Subject: Ackanomic Digest V1 #510
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Ackanomic Digest      Saturday, February 8 1997      Volume 01 : Number 510

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Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 18:51:28 -0600
From: john duncan <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka:  Proposal 1717

Jason Orendorff wrote:
> 
> Proposal 1717
> Shubik Auctions
> Malenkai
> 
> This is a Modest proposal.
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Amend R 516, "Auction", to append the following text at the end of the
> rule:
> 
> "
> 7) When a player acting on their own calls a public auction in which
> exactly one item is being auctioned, that player may declare that
> auction to be a "Shubik Auction" when it is initiated.  An auction
> may not be so declared under any other circumstances.  At the
> conclusion of a Shubik Auction, the player who made the second highest
> bid, if such a player exists, forfeits his bid to the treasury as well,
> and receives no compensation.
> 
> {{All Shubik Auctions hereby lose their Shubik status.
> 
> [Shubik auctions are sometimes called "Dollar Bill Auctions".  An
> excellent writeup of these sorts of auctions can be found at
> 
> http://www.ios.com/~leonf/sd/bargame9.html
> 
> ]}}
> "
I like the concept for this type of auction. If the 10% increment rule
is waived in this type of auction, it could really be interesting.

Lestrade

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Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 20:08:15 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka:  Proposal 1717

john duncan wrote:

> > Proposal 1717
> > Shubik Auctions

> I like the concept for this type of auction. If the 10% increment rule
> is waived in this type of auction, it could really be interesting.

Yes, the 10% rule probably should be waived for this sort of auction.
Thanks for pointing that out.  If there is broad-based support for
Shubik Auctions, I will fix that in a later fix-up amendment.

Malenkai

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Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 20:41:41 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Archaeologist

I am appointing Niccolo Flychuck acting archaeologist.

Malenkai
speaker

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Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 20:43:53 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Player states and Acting Officers

The following players are active:

Guy Fawkes
/dev/joe
Niccolo Flychuck
ThinMan
Swann
Strider
Malenkai
Lestrade

The following players are pending, which means they can do any game
actions, but will not be selected for anything until they vote:

Narf
Ludwig

All others are on vacation, until they remove themselves therefrom, which
may not be done, until Sat 22:14.

The following are the acting officers.  I have not bothered to
update this on the players/entities page:

Promoter - Niccolo Flychuck [do not submit proposals]
Tabulator - Niccolo Flychuck
Registrar - Niccolo Flychuck
Senator (for ThinMan) - Guy Fawkes
Senator (for Robert Sevin) - Lestrade
Senator (for breadbox) - Strider
Justice (for mr cwm) - Malenkai
Justice (for Mohammed) - /dev/joe
Ambassador - Malenkai
Historian - Malenkai
CSRR - Niccolo Flychuck
Poet Laureate - Malenkai
Preator - /dev/joe (athough the CFJ assigned to ThinMan stays with him?)
Undead Harfer - Niccolo Flychuck (a nomination should be announced)
Inventor - /dev/joe
Gaoler - Malenkai
Archaeologist - Niccolo Flychuck
Harf Swinger - Malenkai
(None Yet) Swinger - Guy Fawkes

I believe this is complete and accurate.  This is only acting officers.

Malenkai
speaker

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Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 20:51:54 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Vacationing Still 

Hey!

I'm still on vacation, and will remain that way until friday when I finally
have a day with no classes and school and will be able to transfer a
computer over to the house which I am sitting.

I've only read bits and piueces of my mail (those with interesting titles)
for the last five (?) days so I am not too sure what is going on.  Glad to
have Narf in the game (is that a play on harf?).

Other than that, I will see you all in a couple days, and will happily use
my monople at that time so long as someone can prove to me that it won't
move the earth out of alignment with the center of the universe.

snowgod
home to play with my dog

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Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 21:11:02 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Phoebe (Guy Fawkes)

Feb 07 21:12 EST: -3 snowgod: did not report what Phoebe said

Guy Fawkes has found phoebe's matchbox.

Malenkai

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Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 21:13:45 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Machine (Strider)

The Machine that goes *ping* has wound up in Strider's house.  I
still have to report the boon ThinMan received at the time of the
thread split.

Malenkai

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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 20:36:53 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Re: Acka: Player states and Acting Officers

> The following players are active:
> ThinMan

Actually, ThinMan went on vacation too, but voluntarily, a while after the
mass vacation.

> All others are on vacation, until they remove themselves therefrom, which
> may not be done, until Sat 22:14.

Actually, a few players were already on vacation.  snowgod, Bascule,
23 Skidoo, Clairence, and BuzzBee have all been on vacation for more
than 2 days and may come back whenever they want.

> The following are the acting officers.  I have not bothered to
> update this on the players/entities page:

[long list deleted]

This is a much more fun Quorum Crisis than the other one we had a long
time ago. :-)

> Preator - /dev/joe (athough the CFJ assigned to ThinMan stays with him?)

I believe so.  Nothing I can find in the rules says a Judge or the Praetor
passes on a CFJ by going on vacation; if ThinMan deadbeats on the CFJ, he
is removed from office.

/dev/joe

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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 18:54:54 -0800
From: [email-masked] (Dice server)
Subject: Acka: Boon determination

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# 93-97: ancient wisdom (new otzma card)
# 98-99: gods are bored (pointy ears)
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Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 21:58:20 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Boon determination

Dice server wrote:

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> # 46-70: ancient scroll (random otzma card)

ThinMan received a Otzma Card of type TruthSeeker way back when.

Malenkai

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Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 23:03:35 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Auction

Malenkai wrote:

> In any case, I am building another gravitational monopole, but there may
> not be a market for it when it is done.  Oh well, It'll be done in 3 days.

This is done, and is now being auctioned in a public auction.

Malenkai

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Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 00:12:44 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: PHP

I did not receive or send a party hall party message.
It looks like we get snowgod's poetry when he comes back, unless I
feel inspired, which is unlikely.

Malenkai
acting harf swinger
acting gaoler

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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 21:32:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Auction

>> In any case, I am building another gravitational monopole, but there may
>> not be a market for it when it is done.  Oh well, It'll be done in 3 days.
> 
> This is done, and is now being auctioned in a public auction.

fnord, Niccolo Flychuck, and myself are also sufficiently rested to go
grab another building. However, at least one of us in on an enforced
vacation.

breadbox
biding time

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