Proposal Archive (2951-3000)

Proposal 2951 - Mon 27 Apr 1998 13:36 EDT
School of Reform For Budding Arch-Criminals
Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
Decision: accepted

This is a Modest proposal.

Amend Rule 1240.15, "Otzma Card of type Art Thief", as follows:

Replace the second paragraph
{{[
A player who plays this Card shall unambiguously announce the name of an entity (other than a player) contained in the Museum. Upon doing so, the entity is removed from the Museum and transferred to the player, (and is no longer considered "on display" in the Museum).
]}}

with the following text(delimited by GOWAN):

GOWAN
A player who plays this Card shall unambiguously announce the name of an entity (other than a player) contained in the Museum. Upon doing so, the following shall occur:

a) If the entity's donation value is less than A$10, then the theft succeeds.

b) If the entity's donation value is greater than A$10, then for every A$10 of the entity's value the chance of failure is 1%. (So, for an A$350-value entity, the chance of failure is 35%.)

c) If the chance of failure is non-zero, then the Officer in Charge of Random Things shall determine whether or not the theft fails. If the theft does not fail, it succeeds.

d) If the theft succeeds, then the entity is removed from the Museum and transferred to the player(and is no longer considered "on display" in the Museum).

e) If the theft fails, then one of the two following events occurs (with equal probability): Either the player is Caught Stealing, or another random item of the same type is stolen by mistake(and transferred to the player as in d) above). Item types, for this purpose, consist of Trinkets/Majiks, Gadgets, and Prosthetic Foreheads.
GOWAN

{{[ It shouldn't be _too_ easy for people to steal big huge trinkets from the Museum... ]}}

Proposal 2952 - Mon 27 Apr 1998 13:37 EDT
1928
else...if (Henry Towsner)
Decision: accepted

{{[This is a little different from what I RFC'd. It adds some controls to the activity index, just in case, and allows the Reserve to buy off portions of the market value. It also clarifies the definition of insider trading (of which I believe we are all guilty).]}}

Amend section b of rule 530 to read as delimited CONTROL

CONTROL

b) If for any reason the positivity value is unspecified, it will be set to 10. If the positivity value is less than 0, then it will immediately become 0. Whenever a proposal passes, at the moment its results are publicly knowable, the positivity value will increase by the P-setting for every player who voted in favor of the proposal. Whenever a proposal fails, at the moment its results are publicly knowable, the positivity value will decrease by the N-setting for every player who voted against it.

CONTROL

Amend section c of rule 530 to read as delimited by MORECONTROL

MORECONTROL

c) If for any reason the activity value is unspecified, it will be set to 10. If the activity value is less than 0, then it will immediately become 0. At twelve, three, six, nine (a.m. and p.m.) the activity value will decrease by the D-setting. The normality factor will the number of activities which occured on the previous day plus ten times the A-setting. Every time an activity occurs, the activity value increases by 1/the normality factor. Something is only an activity if it is specified as one by this rule.

The following are activities:

The distribution of a proposal, CFJ, CFCJ, or CSR.

The announcement of the beginning or end of a hearing.

The passage of a great work.

The addition or removal of a player.

Any action causing a player to pay the standard harfer fee.

The beginning or end of an election.

The creation of a gadget.

The end of a cycle.

The distribution of the magic potato, oars, raft, or the chocolate frog.

The granting of any other award based on blue cross rank.

The posting of Phoebe's wisdom.

A *ping*.

The winning of a game of GAD or party chess.

At the end of each Acka day, one second after the loss latest loss of the D-setting, the activity value will be rounded to the nearest tenth.

MORECONTROL

Replace the following OUTWITHTHEOLD delimited text from rule 530 with the subsequent INWITHTHENEW delimited text.

OUTWITHTHEOLD

A player who intentionally manipulates the stock market by any means will be guilty of the crime of insider trading.

OUTWITHTHEOLD

INWITHTHENEW

A player who intentionally manipulates the stock market by any means primarily for eir own gain or that of another will be guilty of the crime of insider trading.

INWITHTHENEW

Amend Rule 534 to read as delimited by MULTITUDES

MULTITUDES

There is a named, unownable, unique entity known as The Ackan Reserve. There is an optional functional office with one seat known as Chair of the Ackan Reserve, or AR-C. There is an optional political office known as the People's Member of the Ackan Reserve, or AR-P. There is an optional office known as the Financial Communitie's Member of the Ackan Reserve, or AR-F. There are also six Appointed Members of the Ackan Reserve, known to be upstading citizens of Acka, however as they are not players, their votes are assumed to be similar to the player members, and can be safely ignored. [Presumably this includes Phoebe and so on.] The AR-C, AR-P, and AR-F, are collectively known as the Executive Board of the Ackan Reserve, or AREB. If a player has two offices which are on the AREB than one will be confiscated, either the AR-F, of the AR-P if they do not own the AR-F.

The AREB is responsible for setting the D-, A-, P- and N-settings. It may change them by any two members of the AREB publicly specifying the same change to a setting within three days of each other. The specification of a change must include which setting they want to change and a value greater than 0 and less than or equal to 1.

The AREB also has the power to declare payoffs. If two members of the AREB publicly specify the same payoff within three days of each other than that payoff will occur. The specification of a payoff must include a non-negative amount for every index in the market less than or equal to the value of that index. When the payoff occurs the specified amount is subtracted for each index and all players receive in A$ the amount of the total loss times the number of stocks they hold.

It is a duty of the Chair of the Ackan Reserve to track the value of the Stock Market, including the calculation of the ACT quotient, and to make this value available to all players.

{{The P-setting is set to 0.1. The N-setting is set to 0.15. The A-setting is set to 0.1. The D-setting is set to 0.125.}}

{{The AR-F is transferred to the treasury, nominations are called for on the AR-P.}}

MULTITUDES

Proposal 2953 - Mon 27 Apr 1998 13:39 EDT
"Rehalfing the ruleset..."
H*bert (Jonathan David Amery)
Status: retracted

This is a Modest Proposal.

Create a rule with the lowest currently untaken number with the following text:

{{Set the gamestate to whatever it would have been had CFJ 577 been judged FALSE}}

{{If CFJ 577 has been judged TRUE then give Ayla a Winning Condition, H*bert looses 2 points, Ayla gains 2 points}}

{{[I support the CfJ, but don't want the game to go haywire. Someone else can fix the rule itself... Deliberatly posted to acka-research]}}

Proposal 2954 - Mon 27 Apr 1998 13:43 EDT
You Asked For It, breadbox
Hubert (Eric Plumb)
Decision: rejected
Declared harfy by Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey) on Sat 02 May 1998 01:00 EDT

This is a Modest Proposal.

Replace all instances of the string "chess" or the string "Chess" in all Rules with a base number of 1230 with the string "checkers" or the string "Checkers", respectively.

Repeal all Rules except those with a base number of 1230 and Rule 42.

Proposal 2955 - Mon 27 Apr 1998 13:44 EDT
Official Terms
K 2 (Kelly Kelly)
Decision: accepted

This is a Modest Proposal.

{{[This proposal introduces the concept of a Minimum Term of Office. After the end of a Minimum Term an eligible player may request an election. The cost of the standard harfer fee will reduce abuse (though not anti-scam) and automatic nomination will prevent null elections.

The intention is to give players a non-impeachment method of activating the election process for the 'harfy' offices while not causing too much BWG.]}}

{{[***Commonality***]}} Amend rule 401 (Offices, Commonalities) in the following way: Insert the following between part a) and b) of section (vi) and reletter the list accordingly:

b) The Rules may specify a Minimum Term of Office. When a player has held a particular seat of an office for a period greater than its Minimum Term of Office, any player who is eligible to hold that seat may as a public action demand "an end to this banna republic", specifying the seat and paying the Standard Harfer Fee. When this occurs the term of office for the specified seat expires and an election is held. The player who called for the election is automatically nominated. If the rules fail to specify a Minimum Term of Office for a particular office, then this paragraph shall not apply to that office.

{{[***Senate***]}}
Append to the end of Rule 411 (Senate) as a separate paragraph:
At the time of a presidential election at most two seats are selected in the following manner:
i) All seats for which an election was held during the previous 16 weeks are disregarded.
ii) Of the remaining seats, the two seats which have not had an election for the longest period or all of these seats, whichever is less, have their term of office expire.
iii) Ties in section ii) are broken randomly.

{{[***Historian***]}}
Place the following after first sentence of Rule 420 (Historian):
It has a Minimum Term of Office of 12 months.

{{[***Poet Laureate***]}}
Remove the first sentence of Rule 424 (Poet Laureate) and replace with:
The optional Office of Poet Laureate has a Minimum Term of Office of 6 months.

{{[***Praetor***]}}
Amend the first sentence of section I of Rule 425 (Praetor) to read:
The Office of the Praetor is a Political Office with a Minimum Term of Office of 6 months.

{{[***Inventor***]}}
Amend the paragraph under the heading "A. Inventor" in Rule 593 (Ackanomic Research Guild) to read:
The Office of Inventor has one seat with a Minimum Term of Office of 6 months that is filled by Election.

{{[***Wizard***]}}
Append to the paragraph under the heading "B. Wizard" in Rule 593 (Ackanomic Research Guild):
If a player's most recent ownership of the office of wizard exceeds 6 months and that player has not made a discovery or gadget during that time and a player points this fact out the office is transferred to the treasury.

{{[***Mad Scientist***]}}
Insert the following in Rule 597 (The Frankenstein Monster(s)) after section xi):
xii) Eir creative genius having been exhausted, the office of The Mad Scientist then becomes vacant.

{{[***Illuminatus***]}}
Reassign letters to each of the lettered list items in Rule 607 (Winning by Agenda) to give them a unique letter one greater in alphabetic ordering than the previous, starting with a) for the first item.

Insert the following at the end of the list in Rule 607 (Winning by Agenda):
e) The Agent of KAOS has three days from when eir Cycle-Win CFJ becomes unapealable to publicly announce eir desire to be Illuminatus. If they do so the current Illuminatus is removed from office and the Agent of KAOS becomes the new Illuminatus. Otherwise the office of Illuminatus becomes vacant.

{{[***Caped Crusader***]}}
Amend the second sentence of the second paragraph of Rule 705 (The Caped Crusader) to read in full:
It is an Optional Political office with a Minimum Term of Office of 6 months.

{{[***Gaoler***]}}
Append to section (ii) of Rule 712 (Gaoler):
It has a Minimum Term of office of 6 months.

{{[***NAP Swinger***]}}
Amend Section III, C, 2 of Rule 1040 (Party Hall) to read:
2. The Player who holds the NAP Swinger's Office continues to be NAP Swinger until e either resigns, is impeached, surrenders, or becomes a member of a Party or the current game of party chess is won.

{{[***AckaPhysicist***]}}
Replace the second paragraph of Rule 1317 (Codex of Kra) with:
The optional office of AckaPhysicist exists. It has a Minimum Term of Office of 6 months. It is a privilege of the AckaPhysicist to translate the Codex of Kra, and report its contents to the people of Acka [maintaining, or arranging to maintain a web page of its contents would be ideal].

Proposal 2956 - Mon 27 Apr 1998 13:45 EDT
Veneration
K 2 (Kelly Kelly)
Decision: accepted

Amend to the Rule 917 (Rocks, walls, facial hair and root vegetables) to read in full (HIGHLY VENDABLE delimited):

HIGHLY VENDABLE
The following types of entities exist:
i) A Rock To Wind A String Around.
ii) A Wall Of Trombones.
iii) Santa's Beard.
iv) A Magic Radish.
v) A Bottle of Bubble Gum Flavoured Shampoo.
vi) A Large Box of Chocolates.

All of the above entities are collectively known as Venerable Entities and may be manipulated by vending machines, should such things exist. All of the above entities are Tradable.

Due to the complex field interactions between Venerable Entities in the same location, a player who possesses a least one of each type of the Venerable Entities may request a Boon of the Ancients, with a 10% chance of it being granted. However, invoking the Officer in Charge of Random Things in this manner, causes all of the Venerable Entities in eir possession to disappear in a flash of coloured light. A player may make no more than one such request per calendar month.
HIGHLY VENDABLE

Rename rule 917 to Rocks, Walls, Facial Hair, Root Vegetables and Flavoured Shampoo

Append the following to the end of Rule 594.4 (Blueprint: Vending Machine):

If a Vending Machine is owned by the second player to legally chew The Gumball on any given day, e may vend therefrom A Bottle of Bubble Gum Flavoured Shampoo for the remainder of the day. The price for which A Bottle of Bubble Gum Flavoured Shampoo may be sold starts at A$12.

If a Vending Machine is owned by the First Citizen, e may vend therefrom A Large Box of Chocolates. The price for which A Large Box of Chocolates may be sold starts at A$14.

Proposal 2957 - Mon 27 Apr 1998 13:46 EDT
Now That They're Useful
Slakko (Duncan Richer)
Decision: accepted

This is a Modest Proposal.

[I have previously submitted a proposal to enable Swingpoints to be exchanged to purchase Benefyts. Since then my proposal which allows a use for Benefyts has passed, so there is significant value in allowing Benefyts to be purchased. They shouldn't be cheap, though, so I've set their price at 10 Swingpoints.]

Amend Section 3 of Rule 1044, "Swingpoints", by relabelling subsection "d." to subsection "e.", and inserting the following BFT-delimited text immediately after subsection "c.":

BFT
d. A Player may, as a public action, convert ten of eir own Swingpoints into a Benefyt.
BFT

Amend Section 3 Subsection e of Rule 1044 by replacing the text "(a) through (c)" with "(a) through (d)", and the text "(b) and (c)" with the text "(b) through (d)".

[This gives the Benefyt conversion the same restrictions as any other Swingpoint exchange.]

Proposal 2958 - Fri 01 May 1998 14:10 EDT
small reorg
JT (JT Traub)
Status: retracted

This is a modest proposal.

Renumber rule 2887 to 1240.X where X is the lowest unused integer for the Otzma card rule suite.
Renumber rule 2888 to 1240.Z where Z is the lowest unused integer for the Otzma card rule suite.

Proposal 2959 - Fri 01 May 1998 14:11 EDT
Wolf's Clothing
Slakko (Duncan Richer)
Decision: accepted

This is a Modest Proposal.

[SHEEP wants to give away money, but the current Org rules won't let it. There should be some leeway for these charitable actions, but not so much as to allow willy-nilly actions. I think that the Dispensation/Indulgence system described below should allow these kinds of actions, without enabling Societies to get away with everything.]

Create a new Rule, numbered 1020, and called "Dispensations", with the following INDULGENCE-delimited text:

INDULGENCE
The Org-Harfer (or, if that seat is vacant, the Web-Harfer) shall maintain a list of Dispensations. This list is an official Document, but is not a Rule, and shall only have effects as defined by the Rules. An entry on the Dispensations List shall consist of the name of a Society, a colon, and an action or a description of a number of actions (so that it is possible to distinguish between actions described by that description and actions not described in a non-paradoxical way).

If an entry on the Dispensations List contains the name of a Society and an action, then the Society may perform that action as an Organisational Action.

A member of a Society may submit an Indulgence by sending it to the Org-Harfer privately. It is a Duty of the Org-Harfer to publish Indulgences. An Indulgence must be an entry of the form included in the Dispensations List. Any player may object to a published Indulgence within 3 days of it being published.

If, 3 days after an Indulgence is published, fewer than 2 players have objected to the Indulgence, then the Indulgence will be added to the Dispensations List as a new entry.

{{Add the following quoted item to the Dispensations List: "The Society for the Huranguing of Emancipated Enfranchised Players: gift A$2 to a player who voted BAA! on a proposal whose voting results were distributed in the past 7 days."
}}
INDULGENCE

Proposal 2960 - Fri 01 May 1998 14:13 EDT
Harfonian Recovery
Slakko (Duncan Richer)
Status: retracted

{{[Some entities are partially recorded, but now gone. I want to see them in the Harfonian with the Widget of Yendor. This is all self-deleting text, to ensure that no null rule is created.]}}

{{Create Exhibits in the Harfonian Institute for Orbital Mind Control Lasers, Electronic Potatoes, Victory Eggplants, Silly Vacation Hats (being worn), and the five Keys to the Vault.}}

Proposal 2961 - Fri 01 May 1998 14:14 EDT
Just like...
K 2 (Kelly Kelly)
Decision: rejected

This is a Modest Proposal

Amend rule Rule 506.1 (Magik) to read in full (LASTWISHES delimited):

LASTWISHES
It privilege of the Archaeologist to convert a trinket worth more than A$99 into a Majik according to the following procedure:
As a public action, a player who owns a Trinket worth more than A$99 asks if that Trinket is special.
If the Archaeologist replies publicly within 3 days "This Trinket is Majik", then the Trinket becomes a Majik. [It is considered good form to give the Archaeologist a 10% fee for this service.]

Majiks are no longer Trinkets but keep the value, name and description they had when Trinkets. Majiks are tradable entities.
LASTWISHES

Rename Rule 506.1 to Majik

{{[This was #15 of Malenkai's departing wish list from the first time e tried to leave. Suffice to say this proposal is wholly inspired by Malenkai, with out whom I'd prolly not have seen the loophole. For the other items; all I can say is: #1 is a long way off. I hope I'm accomplishing #2. #3 is a work in progress ;) #4 been done. I don't agree with #19.]}}

{{transfer some posthumous writer's credit to Malenkai's Undead}}

Proposal 2962

Due to an error by the promoter, there is no proposal 2962.

Proposal 2963 - Fri 01 May 1998 14:17 EDT
Reasonable Attempts Will Be Given Partial Credit
Slakko (Duncan Richer)
Decision: accepted

This is a Modest Proposal.

[As things stand, if the rules say that a particular piece of text has to be sent to achieve a particular effect, no changes from that text (with the possible exceptions of punctuation and case) are allowed. This can lead to some actions not being completed when most people thought they were. Such a situation really could use a "common sense" remedy. However, as common sense is rarely common, such a remedy will have to use weasel words of some sort. This is the best I could come up with.]

Amend Rule 340, "Conventions", by appending the following OKAY-delimited text:

OKAY
VIII. When any Rule requires a public message contain a fixed piece of text in order to satisfy some condition, then, that Rule notwithstanding, any piece of text in a public message which is unambiguously a close approximation to the text in question, such that the intent of the text in the message is unambiguously to satisfy the condition laid down in the Rule, shall be considered, for the purposes of that Rule, to be equivalent to the fixed piece of text.
OKAY

[Yes, I know it is wordy and tangled. If anyone can come up with anything better, then let me know quickly, and I can retract this to let yours through.]

Proposal 2964 - Fri 01 May 1998 14:22 EDT
No Quick Majik
JT (JT Traub)
Status: removed (invalid by Rule 309)

Amend rule 506.1 as follows

Replace the first sentance of the rule {{[An existing Trinket can be made into a Majik by the Archaeologist]}} with the sentance 'An existing Trinket can be made into a Majik by the Archaeologist as described by the rest of this rule.'

{{[ I'm not sure that the first sentance even needs to be there since the rest of the rule describes that the Archaeologist is the one who has to reply, etc, but I figure explicit is better than not so I decided to reword the first sentance instead of just removing it. ]}}

Proposal 2965 - Fri 01 May 1998 14:23 EDT
More Gratuitous Literature
The Gingham Wearer (Tom Walmsley)
Decision: accepted

Create a new rule numbered 1351 titled Mooning reading as follows (delimited by CRATER):

CRATER
Ganymede and Titan are both moons of Ackanomic. If any player has been to both Ganymede and Titan and e posts a message containing the phrase:
"To Ganymede and Titan, yes sir I've been around" [Lister, The End, Red Dwarf]
then e will receive a random boon of the ancients. After e has received this boon e may not do so again until e has visited Ganymede and Titan again.
CRATER

Proposal 2966 - Fri 01 May 1998 14:24 EDT
Au Revoir
The Gingham Wearer (Tom Walmsley)
Decision: rejected

This is a modest proposal.

Repeal rule 1060. [This one looks as if no-one's going to be using it.]

Proposal 2967 - Fri 01 May 1998 14:25 EDT
Admissions
The Gingham Wearer (Tom Walmsley)
Decision: accepted

Create a new rule entitled Admissions Policies numbered reading as follows(as delimited by TMBSG):

TMBSG
As an organizational action any organization may change it's admissions policy. The following are valid types of admissions policies:

1. Standard: the organisation may accept new members as an organizational action.

2. Open: any player may join the organization as a public action.

3. Privileged Single Player: a single member may grant any request for membership in that Organization, without waiting around for the consent of the rest of the members. A single player with this ability must be specified.

4. Quasi-open: Any player may request membership into the organisation and will become a member three days later unless any member of the organization refuse the player admission

5. Communist Single Player: a single member may grant any request for membership in that Organization, without waiting around for the consent of the rest of the members. Any member of the organisation may grant membership in this way.
TMBSG

Delete the following text from rule 1003:

"An Organization may, as a public action, give a particular member the ability to grant any request for membership in that Organization, without waiting around for the consent of the rest of the members. An Organization may also, as a public action, establish an open admissions policy, which means that anyone can join that Organization at any time. "

[I thought some of these might be useful for They Might Be Slumbering Giants, specifically Communist Single Player, considering how bad they've been at accepting new members as of late.]

Proposal 2968 - Fri 01 May 1998 14:26 EDT
Pride and Prejudice
Pandora (David Kenning)
Decision: rejected

This is a Modest proposal.

Add the following NORMAL-delimited text to Rule 209/4 as a new paragraph in between the current second and third paragraphs:

NORMAL
A Proposal that is neither Modest nor Grandiose contains Monosodium Glutamate. In all instances where the designation of a Proposal is called into question, and that Proposal contains Monosodium Glutamate, the designation of that Proposal shall be considered to be Normal.
NORMAL

{{[that should sort out the problem of non-modest, non-grandiose proposals being technically invalid, whether or not it's been sorted out by a CFJ]}}

Proposal 2969 - Fri 01 May 1998 14:27 EDT
Norgrindly
Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
Decision: accepted

Create a new Rule numbered 999, with the title "The Quirpele of Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis", with text as follows(delimited by ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM):

ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM

The Quirpele of Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosois is a tradeable entity. {{ Initially it is owned by a randomly chosen active player. }} The owner of the Quirpele of Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosois may do any of the following, as a public action: a) Replace the string "Spelling Bee" in all Rules(including this one), and in any Proposals in the voting queue, with any legal Ackanomic name. b) Cause the Brass Monkey to climb eir house. c) Make it a Crime for a post to the public forum over the next 24 hours not to hail em as Emperor. d) Reduce eir score to a number less than -1000000.

Upon performing any of the above actions, the Quirpele of Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosois's photoelectric cells become flibbled, and it teleports to another random player. Any former owner of the Quirpele of Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosois may be known as a Giant Green Gorilla.

ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM

Proposal 2970 - Fri 01 May 1998 14:28 EDT
small Eleusis change
JT (JT Traub)
Decision: accepted

This is a Modest proposal.

Amend section 9 'Duties of Deus and the Prophet' in rule 1250.23 by appending the following as a new paragraph to the end of the section.
The Deus may during the round give up to three hints to the Scientists. These hints may be given at any time during the round, but no more than three may be given. If a Deus gives more than 3 hints in a round, he is penalized 2 Gamepoints for each hint above 3.

Proposal 2971 - Sat 02 May 1998 20:45 EDT
Foolish Eleusis
JT (JT Traub)
Decision: accepted

I was young and foolish then, I feel old and foolish now.
Add the following paragraph as the second paragraph for rule 1250.23 section 9
The Deus may award a FairPlay point to a player if there is no Referee. For purposes of this paragraph, the Deus is treated as if they were the Referee of the game and thus are restricted as per rule 1250.1 Section XIII on the number of FairPlay Awards they may award. This paragraph takes precedence over rule 1250.1 if there is a conflict.

Proposal 2972 - Sat 02 May 1998 20:46 EDT
This is something that has always bugged me
Vynd (John McCoy)
Decision: accepted

This is a Modest Proposal.

Amend Rule 251 Player Names, by altering its last paragraph to read in full:

A player may change his Ackanomic name, so long as the new name complies with all applicable rules. The Registrar shall record and acknowledge each legal name change; a legal name change takes effect at the time of the Registrar's acknowledgement, at which time the player in question shall pay the standard Harfer Fee. If three days have passed, and the Registrar has yet to acknowledge a players attempt to change his name, and the new name complies with all applicable rules, then the name change takes effect. The Registrar is still required to record and announce that the change occurred. If a player attempts to change his name to something not in compliance with the rules, that attempt fails. Public notification of this failure by the Registrar is encouraged but not required. When a player changes their Ackanomic name, all Ackanomic business will be changed to follow their new name.

{{[The same as my RFC, except one still has to pay the harfer fee]}}

Proposal 2973 - Sat 02 May 1998 20:47 EDT
Treasured Actions
K 2 (Kelly Kelly)
Decision: accepted

This is a Modest Proposal.

Warning contains: princely

{{[this will allow societies and political parties to bury treasure composed of items other than what they can otherwise legally own. Otherwise only churches could bury anything and political parties only trinkets - and the treasure hunting league can't at all. As for finding treasure, any organization can do that now but the distribution of the spoils is random. This power gives the org a two week window to distribute the goods as per its charter.]}}

Create a rule numbered 1011, or the next highest integer which gives a unique rule number, Titled "Excavation Permit" with the following EUREKA delimited text:

EUREKA
An Excavation Permit is an Organizational Power, it is also Red Tape. An Organization may buy an Excavation Permit for the princely sum of the Standard Harfer Fee.

An Organization that is not a VSO and owns an Excavation Permit may:
i) Accept tradable entities for the purposes of burying em as a treasure. If the Organization would otherwise be unable to own a type of entity it will be transferred to the treasury after a period of 1 week if it has not been buried as a treasure.
ii) May, as an action, bury any tradable entities that it owns as a treasure as described in rule 1217.
iii) May legally own any entity that has been part of a buried treasure during the previous two weeks.

This rule has precedence over any rule with which it conflicts regarding what a particular Organization may own, accept or bury as a treasure.
EUREKA

Amend the first sentence of the second last paragraph of Rule 1217 (Buried Treasure!)
{{[An Organization which is able to transfer Entities (e.g. a Church, or an Organization with a Trade License) may bury Treasure as a public auction.]}} to read:
An Organization which is able to transfer Entities (e.g. a Church, or an Organization with an Excavation Permit) may bury Treasure as a public auction.

Proposal 2974 - Sat 02 May 1998 20:48 EDT
Deranged Order
K 2 (Kelly Kelly)
Decision: accepted

This is a Modest Proposal

{{[The Mad Hatters has no player members, it does not invoke precedence so it is a VSO. Therefore it may not own $A and cannot pay for the Hats, or accept trades etc. Furthermore, when Rule 1010 came into existence it attempted to transfer 1/3 of the Mad Hatter's cash to it members which are nameless and may not own anything. Presumably the money ended up unowned and in the treasury?]}}

Amend the second sentence of Rule 1003 (Organizations ) section 9
{{[
It is permissible for a ruel defining an Organization to add conditions under which an Organization may becoem a VSO, however, it not permissible for any other rule to allow an Organization with fewer than three members who are players to exist and not be a VSO.
]}} to read:
It is permissible for a rule defining an Organization to add conditions under which an Organization may become a VSO, however, it not permissible for any other rule to allow an Organization with fewer than three members to exist and not be a VSO.

Remove the first occurrence of the phrase "a Trade Licence and" from Rule 675 (Mercury Poisoning )
Insert the following after the first sentence {{[The Mad Hatters is an Organization.]}}:
It is permitted to own and trade A$ and Agenda Hats.

{{All AckaDollars owned by Beep, Blip and Bonk are transferred to the treasury. $A200 is transferred from the treasury to the Mad Hatter's}}

Proposal 2975 - Sat 02 May 1998 20:49 EDT
What's mine...
K 2 (Kelly Kelly)
Decision: accepted

This is a Modest Proposal.

{{[Items owned by an Undead and Organizations thus belonging to no other player are also in the treasury. Hopefully this will change that]}}

Amend Rule 505 (Treasury and AckaDollars) section II to read in full (HANDSOFF delimited):

HANDSOFF
II. Treasury:

The Treasury is a named, unownable entity that serves as a storing house for entities that belong to no other entity, except for those entities for which the rules explicitly state are not in (or considered to be in) the Treasury. Items owned by the Treasury are said to be "in the Treasury", and they may not be manipulated in any way except as explicitly allowed by the Rules.
HANDSOFF

{{[Orgs are prolly traditionally entities by game custom, but it can't hurt to be explicit]}}

Insert as the first sentence of section I of Rule 1003 (Organizations) the following text:
An Organization is a named unownable entity.

Amend Rule 839 (Buildings) to append the following text to the end of the rule:
Regardless of ownership, land and the buildings that reside on it are not considered to be in the treasury.

Amend the first paragraph of Rule 909 (Steel Flea) to read in full:
Phoebe the Steel Flea lives in a matchbox. Phoebe the Steel Flea looks like a flea, feels like a flea and behaves like a flea most of the time. However Phoebe is a unique named entity that was created thousands of years ago by Acka-scientists who had access to advanced nano-technology that has since been lost in the mists of time. Likewise her matchbox is an ownable entity of indescribable mechanical complexity. Phoebe owns both herself and her matchbox.

Proposal 2976 - Sat 02 May 1998 20:50 EDT
Discouraging Negative Play
Slakko (Duncan Richer)
Decision: accepted

This is a Modest Proposal.

[We have lots and lots of Otzma Cards hoarded right now, and there is a reason for it. There are currently so many Go Fish cards that most attempts to use any other card will be countered. As the net result of a countered card is usually a penalty against the initial player, this leads to cards being hoarded rather than used. We should restrict the number of Go Fish cards, but I don't want to see people forced to give them up. This rule sets up an Otzma Amnesty.]

Create a rule, numbered 1239, entitled "Otzma Go Fish Amnesty", with the following BUYBACK-delimited text:

BUYBACK
A player in possession of at least one Otzma Card Go Fish may, as a public action, convert one of eir Otzma Cards Go Fish into A$50. The act of conversion destroys the Otzma Card Go Fish. There is no limit to the number of times a player may perform this action, provided each time it is performed the player is in possession of at least one Otzma Card Go Fish.
On Saturday 23rd May 1998, at 11:59 am Acka time, the following LIMIT-delimited text is appended to Rule 1240.2, with the exception that the instance of "CARDZ" in the text below is replaced by the number of Otzma Cards Go Fish in existence at 11:59 am Acka time on Saturday 23rd May 1998:

LIMIT
5. There may be at most CARDZ Otzma Cards of type "Go Fish".
LIMIT

This rule repeals itself at noon on Saturday 23rd May 1998.
BUYBACK

[Part II of the crafty scheme he he :-) - make the creation of Go Fish cards less likely.]

Amend Rule 1240.2, "Otzma Card of Type Go Fish", by replacing all instances of the text "F-designation of Common" with "F-designation of Normal"

Proposal 2977 - Sat 02 May 1998 20:51 EDT
By any means necessary
J. M. Bear (Frank Schmidt)
Decision: accepted

Amend rule 437 in the following way:
Change the string "only players who do not have puppet heads are not counted for Quorum purposes" to "only players who do not have puppet heads are counted for Quorum purposes". [I think this was originally meant]

Proposal 2978 - Sat 02 May 1998 20:52 EDT
Just restoring symmetry and order
J. M. Bear (Frank Schmidt)
Status: retracted

Amend Rule 1230.18 in the following way:
Change the string "the range 5<R<15, e<C<o (that is between columns e and o, exclusive" to "the range 5<R<16, e<C<p (that is between columns e and p, exclusive". [This restores symmetry]
Change the string "A Demon can be promoted only if and only if there exist two friendly pieces of the same type (as each other, not necessarily the Demon)" to the string "A Demon can be promoted to another type of chess piece if and only if there exist two friendly pieces of this type (and if this promotion would violate no instance limits for that type)". [This restores order by avoiding the creation of a Tornado out of two pawns and a demon]

Proposal 2979 - Sat 02 May 1998 21:06 EDT
small otzma reorg
JT (JT Traub)
Decision: accepted

Renumber rule 2887 to 1240.X where X is the lowest positive unused integer in the otzma card rule suite
Renumber rule 2888 to 1240.Z where Z is the lowest positive unused integer in the otzma card rule suite

Proposal 2980 - Sat 02 May 1998 21:07 EDT
Otzma card of type shield
JT (JT Traub)
Decision: accepted

Create a new rule under the Otzma Card rule suite numbered 1240.50 with the following BLOCK delimited text titled 'Otzma Card of type Shield'
BLOCK
A card of this type can only be played on another Otzma card of a different type.

Otzma Cards of type Shield have the same F-Designation as Otzma Cards of type Go Fish.

When an Otzma Card of type Shield is played, an Otzma Card of type Go Fish may not be played on the card the Shield card was played on.

If Otzma Cards of type Go Fish are ever renamed, then all occurances of the string Go Fish in this rule are replaced with the new type of what used to be Go Fish.

If Otzma Cards of type Go Fish are ever repealed, this rule will repeal itself.

Counter-Action: A Go Fish card may once again be played on the card this was played on, and the deadline for playing a Go Fish card is extended by the length of time the Shield card was in effect.
BLOCK

Amend rule 1240.2 a follows.
Replace section 4 {{[4. This rule takes precedence over all other rules in the Otzma Card Rule suit.]}} with the following SMALL_FIX delimited text
SMALL_FIX
4. This rule takes precedence over all other rules in the Otzma Card Rule Suite except rule 1240.50 to which it defers precedence.
SMALL_FIX

Proposal 2981 - Sat 02 May 1998 21:08 EDT
TAKE TWO!
breadbox (Brian Raiter)
Decision: accepted

This is a Modest Proposal.

{{[Alfvaen's Proposal 2933 didn't *quite* have the intended effect.]}}

Replace the last three paragraphs of Rule 594.5 ("Blueprint: Automatic Sculpture"), which currently read:

"
When an Automatic Sculpture transforms itself into a Trinket, The Officer in Charge of Random Things shall choose a player at random(who will be called the Mad Sculptor). The Mad Sculptor shall be responsible for providing a description of the trinket formed by the Automatic Sculpture. Should the Mad Sculptor not publicly post such a description within three days of being selected, e shall lose one point and the description shall become "it is green".

However, when a Player buries an Automatic Sculpture and then finds it himself, he will find that it is a dull, slate gray box with an irregular pentagonal metal patch on one side.

Should the Mad Sculptor not publicly post such a description within three days of being selected, e shall lose one point and the description shall become "it is X", where X is one of the colours defined in Rule 1155.
"

with the following two paragraphs:

When an Automatic Sculpture transforms itself into a Trinket, The Officer in Charge of Random Things shall choose a player at random(who will be called the Mad Sculptor). The Mad Sculptor shall be responsible for providing a description of the trinket formed by the Automatic Sculpture. Should the Mad Sculptor not publicly post such a description within three days of being selected, e shall lose one point and the description shall become "it is X", where X is one of the colours defined in Rule 1155.

However, when a Player buries an Automatic Sculpture and then finds it himself, he will find that it is a dull, slate gray box with an irregular pentagonal metal patch on one side. (It is unchanged.)

Proposal 2982 - Mon 04 May 1998 08:46 EDT
It was good, but not good enough, Alfvaen
Ayla (Raquel Peres da Silva)
Decision: accepted

[As item 2 of Rule 342 was amended in order to allow players other than officers to initiate the fly of the Spelling Bee, item 4 must be amended too, otherwise it won't make much sense. Sounds like 5 points just falling on my lap... :-)]

Amend Rule 342, "Spelling Bee", by replacing the word "An officer initiates its flight by posting a public message" with the text "A player initiates its flight by posting a public message".

Proposal 2983 - Mon 04 May 1998 08:47 EDT
No more Jabberwocky
Attila the Pun (Micah Smukler)
Decision: accepted

This is a Modest proposal.

Amend rule 500.1 (Entity Names) as follows:

1. Replace the text "A name is a sequence of name characters." with the text "A name is a sequence of no more than seventy name characters. {{[probably more than we'll ever need.] Any entity whose name is more than seventy name characters loses that name and is considered not to have a name; however, it does not become a nameless entity.}}"

2. Replace the text currently in the rule which is delimited below by THISMAKESNOSENSE with the THISDOES-delimited text occuring later in this proposal:

THISMAKESNOSENSE
If a named entity at any time ever does not have a name, it shall immediately take the name "Nameless Thing #X", where X is the lowest positive integer creating a legal name for the entity. If this would result in multiple entities having the same name, one of them is chosen at random. If this method does not produce a legal name, the entity remains unnamed.

[So, for example a character named "those pesky aliens" might have an accented representation of eir name as "th=F6se p=E9sky =E2liens".]
THISMAKESNOSENSE

THISDOES
[So, for example a character named "those pesky aliens" might have an accented representation of eir name as "th=F6se p=E9sky =E2liens".]

If a named entity at any time ever does not have a name, it shall immediately take the name "Nameless Thing #X", where X is the lowest positive integer creating a legal name for the entity. If this would result in multiple entities having the same name, one of them is chosen at random. If this method does not produce a legal name, the entity remains unnamed.
THISDOES

Proposal 2984 - Mon 04 May 1998 08:49 EDT
Happiness
Attila the Pun (Micah Smukler)
Decision: accepted

Create a rule, whose number is the least integer greater than 1300 which is not already a rule number, with the following text:

At any time, one number and only one number is known as the Happy Number. The Happy Number is at all times an integer between -60 and the Magic Number. {{Initially, the Happy Number is 42.}}

If any time it is publically knowable that a player has a score exactly equal to the Happy Number, that player may point this fact out by publically stating: "Happy! Happy! Happy!". E then gains a probabilistic Boon of the Ancients and the Happy Number becomes a random integer between -60 and the Magic Number.

The number equal to (The Magic Number)-(The Happy Number) is known as the Sad Number. If any player has a score equal to the Sad Number, other players are encouraged to give that player gifts, to console em.

If at any time the Happy Number is equal to the Sad Number, Rule 101 shall be repealed, and all players shall receive a Winning Condition. This paragraph shall be struck from this rule if it is possible under the current ruleset for the Magic Number to become composite.

AtP

Proposal 2985 - Mon 04 May 1998 08:50 EDT
Archeology
Attila the Pun (Micah Smukler)
Decision: accepted

This is a Modest proposal.

Amend rule 593 (Ackanomic Research Guild) by replacing the text "equivalent to the Magic Number" in section C. with the text "greater than or equal to the Magic Number".

{{[The only reason I can think of for this to exist at all is to make it so you can't win the cycle by points and then become Archeologist; this causes the rule to become somewhat better at making that be the case.]}}

Proposal 2986 - Mon 04 May 1998 08:51 EDT
Theocracy
else...if (Henry Towsner)
Decision: rejected

If the president, since eir most recent election to the position, has not selected a Church to be the State Religion, then e may do so. At that time any Church which was previously the State Religion ceases to be so. The Founder of the State Religion may select one statement to be the National Doctrine by publicly declaring it, and clearly marking it as the National Doctrine. That statement will remain the National Doctrine for as long as that Church remains the State Religion. If a player, the Vigilant, believes that another player, the Blasphemer, has publicly contradicted the National Doctrine then the Vigilant may call a Blasphemy Hearing against that player, with emself as Hearing Harfer, provided there are less then 5 Blasphemy Hearings in progress. The responses to a Blasphemy Hearing are "E didn't understand what e was saying" and "Where's my torch?" If the result is "E didn't understand what e was saying" then they player who called the Vigilant will lose 10 points. If the result is "Where's my torch?" then the Blasphemer will lose 20 points and spend one day in Gaol, contemplating the true faith.

Proposal 2987 - Mon 04 May 1998 08:52 EDT
Don't feed the animals
else...if (Henry Towsner)
Status: retracted

Add the following, PEANUT-delimeted text, to the end of rule 721
PEANUT
IV. Monkey Baiting
Sending a message required by the rules to which private replies to the sender are required (such as a hearing or some games) and not sending it to a -priv mailing list is Annoying.

Proposal 2988 - Mon 04 May 1998 08:53 EDT
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose
saaremaa (Randy Hall)
Decision: accepted

This is a Modest proposal.

------------------------------------------------------------------

Amend rule 252, "Joining the Game", to replace:

"
This message must include their Ackanomic and real life names, as well as a valid email address.
"

with:

"
This message must specify the name of the Undead that qualifies them to join as a Returning player per section I, their real life name, and their e-mail address.

{{
This rule has precedence over all rules. If an Undead named Malenkai exists, that undead transfers all of its possessions to the author of the proposal that added this text to this rule, then that Undead is destroyed.
}}
"

Proposal 2989 - Mon 04 May 1998 08:54 EDT
Those pesky non-ASCII characters
breadbox (Brian Raiter)
Decision: accepted

This is a Modest Proposal.

{{[Sorry if you feel killing this bit of harf is heartless on my part. But it's never been used in its time here, and, to be honest, it would be a pain if someone did.]}}

I. Delete from Rule 500.1 ("Entity Names") the paragraph that reads:

An alphabetic character can be "accented". If this is the case, then it has two equivalent representations, one with the non-accented alphabetic character, and one with an accented representation of the same character. The accented representation will be in accord with the HTML standard, so that, for instance, an o with an umlaut will be represented as ö . (This is the only circumstance under which a semicolon can be part of a name.) The accented representation is intended mainly for use on the Ackanomic web pages, where it will show up[in most browsers, at least]as the accented character in question. A character cannot be accented in a way that cannot be represented in the HTML standard. In any context where characters are being counted, the accented representation of a character counts as a single character.

and then delete from the same rule the final paragraph [which reads:

So, for example a character named "those pesky aliens" might have an accented representation of eir name as "thöse pésky âliens".

but is in square brackets, so I can't quote it directly].

II. Delete from Rule 340 ("Conventions") the following text (which appears in section VII): "; accented letters come immediately after the unaccented form of the letter".

Proposal 2990 - Mon 04 May 1998 08:55 EDT
Mentoring minor fix
JT (JT Traub)
Status: retracted

This is a Modest proposal

Replace this OLD delimited sentance
OLD
Any Acting player may place emself in the mentor pool or remove emself therefrom.
OLD
with the following NEW delimited sentances
NEW
Any Acting player may place emself in the mentor pool or remove emself therefrom by notifying the Registrar. This notification may be done privately.
NEW

Proposal 2991 - Mon 04 May 1998 08:56 EDT
The Truth Is In Here
Slakko (Duncan Richer)
Decision: accepted

This is a Modest Proposal.

[The Otzma Cards TruthSeeker have not been used in my time as RuneMaker. Not once! Perhaps it is because they are too expensive to use realistically. Let's face it - as things stand to get even one word costs you A$10, and that word is probably going to be "the" or "date" or some such pointless and already expected word. To get anything decent costs you at least A$90, and with only a single Boon of the Ancients as the prize, this is a little expensive. Let's lower the price.]

Delete the second paragraph of Rule 1240.12.
[It is descriptive fluff which is redundant given that the following sentence describes what the card does.]

Amend Rule 1240.12 by replacing the text "10 times the square" with "4 times the square" wherever it occurs, and by replacing the text "as soon as humanly possible" with "within 3 days, but before any other public messages are sent by the revealing player if possible" wherever it occurs.

[Getting rid of Weasel words - what exactly do we mean by "as soon as humanly possible"?]

Proposal 2992 - Tue 05 May 1998 16:21 EDT
Minor mentoring Fix
JT (JT Traub)
Decision: accepted

Replace this OLD delimited sentance
OLD
Any Acting player may place emself in the mentor pool or remove emself therefrom.
OLD
with the following NEW delimited sentances
NEW
Any Active player may place emself in the mentor pool or remove emself therefrom by notifying the Registrar. This notification may be done privately.
NEW

Proposal 2993 - Tue 05 May 1998 16:25 EDT
Securing the secrets of Ackanomia.
H*bert (Jonathan David Amery)
Decision: rejected
Declared harfy by Vynd (John McCoy) on Mon 11 May 1998 12:50 EDT.

Amend rule 910 "The Ackanomicon" by replacing the paragraphs given below delimited by the text "OLD" with the paragraphs given below delimited by the text "NEW".

OLD
Any Player may visit The Vault of the Book by going to the Library, and publicly announcing that he is entering The Vault of the Book, in search of forbidden knowledge. No player may visit The Vault of the Book more than once in a calendar month, or more than once in any given 14 day span. No player may visit the Vault of the Book if another player has visited the Vault of the book in the past 24 hours. Don't ask why, you don't want to know.

All players who visit the Vault of the Book will discover that they are irresistibly drawn to read The Ackanomicon, which is always open to a random page. No one ever gets past this first page that they read, but even one page of The Ackanomicon can provide one with great insight, or great pain.

Whenever a player visits The Vault of the Book, the Officer in Charge of Random Things will determine which page from the list below The Ackanomicon was open to, by selecting one page at random with (you guessed it) equal probability. Some pages are duplicates, however, or at least discuss the same material. Because of this, some results will be more common than others. Each entry on the list below specifies how many pages of it's type are found in The Ackanomicon, if it does not, then there is assumed to be only one. The effects (if any) of reading a page of the Ackanomicon occur as soon as it is publicly knowable which page has been read.
OLD

NEW
Any Player who is in the Library and has the means to enter the Vault of the Book may do so. No player may visit The Vault of the Book more than once in a calendar month, or more than once in any given 14 day span. No player may visit the Vault of the Book if another player has visited the Vault of the book in the past 24 hours. Don't ask why, you don't want to know.

[The means to enter the Vault are defined elsewhere; notably in the Rule on the Otzma Card Skeleton Key, and the Rule entitled "Keys to the Vault"]

Should a player with all five Keys to the Vault read The Ackanomicon they may chose which page they read rather than this being determined randomly. If this provision is used then the Chartreuse and Gold Keys are transfered to Somewhere Else as soon as it is publicly knowable which page has been read.
NEW

Create a new rule; with the integer number that, being greater than 899, is the closest to 910 and isn't already in use; that has the following CAIUS-delimited text and is titled "Keys to the Vault".

CAIUS
There are five Keys to the Vault. Possession of any of the Keys to the Vault allows a player to enter the Vault of the Book assuming all other conditions are adhered to. All five keys are ownable unique mimsy entities.

The five keys are:

The Gold Key. The Gold Key is untradeable. Whenever a player becomes President the Gold Key is transfered to them. Should there at any time not be a President then the Gold Key is Somewhere Else.

The Gold Key is also known as the Gold Key of Office.

{{Transfer the Gold Key to the President, if such a player exists. }}

The Silver Key.
The Silver Key is tradeable. If at any time the Silver Key has not been part of a treasure for more than two weeks then the player owning it must bury it as part or all of a treasure. If this is not done before three weeks have passed since the Silver Key ceasing to be part of a treasure, or if it is ever both not part of a treasure and not owned by a player then it is buried as a treasure with the following MAP-delimited map:

MAP
A player who possesses an entity named 'Earth', at least one gadget, and publically says: "I have at least one gadget, and want to possess, love, hug, and call the silver key george." shall find the silver key treasure.
MAP

If this is done while the Silver Key is owned by a player then any entities that they own which are named 'Earth' are transfered to randomly determined players.

The Silver Key is also known as the Silver Key of Searching.

The Bronze Key. The Bronze Key is untradeable. Whenever a Swinger's Weight becomes strictly greater than all other Swinger's Weights then the Bronze Key is transfered to them.

The Bronze Key is also known as the Bronze Key of Politics.

The Chartreuse Key.
The Chartreuse Key is untradeable. Whenever a player ceases to be pending they receive the Chartreuse Key. Should two players simultaneously cease to be pending then one of them is determined randomly. That player receives the Chartreuse Key. The other receives the Purple Key. Should more than two players simultaneously cease to be pending then the Chartreuse Key is transferred to Somewhere Else. The Chartreuse Key may be transfered from a new player to eir mentor or vice versa so long as the player has not been a player for longer than three weeks.

The Chartreuse Key is also known as the Chartreuse Key of Welcoming.

The Purple Key.
The Purple Key is tradeable. The Purple Key may not be given away, but may be traded for any tradeable Acka-Entity. The Purple Key may remain in the possession of any Player for any length of time, subject to the following conditions:

1. The current Cycle has not ended.
2. The Player possessing the Purple Key has no other Keys.

If at any time the Player possessing the Purple Key is given another of the five Keys, the Purple Key must be legally transfered to another player within seven days or else the Purple Key is given to the player with the least positive score who does not currently possess any of the five Keys.

The owner of the Purple Key must accept any offer for it which is in value at least A$20 within three days of the offer being made or else the Purple Key is transfered automatically to the player making the offer.

Should the owner of the Purple Key have used it since the last time they received it then they must accept any offer for it as specified in the paragraph above.

The Purple Key is also known as the Purple Key of Trade.
CAIUS

{{[This proposal has the dual benefits of restoring the Keys and limiting (although not too much) any overuse of the Book. ]}}

Proposal 2994 - Tue 05 May 1998 16:27 EDT
Occupational Hazards
Hubert (Eric Plumb)
Decision: accepted

A randomly determined floating or detached building is successfully reattached by the player holding the Office of Nyarlathotep.

[ Let's make em EARN that A$25/month. ]

If no Office of Nyarlathotep exists, or that Office is vacant, Hubert loses 2 points as penance.

Proposal 2995 - Tue 05 May 1998 16:28 EDT
It Ain't Easy
Hubert (Eric Plumb)
Decision: rejected

Amend the second-to-last paragraph of Rule 611, "Le Grand Fromage," to read in full:

"A player receives a brie if no CFCJ called against em has returned a final verdict of TRUE in the last two months. To own a brie received in this manner is to commit the Crime of Being Cheesy. If any CFCJ returns a TRUE verdict against a player, any brie they may have is destroyed."

Proposal 2996 - Tue 05 May 1998 16:30 EDT
Fuzzy Voting
saaremaa (Randy Hall)
Decision: rejected

Amend rule 104, "Proposals", to replace the third paragraph with this:

"
As soon as possible after a proposal's prescribed voting period ends, the votes on that proposal shall be posted publicly. The proposal is then accepted if a quorum has been achieved and the proposal's Acceptance Index meets or exceeds its Acceptance Threshold.
"

{{[text at time of writing:

"
As soon as possible after a proposal's prescribed voting period ends, the votes on that proposal shall be posted publicly. The proposal is then accepted if a quorum has been achieved and the required number of YES votes were cast on the proposal.
" ]}}

----

Amend rule 106, "Voting on Proposals", to read:

"
Voting Players may vote an integer between 0 and 100 inclusive on each proposal, by sending their vote to the Tabulator. Votes must be unambiguous and unconditional. A Voting Player may also choose not to vote on a proposal, which is called abstaining. Voting Players who do not vote within the prescribed voting period shall be deemed to have abstained. Voting Players may change their vote up until the end of the prescribed voting period, but in any case are limited to one vote per proposal.

A proposal's Acceptance Index is the sum of all votes legally cast within its prescribed voting period divided by the total number of votes legally cast on it within the prescribed voting period. A proposal's Acceptance Threshold is 60%, unless changed as described in the rules.

The prescribed voting period on a proposal is seven days, starting from the moment that the proposal is publicly distributed as specified by the rules.

Entities may vote only as specified by the rules. Non-entities may not vote.
"

----

Amend Rule 207, "Scoring When A Proposal's Voting Results are Reported", to delete section VII. Boring Proposals, and so that the body of section III reads:

"
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 a Modest proposal is rejected, but meets quorum, the player who proposed it loses 5 points. If a Grandiose proposal is rejected, but meets quorum, the player who proposed it loses 12 points. If a proposal which is neither Modest nor Grandiose is rejected, but meets quorum, the player who proposed it loses 7 points.

A proposal can only be declared to be Modest or Grandiose as described in the Rules.
"

;and so the body of section V reads:

"
For the first three weeks of being a new player (as opposed to a returning player) in Ackanomic, a player shall receive a bonus as follows: one point for Modest proposals, five points for Grandiose proposals, three points otherwise, whenever one of their non-Modest proposals is accepted or any one of their proposals is rejected.
"

----

Amend rule 210, "Literature", to replace:

"
All players who voted against a Great Work that was accepted will lose 7 points
"

with:

"
All players whose vote was less than the Acceptance Threshold on a Great Work that was accepted lose 7 points
"

----

Amend rule 313, "Proposal Bribery", as follows:

A. Replace "YES" in section IV, subsection B, with "100". B. Amend section V, subsection B, to read:

"
B. The Acceptance Threshold of a proposal containing an invalid bribe is 110.

{{[current text:

B. The required number of YES votes for a proposal containing an invalid bribe to be accepted is one more than the total number of YES and NO votes legally cast within the prescribed voting period. This paragraph takes precedence over rule 106.

]}}
"

----

Amend rule 315, "Tammany", to replace section c) with:

"
c) a Desired Vote of one of votes allowed on proposals by the other rules, or the special Tammany vote of SILENT.
"

;and to replace the last 2 paragraphs with:

"
Tammany shall not vote unless the total amount of currency associated with Desired Votes other than SILENT exceeds two times the amount of currency associated with Desired Votes of SILENT.

If Tammany votes, its vote shall be the numeric vote with the most total currency associated with it. If two or more votes share this distinction, its vote shall be the average of these.
"

----

Repeal rule 319, "Unanimity Is Lovely [...]"

----

Amend rule 530, "The Stock Market", so that section b) reads:

"
b) If for any reason the positivity value is unspecified, it will be set to 10. If the positivity value is less than 0, then it will immediately become 0. Whenever a proposal passes, at the moment its results are publicly knowable, the positivity value will increase by 0.1 for every player whose vote was in excess of the proposal's Acceptance Threshold. Whenever a proposal fails, at the moment its results are publicly knowable, the positivity value will decrease by 0.1 for every player whose vote was not in excess of its Acceptance Threshold.
"

----

Amend rule 923, "The Amber Banana", to replace "legal type of Vote" with "legal vote".

----

Amend rule 1009, "Political Parties [...]" so that the first paragraph reads:

"
A Political Party is a type of Organization. Being a member of more than one Political Party simultaneously is the Crime of Branch-Stacking. At the end of a proposal's voting period, but before votes on that proposal are counted, if every active non-vacationing player member of a given Political Party voted the same way (SW) on that proposal, and no member of the Party is also a member of some other Party, then the Political Party itself shall cast an additional vote of SW on that proposal for every three active non-vacationing player members it has.
"

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Transform all Otzma Cards of Type Rod & Staff into A$5.
Repeal the rule entitled "Otzma Card of Type Rod & Staff"

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Create a new rule with number 104.1, title "ZZimsy Proposals", and text:

"
This rule has precedence over all other rules.

All proposals distributed after the proposal that created this rule, yet distributed before this rule was created are ZZimsy Proposals. No other proposals are ZZimsy.

All YES votes cast on ZZimsy Proposals are converted to votes of 100. All NO votes cast on ZZimsy Proposals are converted to votes of 0. All PRESENT votes cast on ZZimsy Proposals are converted to votes of 50. All BAA votes cast on ZZimsy Proposals are converted to votes of 60.

Upon it being true that there exists no ZZimsy Proposals whose voting results have not been reported, this rule repeals itself.
"

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Proposal 2997 - Tue 05 May 1998 16:31 EDT
Living off a trust fund
else...if (Henry Towsner)
Decision: accepted

Create a rule numbered 1011, named "Trusts" and reading as delimited FORMYHEIRS

FORMYHEIRS
A Trust Fund is a type of organization. Trust Funds act like Societies in terms of ownership except that it may transfer A$ to anyone. In order to be a Trust Fund, the organization's founder must specify that they desire it to be a Trust Fund when it is created. When a player who announces eir intent to form a Trust Fund and the player may legally announce eir intent to form an organization the Trust Fund immediately comes into existance; it need not wait for other players to join. When the Trust Fund comes into existance and the founder pays the SHF only its founder is a member, and it acts like a VSO with two exception: no one may join it, and it may perform the additional organizational action of accepting a charter.
When a Trust Fund accepts a charter its founder is ejected and the Trust Fund may act like a full Trust Fund. It continues to exist as long is at posesses at least one A$ or until its charter specifies that it disbands.
A Trust Fund's charter should specify what it should do with its A$. It may only transfer A$ as specified by its charter and when it is pointed out by a player that the A$ should be transferred.
This rule takes precedence over rule 1003.
FORMYHEIRS
{{[I can think of a number of uses for this, such as when SHEEP was distributing A$ to people who voted BAH. It could also be used by the XBS churches to refund people purchasing Ballot Stuffers. Other possible uses: Upon leaving you create a Fund which bribes Tammany A$50 on any proposal which would repeal anti-voting, create a puzzle modeled on Alvaen's H****t treasure, where any time someone said "qqqq" everyone who hadn't would receive A$1. You get the idea.]}}

Proposal 2998 - Tue 05 May 1998 16:32 EDT
not much
J. M. Bear (Frank Schmidt)
Decision: accepted

Proposal 2999 - Tue 05 May 1998 22:13 EDT
A Gnome by any other name
breadbox (Brian Raiter)
Decision: accepted

Replace the first three paragraphs of Rule 975 ("Yes Virginia") with the following text:

The Voting Gnome of Ackanomic (hereinafter referred to simply as the Voting Gnome) is a unique, non-tradeable entity. The Voting Gnome owns himself. He acts only as described in the Rules.

Proposal 3000 - Tue 05 May 1998 22:14 EDT
Some Things Don't Require Judgement
breadbox (Brian Raiter)
Decision: accepted

{{[This does two things: fixes it so that identical proposals don't require a pointless CFJ to remove, and also takes out the part about making it a crime to have two substantially similar proposals. The only reason it was a crime to begin with is due to maneuvers like Red Barn's, which can now be prosecuted under the crime of being Annoying.]}}

Replace the text of Rule 309 ("Substantially Similar Proposals") with the following:

If two Proposals, A and B, have identical text, or if (in the judgement of a judge) the game effect that would occur if Proposal A was adopted is substantially similar to that of Proposal B, and furthermore if both of the following are true:

a) Proposal A was distributed after Proposal B;
b) Proposal B is still under voting consideration;

then Proposal A is invalid.

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