acka-voting Digest Friday, April 02 1999 Volume: 04 Issue: 075 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Acka: Proposal 4138 From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 03:50:43 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4138 .and the Board has turned over and the Pieces are all scattered Niccolo Flychuck Due: Fri Apr 9 04:50:43 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 4139 From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 13:11:28 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4139 Wibble part 5 or the McSpong Sevin debates Laa Laa Due: Fri Apr 9 14:11:25 1999 All proposals which are made by the Harfmeister must include an approved silly word. The approved list of silly words is as follows: spong, wibble, ni!, pheeeeew, zopzop, boing, banana, squawk, thatcher, yeenewkleorrrrmeeesseilllllee. [Original Author: Julian Richardson aka Dr McSpong, Proposal 357, reincarnated by Robert Sevin in proposal 2096.] ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4140 From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 13:26:27 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4140 Gravity, a reprise Laa Laa Due: Fri Apr 9 14:26:26 1999 The Universe is a self-modifying game of rules. The Name of the Universe is "hunt a resonant fungus". All players must always abide by all the rules then in effect, in the form in which they are then in effect, and interpreted in accordance with current game custom. The rules and the state of the Universe may only be changed as described in the rules. Actions described in the rules may only be performed, and shall only have those effects, as specified by the rules. Whatever is not explicitly prohibited or regulated by the rules, however, is permitted and unregulated. Game custom, spirit of the game, and linguistic interpretation are external concepts and are not regulated or part of the game state. A player may not win the Universe. A player always has the option to leave the Universe. The Universe recognizes the existance of Ackanomic, and all of its constituent entities, although they may only have an effect in the Universe as specified by the rules of the Universe. The only player in the Universe is the player known as two-star in Ackanomic. This player may change the rules of the Universe at his discretion. {{[Original author two-star with proposal 2156] 5 points are transferred from Laa Laa to two-star}} ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4141 From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 18:32:08 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4141 Tinkering with Literature K 2 Due: Fri Apr 9 19:32:03 1999 This is a Modest Proposal. {{[Attempting to make it a little simpler to harf; of course at the moment its real simple because no one is using it :-)]}} Amend Rule 2-2-2 (Literature) by: I. Deleting the following pieces of text: A. "(iii) a phrase that is not found in any other piece of literature." B. "V. Any player may issue a CSR that consists solely of modifications to the Literature list. Otherwise, the Literature list may only be modified by Proposals and by the Spelling Bee." II. Replacing: " [The reasoning for these limitations is to try and stop people from trying to pass off "to be" as a quote from Hamlet, and the like. There are however some short snippets that are very unique to individual pieces and this takes that into account.] " with: " [The reasoning for these limitations is to try and stop people from trying to pass off "to be" as a quote from Hamlet, and the like.] " III. Replacing: " X is either, the number of sentences, or series of sentences, quoted according to section I of this rule, or the total number of words quoted according to section I divided by 14, whichever is smaller. [That is, for each sentence or phrase which is eligible to be literature the author scores one point, taking the lower total if there are more than two ways in which such a phrase is eligible, i.e. two complete sentences making a total of fourteen words would only score one point.] " with: " X is the number of citations in the proposal. " {{ Add "Artist: Terry Prachett; Author of the Discworld novels." to the literature list }} ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4142 From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 18:32:19 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4142 Fuzzy Scoring K 2 Due: Fri Apr 9 19:32:18 1999 This is a Modest Proposal {{[This ties score changes that stem from proposals into the proposal's acceptance index]}} A. Replace section III of Rule 2-2 (Scoring When A Proposal's Voting Results are Reported) with: " III. Scoring on Proposals The Base Yield of a proposal is its Acceptance Index divided by 100. Modest Proposals have a Yield equal to their Base Yield. Grandiose Proposals have a Yield equal to three times their Base Yield. Proposals which are nether modest nor grandiose have a Yield equal to twice their Base Yield. This section defers to alternative methods for determining a proposal's Yield or Base Yield. When a proposal's results are reported, its author's score is adjusted by the proposal's Yield. [A Modest proposal with an acceptance index of 666 gains its author 7 points, the same proposal with an acceptance index of -666 loses its author 6 points.] {{[The current range for proposal acceptance indexes is roughly 800 to -400]}} A proposal can only be declared to be Modest or Grandiose as defined by the Rules. All players who voted on any proposal receive one fifth of the absolute value of its Yield. {{[For modest proposals this would prolly give up to 2 points. Grandiose proposals could result in 5 points]}} " B. Amend Section II of Rule 1-7-3 (Paradigm Type: AntiVoting) to read: " II. Scoring for anti-voting. Players who anti-vote on a proposal shall gain one fifth of the absolute value of the proposal's Yield " C. Amend Section II of Rule 1-7-5 (Paradigm Type: Flow Voting) to read: " II. Scoring for flow-voting. Players who flow-vote on a proposal shall gain one fifth of the absolute value of the proposal's Yield " ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4143 From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 18:32:29 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4143 The Harfy Phrase K 2 Due: Fri Apr 9 19:32:29 1999 This is a Modest Proposal The harfmeister may announce a new harfy phrase of less than four words, provided it does not appear in any proposals currently under consideration. The harfy phrase may only be changed once a month. An accepted proposal which contained the harfy phrase when it was submitted has a base yield 5 higher than it otherwise would. ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4144 From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 18:32:40 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4144 Terminology K 2 Due: Fri Apr 9 19:32:39 1999 This is a Modest Proposal -A. Insert the following as a new paragraph after the table in Section I of Rule 2-3 (Proposal and Rule Numbering): "A rule's family consists of its parent and its parent's decedents" A. Amend Rule 1-7 (Paradigms Rule Suite) by: I. renaming it "Paradigms". II. deleting the phrase "This is the head of the Paradigms Rule Suite." III. replacing the phrase "are defined by rules within this rule suite" with "are defined by descendants of this rule" B. Repeal Rule 2-3-1 (Rule Suites) C. Amend Rule 4-8 (Quests Rule Suite) by: I. renaming it "Quests" II. deleting the phrase "This is the head of the Quests Rule Suite." III. replacing the text "Each rule in the Quest Rule Suite" with "Each decedent of this rule" IV. deleting the phrase "Each quest must be defined within a rule contained within this rule suite." D. Amend Rule 4-11 (Boons of the Ancients) by: I. replacing the text: "c) Ancient wisdom. An Otzma Card is added to the Otzma Card Rule Suite, which the player Must Describe (5)." with: "c) Ancient wisdom. An new type of Otzma Card is added as a decedent of the Otzma Card rule, which the player Must Describe (5)." E. Amend Rule 6-4-11-1 (Common Sense Reports) by: I. deleting the text: "(Thus, a player who is both Chess-Umpire and RuneMaker may issue a single CSR which affects both the Party Chess Rule Suite and the Otzma Card Rule Suite.)" {{[This situation is on longer true - neither the Chess-Umpire nor the RuneMaker are empowered to issue CSRs of this nature]}} F. Amend Rule 7-14 (Definition of Otzma Cards) by: I. deleting the phrase "This is the head of the Otzma Card Rule Suite." II. replacing the text: "1. Otzma Card types may be defined by other rules which explicitly claim that they are defining Otzma Card Types, and belong to the Otzma Card Rule Suite. This rule takes precedence over any rule which defines an Otzma Card type." with: "1. Otzma Card types may be defined by other rules which explicitly claim that they are defining Otzma Card Types, and are a decedent of this rule. This rule takes precedence over any rule which defines an Otzma Card type." G. Amend Rule 7-14-1 (Otzma Card of Type Go Fish) by: I. replacing the phrase: 4. This rule takes precedence over all other rules in the Otzma Card Rule Suite except rule 7-14-2 to which it defers precedence." with: "4. This rule takes precedence over all other rules in its family except the Otzma Card of Type Shield rule to which it defers." H. Repeal Rule 12-8 (Party Chess Rule Suite), but not its decedents, and renumber its decedents by removing thier third locator. (ie the third integer in each of their rule numbers.) ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4130 accepted From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 20:32:14 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4130 Total vote for: 293 Total vote against:-164 Acceptance Index: 47.0: proposal accepted ** This proposal was boring! ** 4 sub-60 votes out of 7 non-60 votes total. Votes to accept: /dev/joe 1 +20 ==> 1514 else...if 60 +20 ==> 710 IdiotBoy 50 +20 ==> 137 Dragon Mage 62 +19 ==> 3381 Slakko 60 +20 ==> 310 Niccolo Flychuck 60 +20 ==> 30 Votes to reject: Laa Laa -2 +20 ==> 92 rice -1 +20 ==> -18 ThinMan -61 +19 ==> 177 K 2 -100 ==> 3076 Abstainers: r-attila the farce Vynd Calvin N Hobbes Blest Lax Monk Pal O Olde Alpha Robin Hood rufus Fox danke Burn the Witch two-star Subject: Acka: Proposal 4130 Proposal 4130 Substantially Safer Proposals else...if Due: Fri Apr 2 19:02:52 1999 Status: accepted If two proposals currently in the proposal queue would have identical effects on the game state if passed, or a CFJ finds them to be substantially similar, then the later of the two to be submitted shall be deemed invalid and removed from voting consideration. ------------------------------ End of acka-voting Digest V4 #75 ********************************