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This is a Modest proposal.Repeal Rule 1119, "Undead (aka I didn't come back as a bag of groceries)"
Repeal Rule 1121, "This Is Where The Party Ends"{{[4.5 - 5 months. These two go together, I guess. I guess this will be a vote for if a TMBG reference, and nothing else, is enough for a rule]}}
Proposal 1952 - Mon, 21 Apr 1997 18:26:54 -0500
Spring Cleaning VII
Malenkai (Randy Hall)
Decision: Rejected
This is a Modest proposal.Repeal Rule 1123, "snowgod's Disease" {{[about 3 months. It was used in the beginning, but snowgod's disease goes by now unacknowledged. Perhaps another case of lost freshness]}}
Proposal 1953 - Mon, 21 Apr 1997 18:32:00 -0500
Spring Cleaning VIII
Malenkai (Randy Hall)
Decision: Rejected
This is a Modest proposal.Repeal Rule 1303, "Synod" {{[about 6 months. It seems like a lot of currency shuffling for the Financier to track, but I'm missing the actual *advantage* for an org to join the Synod, why not make your own profits?]}}
Proposal 1954 - Mon, 21 Apr 1997 21:18:10 -0500
Presumptuous
Malenkai (Randy Hall)
Decision: Accepted
This is a Modest proposal.Amend Rule 843, "Hall of Elders", to replace "one month" with "30 days", where it appears in section 8.
Proposal 1955 - Tue, 22 Apr 1997 03:00:11 -0500
Binary Me
snowgod (Phil Ackley)
Made harfy by fnord at Wed, 23 Apr 1997 04:34:53 -0700
Decision: Rejected
I was young and foolish then, I feel old and foolish now.01100101 01110100 01101001 01110100 01101100 01100101 01101111 01100110 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 01110010 01110101 01101100 01100101
All messages to the public forum must be in the form of a binary ASCII representaion of the English language.
There are two exceptions to this rule: Any player who owns a Captain Cosmic Decoder Ring (if such a thing should exist) is exempt from the provisions of this rule. Any player who is wearing a prosthetic forhead is also exempt.
[for example, I've included the text of this proposal in binary ASCII:
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Proposal 1956 - Tue, 22 Apr 1997 03:00:12 -0500
How can you set a player to 36, anyway?
snowgod (Phil Ackley)
Decision: Rejected
I was young and foolish then, I feel old and foolish now.{{ snowgod's score is changed to -50 . Any player with a negitive score, other than snowgod, is set to 36}}
Proposal 1957 - Tue, 22 Apr 1997 03:00:13 -0500
Give me your head, foolish man.
snowgod (Phil Ackley)
Made harfy by fnord at Wed, 23 Apr 1997 04:34:53 -0700
Decision: Rejected
I was young and foolish then, I feel old and foolish now.Upon leaving the game, a player may have his head removed and preserved cryogenically. He may then donate his head to a player of his choosing, or announce that his head is currently unowned.
If a player leaving the game announces that his head is unowned the auction process will occur in the same manner as if the head was a recently completed gadget. A preserved head is an asset, and may be traded on the free market.
If a player does not state what is to be done with his head, it shall be assumed that it leaves the game with him.
This rules takes precedence over all rules which would deny a player the right to remove, give away, or sell his head.
Proposal 1958 - Tue, 22 Apr 1997 03:00:14 -0500
Yes Phoebe, We are more foolish than Rishonomic
snowgod (Phil Ackley)
Decision: Rejected
I was young and foolish then, I feel old and foolish now.Ackanomic must always strive to be the silliest play by email game of nomic in existance on the internet.
If, during his journeys, the Ambassador discovers that the ruleset of another net-based nomic is substantially sillier than that of ackanomic he must issue a report stating so. This report must begin with the words "Oh, woe are we," and contain at least three specific references to mimsy entities.
Once a report has been issued, as specified by this rule the following events must occur:
1) 3 harfy proposals must be adopted.
2) The speaker must compose, and read, a silly haiku praising the Fat Lady
3) Anyone in possesion of a mimsy entity must post a message thanking the financier for his great work in service to ackanomic in general, and for his great work in the collection and inventory of entities in specific.
If all three of these conditions are not fulfilled within 14 days of the issuance of the report, then every players score shall imediatly be set to -6, with the exception of the harfmeister (whoever that may be at the end of the 14 day period) who's score shall be set to -13.
This rule specifically defers to other rules that outline events that occur upon the issuance of a report, or results of non-compliance with said events.
Proposal 1959 - Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:34:14 -0500
Loosing your foolish head
CarsesraC (Jeroen M.W. van Dijk)
Decision: Rejected
This is a foolish proposal.I was young and foolish then, I feel old and foolish now.
If a player doesn't own is first head it loses its right to vote.
If a player owns one head or more extra heads that are not its first head.
He gets a extra voting right for every extra head.A player can only have one head that is his first head.
A player can have other heads that are implanted, but unless they
have not been someone first head e will get an extra voting right.
Proposal 1960 - Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:39:22 -0500
Foolishness Pointers
Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)
Decision: Accepted
This is a Modest Proposal. Amend condition b) in Rule 1906 to read:"b) The rest of the text of the proposal is a previously submitted and rejected proposal, altered in no way from this previously submitted proposal except in the updating of numerical rule pointers."
Proposal 1961 - Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:58:08 -0500
A Rather Mediocre Game
Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)
Decision: Accepted
Create a new rule, a member of the Games & Contests Rule Suite, entitled "Mediocrity," containing the text below:[Gist: Mediocrity is a psychological game won by guessing the "middle" number -- but not too often! I've seen variations of it in several places, none of which give any indication of who to credit for it.]
General equipment: Gamepoints as needed.
Players: minimum 3, maximum: the number of players in the game of Ackanomic at the inception of a game of Mediocrity
Referees: none
The Rules of Mediocrity:
Starting an instance of the game: Via the method described in rule 1250.1, section VI a). Also, the player announcing the beginning of an insance of Medicrity shall randomly assign each player a different integer in the range of 1 to n, where n is the number of players in the game (of Mediocrity).
Mediocrity: For a given set of numbers, the most Medicore one is determined as follows:
1) The numbers are listed in increasing order: the first member is the smallest number in the set, each succeeding member is equal to or greater than the previous one.
2) If the set has an odd number N of members, the (N+1)/2 member is near-Mediocre; if the set has an even number of members, the N/2 member is near-Mediocre.
3) If the value of the near-Mediocre member is unique in that set, it is the most Mediocre number in the set.
4) If the value of the near-Mediocre member is not unique in the set, all instances of the near-Mediocre number are removed from the set, and steps 1-3 are applied to the remaining members.
5) If no member of the set can be found to be the most Mediocre member, then the set has no most Mediocre member.Play: play consists of rounds -- each round, one of the players shall be be Moderator. A round begins when the Moderator announces the beginning of that round; it ends when the Moderator announces the result of that round, or after six days. A round must last at least three days.
Player 1 is the Moderator at the beginning of the game; thereafter, at the end of each round, the player whose player number is the smallest player number greater than that of the current Moderator becomes Moderator. (After a round in which the player with the highest player number was Moderator, player 1 becomes Moderator again.) If the Moderator fails to announce the beginning of the next round within three days of the end of the last round, or if player 1 fails to announce the beginning of the first round within three days of the beginning of the game, the first player to name emself Moderator and announce the beginning of the next round (in the same message) is Moderator.
During a round, each player other than the Moderator sends the Moderator a positive einteger in the range of 1 to 2n, where n is the number of players other than the Moderator in the game. If any player(s) fail to do so, the Moderator shall randomly determine which integer in this range each of these players chose.
To end a round by announcing its results, the Moderator posts the following: the number selected by each player, the player (if any) who selected the most Mediocre number of those selected, and the current score of the game. (Each player's score is the number of Gamepoints e currently has for that instance of Mediocrity. All players begin the game with zero Gamepoints; a player gains one Gamepoint whenever e selects the most Mediocre number in a round.)
If a round ends because of the expiration of the six-day time limit, the Moderator is removed from the list of players (e is deemed to have quit the game). No players score any Gamepoints for that round. A player may also be removed from the player list by announcing eir resignation from either the game of Mediocrity or the game of Ackanomic, or by being removed involuntarily fromt the game of Ackanomic.
Winning the Game:
If at the end of a round, the sum of the scores of all players is greater than or equal to twice the number of players, and there exists a most Mediocre score from the set of player scores, the player with the most Mediocre score wins, and the game ends.Trophy: the winner of the game shall receive a standard Trophy, and a rather Mediocre example of one at that. The winner is encouraged to complain (albeit it a rather nonplussed manner) about the Medicore nature of the Trophy.
Proposal 1962 - Wed, 23 Apr 1997 11:01:28 -0500
Making Use of the Gumball
Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)
Decision: Rejected
Replace the first paragraph of Rule 419.2 "Ackanomic/Internomic Interface" with the following:The Gumball is Ackanomic's Liaison to Internomic. The Ambassador (or in eir absense, the Speaker, is the Assistant to the Gumball. The Gumball, being a very busy entity, has no time to fulfill any of responsibilities of the Liaison-ship, and so it is the duty of the Assistant to the Gumball to peform all the duties of the Liaison.
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Add the following to the end of Rule 903:
The Gumball is registered as a non-voting player in Ackanomic. This takes precedence over Rule 250 and any other rule which would deny the Gumball non-voting player status.
Proposal 1963 - Fri, 25 Apr 1997 05:32:12 -0500
They said it couldn't be done...
snowgod (Phil Ackley)
Decision: Rejected
Create a new rule with the following text:A rule, in order to be self-referential, must contain this sentence.
Proposal 1964 - Fri, 25 Apr 1997 15:56:22 -0500
Secret Power Struggles
Bascule (Matt Black)
Decision: retracted by author
This is a fairly modest proposalAmend rule 1060 by replacing the following text
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5. Any member of the Narfalone Family can attempt to overthrow the Godfather by publicly stating eir intention to do so. This does not constitute an admittance of membership in the Narfalone Family. If 2/3rds of the members of The Narfalone Family publicly acknowledge the challenger within one week, e shall become the new Godfather. Publicly acknowledging the challenger does not entail admittance of membership in the Narfalone Family.
"with
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5. Any member of the Narfalone Family can attempt to overthrow the Godfather by publicly stating eir intention to do so. This does not constitute an admittance of membership in the Narfalone Family. If 2/3rds of the members of The Narfalone Family publicly acknowledge the challenger within one week, e shall become the new Godfather. Publicly acknowledging the challenger does not entail admittance of membership in the Narfalone Family. It is the duty of the Godfather to publically report upon the success or failure of any such overthrow attempt. If the Godfather fails to do so then it can safely be assumed that e is on other business and is 'tied up' elsewhere. Under such circumstances the challenger's overthrow attempt succeeds.
"
Proposal 1965 - Fri, 25 Apr 1997 16:17:47 -0500
Generic Proposal Title #1965
Bascule (Matt Black)
Decision: retracted by author
This is a fairly modest proposalAmend rule 1060 by replacing the following text
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5. Any member of the Narfalone Family can attempt to overthrow the Godfather by publicly stating eir intention to do so. This does not constitute an admittance of membership in the Narfalone Family. If 2/3rds of the members of The Narfalone Family publicly acknowledge the challenger within one week, e shall become the new Godfather. Publicly acknowledging the challenger does not entail admittance of membership in the Narfalone Family.
"with
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5. Any member of the Narfalone Family can attempt to overthrow the Godfather by publicly stating eir intention to do so. This does not constitute an admittance of membership in the Narfalone Family. If 2/3rds of the members of The Narfalone Family publicly acknowledge the challenger within one week, e shall become the new Godfather. Publicly acknowledging the challenger does not entail admittance of membership in the Narfalone Family. It is the duty of the Godfather to publically report upon the success or failure of any such overthrow attempt. If the Godfather fails to do so then it can safely be assumed that e is on other business and is 'tied up' elsewhere. Under such circumstances the challenger's overthrow attempt succeeds. This rule takes precedence over rule 408.
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Proposal 1966 - Fri, 25 Apr 1997 17:17:16 -0500
We like secret organizations
Bascule (Matt Black)
Decision: Accepted
This IS a fairly modest proposal, despite what ThinMan saysAmend rule 1060 by replacing the following text
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5. Any member of the Narfalone Family can attempt to overthrow the Godfather by publicly stating eir intention to do so. This does not constitute an admittance of membership in the Narfalone Family. If 2/3rds of the members of The Narfalone Family publicly acknowledge the challenger within one week, e shall become the new Godfather. Publicly acknowledging the challenger does not entail admittance of membership in the Narfalone Family.
"with
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5. Any member of the Narfalone Family can attempt to overthrow the Godfather by publicly stating eir intention to do so. This does not constitute an admittance of membership in the Narfalone Family. If 2/3rds of the members of The Narfalone Family publicly acknowledge the challenger within one week, e shall become the new Godfather. Publicly acknowledging the challenger does not entail admittance of membership in the Narfalone Family. It is the duty of the Godfather to publically report upon the success or failure of any such overthrow attempt. If the Godfather fails to do so then it can safely be assumed that e is on other business and is 'tied up' elsewhere. Under such circumstances the challenger's overthrow attempt succeeds. Upon a successful overthrow attempt, the membership of the Narfalone family shall be taken to consist of those players who publically acknowledged the challenger [this is so that the new Godfather knows who the members are]. This rule takes precedence over rule 408 [normally Count Tabula would count the votes].
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Proposal 1967 - Fri, 25 Apr 1997 20:51:29 -0500
This is a Modest proposal
Malenkai (Randy Hall)
Decision: failed to meet quorum
This is a Modest proposal.Amend rule 1215, "Duels" to replace:
"
The Game or Contest (hereafter called Contest) chosen for the Duel must be one accepted for listing (or listed) on the Games & Contests web page.
"with:
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The Game or Contest (hereafter called Contest) chosen for the Duel must be a Game in the Games & Contests Rule Suite.
"
Proposal 1968 - Sat, 26 Apr 1997 18:40:49 -0500
Ad Hoc Towers
Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
Decision: Accepted
A proposal that has the following effects:I. Create a new rule entitled "Ad Hoc Comittee on the matter of Skylines" which contains the following text:
"An Ad Hoc Committee on the matter of Skylines is empowered to approve or deny a plan for a public building submitted by a player. When a player anounces that e is submitting a plan for a Public building then that message is considered to be a call for an Ad Hoc Committee on the Matter of Skylines.
{{This rule renumbers itself to 1081}}
"
II. In R841 "Towers" Ammend section 2 to read in full: "A player is always said to be 'permitted' to build (or extend) an Ostentatious Tower associated with them. A player is said to be permitted to build (or extend) a Public Tower provided they submit a plan to an Ad Hoc Committee on the Matter of Skylines, and that Ad Hoc Commitee votes approval of that plan. Such a plan must describe a tower that could legally be built (or a legal extension of an extant Public Tower). The Public Tower so built (or extension thereof) as a result of this permission must accord with the plan approved by the Ad Hoc Committee.
"
Proposal 1969 - Sat, 26 Apr 1997 18:40:50 -0500
Holding Demns back a bit
Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
Decision: Rejected
Ammend R1230.18 "Creation of a PartyChessPiece Demon in the following ways:Delete section 3.
Renumber section 4 to 3.
Proposal 1970 - Sat, 26 Apr 1997 18:40:50 -0500
G&C goes IRC too
Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
Decision: Rejected
Ammend R1250.1 "Games & Contests" In the following ways:Ammend section IV d to read in full:
"Games may add or subtract points from the score of a participating player. The maximum number of points added or subtracted in any specific instance of a Game is (Magic Number / 30) .
A player may receive no more than (Magic Number / 15) points per calendar month as a result of participation in the same class of game . Any excess that would have been received is disregarded."Apppend to section VI the following text as subsection c:
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An instance of a Game played on IRC is considered a legal instance for the purpose of this rule provided that that all of the following criteria are met:
1.The IRC channel is a legal forum for performing subgame actions for the entire duration of the game.
2. All participants, including the referee have agreed to play on IRC.
3. A full log has been posted to an email based mailing list defined as a legal forum for subgame actions.
"
Proposal 1971 - Sat, 26 Apr 1997 18:40:51 -0500
Generic Proposal Title #1971
Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
Decision: Rejected
This is a Modest Proposal.In R1301 "Church" delete section 6
Proposal 1972 - Sat, 26 Apr 1997 18:40:52 -0500
Generic Proposal Title #1972
Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
Decision: Rejected
This is a Modest Proposal.Append section 6 of R1301 "Church" to read in full:
"A player may not be a member of more three Churches at the same time."
Proposal 1973 - Sun, 27 Apr 1997 09:21:16 -0500
Something about the Senate
Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
Decision: Rejected
Replace the text "four seats" with the text "six seats"
Append the following text to R411 "Senate" :
" A Senator's term in Office is 12 weeks."
Proposal 1974 - Sun, 27 Apr 1997 16:03:05 -0500
Substitute Players
Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)
Decision: failed to meet quorum
This is a Modest Proposal.Insert the following text into Rule 1250.1 "Games and Contests" immediately after section VI (b).
c) Unless the Rules for a game specify otherwise, players going on Vacation may name another player (of Ackanomic) to be their Substitute Player (in the subgame). The Substitute Player may not have been a player of the instance of the Game or Contest in which e is substituting at any time in the past, and e must agree to be a Substitute. All responsibilities and priveleges of the departed player for the Game or Contest fall to the Substitute Player [if the Substitute Player wins the subgame, the Trophy goes to em]. When the original Player returns from Vacation, e resumes playing for emself. It is considered good form for em to give the Substitute Player some recompense for eir services. Participants in Duels may not have Substitute Players for the Duel.
Proposal 1975 - Mon, 28 Apr 1997 13:18:54 -0500
Is the flea always right?
Techno (Jerome Herrman)
Decision: failed to meet quorum
Techno(Jerome Herrman)There shall be an entity known as The Titanium Tick. The Titanium Tick is very street wise, and the wisdom he imparts is not so profound or worldly as Phoebe's, and his wisdom often contradicts Phoebe's wisdom.
The tick shall be randomly found by a player of Ackanomic 3 days after the most recent finding of Phoebe. The player finding the tick must publish the ticks wisdom within 3 days of the posting of Phoebe's wisdom, but not before. If Phoebe's wisdom is not posted within the specified time that her wisdom should be posted, the finder of the tick shall recieve 5 points and not be required to post the ticks wisdom. If Phoebe's wisdom is not posted within the specified time, the tick takes this as a failure of Phoebe herself, and not the player she was supposed to impart her wisdom upon, and the tick may decide to taunt Phoebe. The player that found the tick, may post this taunting with no concern of retaliation, before the 3 days after Phoebe has been found again expire.
The tick sometimes gets hungry, and needs to eat. If at anytime the holder of the magic potato also finds the tick, the tick will eat the magic potato, thus destroying it, unless that player also holds an amber banana. If the player that has the magic potato when e finds the tick also has an amber banana, the tick will eat the amber banana instead, as he prefers them over the magic potato.
Proposal 1976 - Sat, 10 May 1997 12:20:13 -0500
Trinket Name And Description Changes
Alfvaen
Decision: Rejected
An trinket can be renamed and have its description changed by its owner during its fluidity period(defined below). The trinket's new name must satisfy the requirements of R500.1(Entity Names), with the exception that a trinket that has previously been named cannot become nameless (though the reverse is possible). The trinket cannot be given the name of any other currently or previously existing trinket. The description may be changed to any description of a form permitted by any other rules(to which this rule defers in this manner), except that a non-empty description cannot be replaced by an empty one.A trinket's fluidity period begins when it is created, and ends when it moves from the possession of the player which created it; for trinkets which are not created by players, their fluidity period is null.
Proposal 1977 - Mon, 12 May 1997 01:58:29 -0500
How Drab A Home, Otherwise
Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
Decision: Accepted
This is a Modest Proposal.In the Rule 846, "Constructions And Architectual Aesthetic", replace the paragraph
The player may post a description of a building they own. After paying A$2 per word for the description (to the Treasury) the building is made exactly as their description of it, provided that description follows the rules. It is a crime to give a description of the house which is not in accord with the rules.
with
The player may post a description of a building they own at any time. The building is thereby made exactly as eir description of it, provided that description follows the rules. It is a crime to give a description of the house which is not in accord with the rules.
Proposal 1978 - Mon, 12 May 1997 01:58:29 -0500
How Drab A Home, Otherwise
Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
Decision: invalid (same as P1977)
This is a Modest Proposal.In the Rule 846, "Constructions And Architectual Aesthetic", replace the paragraph
The player may post a description of a building they own. After paying A$2 per word for the description (to the Treasury) the building is made exactly as their description of it, provided that description follows the rules. It is a crime to give a description of the house which is not in accord with the rules.
with
The player may post a description of a building they own at any time. The building is thereby made exactly as eir description of it, provided that description follows the rules. It is a crime to give a description of the house which is not in accord with the rules.
Proposal 1979 - Mon, 12 May 1997 09:04:17 -0500
Mild Exorcism
Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
Decision: Rejected
Ammend R1230.18 "Creation of a PartyChessPiece Demon in the following ways:Delete section 3.
Renumber section 4 to 3.
Proposal 1980 - Mon, 12 May 1997 09:05:22 -0500
Polytheism
Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
Decision: Rejected
This is a Modest Proposal.In R1301 "Church" delete section 6
Proposal 1981 - Mon, 12 May 1997 09:05:23 -0500
Trinity
Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
Decision: Rejected
This is a Modest Proposal.Append section 6 of R1301 "Church" to read in full:
"A player may not be a member of more three Churches at the same time."
Proposal 1982 - Mon, 12 May 1997 09:06:29 -0500
Sensible Senate
Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
Decision: retracted by author
Appen R411 "Senate inf the following ways:Replace the text "four seats" with the text "six seats" " A Senator's term in Office is 12 weeks."
Proposal 1983 - Mon, 12 May 1997 09:15:37 -0500
Swing High
Niccolo Flychuck
Decision: Accepted
This is a Modest proposal
In R1044 "Swingpoints" delete subsection a of section 2. subsection b of section 2 is relabeled a, subsection c of section 2 is reabled b.
Proposal 1984 - Mon, 12 May 1997 09:46:42 -0500
Rules of Engagement
Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
Decision: Rejected
A proposal that has the following effects:I. Create a new rule entitled "Rules of Engagement Rule Suite" which contains the following text:
"
[ Rules of Engagement are a set of rules specific to Organizations, they are contained in their own Rule Suite, and can be chagned by joint assembly of Orgnizational Institutions][Rules of Engagement]
1.RoE is synonymous to the term 'Rules of Engagment'
2.There exists a class of rules known as Rules of Engagement. A rule belongs to this calss if and only if it is a member of the Rules of Engagement Rule Suite.
3. The Office of Director is a Political Office. Other rules, including RoE, may specify the duties and privileges of Office.
{{Renumber this Rule 1260}}"
II. Create a new rule entitled "Follow the Rules of Engagement" which contains the following text
"All Organization must abide by the Rules of Engagement at all times {{renumber this rule 1260.1}}
"III.Create a new rule entitled "Changing the Rules of Engagement" which contains the following text:
"In additions to procedures described elsewhere in the rules, RoE may be be created ammended or repealed by the following procedure:
a. Any member of one of the following Institutions : Synod, Party Hall, may submit an RoE Motion to the Director.
b. It is the Director's duty to number the Motion and initiate a vote in Joint Assembly in the Institutions named in section a.
c. If an RoE Motion is supposred by said Joint Assembly, then the Rule Changes specified in the RoE motion take effect.
d. An RoE Motion is invalid and has no effect if it contains invaid rule changes. In additions to restirctions elswhere in the rules, rule changes in RoE Motions are invalid if they attempt to directly manipulate rules which are not Rules of Engagement.{{renumber this rule 1260.2}}
"
Proposal 1985 - Mon, 12 May 1997 10:04:54 -0500
Cross Unions
Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
Decision: Rejected
Create a new rule entitled "Cross Unions" which contains the following text:
"1. A Cross Union is a type of Organization.
2.Any member of a Nomic which a member of Internomic may be a member of a Cross Union.
3.The members of a Cross Union which are also members of Ackanomic are collectively known as the Acka Branch of that Cross Union
4. A member of Ackanomic may join a Cross Union which has an Acka Branch according to the rules for joining Organizations.
5. A member of Ackanomic may join a Cross Union which doesn't have an Acka Branch when both the Cross Union and the member in question have posted a message to that effect.
6. Should there any question as to whether an Extra Ackanomic Entity is a Cross Union, then an Ad Hoc Comittee on the matter of Cross Union may be called.
"
{{Renumber this rule to 1015}}
Proposal 1986 - Mon, 12 May 1997 10:07:09 -0500
Ad Hoc Comitte on the matter of Cross Unions
Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
Decision: Rejected
Create a new rule entitled "Ad Hoc Comitte on the matter of Cross Unions" which contains the following text:"
An Ad Hoc Committee on the matter of Cross Unions is empowered to determine whether an Extra Ackanomic Entity is a Cross Union.
One of the members of the Committee shall be the Ambassador or a player appointed by the Ambassador.
The Committee may contact representatives of other nomics to obtain that may be relevant to its decision.
Once a Commitee has made its decision, another Committee on the matter of Cross Unions on the same Extra Ackanomic Entity may not be called within the same calendar month.
For any given Extra Nomic Entity, the decision of the most recent Ad Hoc Committe on the matter of Cross Unions over-rides thje decision of all previous Committees.
"
Proposal 1987 - Mon, 12 May 1997 10:16:43 -0500
Bigger Than A Breadbox
Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
Decision: Rejected
Amend Rule 1307, "Ackanomic Middle Ages", to replace the paragraph:Any Player who has been burned as a heretic exactly once is considered Enlightened. Any Player burned more than once, however, is beyond hope and may never become Enlightened. Any Player who is Enlightened is free to say what they wish, and may never have a Witchhunt called against them, or be burned as a heretic. This paragraph has precedence over all others in this rule.
with
Any Player who has been burned as a heretic exactly once is considered Well-Rounded. Any Player burned more than once, however, is beyond hope and may never become Well-Rounded(or Enlightened). Any Player who is Well-Rounded or Enlightened is free to say what they wish, and may never have a Witchhunt called against them, or be burned as a heretic. This paragraph has precedence over all others in this rule.
Also, amend Rule 1320, "This is the way the world ends", to replace all occurrences of the word "Enlightened" with the phrase "Enlightened or Well-Rounded".
Proposal 1988 - Mon, 12 May 1997 10:19:00 -0500
A new light
Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
Decision: Rejected
This is a Modest Proposal.
Repeal R1307 "The Middle Ages"
Proposal 1989 - Mon, 12 May 1997 10:33:16 -0500
Info Treasures
Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
Decision: Rejected
In R1217 "Buried Treasure!" Append the following text to the third paragraph:
"A map may contain one or more Info section. Any text contained in brackets is considered to be an Info section. Info section are not conditions to find the Treasure.
"{{[I was looking for a way to conceal information such that it can only be found if some conditions are met, R1217 provided part of that functionality, and may arguably provide all of it, but I wanted it explicit anyway. This tool would allow the creation of Mysteries where it would be necessary to collect clues in order to solve the Mystery. I may a couple of more tools. We could employ the W-File pair as part of this]}}
Proposal 1990 - Mon, 12 May 1997 11:05:29 -0500
Substitute Players (Let there be Quorum!)
Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)
Decision: Rejected
This is a Modest proposal.Amend Rule 1250.1 in the manner described by proposal 1974.
{{[Allows players to manage another's subgame positions in the event of vacation, quitting, etc. This is already in place in a few subgames, but this should handle the general case for all.]}}
Proposal 1991 - Mon, 12 May 1997 11:20:48 -0500
Zzimsy Restoration
Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)
Decision: Accepted
This is a Modest proposal.{{[ Restore the lost lands ]
A small building called "Xanadu", with a 145m tower called the "Monument to Futility" is created on 1 kaa of vacant land. Guy Fawkes owns it.
A small building called "AirHead's House" is created on 1 kaa of vacant land. The Undead AirHead begins haunting it.
A small building called "Aubergine Hall" is created on 1 kaa of vacant land. The Undead Brinjal begins haunting it.
A small building called "fon's House" is created on 1 kaa of vacant land. The Undead fon begins haunting it.
A small building called "G. Peefalt's House" is created on 1 kaa of vacant land. The Undead G. Peefalt begins haunting it.
A small building called "Habeous Corpus' House" is created on 1 kaa of vacant land. Habeous Corpus owns it.
A small building called "Bibliophilia" is created on 1 kaa of vacant land. The Undead Pascal begins haunting it.
A small building called "this is not a name's House" is created on 1 kaa of vacant land. The Undead this is not a name begins haunting it.
A small building called "Uncle Sam's House" is created on 1 kaa of vacant land. The Undead Uncle Same begins haunting it.
A small building called "Wayne's House" is created on 1 kaa of vacant land. The Undead Wayne begins haunting it.
[ Assorted other entities ]
Two Otzma Cards of type Go Fish are created. Guy Fawkes owns them.
A Blue Cross and a Blue Cross Bonus are created. The Undead this is not a name begins haunting them.
A Blue Cross Bonus is created. The Undead Wayne begins haunting it.
}}
Proposal 1992 - Mon, 12 May 1997 12:42:54 -0500
Few Good Things Begin With the Letter Q
Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)
Decision: Rejected
This is a Modest proposal.{{[ As far as I know, the quorum rule has so far caused one crisis (The Quorum Crisis) nearly caused another (Frebruary's mass forced vacation) and created at least one severe nuissance. (The recent mass forced non-voting period). It does not even meet its intended purpose -- to prevent a proposal from passing when almost no one has voted -- as seen in the recent quorum hassle, each successive quorum-failure dramatically reduces the number of active players; by the time the end of the docket is reached, quorum causes the 3-2 votes it is trying to prevent. IMO, history has shown this rule to be far more of a nuissance than it is worth. ]}}
In Rule 104, change
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.
to
As soon as possible after a proposal's prescribed voting period ends, the votes on that proposal shall be posted publically. The proposal is then accepted if the required number of YES votes were cast on the proposal.
%%
In rule 207, change
If a proposal is rejected, but meets quorum, the player who proposed it loses 7 points and every player who voted YES on it receives 3 points.
to
If a proposal is rejected, the player who proposed it loses 7 points and every player who voted YES on it receives 3 points.
%%
Repeal Rule 107 [Quorum and Active Players]
Repeal Rule 207, Section V [Effect of Proposals which do not meet Quorum]
Repeal Rule 709, paragraph 4. [Players in Gaol and Quorum]
Proposal 1993 - Mon, 12 May 1997 12:42:55 -0500
Because Lightning Sometimes Strikes Twice
Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)
Decision: Rejected
This is a Modest proposal.
Insert the following paragraph immediately after the first paragraph of Rule 1131, Section II.Any Rule previously abducted by Sinister Aliens is protected by Earth Defense Missiles.
Proposal 1994 - Mon, 12 May 1997 12:42:56 -0500
A Kindler, Gentler *ping*
Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)
Decision: Accepted
{[[ Gist: The last five Truths have suffered prematrue deaths. Let's fix this. ]}}Replace sections IV and V of rule 1209 [The Machine That Goes *ping*] with the following text, delimited by =) symbols:
=)
IV. Beginning on the calendar day after the Scholar announces the Machine's truth, the Machine shall go *ping* exactly once on any calendar day the statement described by "today {if clause}" is at any time true. The Machine shall not otherwise go *ping*. It is the duty of the Scholar to inform the rest of Acka of this occurrence. He must do so by posting a public message with the form, "Today is Someday, the xth day of Month, in the Year of Our Lord YYYY, and the Machine That Goes *ping* Has Gone *ping* today. Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone *ping* n times." In the actual message, Someday, xth, Month, and YYYY shall be replaced by the appropriate elements of the date of the *ping* which is being announced, and n shall be replaced by the number of times that the Machine has gone *ping* during the current Scholar's term.
V. {{[The kindler, gentler part]}}
The Scholar must announce each *ping* as described above either in the day in which it occurred or during the next two days. It is expected, however, that each *ping* be announced during the day in which occurs -- tardy (although legal) announcments are subject to reprisals as described below. Announcements of *ping*'s not made on the day in which the *ping* occurred must be prefaced by an apology from the Scholar for his tardiness. "Days" and "dates" as used in this rule are said to begin and end when the Acka Day begins and ends.The Scholar must make exactly one announcement as described above each time the Machine goes *ping*. He may not announce that the Machine went *ping* for occasions on which it did not actually go *ping*. Although he is permitted to announce a *ping* on a day after the *ping* occurred, he is not permitted to indicate by any means, that the Machine shall go *ping* or not go *ping* on any future date, nor may he use any means whatsoever not described in the rules to communicate any information regarding the Truth to any player, so long as the undisguised Truth is not publically knowable.
=)
Replace the second paragraph of Rule 1209, section IX, with the following, delimited by ;p symbols:
;p
{{[ If no one objects to Scholar error, let it stand ]}} Should it ever be publically knowable that the current Scholar has violated any part of this rule during the current Scholar's term, or if the Scholar announces a *ping* after the day in which it occurred, any player who feels the Scholar's error or tardiness has compromised the game may post a public message calling for the Scholar's removal. Upon the posting of such a message, the Machine immediately teleports itself to the home of the Player calling for the Scholar's removal.
;p
Proposal 1995 - Mon, 12 May 1997 12:56:46 -0500
Contracts (Or, How to play lawyer)
Red Barn (Daniel Knapp)
Decision: Accepted
Contracts are entities. Any player may create a contract by publicly announcing that e is doing so and providing the text of the contract.
{{[Hmm, perhaps we need a "document" or something, and contracts and maps are documents, or a player could write one not functioning as anything, for, for example, the purpose of burying it.]}}
A contract has space at the bottom for signatures; a player may sign any contract by announcing that e is doing so, and signing the contract adds the signing player's signature at the bottom of the contract. [Of course, the wording of the contract might specify a player.]
Once a player has signed a contract, that player must obey any restrictions that that contract places on em; to do otherwise is a crime.{{[This is *not* so that players will have some way of enforcing agreements, but rather, for example, so that they will be able to create their own sub-games or whatever. It also has uses in conjunction with treasure maps (if you'll recall, it was decided that maps can't specify future conditions).]}}
Proposal 1996 - Mon, 12 May 1997 14:35:45 -0500
Xenophobia
/dev/joe (Joseph DeVincentis)
Decision: Rejected
This is a modest proposal.1. Repeal Rule 1131 (The Sinister Alien Abduction Act).
2. Amend Rule 106 by deleting the sentence
"This Rule defers to all other Rules which do not contain this sentence."3. All rules currently abducted by aliens are returned to the ruleset in the form they had just before being abducted.
Proposal 1997 - Tue, 13 May 1997 03:00:12 -0500
More Sensible Senate
Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
Decision: Rejected
Ammend R411 "Senate" in the following ways:Replace the text "four seats" with the text "six seats"
append the following text " A Senator's term in Office is 12 weeks."
Proposal 1998 - Wed, 14 May 1997 11:51:27 -0500
Twice In Two Days???
Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
Decision: Rejected
This is a Modest proposal.In Rule 903 ("Gumball"), amend the paragraph
For the purposes of this rule, alternate Wednesdays and Thursdays are defined as the second and fourth Wednesdays and the first and third Thursdays of each calendar month.
to read
For the purposes of this rule, alternate Wednesdays and Thursdays are defined as the second and fourth Wednesdays and the first and third Thursdays of each calendar month, except in the case where the first day of the month is a Thursday(when otherwise this would mean that the Gumball was chewable on consecutive days); in such months alternate Wednesdays and Thursdays will be the first and third Wednesdays and Thursdays of the month, i.e. the 1st, 7th, 15th, and 21st of the month.
Proposal 1999 - Wed, 14 May 1997 11:54:33 -0500
Why Do You Think I Have This Outrageous Accent?
Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
Decision: Accepted
Append the following paragraphs to Rule 500.1, "Entity Names":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.
[So, for example a character named "those pesky aliens" might have an accented representation of eir name as "thöse pésky âliens".]
{{[I am assuming, here, that Rule 251 defers to this one on the question of legal names for players, since players are also entities.]}}
Proposal 2000 - Wed, 14 May 1997 11:54:33 -0500
Never Narf Alone
Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
Decision: Accepted
{{[The current rules for the Narfalone Family seem a bit silly, since you can do almost anything you want as a public member of the Family without publicly admitting your membership. This should have most of the same effect, and be a bit more in the spirit of the thing.]}}Amend Rule 1060("Organized Crime") to add the following clause:
11. When a player joins the Narfalone Family(or if at any time a Family member does not have a Narfalone Family name)he must choose a Narfalone Family name. The Godfather must approve of any name before the player can use it. The name must be a legal Ackanomic name in all respects, and cannot conflict with any other entity name. (If, at a later time, the name is used for something else, it is the Godfather's responsibility to inform the new user of the name that it's already taken.)
From then on, any Narfalone Family business that requires a public message should be done using the player's Narfalone Family name. Otherwise, the public message is tantamount to an admission of membership, which is still a Crime. Use of the names in private Narfalone email is at the discretion of the individual players.
The title of The Godfather is considered a Narfalone Family name for the purposes of this clause.
[So if /dev/joe were to take the name Joey Narfalone for Family business, any public messages posted as Joey Narfalone would be safe from reprisal, but if /dev/joe were to acknowledge the Godfather under his own name, he'd get the law on his case.]
Also, delete the following sentences from existing clauses {{[since they are no longer needed ]}}
Clause 3: Delete the sentence "Public admittance of bein the Godfather does not entail admittance of belonging to the Narfalone Family." {{[And it should have been "admission" anyway...:-)]}}
Clause 5: Delete the sentence "This does not constitude an admittance of membership in the Narfalone Family" and the sentence "Publicly acknowledging the challenger does not entail admittance of membership in the Narfalone Family."
Clause 7: Delete the sentence "This also does not constitute an admittance of membership in the Narfalone Family."