acka-voting Digest Monday, March 01 1999 Volume: 04 Issue: 053 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Acka: Proposal 4095 accepted From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 10:21:31 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4095 Acceptance Index: 271: proposal accepted Votes to accept: /dev/joe 200 -100 ==> 1445 else...if 61 +20 ==> 540 rice 60 +20 ==> 496 K 2 300 -200 ==> 3579 Zero Votes: IdiotBoy 0 +20 ==> 300 O Olde Alpha 0 +20 ==> 460 Niccolo Flychuck 0 +20 ==> 120 Votes to reject: Blest Lax Monk Pal -100 ==> 234 Euphrates -69 +16 ==> 136 JT -60 +20 ==> 3953 Danek -61 +20 ==> 240 Slakko -60 +20 ==> 230 Abstainers: r-attila the farce Calvin N Hobbes Laa Laa 404 Not Found Robin Hood rufus WoHo Vynd Studge ThinMan Wild Card two-star Subject: Acka: Proposal 4095 Proposal 4095 Hoe Cake Murder K 2 Due: Mon Mar 1 10:17:19 1999 Status: accepted This is a Modest Proposal. {{[Currently voting on a proposal is effectively worth half a Bonus Vote - This proposal makes the point -> Mannna conversions more realistic, removes conversions to points and fixes the dragon.]}} Amend Rule 7-4-1 titled "Convertable Economics" if it exists by renaming it "Convertible Economics" and replacing the text: " iii) The Conversion of 1 points into 2 Ackadollars. iv) The Conversion of 20 Ackadollars into 1 point. v) The Conversion of 1 point into 50 Mannna. vi) The Conversion of 250 Mannna into 1 point. vii) The Conversion of 1 Ackadollar into 20 Mannna. viii) The Conversion of 25 Mannna into 1 Ackadollar. " with " iii) The Conversion of 1 points into 2 Ackadollars. iv) The Conversion of 2 point into 1 Mannna. v) The Conversion of 10 Ackadollar into 1 Mannna. vi) The Conversion of 1 Mannna into 2 Ackadollar. " Replace section 4 of Rule 1-99 (The Dragon) with: " 4) The attack succeeds if both players survive, or if only the horse dies and the knight succeeds in a constitution test against the Dragon. Otherwise the attack fails. " ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4096 rejected From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 10:21:42 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4096 Acceptance Index: -19: proposal rejected ** This proposal was boring! ** 7 boring votes out of 12 total. Votes to accept: Blest Lax Monk Pal 60 +20 ==> 254 O Olde Alpha 60 +20 ==> 480 rice 60 +20 ==> 516 Danek 61 +20 ==> 260 Slakko 60 +20 ==> 250 K 2 61 +20 ==> 3599 Zero Votes: Niccolo Flychuck 0 +20 ==> 140 Votes to reject: /dev/joe -100 ==> 1445 else...if -61 +20 ==> 560 Euphrates -100 ==> 136 IdiotBoy -60 +20 ==> 320 JT -60 +20 ==> 3973 Abstainers: r-attila the farce Calvin N Hobbes Laa Laa 404 Not Found Robin Hood rufus WoHo Vynd Studge ThinMan Wild Card two-star Subject: Acka: Proposal 4096 Proposal 4096 Proposal Submission Day K 2 Due: Mon Mar 1 10:17:36 1999 Status: rejected This is a Modest Proposal. Three days after this rule is enacted Proposal Submission Day shall commence. Despite its name Proposal Submission Day shall last for exactly one week. During Proposal Submission Day any Natural Person regardless of their player state is permitted to submit a proposal to the promotor, who shall then post it publicly to be voted on. At the end of Proposal Submission Day this rule shall amend itself by: i) replacing its last occurrence of Wibble with the date and time Proposal Submission Day started. ii) replacing its last occurrence of Tum-Tee-Dump-Tee with the date and time Proposal Submission Day ended. iii) deleting all text above this sentence followed by this sentence. Warm Fuzzies are small spherical entities, fuzzy in texture and apparently in possession of an internal heat source (possibly powered by means of a harf induction device). Any Natural Person who has submitted a proposal, during a completed Proposal Submission Day is entitled to a Warm Fuzzy. Any player who is entitled to own a Warm Fuzzy may create one in their possession as a public action, provided they do not already have one. A Warm Fuzzy which is owned by an entity which is not entitled to it, is destroyed. The following periods of time were Proposal Submission Days: Wibble through to Tum-Tee-Dump-Tee. ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4106 From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 10:21:52 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4106 Let me try that again K 2 Due: Mon Mar 8 10:21:51 1999 This is a Modest Proposal. {{[It occurred to me as DM, with the encroaching end of the month, to determine which team of players has the greatest chance of success at slaying the dragon. Turning to rule 1-99, I see that the process of Defeating this vile and pernicious Evil is called a Characteristic Test. Searching for the rule that defines Characteristic Test turns up nothing. Similarly a search for the repeal of rule 451 or 4-4-1 in the proposal archive between P3539 (last known modification) and P4013 also turns up nothing. It was also known to exist at 27 Dec 1998 15:40:21 when CSR 168 re-numbered it to 4-4-1. So where is it? Assuming that my searches are correct rule 4-4-1 is titled "Characteristic Tests" and some rule in the 99s (99-1 prolly) is titled "Proposal Rights". Since its been more than two weeks, its prolly more likely that "Proposal Rights" was erroneously given the number 4-4-1 and that we now have two rules with that number.... oh well :-) Anyway on to the main purpose of this dissertation - using many and various arcane mathematical procedures I have determined that the probability of the knight most likely to beat the Dragon in combination with the horse most likely to beat the dragon (rufus on rufus) is a stunning 0.1%. intrigued I delved further and determined that it the Dragon were to ride itself to fight itself (prolly by dodging its wild blows before stabbing itself to death) it would have a 3% chance of success. Two maxed out players (all stats 18) have a 6% chance. After the rufus/rufus combination we have the rAtF/ThinMan combo at 0.01%, ThinMan/rAtF at 0.004%, skipping down the list - K 2 on a default horse at 0.0005% and my personal favourite IdiotBoy riding IdiotBoy at a stunning 0.000003% :-) This proposal gives the hero's of Ackanomic a bit of a leg up; giving our current best (but unfortunately illegal) team of rufus on rufus a chance of 35% and RAtF on rufus a chance of 34% (other probabilities available upon request). ]}} {{[Fixing the Dragon]}} Amend Rule 1-99 (The Dragon) by: A. replacing list items 2) & 3) with the following text: " 2) Characteristic tests are performed. For the duration of each of the tests the Knight's BPCs are increased by half of the Horse's and vice versa. In order, the tests are: The Knight's Intelligence vs. Dragon's The Horse's Constitution vs. Dragon's The Knight's Strength vs. Dragon's The Horse's Wisdom vs. Dragon's If any of these tests failed, than the attack fails, other wise it succeeds. 3) If the attack fails, the Dragon breaths on the Team and both the Knight and the Horse are transported to the Ackanomic After-Life and have eir score set to -10. " B. Deleting list item 4). {{[Fixing Characteristic Tests]}} Repeal the rule entitled "Characteristic Tests". Create a new rule as a decedent of Rule 4-4 with the title "Characteristic Tests" and the text: " Other rules may call for a test of a characteristic. A test of a characteristic is only valid if all objects to be tested contain the characteristic to be tested, and if the characteristic is defined as Testable. For each object to be tested, a Characteristic Roll is performed. A Characteristic Roll is defined as a random number generated such that it has the same distribution as that characteristic. [For instance to generate a characteristic roll for Strength one would use 3d6]. For each object the Characteristic Roll is compared subtracted from the Characteristic Value. The resulting number is the Test Value. The object with the highest Test Value is declared to have won the test. " ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4098 accepted From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 10:37:52 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4098 Acceptance Index: 312: proposal accepted Votes to accept: Blest Lax Monk Pal 200 -100 ==> 154 else...if 60 +20 ==> 580 Euphrates 32 +20 ==> 156 IdiotBoy 100 ==> 320 O Olde Alpha 100 ==> 480 rice 400 -300 ==> 216 Slakko 200 -100 ==> 150 K 2 61 +20 ==> 3619 Votes to reject: /dev/joe -300 -200 ==> 1245 JT -400 -300 ==> 3673 Danek -61 +20 ==> 280 Niccolo Flychuck -80 +10 ==> 150 Abstainers: r-attila the farce Calvin N Hobbes Laa Laa 404 Not Found Robin Hood rufus WoHo Vynd Studge ThinMan Wild Card two-star Subject: Acka: Proposal 4098 Proposal 4098 Wibble K 2 Due: Mon Mar 1 10:26:00 1999 Status: accepted Paradigm Type: AntiVoting becomes active. ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4107 From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 10:38:03 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4107 strawberry cake two-star Due: Mon Mar 8 10:38:02 1999 {{two-star is removed from vacation}} ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4099 accepted From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 15:00:46 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4099 Acceptance Index: 631: proposal accepted *** This was an accepted Harfy proposal *** *** K 2 is now Harfmeister *** Votes to accept: Euphrates 23 +20 ==> 176 O Olde Alpha 60 +20 ==> 500 IdiotBoy 100 ==> 320 rice 400 -300 ==> -84 ** Went into debt, loses 10 ** Wild Card 200 -100 ==> 100 K 2 300 -200 ==> 3419 Votes to reject: /dev/joe -100 ==> 1245 Blest Lax Monk Pal -60 +20 ==> 174 else...if -61 +20 ==> 600 JT -60 +20 ==> 3693 Danek -61 +20 ==> 300 Slakko -60 +20 ==> 170 Niccolo Flychuck -50 +20 ==> 170 Abstainers: r-attila the farce Calvin N Hobbes Laa Laa 404 Not Found Robin Hood rufus WoHo Vynd Studge ThinMan two-star Subject: Acka: Proposal 4099 Proposal 4099 ? K 2 Due: Mon Mar 1 14:59:28 1999 Status: accepted Declared Harfy by rice at tue, 23 feb 1999 02:52:20 -0500 (est) This is a Modest Proposal {{Re-title this rule "Grease is the Word".}} Every so often permitted entities may frob the "hydriae", using one of the following wibble strategies: i) tweaking a single letter into another letter ii) adding a single letter before a particular letter iii) deleting a single letter Frobbing the "hydriae" creates a widget, which is the "hydriae" tweaked according to the chosen wibble strategy. If the widget appears in the official dictionary, or in the rules, all quoted occurrences of "hydriae" in this rule are replaced with the widget. No player may frob the "hydriae" more than once in quite a while, unless the "hydriae" has not been frobbed for a while. The owner of the RBBT may cause it to frob the "hydriae", however, the RBBT shall teleport to a random player afterwards. Players and the RBBT are permitted entities. Once a week is every so often. A fortnight is a while. A month is quite a while. "hydriae" is The official word of Ackanomic. ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4108 From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 19:17:50 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4108 No Cake For Me! Blest Lax Monk Pal Due: Mon Mar 8 19:17:48 1999 Blest Lax Monk Pal is placed on vacation. ------------------------------ End of acka-voting Digest V4 #53 ********************************