Proposals 21-40


Proposal 21


Author: Philo
Date: May 5/5, 1998
Text:
In Rule 3 (Proposals), replace "1) Each" with "1) If the proposal's author is, when the proposal ceases to be Active, a member of the revolutionary party, each"
Votes
Ed Murphy: FOR
Philo: FOR
Towsner: FOR
JT Traub: FOR (LOYAL)
The Gingham Wearer: FOR (LOYAL)
AKA TheWiz: FOR
Narf: FOR (LOYAL)
The Kid: FOR (LOYAL)
Lambda: FOR (LOYAL)
Passes

Proposal 22


Author: Narf
Date: May 7/12, 1998
Text:
Create a new rule called "Calendars" with the following text:
Everyone knows that the October Revolution actualy happened in November. Accordingly, Macronomic is still one month behind the rest of the world. Any refence to a calendar date by a proposal, rule, vote or other official game business must reflect this incosistency.
Votes
Ed Murphy: NONE
Philo: AGAINST
Towsner: FOR
JT Traub: LOYAL
The Gingham Wearer: LOYAL
AKA TheWiz: LOYAL
Narf: FOR
The Kid: LOYAL
Lambda: LOYAL
Passes

Proposal 23


Author: Narf
Date: May 7/12, 1998
Text:
Create a new rule called "Treason" with the following text:

There are certain acts that are so heinous the rise to the level of being treasonous. An act is only treasonous if the rules say it is treasonous. If a player commits a treasonous act, e shall lost 5 loyalty points if e is not a member of the revolutionary party and 10 points if e is a member of the revolutionary party.

If a player is accused of committing a treasonous act and denies that e committed the act or denies that the act is treasonous, e shall present his case to the members of the revolutionary party. The members of the revolutionary party shall publish eir reasons for reaching eir decision individualy. Once all three members of the revolutionary party have published eir decisions, the act will be deemed to have happened and to be treasonous if and only if a majority of the member of the revolutionary party conclude thusly.

Create a rule called "Paranoia" with the following text:

There exists a counter-revolutionary movement. Membership in the counter-revolutionary movement is treasonous. Any player who's vote is not in accord with a majority of the members of the revolutionary party for three straight proposals is deemed to be a member of the counter-revolutionary movement. For purposes of this rule, a vote of loyal is always in accord with a majority of the members of the revolutionary party, a vote of none is only in accord with a majority of the members of the revolutionary party if a majority of the members of the revolutionary party also voted none.
Votes
Ed Murphy: NONE
Philo: AGAINST
Towsner: AGAINST
JT Traub: LOYAL
The Gingham Wearer: LOYAL
AKA TheWiz: LOYAL
Narf: FOR
The Kid: LOYAL
Lambda: LOYAL
Fails

Proposal 24


Author: JT Traub
Date: May 7/12, 1998
Text:
Create a new rule titled 'Viva La Revolution' with the following REVOLVE delimited text
REVOLVE
If any player achieves a Loyalty score of 100 they are said to have won that round of Macronomic and are considered to be the Winning Player.
REVOLVE

Create a new rule titled 'Round Robin' with the following TWEET delimited text
TWEET
When a player is considered to be the Winning Player, the following steps occur in order.

It is not possible to be a member of the new Revolution except as defined in this rule.
This rule takes precedence over any rule with which it conflicts.
TWEET
Votes
Ed Murphy: NONE
Philo: FOR
Towsner: FOR
JT Traub: LOYAL
The Gingham Wearer: LOYAL
AKA TheWiz: LOYAL
Narf: FOR
The Kid: LOYAL
Lambda: LOYAL
Passes

Proposal 25


Author: Towsner
Date: May 9/12, 1998
Text:
Create a new rule named The University reading as delimited by CAMPUS
CAMPUS

The University of MacroNomic is a branch of the Government which is dedicated to educating citizens of MacroNomic and other nomics of the glory of MacroNomic, as well as enlarging the size of MacroNomic. The Secretary of Education is responsible for the University.

When a player joins MacroNomic the Secretary of Education assignes them a random, non-teaching professor, unless there are no non-teaching professors or the player requested a specific professor. If the entering player requested a specific professor, and that professor is non-teaching, then that professor will be assigned to the student. When a player is assigned a professor then that professor becomes a teaching professor, and that player becomes eir student. The professor is expected to help the student learn about MacroNomic and how to play until the professor publicly declares that the student has graduated. Any player who has been a student for a whole month graduates immediately. When a student graduates, e ceases to be a student and eir professor becomes a non-teaching professor.

If a player wishes to become a professor, e must submit a paper to the Secretary of Education. The Secretary of Education should publicly distribute it. The members of the Revolutionary Party have one week to determine, as explained below, if it successfully "glorifies and enhances the image and reputation of MacroNomic." If a majority determines that it is successful it is then submited to the populace of MacroNomic as a whole, which has one week to determine, as explained below, whether the paper successfully "enhance the understanding of MacroNomic or nomic as a whole." If a majority determines that it is successful then the submiting player becomes a professor. A professor must submit a paper to be approved in the same manner every two months. If three consecutive papers from a given professor are rejected or e fails to submit a paper for 60 days then e ceases to be a professor. Whenever a paper is accepted the Secretary of Education may grant the professor whose paper was accepted a specialty. The specialty should be the field the paper was in, such as History. A player can be a professor in multiple fields.

Both determinations of the acceptibility of a proposal are done by micro-proposals. The only votes on a micro-proposal are FOR, AGAINST, and NONE. A player changes eir vote on the micro-proposal by informing the Secretary of Education. The micro-proposal begins when the Secretary of Education informs all people who can vote on the micro-proposal of the contents of the paper. One week after the micro-proposal begins, it ends. When it ends, the Secretary of Education informs all players of the results. If there were more FOR votes on it than AGAINST votes, the paper is accepted, and either moves on to the next stage or is accepted as a paper. Otherwise the paper is rejected.
CAMPUS
Votes
Ed Murphy: NONE
Philo: FOR
Towsner: FOR
JT Traub: FOR (LOYAL)
The Gingham Wearer: FOR (LOYAL)
AKA TheWiz: FOR (LOYAL)
Narf: AGAINST
The Kid: FOR (LOYAL)
Lambda: FOR (LOYAL)
Passes

Proposal 26


Author: The Kid
Date: May 11/12, 1998
Text:
Create a rule entitled "Following the party line" with the following GOWITHTHEFLOW delimited text:
GOWITHTHEFLOW
If a Prole submits a proposal which, when distributed by the Secretary of Truth, does not find approval with the majority of the Revolutionary Party, he may make modifications to that proposal, subject to the following conditions:
  1. The must exist an opinion within the Revolutionary Party that the general idea of the proposal is worthy of inclusion in MacroNomic.
  2. The modifications to the proposal must be only changing of details or technicalities. The proposal may not be replaced with an entirely different proposal.
  3. The changes should be in line with any advice or suggestions made by members of the Revolutionary Party.
  4. This may be done only once per proposal.
Should the proposal in its modified state then fail, the Prole who proposed it looses one loyalty point in addition to any other penalties.

Members of the Revolutionary Party are held in high esteem and so are not expected to need to make changes to their proposals. However, if they wish to, they may do so without condition. Each time a member of the Revolutionary Party changes his proposal, he looses one loyalty point for appearing fallible in the public eye.

Any votes cast before a proposal is modified are reverted to NONE.

If the change made is major, or only a small amount of time is left until the proposal ceases to be active, the Secretary of Truth may, at his discretion, prolong the time that the proposal continues to be active.
GOWITHTHEFLOW
Votes
Ed Murphy: NONE
Philo: AGAINST
Towsner: AGAINST
JT Traub: LOYAL
The Gingham Wearer: LOYAL
AKA TheWiz: LOYAL
Narf: FOR
The Kid: LOYAL
Lambda: LOYAL
Fails

Proposal 27


Author: Philo
Date: May 11/12, 1998
Text:
Renumber Rule 0 to 42.
Repeal Rule 8.
Create a rule with number 0, titled 'Preliminaries', with FIRSTTHINGSZEROTH-delimited text:
FIRSTTHINGSZEROTH
All players must obey the rules in effect at the time of their actions. No rule or gamestate change effected by a rule can have retroactive effect.

Any action external to the gamestate which is not prohibited by the rules is permissible. No changes to the gamestate occur except those prescribed by the rules.

Each rule has associated with it a Number which must be a non-negative rational number with a finite decimal representation. Two or more rules may not have the same number.

If two or more rules conflict, the one with the least number takes precedence, unless one or more of the conflicting rules consistently claim precedence over or deference to each other, in which case the explicit precedence or deference prevails. Thus, if two rules both claim precedence over each other, or both defer to each other, theirs are inconsistent claims of precedence or deference, respectively, and the numerical rule applies.

This rule takes precedence over all other rules.
FIRSTTHINGSZEROTH
Renumber Rule 42 to 0.5.
Votes
Ed Murphy: NONE
Philo: FOR
Towsner: FOR
JT Traub: FOR (LOYAL)
The Gingham Wearer: FOR (LOYAL)
AKA TheWiz: FOR (LOYAL)
Narf: FOR (LOYAL)
The Kid: FOR (LOYAL)
Lambda: FOR (LOYAL)
Passes

Proposal 28


Author: Philo
Date: May 11/12, 1998
Text:

Create a rule titled 'Referenda', with ABSTRACTION-delimited text:
ABSTRACTION
There exists the class of Referenda (singular: Referendum). All referenda which exist must belong to a subclass of referenda, which are defined elsewhere. Rules that define subclasses of referenda may modify any or all of the default properties of subclasses of referenda and referenda themselves, which are as follows:

The Accountant of a subclass of referenda is the Secretary of the Central Committee. A Referendum is created when any player sends a body of text clearly labelled as a particular subclass of referendum to the Accountant of that subclass. When a Referendum is created, it receives the least positive integer not previously assigned to an referendum of its subclass.

A Referendum may only be in one of three States: Preactive, Active or Inactive. When created, a Referendum is Preactive. Within 7 days of its creation, the Accountant of the Subclass of a Referendum must distribute the Referendum to all players, and when this occurs, it becomes Active. Exactly 7 days after a Referendum becomes Active, it becomes Inactive.

Each player has a Vote on each Referendum. Valid votes are FOR, AGAINST, and NONE. When a Referendum is created, every players' vote on that referendum is NONE. A player may change eir vote on an Active proposal by notifying the Accountant of the Subclass of that Referendum of such a change.
ABSTRACTION

In Rule 3 (Proposals), change the following BEFORE-delimited text
BEFORE
A player makes a proposal by sending a body of text (clearly labelled as a proposal) which explicitly and unambiguously describes a change to the gamestate to the Secretary of Truth. The Secretary of Truth assigns it the least positive integer not previously assigned to a proposal and must then distribute it to all players within 7 days. For the following 7 days the proposal will be Active. When it ceases to be Active, the Secretary of Truth will announce all players' votes and the following steps will be performed by the appropriate officers:
BEFORE
to the following AFTER-delimited text:
AFTER
Proposals are a subclass of Referenda. The subclass of Proposals has the default properties of a subclass of Referenda, and Proposals have the default properties of Referenda, with the following exceptions: The Accountant of Proposals is the Secretary of Truth. The text of a proposal must explicitly and unambiguously describe one or more changes to the gamestate. When a proposal becomes inactive, the Secretary of Truth announces all votes and the following steps will be performed by the appropriate officers:
AFTER

Change the text Rule 4 (Votes), to the following ONELASTTHING-delimited text
ONELASTTHING
The set of legal votes on a Proposal is FOR, AGAINST, LOYAL, and NONE. A member of the Revolutionary Party may not vote LOYAL; if eir vote is LOYAL, eir vote is changed to NONE. When a proposal is created, the vote of the player who made it is initially FOR; the vote of every other player is initially NONE.
ONELASTTHING
Votes
Ed Murphy: NONE
Philo: FOR
Towsner: FOR
JT Traub: FOR (LOYAL)
The Gingham Wearer: FOR (LOYAL)
AKA TheWiz: FOR (LOYAL)
Narf: AGAINST
The Kid: FOR (LOYAL)
Lambda: FOR (LOYAL)
Passes

Proposal 29


Author: Towsner
Date: May 12/12, 1998
Text:
Multiply the loyalties of all players by 10.

Amend the last sentence of rule 2 to read "Any member of the Revolutionary Party with a loyalty lower than 100 will have eir loyalty set to 100."

Replace "one loyalty point" in all places to read "ten loyalty points" Replace "two loyalty points" in all places with "fifteen loyalty points"

Increase Philo's loyalty by 4. Decrease Henry's loyalty by 4.
Votes
Ed Murphy: NONE
Philo: AGAINST
Towsner: FOR
JT Traub: AGAINST (LOYAL)
The Gingham Wearer: AGAINST (LOYAL)
AKA TheWiz: AGAINST (LOYAL)
Narf: AGAINST
The Kid: AGAINST (LOYAL)
Lambda: AGAINST (LOYAL)
Fails

Proposal 30


Author: Philo
Date: May 12/12, 1998
Text:
If there exists a rule titled 'Viva La Revolution', change its text to the following OOPS-delimited text:
OOPS
If the Loyalty score of exactly one player is greater than 1000, e is said to have won the current round of Macronomic and is considered to be the Winning Player.
OOPS
Multiply the loyalties of all players by 10.

Amend the last sentence of rule 2 to read "Any member of the Revolutionary Party with a loyalty lower than 100 will have eir loyalty set to 100."

Replace every instance of "one loyalty point" in the ruleset with "ten loyalty points". Replace every instance of "two loyalty points" in the ruleset with "fifteen loyalty points".

Decrease Philo's loyalty by 6. Increase Henry's loyalty by 16.
Votes
Ed Murphy: NONE
Philo: FOR
Towsner: FOR
JT Traub: FOR (LOYAL)
The Gingham Wearer: FOR (LOYAL)
AKA TheWiz: FOR (LOYAL)
Narf: AGAINST
The Kid: FOR (LOYAL)
Lambda: FOR (LOYAL)
Passes

Proposal 31


Author: Lambda
Date: May 12/19, 1998
Text:
Insert the following UPRISING! delimited text at the end of the fourth (4th) paragraph of Rule 9:
UPRISING!
If the judgement passed is GUILTY, and the Secretary of the Proletartiat deems that it is unfairly so, e may call for a protest. A protest consists of sending a message to the Secretary of Justice within one (1) week of the judgement being passed, containing any relevant information. The Secretary of Justice then distributes this information to all of the players. Each prole (besides the Secretary of the Proletariat) then sends in a vote of either PROTEST or OKAY to the Secretary of Justice, who tabulates the data. Once e has recieved all of the votes, or two (2) weeks are up, e will determine the result. If all of the votes are PROTEST, then the judgement is overturned, none of the penalties from the judgement apply, and any penalties already invoked are reversed, if at all possible. If all of the votes are OKAY, then the Secretary of the Proletariat loses one (1) loyalty point, and the penalties are inflicted as usual. If they are mixed, then the penalties are inflicted as usual, but the Secretary of the Proletariat does not lose any loyalty.
UPRISING!
Votes
Ed Murphy: NONE
Philo: NONE
Towsner: NONE
JT Traub: NONE
The Gingham Wearer: NONE
AKA TheWiz: NONE
Narf: NONE
The Kid: NONE
Lambda: FOR
Ember: NONE
Retracted

Proposal 32


Author: The Kid
Date: May 13/19, 1998
Text:
Add the following REALIGNMENT delimited text to the end of Rule 1:
REALIGNMENT
When a new member is appointed to the Revolutionary Party, if he has a higher loyalty than the average of the rest of the members of the party, then it shall be reduced to that amount. For the purpose of this rule, the average is calculated in the normal mathematical way, and rounded up.
REALIGNMENT
Votes
Ed Murphy: NONE
Philo: NONE
Towsner: NONE
JT Traub: NONE
The Gingham Wearer: NONE
AKA TheWiz: NONE
Narf: NONE
The Kid: FOR
Lambda: NONE
Ember: NONE
Retracted

Proposal 33


Author: Philo
Date: May 19/19, 1998
Text:
In rule 3 (Proposals), change "ten loyalty points and have eir vote changed to the vote" to "three loyalty points and have eir vote changed to the vote"
Votes
Ed Murphy: NONE
Philo: FOR
Towsner: FOR
JT Traub: FOR
The Gingham Wearer: NONE
AKA TheWiz: NONE
Narf: NONE
The Kid: FOR (LOYAL)
Lambda: FOR (LOYAL)
Ember: FOR (LOYAL)
Passes

Proposal 34


Author: Philo
Date: May 19/19, 1998
Text:
In rule 13 (The University), change the last two paragraphs (from "If a player wishes to be a professor..." to the end) to the following IVYLEAGUE-delimited text:
IVYLEAGUE
Papers are a subclass of Referenda. The subclass of Papers has the default properties of a subclass of Referenda, and Papers have the default properties of Referenda, with the following exceptions: The Accountant of Papers is the Secretary of Education. A Paper can be in one of four states: Preactive, Active, Active2, and Inactive.

While a Paper is Active, only members of the Revolutionary Party may change eir votes on it. They are encouraged to vote based on whether the text of the Paper "glorifies and enhances the image and reputation of MacroNomic". If, 7 days after a Paper becomes Active, there are more FOR votes than AGAINST votes on it, it becomes Active2; otherwise, it becomes Inactive.

While a Paper is Active2, all players may change eir votes on it. They are encouraged to vote based on whether the text of the Paper successfully "enhances the understanding of MacroNomic or nomic as a whole". If, 7 days after a Paper becomes Active2, there are more FOR votes than AGAINST votes on it, the Paper is said to have been accepted, the player who made it becomes a Professor, and it becomes Inactive; otherwise, it merely becomes Inactive. Papers which become Inactive without being accepted are said to have been rejected. Whenever a Paper is accepted the Secretary of Education may grant the professor whose paper was accepted a specialty. Specialties are cumulative, and a player can be a professor in several fields.

If three consecutive Papers of a single professor are rejected, that professor ceases to be a professor. If 60 days pass without a Paper from a single professor being accepted, that professor ceases to be a professor.
IVYLEAGUE
Votes
Ed Murphy: NONE
Philo: FOR
Towsner: AGAINST
JT Traub: FOR
The Gingham Wearer: NONE
AKA TheWiz: NONE
Narf: NONE
The Kid: FOR (LOYAL)
Lambda: FOR (LOYAL)
Ember: FOR
Passes

Proposal 35


Author: The Kid
Date: May 20/26, 1998
Text:
In rule 3 "Proposals" renumber the steps 2,3 and 4 to 3,4 and 5 respectively.
Create a new step 2, and place it between steps 1 and 3, with the following STEP2 delemited text:
STEP2
2) If the proposal's author is, when the proposal ceases to be Active, not a member of the revolutionary party, each player who voted LOYAL on that proposal will have eir vote changed to the vote made by a majority of the Revolutionary Party. If no vote was made by a majority of party members, then the players who voted LOYAL will have eir vote changed to what the Secretary of the Central Committee voted.
STEP2
Votes
Philo: AGAINST
Towsner: AGAINST
JT Traub: AGAINST
The Gingham Wearer: NONE
AKA TheWiz: NONE
Narf: LOYAL
The Kid: FOR
Lambda: AGAINST
Ember: AGAINST
Fails

Proposal 36


Author: The Kid
Date: May 20/26, 1998
Text:
In rule 13 "Round Robin" replace the text "have their Loyalty set to 10" with "have their Loyalty set to 100"
Votes
Philo: FOR
Towsner: FOR
JT Traub: FOR
The Gingham Wearer: NONE
AKA TheWiz: NONE
Narf: LOYAL
The Kid: FOR
Lambda: FOR
Ember: FOR
Passes

Proposal 37


Author: The Kid
Date: May 20/26, 1998
Text:
In rule 0.5 "Administration", replace the following OLD delimited next with the following NEW delimited text:
OLD
If there is a Secretarial position other than the Secretary of the Central Committee without a Secretary to fill it, the Secretary of the Central Committee will fill it.
OLD
NEW
When a proposal passes which refers to a Secretarial position that is not currently filled, the player who submitted that proposal will fill the vacant Secretarial position, unless the proposal gives other instructions on how to fill the position.
NEW
Votes
Philo: AGAINST
Towsner: AGAINST
JT Traub: FOR
The Gingham Wearer: NONE
AKA TheWiz: NONE
Narf: LOYAL
The Kid: FOR
Lambda: AGAINST
Ember: FOR
Fails

Proposal 38


Author: JT Traub
Date: May 20/26, 1998
Text:
Amend Rule 14 as follows.
Insert the following PROF delimited paragraph as the final paragraph of the rule.
PROF
If at any time there are no professors, teaching or otherwise then the members of the ruling party shall be Acting Professors. An Acting professor is treated in all ways as a professor. If a player becomes a professor and there are any acting professors, the following occurs. All non-teaching acting professors lose their acting professorship. All teaching Acting professors lose their acting professorship when their current student graduates.
PROF
The intent here should be obvious, but just in case, I want to make sure that new players have a chance of being mentored even now.
Votes
Philo: FOR
Towsner: FOR
JT Traub: FOR
The Gingham Wearer: NONE
AKA TheWiz: NONE
Narf: FOR (LOYAL)
The Kid: FOR (LOYAL)
Lambda: FOR (LOYAL)
Ember: FOR (LOYAL)
Passes

Proposal 39


Author: JT Traub
Date: May 20/26, 1998
Text:
Now that we have a basic court system, I believe we can have a chance of surviving the following.
Create a new rule numbered 0.1 titled 'Permissible Action' with the following ALLOWED delimited text.
ALLOWED
Any action not regulated in any manner by the rules is permitted.
ALLOWED
Votes
Philo: NONE
Towsner: NONE
JT Traub: FOR
The Gingham Wearer: NONE
AKA TheWiz: NONE
Narf: NONE
The Kid: NONE
Lambda: NONE
Ember: NONE
Retracted

Proposal 40


Author: JT Traub
Date: May 20/26, 1998
Text:
Amend Paragraph 4 of rule 9 by appending the following PRECEDENT delimited text.
PRECEDENT
Criminal proceedings set precedent. If a specific action in a specific set of circumstances was judged as having committed a crime. (IE the player was found GUILTY) than any other player performing the same action under the same circumstances shall also be found GUILTY.
PRECEDENT
Votes
Philo: AGAINST
Towsner: AGAINST
JT Traub: FOR
The Gingham Wearer: NONE
AKA TheWiz: NONE
Narf: FOR
The Kid: AGAINST (LOYAL)
Lambda: AGAINST (LOYAL)
Ember: AGAINST (LOYAL)
Fails

---Philo
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