acka-voting Digest Thursday, April 01 1999 Volume: 04 Issue: 074 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Acka: Proposal 4137 From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 05:09:58 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4137 .and the Board has turned over and the Pieces are all scattered Niccolo Flychuck Due: Thu Apr 8 06:09:57 1999 {{[Party Chess has been on hold for a long time, and the current position look more like a random starting setup, than a mid-game position. Also, pieces are now so abundant, that the prices set for pieces way back, are too low. The make up of individual armies is still affected by the original sets to some degree. This proposal set out to do a couple of things: clear the board. Destroy all existing pieces, with the exception of Kings, and refund the Swingers. Destroy all existing Stabber's knives. Raise the cost of pieces. If the game kicks off again, and peopel are interested, I'll propose the multi-board proposal I RFCed a while back]]} {{ I. All Party Chess Pieces are removed from the Party Board. That is - they become off-board pieces, without changing ownership. II. Each Party Chess Piece which is not a King is detroyed. Upon its destruction, the Swinger who controlled the piece just prior to its destruction, receives a number of A$ equal to 1+7*M, where M is the material value of the destroyed piece. III. All Stabber's Knives are destroyed. IV. In R12-8-1 "Swingers Play Around I - the board and the playing pieces", ammend section 2E to read in full: " A player or an Institution may create a new Party Chess Piece of any existing type for a Swinger. When this is done, the player or Institution pays the piece cost to the Treasury, and the new piece is created, off-board, in the possession of the specified Swinger. A new piece costs plus A$12 times the material value of the piece. A King may not be purchased in this way. " }} ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4127 accepted From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 14:42:55 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4127 Total vote for: 743 Total vote against:-180 Acceptance Index: 473.0: proposal accepted Votes to accept: /dev/joe 60 +20 ==> 1469 Laa Laa 2 +20 ==> 70 Blest Lax Monk Pal 100 ==> 253 ThinMan 61 +19 ==> 119 else...if 100 ==> 650 IdiotBoy 200 -100 ==> 117 Slakko 60 +20 ==> 270 Niccolo Flychuck 60 +20 ==> -30 K 2 100 ==> 3076 Votes to reject: JT -80 +10 ==> 3333 rice -100 ==> -78 Abstainers: r-attila the farce two-star Calvin N Hobbes Vynd O Olde Alpha Robin Hood Fox danke Burn the Witch rufus Subject: Acka: Proposal 4127 Proposal 4127 Thought I voted -200 IdiotBoy Due: Thu Apr 1 10:10:18 1999 Status: accepted Repeal rule 867-5309. ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4128 accepted From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 14:43:06 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4128 Total vote for: 668 Total vote against:-1 Acceptance Index: 666.5: proposal accepted Votes to accept: /dev/joe 90 +5 ==> 1474 Laa Laa 97 +1 ==> 71 Blest Lax Monk Pal 60 +20 ==> 273 ThinMan 61 +19 ==> 138 else...if 60 +20 ==> 670 JT 80 +10 ==> 3343 Slakko 60 +20 ==> 290 Niccolo Flychuck 60 +20 ==> -10 K 2 100 ==> 3076 Votes to reject: rice -1 +20 ==> -58 Abstainers: r-attila the farce two-star Calvin N Hobbes Vynd IdiotBoy O Olde Alpha Robin Hood Fox danke Burn the Witch rufus Subject: Acka: Proposal 4128 Proposal 4128 "Assistant Assistance" ThinMan Due: Thu Apr 1 11:07:51 1999 Status: accepted {{[ Rule 6-2-1 appears to have some problems. First, it gets confused between acting and assistant officers. Perhaps the misspelling rule would clean that bit up, but it still should be fixed. Second, the rule makes no provision for getting rid of assistants, or for assistants quitting. Third, the mechanics are a bit loosey-goosey. This proposal is nothing revolutionary, it just rewrites the rule in question in a way that I think addresses the problems without changing the idea. ]}} Amend rule 6-2-1 (Assistant Officers) by replacing the entire text with the following MU-delimited text: MU An officer is considered to have performed a duty if either he or any assistant officer for that office has performed that duty. Any officer may, as a privilege of office which is permitted for acting officers, appoint any player eligible to hold that office as an assistant officer for that office. (E.g. the Web Harfer may appoint someone assistant Web Harfer.) The player so appointed becomes an assistant officer for that office upon publicly accepting the appointment within three days. Any officer may, as a privilege of office which is permitted for acting officers, dismiss any assistant officer for that office. (E.g. the Spelling Exchequer may dismiss any assistant Spelling Exchequer.) The assistant so dismissed immediately ceases to be an assistant officer for that office, but no other assistant officer positions he may hold are affected. An assistant officer may resign from any or all of his assistant officer positions at any time. Upon resigning from an assistant officer position for a particular office, a player ceases to be an assistant officer for that office. All appointments, dismissals, and resignations described by this rule are accomplished as public actions. Players may not become or cease to be assistant officers except as described by this rule. MU ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4129 accepted From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 19:08:48 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4129 Total vote for: 538 Total vote against:-64 Acceptance Index: 442.0: proposal accepted Votes to accept: /dev/joe 60 +20 ==> 1494 Laa Laa 98 +1 ==> 72 Blest Lax Monk Pal 60 +20 ==> 293 else...if 60 +20 ==> 690 Slakko 100 ==> 290 Niccolo Flychuck 60 +20 ==> 10 ** Out of debt ** K 2 100 ==> 3076 Votes to reject: ThinMan -1 +20 ==> 158 JT -62 +19 ==> 3362 rice -1 +20 ==> -38 Abstainers: r-attila the farce two-star Calvin N Hobbes Vynd IdiotBoy O Olde Alpha Robin Hood Fox danke Burn the Witch rufus Subject: Acka: Proposal 4129 Proposal 4129 *Really* Boring - like I care Laa Laa Due: Thu Apr 1 19:01:55 1999 Status: accepted This is a modest proposal. Append the following text to the end of rule 7-18 (Spiro Agnew: Grow a WHAT?!?): "No player may take possesion of the The Really Big Blue Thing That Doesn't Do Too Much, Really if e has used it during the last 28 days." ------------------------------ End of acka-voting Digest V4 #74 ********************************