ackanomic Digest Friday, April 02 1999 Volume: 04 Issue: 089 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Uri Bruck Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 4137 - retracting due to typo Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 03:50:00 -0500 (EST) I just noticed the unbalanced parentheses which may render this proposal null. I'll have to retract it and resubmit I retract P4137 Niccolo Flychuck On Thu, 1 Apr 1999 ackabot@ackanomic.org wrote: > 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 theboard. 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. > " > }} > > > > > > ------------------------------ > ------------------------------ From: Tom Walmsley Subject: g Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 13:24:52 -0500 (EST) #submit proposal Gravity, a reprise 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}} #end -- Tom "Garbed in Gingham" Walmsley. AIM: TGW666 ICQ: 2925739 http://website.lineone.net/~t.walmsley/index.html "One of the advantages of horses that people often point out is that they very seldom explode." Jingo - Terry Pratchett. ------------------------------ From: Tom Walmsley Subject: Acka: Re: g Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 13:27:08 -0500 (EST) Tom Walmsley wrote: > > #submit proposal Gravity, a reprise Oopsy, I think the snowgod's disease must be spreading. Laa Laa. -- Tom "Garbed in Gingham" Walmsley. AIM: TGW666 ICQ: 2925739 http://website.lineone.net/~t.walmsley/index.html "One of the advantages of horses that people often point out is that they very seldom explode." Jingo - Terry Pratchett. ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: *ping* From: Joseph DeVincentis Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 18:17:48 -0500 (EST) Today is Friday, the 2nd day of April, and the Machine That Goes *ping* Has Gone *ping* today. Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone *ping* 6 times. /dev/joe Scholar of *ping* ------------------------------ End of ackanomic Digest V4 #89 ******************************