cheese is blown off the moon, and a random player is awarded a random cheese. STINK ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 3927 rejected From: jtraub@dragoncat.net Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 18:13:55 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3927 Yes votes: 4/9: proposal rejected Yes: Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) else...if Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) Eric. (The Razor Boomerangs) No: K 2 Calvin N Hobbes ThinMan (Vulcan) O Olde Alpha JT (The Razor Boomerangs) Baa: Vynd (Vulcan) Wild Card Abstain r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) smallpox blanket (Klingon) IdiotBoy (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) NY E NJ (The Razor Boomerangs) rufus Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) two-star Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Euphrates Slakko (SPAM) /dev/joe (Vulcan) Danek Subject: Acka: Proposal 3927 Proposal 3927 Contracting Corruption Studge Due: Fri Dec 25 16:39:34 1998 Status: rejected Amend Rule 810 Bridge Building by replacing the SCAM text with the NOSCAM text. SCAM The price must be a nonnegative number of A$ smaller than any other offer made on items of that type and smaller than A$100. Two weeks after this proposal passes, there is a 10% chance each day that the bidding process was closed at a randomly determined hour of the previous day, and all bids after that time were invalid. At that time the lowest bidders on each type of resources are selected in the following manner SCAM NOSCAM The price must be a nonnegative number of A$ smaller than A$100. After January 2, 1999 {{[about a week more bidding after this prop]}} there is a 10% chance each day that the bidding process was closed at a randomly determined hour of the previous day, and all bids after that time were invalid. At that time the lowest bidders on each type of resources (equal bids resolved in the order they were recieved) are selected in the following manner NOSCAM ------------------------------ From: Gabe Drummond-Cole Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3927 rejected Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 18:16:25 -0500 (EST) This was retracted... Scorekeeper: do not harf! At 06:13 PM 12/25/98 -0500, you wrote: >Proposal 3927 > >Yes votes: 4/9: proposal rejected > >Yes: > Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) > else...if > Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) > Eric. (The Razor Boomerangs) > >No: > K 2 > Calvin N Hobbes > ThinMan (Vulcan) > O Olde Alpha > JT (The Razor Boomerangs) > >Baa: > Vynd (Vulcan) > Wild Card > >Abstain > r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) > Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) > smallpox blanket (Klingon) > IdiotBoy (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) > NY E NJ (The Razor Boomerangs) > rufus > Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) > two-star > >Vacationing & did not vote: > Aunt Froot > Euphrates > Slakko (SPAM) > /dev/joe (Vulcan) > Danek > > Subject: Acka: Proposal 3927 > > Proposal 3927 > Contracting Corruption > Studge > Due: Fri Dec 25 16:39:34 1998 > Status: rejected > > Amend Rule 810 Bridge Building by replacing the SCAM text with the NOSCAM > text. > > SCAM > The price must be a nonnegative number of A$ smaller than any other offer > made on items of that type and smaller than A$100. > > Two weeks after this proposal passes, there is a 10% chance each day that > the bidding process was closed at a randomly determined hour of the > previous day, and all bids after that time were invalid. At that time the > lowest bidders on each type of resources are selected in the following manner > SCAM > > NOSCAM > The price must be a nonnegative number of A$ smaller than A$100. > > After January 2, 1999 {{[about a week more bidding after this prop]}} there > is a 10% chance each day that the bidding process was closed at a randomly > determined hour of the previous day, and all bids after that time were > invalid. At that time the lowest bidders on each type of resources (equal > bids resolved in the order they were recieved) are selected in the > following manner > NOSCAM > > -- Trent Acting CotC, Acting Map-Harfer, Butthead, Crazy French-Scotsman, Daring Adventurer, DeeJay, Dungeon Master, Grey Councillor, Really Weird, Rules-Harfer, Worker Caste, Weird ------------------------------ End of acka-voting Digest V3 #240 *********************************