The Rules as of 2006-06-03 19:40:01

History

The Rules
The Admin
Players
Money
Items
Trade
The Board
Turns
Proposals
Disruption of Gameplay
Ending the Game
Units, Buildings, and Commands
Experience and Levels
The Rber Ducky
Action Restrictions

The Rules
1. All players must at all times abide by the rules. No player may ever take any voluntary action that violates any rule in the current set of rules.
2. The current set of rules is provided only as a convenience for interpreting the accepted proposals. In a conflict between a rule and the proposal that created it, the proposal is considered to be correct.
3. In the event that two or more rules contradict at any time, the following resolving scheme will be used:
  - If one of the rules defers to another rule or explicitly states that it has precedence over the other, then that rule will take priority.
  - If the above situation does not resolve the conflict, the rule which has been in its current form for the longest amount of time will take priority.
4. All actions are subject to approval by the Admin. An illegal action may be reverted by the Admin even if the website allows the player to take that action.

The Admin
1. The Admin for Nomopoly IV is Jeff Yakel.
2. The Admin is responsible for maintaining the Nomopoly IV website and interpreting the rules.
3. Players are allowed (and encouraged) to question and/or correct the Admin's decisions, however, the Admin will ultimately make any final decisions.
Players
1. Each player will be required to have a unique username and a valid e-mail address. A single person may not act as more than one player.
2. The Admin is not a player.
3. New players may join the game at any time by approval of the Admin.
4. Any player that does not log in to the Nomopoly IV website for 21 days will be removed from the game.
5. All players are expected to act respectfully and courteously towards other players and the Admin at all times. Repeated violations of this rule will result in the offending player being removed from the game.

Money
1. The Nomopoly Dollar is the basic unit of currency in the game. All fractional dollar amounts will be rounded to the nearest dollar.
2. New players will receive $10000 upon entering the game.
3. A player with less than $0 is said to be bankrupt. No player may take any voluntary action that would deterministically cause him to become bankrupt. Additionally, any player that is bankrupt may not take any voluntary action that would deterministically result in a loss of money.

Items
1. An item is any object that a player may possess. There is no limit to how many items a player may have at any time.
2. If stated in the item description, an item may be "used" by the player owning it and any actions associated with using the item will take place. Unless otherwise stated in the item description, using an item causes the player to no longer have possession of it.

Trade
1. Players may trade the following objects with each other:
  - Money
  - Items, unless the item in question is specifically marked as untradeable

The Board
1. The game will take place on the Nomopoly board, which consists of an ordered sequence of squares. Each square will have an integer number.
2. The board will initially consists of 20 squares numbered from 1 to 20, and the board must at all times have at least 1 square.
3. Any time a new square is added to the board, its number will be the integer one greater than that of the highest numbered square on the board at that time.
4. The successor of a square is the square which has the lowest value greater than the value of the current square. The successor of the highest numbered square is Square #1. A square is said to be the predecessor of its successor.
5. The squares are laid out two-dimensionally in a grid with 10 columns. Square #1 will be in the bottom left corner, and each successive square up to Square #10 can be found by moving right. Square #11 is above square #10, and each successive square up to Square #20 can then be found by moving left. This winding pattern continues for as many squares as there are on the board (similar to the layout of a Snakes and Ladders board), however, if the highest numbered square is not a multiple of 10, the last row will contain less than 10 squares. Also, the board layout may have gaps if all squares between Square #1 and the highest numbered square do not exist.
6. At all times during the game, each player will occupy exactly one square. A new player starts the game on Square #1.
7. If a player takes a turn or is instructed to "move" to a particular square, the player is said to leave his current square, land on the final square, and pass over each square in between.
8. If a player is instructed to "jump" to a particular square, he is said to leave his original square and land on the destination square, without passing over any squares.
9. The distance between two squares is the minimum number of moves required to get from one square to the other, where one move can be to the square either directly above, below, left, or right of the square in question.
10. Each square initially contains a random amount of resources ranging from $0 to $10000 in multiples of $1000. A player can only see the amount of resources in a square if he occupies that square or owns a unit or building on that square.
11. A square is adjacent to another square if it either directly above, below, left, or right of that square.

Turns
1. A player may take a turn at any time, provided that player has not taken a turn in the last 72 hours (3 days).
2. When a player takes a turn, he will select a direction (either forwards or backwards), roll two 6-sided dice, move ahead on the board the number of squares indicated by the sum of the dice in the selected direction, and his experience will increase by 1. A player may not choose to move backwards if he is on the first square of the board, and may not choose to travel forwards if he is on the first square of the board.
3. Any time a player does not take a turn for 120 hours (5 days), that player will be fined $100 and automatically have a turn taken for him. The direction of the move will be selected as follows:
  - If the player is on the first square of the board, the move will be forwards
  - If the player is on the last square of the board, the move will be backwards
  - Otherwise, if the player's last move was taken for him, the move will be in the direction of the player's last move
  - Otherwise, the move will be forwards
4. If a player's forward move would take him past the last square of the board, the move is stopped at the last square. If a player's backward move would take him past the first square of the board, the move is stopped at the first square.

Proposals
1. A player may make a proposal at any time, provided that player does not currently have any proposals in the game that have "Voting" status and that player is not dead.
2. A proposal is one of the following:
  - The addition of a new rule
  - The deletion of an existing rule
  - The modification of an existing rule
  - A change to the game state which does not necessarily fit into one of the above categories
3. No proposal may make any reference to a characteristic of a player if that characteristic is immutable within the set of rules at the time the proposal is accepted, ignoring the fact that rules may change in the future.
4. No proposal may have retroactive application or take effect earlier than the moment it is implemented.
5. When a proposal is made, it is given "Voting" status.
6. 120 hours (5 days) after a proposal is made, if the proposal has more Yes votes than No votes, the proposal is accepted and moved into "Pending" status. If the proposal does not receive more Yes votes than No votes, the proposal is rejected and is moved into "Dead" status.
7. Once a "Pending" proposal has been implemented into the rules by the Admin, it is switched to "Dead" status.
8. Once voting on a proposal has been completed, the number of players who voted "Yes" and "No" on the proposal will be made public, however, each individual player's vote will not be revealed.
9. A proposal that is in "Voting" status may be retracted by the player who made it, providing that player is not dead. Retracting a proposal immediately puts it in "Dead" status.
10. The Admin has the right to refuse to implement any proposal that in his opinion is discriminatory, paradoxial, infeasible to implement, or destructive of gameplay.

Disruption of Gameplay
1. In the event that a paradox, infinite loop, or any situation arises that prohibits further gameplay, the game will be paused. The Admin also has the right to pause the game at any time if he feels there is a need to do so.
2. When the game is paused, players may not take any actions other than voting until the game is unpaused.
3. During a pause due to a disruption of gameplay, the players have the option to suggest to the Admin ideas on how to fix the game. The Admin will make a proposal, and the players will vote on it using the same procedure as a proposal made by a player. If the proposal is accepted, the proposal is implemented and the game is unpaused. If the proposal is rejected, the above process is repeated until the game is fixed.
4. In the event that the Nomopoly IV website suffers from an error which results in loss of data, the Admin will restore the game with data from a previous backup.

Ending the Game
1. The game will immediately end without a winner if the Admin is ever on the receiving end of a lawsuit from any board game manufacturer.
2. Once someone has been declared the winner, the game ends.
3. If there is only one player in the game who is not bankrupt, the non-bankrupt player is declared the winner.

Units, Buildings, and Commands

A Unit is defined by the following properties, all of which are non-negative integers with fractional values rounded:
- Name
- Initial hit points (0 if not specified)
- Attack strength (0 if not specified)
- Attack range (1 if not specified)
- Armor (0 if not specified)
- Speed (1 if not specified)
A Building is defined by the same properties as a Unit, excluding speed.
A Command is defined by the following properties:
- Name
- Which units/buildings can be issued the command (none if not specified)
- Cool down time (none if not specified)
- Effect associated with the command (none if not specified)
An Enchantment is a subtype of Command, which also has a Duration property (1 day if not specified). If a unit is under the effects of an enchantment, that unit is said to be enchanted. If a unit would become enchanted by an enchantment of the same name, the duration of the enchantment is instead reset to reflect the new enchantment.
A player may own units or buildings. The unit or building will occupy a square on the board. A single square may not contain units or buildings owned by more than one player.
Upon creation, a unit/building has hit points equal to its initial hit points value. A unit/building that has 0 or less hit points is destroyed.
A unit or building may be issued a command, providing that the command is allowed to be issued to that unit/building. After a command is issued, the effect associated with the command takes place, and that unit/building may not be issued another command until the cool down time for that command has elapsed.
The following units exist:
Name Initial hit points Attack strength Attack range Armor Speed Notes
Warrior 50 10 1 0 10
SCV 20 2 1 0 9
Monk 40 0 1 5 5
Mesmer 40 5 1 5 10

Name	Initial hit points	Attack strength	Attack range	Armor	Speed
Warrior	50	10	1	0	10
SCV	20	2	1	0	9
Monk	40	0	1	5	5
Mesmer	40	5	1	5	10

The following buildings exist:

Name	Initial hit points	Attack strength	Attack range	Armor	Notes
Fort	1500	0	0	25	A player may build a Fort on the square he currently occupies by paying $1000
Guard Tower	250	25	2	5	A square may not contain more than one Guard Tower
Wall	500	0	0	15	A square may not contain more than one Wall
Teleporter	300	0	0	20	A player occupying the same square as a Teleporter may pay $100 to the owner of the Teleporter and jump to any square containing a Teleporter

The following commands exist:

Name	Enchantment?	Duration	Can be issued to	Cool down time	Effect
Move	No		Any unit	10 days divided by the speed of the unit	The player may move the unit to the square either directly above, below, left, or right of the unit's current square
Attack	No		Any unit or building with attack strength > 0	1 day	The player may select any unit or building that is not in a territory contining a Wall (the Wall itself is a valid target) and whose distance to the attacking unit is less than or equal to the range of the attacking unit. The target unit loses hit points accordingly: If the attacking unit's attack strength is greater than the target unit/building's armor strength, then the target unit/building's hit points are reduced by (attack strength - armor) If the attacking unit's attack strength is equal to the target unit/building's armor strength, then the target unit/building's hit points are reduced by 1 If the attacking unit's attack strength is less than the target unit/building's armor strength, then there is a 1 in (armor - attack strength) chance that the target unit/building's hit points will be reduced by 1
Recruit Warrior	No		Fort	4 days	The player pays $500 and recieves a Warrior on the square containing the Fort
Upgrade to SCV	No		Warrior	None	The Warrior becomes an SCV
Mine	No		SCV	2 days	The player receives $250 from the resources of the square. If the square's resources are less than $250, the player only receives the remaining resources.
Pledge Service to Dwayna	No		Any unit except Mesmer	1 day	The player pays $250 and the unit becomes a Monk
Orison of Healing	No		Monk	2 days	The player may select any unit that is on the same square as the Monk or an adjacent square. The target unit's hit points are increased by 10. If this would cause the target unit's hit points to become greater than it's initial hit points, the target unit's hit points are set to it's initial hit points.
Build Guard Tower	No		SCV	5 days	The player pays $1500 and receives a Guard Tower in the square containing the SCV
Build Wall	No		SCV	5 days	The player pays $1000 and receives a Wall in the square containing the SCV
Build Teleporter	No		SCV	5 days	The player pays $700 and receives a Teleporter in the square containing the SCV
Teleport	No		Any unit occupying a square that contains a Teleporter or is adjacent to a square containing a Teleporter	2 days	The player pays $100 to the owner of the Teleporter and the unit may move to any square containing a Teleporter or adjacent to a square containing a Teleporter, providing that the unit can legally be moved there.
Pledge Service to Lyssa	No		Any unit except Monk	1 day	The player pays $250 and the unit becomes a Mesmer
Empathy	Yes	1 day	Mesmer	2 days	The player may select any unit that is either in the same square as the Mesmer or an adjacent square. The target unit becomes enchanted by Empathy. While enchanted by Empathy, if that unit is attacked by another unit, the attacking unit is damaged by the same amount as the damaged unit. Whether or not a unit is enchanted by Empathy is only visible to the owner of the unit.

When a unit or building transforms into a different type of unit or building, the hit points of the unit after transformation will be equal to ceil((Initial HP of new unit type) * (HP of old unit) / (Initial HP of old unit type))