Subject: Ackanomic Digest V1 #408
From: [email-masked] (Ackanomic Digest)
To: ackanomic-digest

Ackanomic Digest       Monday, December 16 1996       Volume 01 : Number 408

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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 00:31:38 -6:00
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Acka: P1525 Fails

> Quorum achieved: 18 Eligible voters - 16 Players cast votes
> 7 YES votes - 7 NO votes - 2 PRESENT votes - Proposal FAILS
> 
> Proposal 1525 - Fri 6 Dec 7:32 CST 1996
> A Plaindromic Rule Palindromic A
> Swann (Steven Swinarski)
> 
> Swann loses 7 points:
> 
> YES Votes:
> ---------
> 
> Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
> 
> snowgod                      (None Yet)
> mr cwm                       (None Yet)
> Techno
> Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
> Habeous Corpus
> Swann
> 
> NO Votes:
> --------
> Airhead                      Harf       +3
> breadbox                                +3
> Robert Sevin                 Harf       +3
> Calvin N Hobbes              Harf       +3
> Malenkai                     Harf       +3
> ThinMan                      Vulcan     +3
> /dev/joe                     Vulcan     +3
> 
> PRESENT Votes:
> -------------
> 
> Mohammed
> fnord
> 
> Abstentions:
> -----------
> 
> Bascule
> Clairence
> 
> New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
> ----------------------------------
> Jammer
> 23 Skidoo
> 
> Text of Passed Proposal:
> -----------------------
> NONE
> 
> 
> 
>
Since this fails, I think the yes voters are supposed to recieve the 
points.  Am I wrong?

Techno 

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Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 23:27:33 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: P1525 Fails 

Correct,

Sorry once again.  You caught me!

snowgod
who's not wayne :)

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Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 23:30:39 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: OMCL auction 

>I bid A$200 for the OMCL.
>
>Guy Fawkes

I bid A$201

snowgod

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Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 23:32:51 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka:  More Treasure 

>I am creating a Trinket, worth A$7, called the Interpol Mug.  It is a
>nice, dark navy-blue mug for holding hot frinks, coffee or cider in
>particular.  Very handy for those of you in northern latitudes, now that
>Jack Frost is nipping at your various appendages.
>

I must be ahead of schedule... Jac frost has been nipping at my apendages
since, oh, september.  Oh well,  send me whatever I need.  I'll give your
horrid little language a shot!

snowgod

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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 00:36:51 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 1570 

> > Change the text of Rule 400 "Politeness Moon" to the following:
> > 
> > Players sending messages to a public forum should be as polite as
> > possible. If a Player A fails to be polite, another Player B may
> > publically request that Player A soften eir tone of voice. If Player A
> > publically disagrees that eir tone of voice was strident, or if Player
> > B responds impolitely to such a request, Player A may call a
> > Politeness Moon Hearing on the matter.
> 
> shouldn't the last part of this read:
> 
> "or if *Player A* responds impolitely to such a request, *Player B*
>  may call a Politeness Moon Hearing on the matter."?

A thousand curses.

Hopefully we can get a CSR to fix it if it passes? I'd hate to retract
and resubmit it over such an obvious error.

b

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Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 23:41:03 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1512 Passes (resent) 

Quorum achieved: 18 Eligible voters - 15 Players cast votes
9 YES votes - 3 NO votes - 3 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

Proposal 1512 - Wed 4 Dec 17:34 CST 1996
Allowing More Unique Party Chess Pieces
Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)

Guy Fawkes gains 5 points:

YES Votes:
- ---------

snowgod                      (None Yet)
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
Calvin N Hobbes              Harf
Techno
Malenkai                     Harf
ThinMan                      Vulcan
fnord
Swann

NO Votes:
- --------
Mohammed
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
mr cwm                       (None Yet)

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------

Habeous Corpus
Robert Sevin                 Harf
breadbox

Abstentions:
- -----------

Bascule
Airhead
Clairence

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
Jammer
23 Skidoo

Text of Passed Proposal:
- -----------------------

     This is a Modest proposal.
     Add the following text to rule 985.1, section 3, immediately after
     subsection H.

     I. A PartyChessPieceDef rule may define conditions under which the
     position on the Party Board of a piece it defines enhances or
     restricts the moves or captures available to other pieces.
     PartyChessPieceDef rules defer to such enhancements or
     restrictions.

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Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 23:46:19 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1526 Passes (resent) 

Quorum achieved: 18 Eligible voters - 16 Players cast votes
11 YES votes - 4 NO votes - 2 PRESENT votes - Proposal FAILS

Proposal 1526 - Fri 6 Dec 7:33 CST 1996
snowgod's Disease
Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)

Swann loses 7 points:

YES Votes:
- ---------

Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)

snowgod                      (None Yet)
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
(None Yet) Unity Vote
Habeous Corpus
Swann
AirHead                      Harf
fnord
Robert Sevin                 Harf
Calvin N Hobbes              Harf
Malenkai                     Harf

NO Votes:
- --------
Mohammed                                +3
/dev/joe                     Vulcan     +3
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan     +3
Techno                       Harf       +3

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------

ThinMan                      Vulcan
breadbox

Abstentions:
- -----------

Bascule
Clairence

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
Jammer
23 Skidoo

Text of Passed Proposal:
- -----------------------

     A horrible epidemic is sweeping across Acka!

     This epidemic is named "snowgod's Disease." Its sufferers are
     highly prone to send private messages to the public forum,
     particularly if those private messages are to one's
     co-conspirators in a scam, coup attempt, or other loophole surfing
     activity. To preserve the public health of Acka, some action must
     be taken!

     Whenever a player believes another player is infected with
     snowgod's Disease, he may call a Public Health Emergency by
     posting in a public message that he is doing so, and naming which
     player he believes is infected. A Public Health Emergency is a
     type of Hearing. The valid responses are, "Yes, why just yesterday
     e posted a letter to eir aunt!" and, "No, e, uh, meant to do
     that." If the verdict is "Yes, why just yesterday e posted a
     letter to eir aunt!" the named player is determined to be infected
     with snowgod's Disease until the end of the calendar month, and
     the player who called the Hearing, known for this purpose as the
     Medical Examiner, shall within the next seven days, publically
     post what treatment he feels the infected player should be
     subjected to. This "prescription" is not a legally binding
     document. No player may have a Public Health Emergency called
     against him more than one per calendar month, as this would be
     just plain too silly.

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Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 23:49:14 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Common Sense Report 112 

Malenkai has asked me to issue the following CSR.  It fixes an obvious
error without changing game play, so I see no problem with issuing it.  As
always, two objections will overturn the CSR.

snowgod
Acting CSRR Officer

CSR 112

Amend R 592 to append the following text at the end of the rule:

{{Amend the Blueprint for "Gravitational Monopole" to replace
'Magnetic' with 'Gravitational' and to replace all misspellings of
'Gravitational' with its proper spelling in the title and text of the
Blueprint}}.

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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 00:05:31 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1535 Fails 

Quorum achieved: 18 Eligible voters - 13 Players cast votes
7 YES votes - 5 NO votes - 1 PRESENT votes - Proposal FAILS

     Proposal 1535 - Sun 8 Dec 9:20 CST 1996
     Otzma Card Type Amazing Hoover Building Mover
     Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)

Guy Fawkes loses 7 points:

YES Votes:
- ---------

Habeous Corpus

snowgod                      (None Yet)

Swann
Techno                       Harf
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
ThinMan                      Vulcan
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)

NO Votes:
- --------
Calvin N Hobbes              Harf
Malenkai                     Harf
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
fnord
Mohammed

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------

Robert Sevin                 Harf

Abstentions:
- -----------

Bascule
Clairence
Airhead                      Harf
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
breadbox

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
Jammer
23 Skidoo

Text of Passed Proposal:
- -----------------------

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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 00:08:22 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: P1535 Fails 

>Quorum achieved: 18 Eligible voters - 13 Players cast votes
>7 YES votes - 5 NO votes - 1 PRESENT votes - Proposal FAILS
>
>     Proposal 1535 - Sun 8 Dec 9:20 CST 1996
>     Otzma Card Type Amazing Hoover Building Mover
>     Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)
>
>Guy Fawkes loses 7 points:
>
>YES Votes:
>---------
>
>Habeous Corpus
>
>snowgod                      (None Yet)
>
>Swann
>Techno                       Harf
>Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
>ThinMan                      Vulcan
>Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)

Each of these players should gain three points.  I forgot to mark it before
I hit the send button.

snowgod

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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 00:13:10 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1536 Fails 

Quorum achieved: 18 Eligible voters - 13 Players cast votes
4 YES votes - 7 NO votes - 2 PRESENT votes - Proposal FAILS

     Proposal 1536 - Sun 8 Dec 9:21 CST 1996
     More of Them Bonuses
     Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)

Niccolo Flychuck loses 7 points:

YES Votes:
- ---------

Swann                                   +3
Techno                       Harf       +3
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan     +3
fnord                                   +3

NO Votes:
- --------
Calvin N Hobbes              Harf
Malenkai                     Harf
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
Mohammed
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
Habeous Corpus
snowgod                      (None Yet)

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------

Robert Sevin                 Harf
ThinMan                      Vulcan

Abstentions:
- -----------

Bascule
Clairence
Airhead                      Harf
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
breadbox

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
Jammer
23 Skidoo

Text of Passed Proposal:
- -----------------------

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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 00:17:01 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1537 Fails 

Quorum achieved: 18 Eligible voters - 15 Players cast votes
5 YES votes - 10 NO votes - 0 PRESENT votes - Proposal FAILS

     Proposal 1537 - Sun 8 Dec 9:21 CST 1996
     Zap!
     Clairence (Clair Viglione)

Clairence loses 7 points:

YES Votes:
- ---------

Swann                                      +3
Habeous Corpus                             +3
snowgod                      (None Yet)    +3
Clairence                                  +3
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)    +3

NO Votes:
- --------
Techno                       Harf
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
fnord
Calvin N Hobbes              Harf
Malenkai                     Harf
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
Mohammed
breadbox
Robert Sevin                 Harf
ThinMan                      Vulcan

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------

NONE

Abstentions:
- -----------

Bascule
Airhead                      Harf
/dev/joe                     Vulcan

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
Jammer
23 Skidoo

Text of Passed Proposal:
- -----------------------

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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 00:22:05 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1538 Passes 

Quorum achieved: 18 Eligible voters - 14 Players cast votes
11 YES votes - 3 NO votes - 1 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

     Proposal 1538 - Sun 8 Dec 9:21 CST 1996
     Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (aka Saving Grace)
     Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)

Guy Fawkes gains 5:

YES Votes:
- ---------

Swann
Habeous Corpus
snowgod                      (None Yet)

Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
Robert Sevin                 Harf
ThinMan                      Vulcan
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
Calvin N Hobbes              Harf
Techno                       Harf
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
(None Yet) Unity Vote

NO Votes:
- --------
fnord
Malenkai                     Harf
Mohammed

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------

breadbox

Abstentions:
- -----------

Bascule
Airhead                      Harf
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
Clairence

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
Jammer
23 Skidoo

Text of Passed Proposal:
- -----------------------

          This is a Modest proposal

          Change the name of R 542 to, "Political Parties."

          Replace the second sentence of R 542 with, "A party is a
          sufficiently large group of players that declare
          themselves a Political Party and have a valid Charter."

          Replace the paragraph beginning, "Any Player may create,
          join, or leave" with, "Any player may create, join or
          leave a Political Party at any time, but no Player may
          be a member of more than one Politcal Party at any one
          time. If a Player joins or leaves a Political Party, he
          must declare it publically. A Party must have at least
          three members at the time of its creation. A Party, less
          than one month old, whose membership falls below three
          ceases to exist. A Party older than one month whose
          membership is less than three for seven consecutive days
          ceases to exist. A Party whose membership falls below
          three for the second time in a single calendar month
          ceases to exist."

          {{[The time when parties who were undermanned for a day
          or so could reconstitute themselves with no harm is
          past. Now, with party chess, what was once a minor
          nuissance is a major setback. Take the Underworld early
          in September, for instance. De'ghew's quitting caused
          the UW to cease to exist, but it was back again within
          the day. Fortunately, PartyChess was then in the
          piece-buying stage; today, it would be a much bigger
          problem. True, while parties should be able to plan
          membership changes in advance, there will always be a
          few sudden circumstances where that is impossible, and a
          "grace period" is suitable for these situations.]}}

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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 00:25:55 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1539 Passes 

Quorum achieved: 18 Eligible voters - 15 Players cast votes
15 YES votes - 1 NO votes - 0 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

     Proposal 1539 - Sun 8 Dec 9:22 CST 1996
     Reorganization I
     Malenkai (Randy Hall)

Malenkai gains 10 points:

YES Votes:
- ---------

Swann
Habeous Corpus
snowgod                      (None Yet)

Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
Robert Sevin                 Harf
ThinMan                      Vulcan
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
Calvin N Hobbes              Harf
Techno                       Harf
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
(None Yet) Unity Vote
Airhead                      Harf

fnord
Malenkai                     Harf
Mohammed

NO Votes:
- --------
breadbox                                     +3

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------

NONE

Abstentions:
- -----------

Bascule
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
Clairence

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
Jammer
23 Skidoo

Text of Passed Proposal:
- -----------------------

          [Hopefully a first step towards making the rules easier to navigate
          (especially for newbies) and lay the goundwork for tiers, power, or
          whatnot, or an LRO sort of rule organization and re-org II and
III :)]

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

          Create a new rule with the following text:

          {{

          perform the following actions in the order specified:

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

          I. [get rid of R 101's binding mutability on the low number
rules, and
              make them all mutable.]

          a) Transmute R 101 to mutable.
          b) Amend R 101 to remove the sentence which reads:

          "Until such time as they are legally transmuted, Rules 101-115 are
          immutable, and Rules 201-219 are mutable."

          c) Transmute every rule which is not mutable to mutable.

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

          II. [fold R 101, 110, 111, 115, 592 into 101]

          a) Amend R 101 so that its title is "The Game of Ackanomic", and
so that
          its text is:

          "
                Ackanomic is a self-modifying game of ules.  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 game state 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
          lingusitic interpretation are external concepts and are not regulated
          or part of the game state.

               The game consists of a sequence of "Cycles".  Cycles end when
          specified by the Rules. At most one Cycle is in progress at any
one time.
          A player may only win a Cycle by achieving a winning condition that
          is defined by the Rules.  A player may not win the Game of Ackanomic.
          A player always has the option to leave the Game of Ackanomic.

               This rule has precedence over all other rules.
          "

          b) Repeal R 108, "Mutable/Immutable Inconsistencies" [nuke the axe]
          c) Repeal R 110, "The Game and Winning" [folded into R 101]
          d) Repeal R 111, "Leaving The Game" [folded into R 101]
          e) Repeal R 115, "Permissibility Of The Unprohibited" [folded
into R 101]
          f) Repeal R 113, "Rule Changes That Affect Rule Changing Rules"
[do we
          need this?]
          g) Repeal R 592, "Protection" [folded into R 101]

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

          III.  [bring back Rule Changes to 103 where it belongs, merge in the
          parts of R 106 that apply to rule changes, remove transmutation, and
          remove R 106.  Point to R 104 explictly for clarity]

          a) Amend R 491 so that its title is "Proposals and Rule Changes", and
          so that its text is:

          "
                A proposal is any collection of text designated as a proposal,
          submitted and distributed as described in Rule 104. If a proposal is
          accepted, any valid rule changes in the proposal are applied, one
at a
          time, in the order in which they appear, starting at the time its
          tabulated voting results are officially reported.  This is considered
          the "time of application", or "when the rule changes are applied".

                A rule change is a description of a game effect.  A rule change
          is valid if it describes the creation of a new rule, the amendment of
          an existing rule, the repeal of an existing rule, or the
renumbering of
          an existing rule. If an accepted proposal does not refer to amending,
          repealing, renumbering, or creating rules, then it is treated as
a valid
          rule change to create a new rule with the entire body of the proposal
          as its text; this implicit creation of a new rule is only applied in
          the case defined in this sentence.

               If an amendment to a rule does not unambiguously describe
          the amendment to take place, it is not a valid rule change. Rule
changes
          not defined as valid by the rules are invalid.

                When a valid rule change takes effect, at its time of
application,
          the effect described by the rule change happens. The adoption of an
          invalid rule change has no effect.

                No rule may generate any effect that applies retroactively to a
          time before the generation of the effect.  A rule change that would
          have effects retroactive to before the time of its application is
invalid.
          "

          b) Renumber R 491 to 103.
          c) Repeal R 106, "When Proposals Can Take Effect" [sucked into
103 and 217]

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

          IV.  [merge R 104 and R 105; make the language a little more
concrete]

          a) Repeal R 105, "Proposals Must Be Written Down"
          b) Amend R 104, "Adopting Proposals" to read:

          "
                Proposals are made by e-mailing them to the Promoter, who shall
          distribute them to the players to be voted on. Accepted proposals
must
          guide play in the form in which they were distributed to the players.

                All such proposals shall be voted on, unless they are
retracted,
          nullified, or deemed invalid in accordance with the Rules. In
these cases,
          they are removed from consideration, and are considered to be neither
          accepted or rejected.

                When a proposal's prescribed voting period ends, or all
players have
          cast a vote on a proposal, then that proposal is accepted if a
quorum has
          been achieved and the required number of YES votes were cast on the
          proposal.
          "

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

          V.  [bring the voting rule right up here next, between submitting
proposals,
          and quorum and acting players]

          a) Amend R 390 so that its title is "Voting on Proposals".
          b) Renumber R 390 to 106.
          c) Amend R 201, "Quorum and Active Players", to replace all
occurrances
          of "390" with "106".
          d) Amend R 793, "Proposal Bribery", to replace all occurrances of
          "390" with "106".

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

          VI.  [put when scoring changes take effect after the scoring rule,
          207.  I see Mohammed is going to bring "Modesty and Pride" up to 209.
          That should work well.]

          a) Renumber R 1089.2 "When Score Changes Take Effect" to 208.

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

          VII.  [the precedence rule]

          a) Amend R 210 so that its title is "Resolving Precedence
Conflicts", and
          to replace

          "
          If two or more mutable rules conflict with one another, or if two or
          more immutable rules conflict with one another
          "

          with

          "
          If two or more rules conflict with one another
          "

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

          VIII.  [put the judgement rules back where they belong, with
their brothers]

          a) Renumber R 589, "Invoking Judgement" to 211.
          b) Renumber R 588, "Selecting A Judge" to 212.
          c) Renumber R 569, "Overturning Judgements" to 217.

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

          IX.  [clarify temporal stuff about CFJs, fold the CFJ part of old
R 106 into
          here]

          a) Amend R 215, "Judgements Must Accord With The Rules", to read:

          "
                All Judgements must be in accordance with all the rules in
effect
          at the time judgement was invoked, and with respect to the game
state at
          that time.  When the rules are silent, inconsistent, or unclear
on the
          statement in question, however, then the Judge shall consider
currently
          existing game custom and the spirit of the game in reaching a
decision.

                A statement verified (or nullified) by judgement applies
          retroactively to any past game situation it may concern.
          "

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

          X.  [put all the winning conditions in one place]

          a) Amend R 422 so that its title is "Winning by Points".
          b) Amend R 422 to replace:
          "
          Making this determination is a duty of the Office of Scorekeeper, and
          this clause supercedes any mutable rule which would deny the
Scorekeeper
          this duty.
          "
          with:
          "
          Making this determination is a duty of the Scorekeeper.
          "

          c) Renumber R 422 to 220.

          d) Amend R 798 so that its title is "Winning by Palindrome".
          e) Renumber R 798 to 221.

          f) Amend R 1430 so that its title is "Winning by Finding the
Crystal Chalice"
          g) Renumber R 1430 to 222.

          h) If R 1501 exists, amend it so that its title is "Vault
Divination", and
          renumber it to 222.1

          i) Renumber R 1243, "Chartreuse Goose" to 235.

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

          XI.  [Consolidate Political Party Rules]

          a) Renumber R 391, "Rewarding Party Unity" to 543.
          b) Amend R 542 so that its title is "Political Parties".

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

          XII.  [put all the office stuff in one place, pTangs general office
          rules followed by the specific offices]

          a) Amend R 609, "Offices, Commonalities" to replace

          "Offices are named, unownable entities."

          with

          "
          Offices are named, unownable entities, unless the rules specify
otherwise
          for a particular office.
          "

          and to replace

          "A Seat of an Office is an unownable entity."

          with:

          "
          A Seat of an Office is an unownable entity, unless the rules specify
          otherwise for a particular Office or Seat.
          "
          [the preceeding is needed to make Wizard and Capital Swinger work as
          tradeable offices.  As it stands now, Wizard works because of its
higher
          precedence, but Capital Swinger does not.  Renumbering the rule will
          give it higher precedence, though.]

          b) Renumber R 609, "Offices, Commonalities", to 401.

          c) Renumber R 611, "Offices, Related Definitions", to 402.

          d) Amend R 612, "Functional Offices, Commonalities", to replace
          all occurrances of "609" with "401".
          e) Renumber R 612, "Functional Offices, Commonalities", to 403.

          f) If Proposal 1503 was accepted, amend R 613 "Offices, Impeachment"
          to place the following sentence at the beginning of the rule:
          "
          This rule defers precedece to rule 593 where there is a conflict.
          "

          otherwise, amend R 613 to replace
          "
                This Rule takes precedence over all mutable rules.
          "
          with
          "
                This Rule takes precedence over all rules, except that it
defers
          to rule 593.
          "

          g) Renumber R 613, "Offices, Impeachment", to 404.

          h) Renumber R 615, "Speaker" to 405.

          i) Renumber R 396 to 406, and change its title to "Promoter".
          j) Renumber R 411 to 407, and change its title to "Web-Harfer".
          k) Renumber R 414 to 408, and change its title to "Tabulator and
Count
          Tabula".

          l) Renumber R 424 to 409, and change its title to "Registrar".
          m) Renumber R 425 to 410, and change its title to "Scorekeeper".
          n) Renumber R 478 to 411, and change its title to "Senate".
          o) Renumber R 482 to 412, and change its title to "Financier and
the Free
          Market".
          p) Renumber R 489 to 413, and change its title to "Clerk of the
Court".
          q) Renumber R 504 to 414, and change its title to "President".
          r) Renumber R 973, "Presidential Decisions", to 415.
          s) Renumber R 507 to 416, and change its title to "Supreme Court".
          t) Renumber R 508, "Justices Rock", to 417.
          u) Renumber R 563, "Justices Are Keeper Of The Sacred Laws" to 418.
          v) Renumber R 583 to 419, and change its title to "Ambassador".
          w) Renumber R 621, "Historian", to 420.
          x) Renumber R 695, "Office of Common Sense, Redundancy, and
Redundancy" to
          421.
          y) Renumber R 832, "Postmaster", to 422.
          z) Renumber R 895, "Map-Harfer", to 423.
          aa) Renumber R 1271, "Poet Laureate" to 424.
          bb) Renumber R 1374, "Praetor" to 425.

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          XIII.  [put all the financial stuff in one place, after the
entity stuff.
          Merge Treasury and A$s, bring Treasury up as the first financial
rule,
          then bring the other financial rules in behind it].

          [heads up, Guy, this will clash with yours]

          a) Change the title of R 665 to "Treasury and AckaDollars" and
change its
          text to:

          "
          I. AckaDollars

                The AckaDollar (A$) is the official currency of Ackanomia.

                Each player who has not previously been granted A$ by
application
          of this rule shall be granted the lesser of A$900, or the average A$
          balance of all other existing players, from the Treasury.

                AckaDollars are gift entities.

          II. Treasury:

                The Treasury is a named, unownable entity that serves as a
          storing house for entities that belong to no Player. 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.

          III. Hard Currency:

                AckaDollars may not be created nor destroyed. This Rule has
          precedence over any Rule that would create or destroy A$.
Whenever the
          Rules specify that a Player should receive A$, and do not indicate
          where those A$ should come from, they shall come from the Treasury.
          Whenever the Rules specify that a Player should lose A$, and do not
          indicate where those A$ should go to, or specify that they should be
          destroyed, they shall go to the Treasury instead. The total number
          of A$ shall always be 75,000.

          IV. No Ackapennies:

                A$ may not be broken into fractional AckaDollars. If the Rules
          specify a transfer should be made that includes a fractional
reckoning
          of A$, the transaction will instead be conducted in an integer number
          of A$, and the rounding shall be in favor of the Player or entity
          receiving A$.

          V. Bankrupt Treasury:

                Whenever some number of Players are to receive A$ from the
          Treasury, and there are insufficient available A$ to meet those
          obligations, the following process is executed:

                a) If there are no A$ being haunted by Undead, skip to step
(d) of this
          process.
                b) Each Undead stops haunting 10% (round up) of the A$ it
is haunting.
                c) If there are still insufficient available A$ to meet the
          obligations, the process returns to step (a).
                d) If there are sufficient available A$ to meet to the
obligations, the
          obligations are met, and the
                process ends.
                e) The remaining available A$ in the treasury shall be
given to the
          players in proportion to the
                number of A$ owed each player.

          VI. Donation:

                A player may donate any non-mimsy Tradeable or gift entity they
          own to the Treasury by publically announcing they are doing so.
If the
          item is a Trinket, it is converted into its value in A$ upon
transferrence
          to the Treasury.
          "

          b) Renumber R 665 to 505.
          c) Repeal R 480, "AckaDollars".

          d) Renumber R 1348.1, "Trinkets", to 506.

          e) Renumber R 481, "PF Bonds", to 507.
          f) Change the title of R 565 to "Bond Yields", then renumber the
rule to
          508.

          g) Change the title of R 510 to "Voluntary Debt Prohibited".

          h) Renumber R 1098, "in Debt" to 511.
          i) Renumber R 1318, "Bond Options", to 512.
          j) Renumber R 1323, "Rental", to 513.

          k) Renumber R 1416.5, "Trading and Gifts", to 515.

          l) Renumber R 683, "ExtraNomic Entities" to 501. [put this with
the entity
          stuff while were here].

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          XIV.  [End Cycle consolidations.  Move some of the end of cycle
stuff up
          after R 666.]

          a) Renumber R 790, "Fat Lady". to 667.
          b) Renumber R 867, "Eggs and Fruit", to 668.
          c) Renumber R 1314, "Marks of the Champion" to 669.
          d) Renumber R 1268, "Commission d'Arts" to 670.

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          XV.  [Criminal Justice consolidations, early 700s]

          a) Renumber R 1067, "Cow Town Hotel", to 714.
          b) Renumber R 1298, "in Contempt", to 715.
          c) Renumber R 1300, "Patent Infringement", to 716.

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          XVI. [Locations and Buildings, mid 800s]

          a) Renumber R 1108, "Locations", to 835.
          b) Renumber R 1018, "Hotels", to 836.
          c) Renumber R 767, "Nothing Important", to 837.
          d) Renumber R 1099, "Hall of Elders", to 843.
          e) Renumber R 894, "Map" to 845.

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          XVII.  [Rule naming, numbering, etc, mid 400s]

          a) Amend R 452, "Rule Titles", to change its title to "Proposal
and Rule
          Titles", and to replace the word "name" with "Title" in the last
          sentence of the second paragraph.

          b) Renumber R 642, "Proposal amd Rule Numbering" to 453.
          c) Renumber R 682, "For Personal Glory..." to 454.
          d) Renumber R 822, "Revision Numbers" to 455.

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          XVIII. [A couple of oddballs closer to what they are related to]

          a) Renumber R 870, "Self Deleting Text", to 546.
          b) Renumber R 939, "Party Hall Party", to 727.

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          XIX.  [If I had the time, move religious/church stuff to high
700s, subgame
          stuff to 1200s, physics to 1300s.  Re org II reminder :)]

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          XX.  [Press Consolidation]

          a) Amend R 891, "The Press", to append the following paragraph at the
          end of the Rule:

          "
          It is a Crime for a Player to refuse to publish, in a newspaper he or
          she owns, a correction of an untrue statement that previously
appeared
          in that newspaper, after a public request for such a correction has
          been made. Simply neglecting to publish such a correction for a
period
          of three days or more after the request shall be taken as refusal
to do
          so.
          "

          b) Repeal R 892, "Journalistic Integrity".

          c) Repeal R 1130, "Senate Seat Names".  [Its only use is if the
size of
          the senate changes.  If this happens, which seems unlikely, worry
about
          it in that proposal.]

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          XXI.  [Bad Pointer Fixup]

          a) Amend R 709, "Gaol", to delete section 7), and to renumber
section 8)
          to 7) in the allowable actions list.  Also replace all occurrances of
          "115" with "101" in the rule.

          b) Amend R 208, "When Score Changes Take Effect", to remove all
occurrances
          of "This clause defers to R 106 where there is a conflict.".

          c) Amend R 208, "When Score Changes Take Effect", to remove all
occurrances
          of ", except as permitted by R 106".

          d) Amend R 208, "When Score Changes Take Effect", to replace all
occurrances
          of "588" with "212", "569" with "217", and ", 798" with "".

          e) Amend R 716, "Patent Infringement", to replace all occurrances
of "665"
          with "505".

          f) Amend R 1348.2, "Buried Treasure!", to replace all occurrances
of "665"
          with "505".

          g) Amend R 714, "Cow Town Hotel", to replace all occurrances of
"1018"
          with "836".

          h) Amend R 1237, "Fulfilling Campaign Promises" to replace all
occurrances
          of "939" with "727".

          i) Amend R 1313, "Purple Robe of Justice", to replace all
occurrances of
          "588" with "212".

          j) Amend R 235, "Chartreuse Goose", to replace

          "This clause takes precedence over R 219, R 422, and any other
mutable
          rule which establishes winning conditions."

          with

          "
          This clause takes precedence over any other rule which establishes
          winning conditions.
          "

          k) Replace all occurrances of "609" with "401" in rules 402 and
403, and
          in R 457, if it exists.

          l) Replace all occurrances of "611" with "402" in rule 401.
          m) Replace all occurrances of "612" with "403" in rule 401.

          n) In rules 208, 726, and 593, replace all occurrances of "613"
with "404".

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          XXII.  [Contingincies for the proposals currently in the queue,
through
          P 1534]

          a) If Proposal 1496 was accepted, renumber R 1496 to 847.
          b) If Proposal 1497 was accepted, renumber R 1497 to 848.

          c) If Proposal 1522 was accepted, amend R 408, "Tabulator and
Count Tabula",
          to replace all occurrances of "611" with "402", and "613" with "404".

          d) If Proposal 1529 was accepted, replace all occurrances of "1243"
          with "235" in the rule created by Proposal 1529.

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          XXIII.  [Removing "mutable"]

          Remove every occurrance of the word "mutable" and the word "Mutable"
          from every rules.  [This looks like it will work, although it will be
          time consuming for the Web-Harfer :( More on that later].

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          XXIV.  [Removing "immutable"]

          a) Amend R 457 to remove ", or perform any action permitted by an
Immutable
          Rule".

          b) Amend R 714, "Cow Town Hotel", to remove "unless it is allowed
by an
          immutable rule".

          c) Amend R 1330, "Telepathy, Telekinesis, and Side Effecs", to remove
           "(unless immutable)".

          d) If Proposal 1491 was accepted, amend R 513, "Rental", to remove
          ", or any action permitted by an immutable rule".

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          XXV.  [Hard Work Deserves Good Pay]

          a) A$57 is transferred from the Treasury to the Web-Harfer.

          b) An Automatic Sculpture is created and transferred to the author of
          the proposal who created this rule [which shall soon be buried.
Don't
          worry, its nothing free for me].

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          XXVI.  [Everything should just be a rule, like other games]

          Remove the attribute of "Mutable" from all rules which have that
attribute.

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