acka-voting Digest Friday, January 15 1999 Volume 04 : Issue 014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Acka: Proposal 4002 accepted From: jtraub@dragoncat.net Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 18:11:23 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4002 Yes votes: 5/9: proposal accepted Yes: Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) Slakko (SPAM) else...if Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) JT (The Razor Boomerangs) No: Calvin N Hobbes NY E NJ (The Razor Boomerangs) Danek ThinMan (Vulcan) Baa: O Olde Alpha Abstain r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) IdiotBoy (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) K 2 smallpox blanket (Klingon) 404 Not Found rufus Vynd (Vulcan) Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) Eric. (The Razor Boomerangs) Wild Card two-star Pending & did not vote: WoHo Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Euphrates /dev/joe (Vulcan) Subject: Acka: Proposal 4002 Proposal 4002 Off Ya Go Slakko Due: Thu Jan 14 18:15:41 1999 Status: accepted [The amount of collaboration in Winning Condition Achievement these days means that the Chartreuse Goose is no longer an effective deterrent for some behaviour. We need a penalty system which can affect more than one player simultaneously.] Change Rule 8-1, "Chartreuse Goose", to read as delimited by BECKHAM below: BECKHAM {{The Chartreuse Goose is an entity. Two Chartreuse Goose Cards are created in the possession of the owner of the Chartreuse Goose.}} {{The Chartreuse Goose is destroyed.}} Goose Cards are nontradeable entities, which look like pieces of coloured paper with a picture of a sneering goose on them. Whenever another Rule states that a player is to receive a Goose Card of any description, that card is created in their possession. There are four distinct classes of Goose Cards: Chartreuse, Yellow, Red and Black. Owning any Goose Card is a Bad Thing. A player who owns a Goose Card may not win the Cycle except as specified by Rule 8. I. Card Conversion Rates If any player owns three Chartreuse Goose Cards, they merge to become one Yellow Goose Card. If any player owns three Yellow Goose Cards, they merge to become one Red Goose Card. If any player owns three Red Goose Cards, they merge to become one Black Goose Card. II. Destroying Cards Whenever Officer Salaries are paid, all Chartreuse Goose Cards are destroyed. When Officer Salaries are paid in March, June, or September, all Chartreuse and Yellow Goose Cards are destroyed. When Officer Salaries are paid in December, all Chartreuse, Yellow and Red Goose Cards are destroyed. Whenever a player wins a Cycle, each player who owns at least one Chartreuse Goose Card has one Chartreuse Goose Card in their possession destroyed. A player may pay 10 times the SHF to destroy a Chartreuse Goose Card, 100 times the SHF to destroy a Yellow Goose Card, 1000 times the SHF to destroy a Red Goose Card, and 10000 times the SHF to destroy a Black Goose Card, provided that the SHF is at least A$1. BECKHAM Rename Rule 8-1 "Chartreuse Goose Cards and Other Fine Pieces of Paper" Amend Rule 8 by replacing all instances of "the Chartreuse Goose" with "one or more Goose Cards". Amend Rule 12-9 by replacing "the Chartreuse Goose is permitted to sneer" with "Mr. Flibble gets very cross", and replacing "the Chartreuse Goose is transferred to the map writer from wherever it is" with "a Yellow Goose Card is created in the possession of the map writer". Amend Rule 99-6 by replacing "The Chartreuse Goose is transferred to the player" with "The player receives 2 Chartreuse Goose Cards". Amend Rule 1-2-8-2 by replacing all instances of "the Chartreuse Goose" with "a Yellow Goose Card" and all instances of "a Chartreuse Goose Egg" with "a Chartreuse Goose Card". Amend Rule 4-4-5-2 by replacing "gaining the Chartreuse Goose for a failed PWCFJ or CWCFJ" with "authoring a CWCFJ or PWCFJ with a final verdict of FALSE". Amend Rule 6-4-5 by replacing "[such as the Treasury or the Chartreuse Goose]" with "[such as the Treasury]". Amend Rule 6-5-6 by replacing "the Chartreuse Goose" with "a Goose Card". Amend Rule 7-14-9 to read as delimited by NOGOOSE below: NOGOOSE A Card of this type can only be played in the public forum. A player who plays this Card shall announce the name of an active player. Upon doing so, the player named receives a Chartreuse Goose Card. Its Counter-Action: The Chartreuse Goose Card created by the playing of the card is destroyed, if it still exists, and 2 Chartreuse Goose Cards are received by the player who played this card. There may be at most 5 Otzma Cards of type "Foul Fowl". 'Foul Fowl' Otzma Cards have an F-designation of Normal. NOGOOSE ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4003 accepted From: jtraub@dragoncat.net Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 18:11:33 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4003 Yes votes: 5/8: proposal accepted Yes: Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) Slakko (SPAM) else...if O Olde Alpha JT (The Razor Boomerangs) No: Calvin N Hobbes Danek Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) Baa: NY E NJ (The Razor Boomerangs) ThinMan (Vulcan) Abstain r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) IdiotBoy (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) K 2 smallpox blanket (Klingon) 404 Not Found rufus Vynd (Vulcan) Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) Eric. (The Razor Boomerangs) Wild Card two-star Pending & did not vote: WoHo Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Euphrates /dev/joe (Vulcan) Subject: Acka: Proposal 4003 Proposal 4003 Guard of Honour Slakko Due: Fri Jan 15 04:06:16 1999 Status: accepted [I was thinking about Trinkets, and why we use them. I came up with two possible reasons: Firstly, they are a fun way to transfer money. Secondly, they are a way to recognise people for special events (through interesting trinket descriptions). I wonder, though, if the trinket system isn't a bit of a dinosaur at the moment. I'm sure that it would make the Financier's job simpler if we didn't have all these little bits of cash lying around in trinket form, so that everyone had just one number for their cash value. So this is an alternative way to recognise people for service to Acka above and beyond the call of duty. Feel free to suggest additional Orders if you feel they are appropriate. If this works, I may ask people whether or not they want trinkets to continue, but if people want them to remain I see no reason why this system should not coexist with them.] Create a new Rule, numbered 4-10, titled "Awards and Orders", with the following AC-delimited text: AC Orders of Heraldry are collections of Titles, and are thus collections of classes of non-tradeable entities. Each Order contains five different titles, each of which correspond to a rank in that order. The ranks are, in increasing order of prestige, Medallist, Ordinary Member, Commander, Knight Commander and Grand Commander, which may be abbreviated M, OM, C, KC and GC appropriately. It is good form for the names of orders to be easily abbreviable (e.g. so that a Grand Commander of the Order of the Loophole Surfboard can be abbreviated as GCLS). Unless other rules explicitly state how ranks in a particular Order can be achieved, ranks in that Order can only be achieved by the following method: Players may nominate other Players to receive a particular Order by notifying the President. No player may make more than one nomination per calendar month. The President may grant or deny the request at whim, but must state so publicly, and it is a Duty of the President to respond to such requests. It is good form to give vague yet plausible reasons for denial or acceptance of any nomination. If the nomination is accepted, then the player nominated receives the lowest rank in that Order which they have not already achieved, if such exists. The following Orders of Heraldry exist: Order of the Blue Cross (BC) Order of the Harf (H) Order of the Loophole Surfboard (LS) Order of the Steel Flea (SF) {{saaremaa becomes a Commander of the Order of the Loophole Surfboard and Robert Sevin becomes a Commander of the Order of the Harf}} AC Amend Rule 2-4 (Blue Cross) by replacing section 6 with the following NEWSCHEME-delimited text: NEWSCHEME 6. When a player first reaches or exceeds certain Blue Cross Ranks, they acquire ranks in the Order of the Blue Cross, as follows: Reaching or exceeding BCR 20 makes a player an MBC. Reaching or exceeding BCR 60 makes a player an OBC. Reaching or exceeding BCR 180 makes a player a CBC. Reaching or exceeding BCR 340 makes a player a KCBC. Reaching or exceeding BCR 500 makes a player a GCBC. A player with two Ruby Slippers may wear them on his feet; any two Ruby Slippers so worn are considered to be a spaceship. A player wearing a spaceship may click the two Ruby Slippers together to launch himself to Kansas, provided he obeys any other restrictions in the rules on spaceship launches. Kansas is a moon of Acka; it is a location not in Acka, nor on either side of Acka. Ruby Slippers magically adjust to fit any feet as needed. {{All holders of the title Officer of the Blue Cross receive an OBC. All holders of the title Commander of the Blue Cross receive a CBC. All titles Officer of the Blue Cross and Commander of the Blue Cross are destroyed. All players with Blue Cross Rank at least 20 but less than 60 receive an MBC.}} NEWSCHEME ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4009 From: jtraub@dragoncat.net Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 19:57:00 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4009 Scrooge Takes Over Voting Studge Due: Fri Jan 22 19:56:56 1999 Amend Rule 2-1 Voting on Proposals by replacing the FREE text with PAYMENT text. FREE Players eligible to vote on proposals may change their vote up until the end of the prescribed voting period, but in any case are limited to one vote per proposal. The required number of YES votes for a proposal to be accepted is a majority of the total number of YES and NO votes legally cast within the prescribed voting period. FREE PAYMENT Players eligible to vote on proposals may change their vote up until the end of the prescribed voting period, but in any case are limited to one vote per proposal. If a player abstains or votes YES or NO then e shall automatically pay A$10 to the Treasury. The required number of YES votes for a proposal to be accepted is a majority of the total number of YES and NO votes legally cast within the prescribed voting period. PAYMENT Amend Rule 2-2 Scoring When A Proposal's Voting Results are Reported by replacing the PENURY text with BONUSCASH text. PENURY III. Scoring on Proposals If a Modest proposal is accepted, the player who proposed it receives 5 points. If a Grandiose proposal is accepted, the player who proposed it receives 16 points. If a proposal which is neither Modest nor Grandiose is accepted, the player who proposed it receives 10 points. PENURY BONUSCASH III. Scoring on Proposals If a Modest proposal is accepted, the player who proposed it receives 5 points. If a Grandiose proposal is accepted, the player who proposed it receives 16 points. If a proposal which is neither Modest nor Grandiose is accepted, the player who proposed it receives 10 points. If any kind of proposal is accepted, the player who proposed it recieves the SHF*2 from the Treasury. BONUSCASH ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4010 From: jtraub@dragoncat.net Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 20:12:25 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4010 Those Crazy HIPPIES! Studge Due: Fri Jan 22 20:12:21 1999 Amend Rule 1-3 Crisis Resolution by replacing the following FIFTIES delimited text with the SIXTIES delimited text. FIFTIES 2) When, and only when, the game is in a State of Crisis the following officers have the following powers: a) The Speaker may declare the State of Crisis lifted. b) The President may publically issue a State of Crisis Resolution Document detailing a list of changes to be made in the ruleset. These changes will be applied three days after the issuance of that document, or at the end of a failed challenge (whichever is later) unless it has been challenged and defeated. The President may retract a State of Crisis Resolution Document before it is applied, if there is no challenge hearing pending. FIFTIES SIXTIES 2) When, and only when, the game is in a State of Crisis the following players have the following powers: a) The Speaker may declare the State of Crisis lifted. b) The President may publically issue a State of Crisis Resolution Document detailing a list of changes to be made in the ruleset. These changes will be applied three days after the issuance of that document, or at the end of a failed challenge (whichever is later) unless it has been challenged and defeated. The President may retract a State of Crisis Resolution Document before it is applied, if there is no challenge hearing pending. c) Students may post public criticisms of The Man that should reference at least one drug, one head of state in the real world, two abuses of power (real or imagined) by officers of Ackanomic, and one rule that (e feels) demonstrates the brutal insanity of "this crazy world" and be more than 100 words in length. At such time, they shall recieve A$5 and 5 points. If a second such criticism is posted, the student shall be considered "quickly graduated" and may post eir Thesis and cease being a student irrespective of the time e became a student. SIXTIES ------------------------------ End of acka-voting Digest V4 #14 ********************************