I will give you resources for the low, low price of 0 Resource per 1 Resource!*

* Plus shipping and handling, which should amount to approximately 10000 Resource.

My friends, you have witnessed the birth of a (potentially) large corporation that is cold and merciless as so many others are. Its founder has tried to blackmail me for the fruits of my labour. Now this ‘family’ aims to rob an honest and humble entrepeneur of his business enterprise. Will I submit to their industrial might? Will I buckle under their strength? Nay! I will renew my efforts, and continue to offer this fine community the services and goods it so greatly desires and deserves. Moreover, I will strive to aid my customers with more than mere cogs and gemstones in the future.

Oppressed citizens of prince ais523’s domain, I implore you! Do not surrender your soul to some mindless corporation. Do not allow vague promises of a bright and prosperous future to cloud your vision. It is not through gear and steam alone, but through the strong hearts and ingenuity of good men and women like you that utopia will be reached! Are you content to scavenge for bits and pieces of usable material for the rest of your life, or do you dare to dream of more? Together we can reach to the heavens, as equals.

I do not ask you your loyalty. I do not ask you to become a member of a ‘family’ of slaves. All I ask of you is your friendship, and I offer mine in return. Allow me to help you to shape your own future, make the impossible possible and, most importantly, build really cool machines. Isn’t that what we were meant to do, what we desire most?

Beardco has been forced to reassess its prices once again by the ruthlessness of its competitor. I am now offering the use of my state-of-the-art facilities at the price of 1 (noncoal) resource per transaction! After the third transaction of the week, I’ll let you use them for free for the rest of the week!

Beardco. Tomorrow’s technology, today.

In 2.4 titled “Workshops”, replace “The Commoner who owns an Observatory may spend 1 Coal and 1 Resource to gain 1 of any other Resource. ” with:

The Commoner who owns an Observatory may spend 1 Coal and 1 Resource (other than Coal) to gain 1 of any other Resource.

Revert any “Bad Observatory Actions”, so if a Commoner has spended 2 Coal to get another Ressource using their “Observatory and alchemarium” Workshop, revert this action.

Dear JOSHTECK family,

I think we should show everyone, that JOSHTECK, an open-mindes company and community, is better than a selfish monopolist. (Well, with our help he is not a monopolost anymore. Thanks, Sir Josh!) I encourage you, the family members, to offer better trades for us. Together we can reach each status we want to. Would be even nice, mostly for our appearance, if we would all raide this week. These few guards will not stop the family, will they?

I have invented a Cogmold recently - for the family of course. As I wanted you to profit from my new power, just give me n Iron and you will receive n - 2 Cogs. I will only win one Cog by doing so. And it‘s my part to power this invention… So this should be fair. But this offer is only for our family. :) We need to be a strong community!

Also, to be a fair Commoner, there is another trade offer for everyone else: For n Iron I will give you n - 3 Cogs. That’s even cheaper than Sir Purplebeard‘s Cog Trade Offer. (*whisper* Sir Purplebeard is the incarnation of the dark. Do not trust him though.)

Finally, do you, the family members, have any other family plans? I will be the last one, who will stop such plans! Just tell me (and the other ones, of course!)

Kind regards, Sir Keba.

PS: I know I am not a family member yet. But I am quite sure, I will be one later…

Edit the “Hydrogen Distillery” Part to read:-

Cost: 1 Wood, 2 Quicksilver, 1 Gem     Power Requirement: 5
If a Commoner owns an Invention with a Hydrogen Distillery, they may choose not to spend an Invention’s Power Requirement in Coal when Inventing it, provided they instead spend 1 Quicksilver for each Part that the created Invention will have when it is Invented.

To the end of subrule 3.2.1 “Numbers and Variables”, append the following bullet point:

• If a rule implies that the result of a division should be an integer (for instance, by attempting to store that result in, or add it to, a gamestate variable that can only hold integers), the result of the division is instead the result rounded towards 0.

As you may have noticed, a shipment of resources (400 Coal, 50 Wood, 50 Iron) is coming over the moor to the Mad Prince’s Manor, guarded by 8 huge metal automata, venting steam, breathing fire, and flying around in an ominous manner. Still, because it would be hilarious to watch you trying to fight them, I’ve set up this blog post for you to plan strategy for your attack; we need somewhere to discuss these, after all.

Neither Hellzapoppin, Flurie, NoOneImportant nor Thrawn has commented or posted in the past week. They all go idle, and quorum drops to 13.

JOSHTECK IS HERE.

For too long, you have laboured, only to turn nover your hard-earned scavengings to speculators, chancers and monopolists. No more.

Now you may take your own destiny by the hand, and with it, turn to face the bright new dawn of co-operation and industry. ALL OF YOUR TOMORROWS ARE YOURS AGAIN.

Terms of initial offering

Co-operative member
The first five Commoners to express an interest will be invited to participate in the Co-operative Membership scheme. A co-operative member gets the benefits of unlimited access to my transmutation skills at no additional cost; THAT’S RIGHT, 1 coal and 1 resource will net you 1 resource of your choice. No other retailer can best that. Of course, there are some upkeep charges, but these are limited - just 5 Coal or 1 Resource of your choice per week, to be paid to me on or before each Monday, will secure your access to this unbeatable offer.

Membership expansion
We’re always looking to kick out our non-paying delinquents grow our family, so if you miss out on this initial offering, then don’t lose heart! You never know when we might expand our membership options, so keep your eyes peeled!

Valued customer
Sadly, not everyone can be a member of our big happy industrial family. But everyone can get great prices with Joshteck! As a Customer of Joshteck, your first three transactions of the week will be charged at our standard rate - 2 Coal and 3 Resource for 1 resource in return. Thereafter, however, the Joshteck Favoured Customer Bonus kicks in, and you will be able to transmute lead to gold - or iron to cog, if you so wish -for the low, low price of 1 Coal and 2 Resource!

Joshteck. Serving you, today, tomorrow… forever.

In rule Trading, add to the list of bullet-points after “Any Commoner may agree to a “Trade Offer” if all of the following are true:”

* He did not post the trade offer himself.

If any commoner completed a trade offer he himself made prior to the passing of this proposal, revert that trade. If any actions a commoner made after such a trade would be illegal if the trade had not been completed, revert them as well.

I hate to disturb you again, good commoner, but my Cog Shop has recently expanded its selection with a variety of rare gems. Why waste your time scavenging for gems if you can buy them from me at the low low price of 5 coal and your choice of 5 iron or 5 wood? Check out your local Trading Post right away, because if you order today, I will not only give you this great product, but you will also receive it earlier than you would if you had ordered it later!

BUT WAIT! There’s more!

No wait, that was it.

To a certain other commoner who has also been working towards an Observatory and alchemarium: is there any way I can dissuade you from building one and competing with me? My profit margins are quite low already, and I doubt either of us would profit from a price war. I’m sure you can find another good use for all those resources, and I’d be happy to trade you your coal back, should you decide against this.

Add a sub-rule to rule 2.2, entitled Hyper-Pressuriser:

Cost: 3 Iron, 1 Quicksilver, 1 Caffeine     Power Requirement: 20
A Commoner who owns an invention which includes a Hyper-Pressuriser can, at any time, spend 100 Coal to gain 1 Gem.

To Rule 2.1 (Commoner’s Economy), add after the first paragraph:-

If a Commoner would ever have more than 200 Coal, their Coal is instead set to 200. If a Commoner would ever have more than 50 of any Resource other than Coal, their amount of that Resource is instead set to 50. These limits are known as “Caps”.

Add a new subrule to Rule 2.2 (Inventions) called “Coal Hopper”:-

Cost: 8 Iron     Power Requirement: 0
If a Coal Hopper is attached to a Workshop, the owner of that Workshop ignores the Coal Cap, but if that Commoner’s Coal is ever more than 350, their Coal is instead set to 350.

Add a new subrule to Rule 2.2 (Inventions) called “Storage Drawer”:-

Cost: 4 Wood     Power Requirement: 0
For each Storage Drawer attached to their Workshop, a Commoner may ignore the Resource Cap for a single Resource type of their choice (other than Coal).

Add a new subrule to rule 2.2, entitled Scavenger Unit:

Cost: 5 Cogs, 1 Gem     Power Requirement: 0
For each Scavenger Unit a Commoner owns, they may increase their income by 3. This income bonus must be removed if the Invention containing the Scavenger Unit is dismantled.

Replace “A Commoner cannot Invent if he owns 3 Inventions already” with:-

A Commoner cannot Invent if he already owns 3 Inventions which are not attached to a Workshop

Reword the second paragraph of Rule 2.4 to:-

At any time, a Commoner who has fewer than three Inventions attached to their Workshop may attach an Invention they own to their Workshop, by updating the Inventions wiki page accordingly - Inventions which are attached to Workshops (and only those Inventions) must have “(attached to Workshop)” after their name. If an Invention is attached to a Workshop, all of its Parts are considered to be attached to that Workshop.

To “Electromagnetic Coil”, add:-

An Electromagnetic Coil has no effect if it is attached to a Junkyard Workshop, or to an Observatory and Alchemarium.

To the end of Rule 2.2 (Inventions), add:-

If an Invention would have a Power Requirement lower than 0, its Power Requirement is instead 0.

Remove the bracketed text from “Flame Vent” and the final sentences of “Basic Heatsink” and (if it exists)“Really Ingenious Design”.

Make each Part listed in Rule 2.2.8 (Workshop Parts) into a separate rule, with an Effect of “This Part has no intrinsic effect.”, and repeal Rule 2.2.8.

Just a short post to note that the BlogNomic server was unavailable from around 11am until 2pm (GMT) on Sunday, which means any proposals pending during that time weren’t “open for voting” for three hours, so won’t time out until they’re 51 hours old.

Add a new subrule to Rule 2.2 (Inventions) called “Armor”:

Cost: 15 Iron, 5 Wood, 2 Gems Power Requirement: 15
A Commoner, who owns an Invention with this Part, counts as two Commoners for the purpose of Rule 2.5 (Raiding).

Enact a new subrule of Rule 2.1 “Commoner’s Economy” entitled “Free Market Trade”, which reads as follows:

As a Weekly Action a Commoner may trade with the market directly: They may decrease the amount, known as the “Offered Amount” of any Resource to any value higher or equal than zero. The difference between the previous and the current amount of this Resource is known as the “Offered Resource”. They may now increase any other Resource (of their Resources), known as the “Sought Resource”, by a “Free Market Amount”. This “Free Market Amount” is calculated as the total Amount of all Commoners of the “Sought Resource”, divided by the total current Amount of all Commoners of the “Offered Resource”, multiplied by the “Offered Amount”, rounded down. If no Commoner, including the Commoner, who likes to trade, own the “Sought Ressource” or the “Offered Ressource”,  the trade will not be possible.

  For example: If a Commoner would like to trade 100 Coal, the total Amount of the Offered Ressource may be 1000 Coal then (after the Commoner has decreased his or her Coal!) and the total Amount of the Sought Resource, Iron, is calculated as 500. This Commoner would receive 50 Iron then.

Add a new subrule to Rule 2.2 (Inventions) called “Basic Improver”:

Cost: -5 Cogs, -2 Gems   Power Requirement: 20
If an Invention, which consists of a “Basic improver”, would have a Cog or Gem Amount lower than zero, the Amount of the Ressources lower than zero would be 0 instead. If not, this Part has no other effect than reducing the Composition costs.

Add a new subrule to Rule 2.2 (Inventions) called “Governing Armature”:-

Cost: 5 Iron, 1 Quicksilver, 3 Cogs     Power Requirement: 15
If an Invention has a Governing Armature, its Power Requirement is simply equal to the total Power Requirements of its Parts.

Add a new subrule “Really Ingenious Design” to rule 2.2 (Inventions):

Cost: 5 Caffeine                Power Requirement: -15
An Invention containing this Part cannot be created if the Commoner creating it has created another Invention in the preceding 3 weeks. This has no ongoing effect beyond its negative Power Requirement, except that if an Invention with a Really Ingenious Design would have a Power Requirement lower than 0, its Power Requirement is instead 0.

I hear some of the Commoners have been clamouring for more Land! Well, I was never one to stand in the way of progress, but there isn’t enough to go round, so here’s the price I’m charging for a plot of Land:

• An amusing and flavourful limerick, plus
• having had a Coal ownership of exactly 9 at some point in time before you buy the plot (even if only for a few seconds).

All requests, limericks and purchases as comments to this post, please. This is a limited time offer, open for some arbitrary period of time between half a week and half a month!

Add a new part as a subrule to rule 2.2, entitled Hydrolics:

Cost: 8 Iron, 4 Cogs         Power Requirment: 7
At any time, any Commoner who owns an Invention with this Part may spend 10 Coal or 5 Wood. For the subsequent 24 hours, they may reduce by half any coal expenditure made against the power requirement of an invention or part.

Add a new subrule to Rule 2.2 (Inventions) called “Flame Vent”:-

Cost: 2 Iron     Power Requirement: -10
If the owner of an Invention with a Flame Vent owns an Invention with Wood in its Composition, the Invention with Wood in its Composition is destroyed. (If an Invention with a Flame Vent would have a Power Requirement lower than 0, its Power Requirement is instead 0.)

Reword the second paragraph of Rule 2.4 (Workshops) to:-

At any time, a Commoner may attach an Invention they own to their Workshop, by updating the [[Inventions]] wiki page accordingly - Inventions which are attached to Workshops (and only those Inventions) must have “(attached to Workshop)” after their name.

In the list of Requirements for Workshop types, replace “must have” with “must have Inventions with”, and replace “This workshop requires a precision lens, a thermometer and fireproof walls.” with:-

The workshop must have Inventions with a precision lens, a thermometer and fireproof walls attached to it.

Replace “All commoners have at least one workshop, which can exist in various forms and have various characteristics. New Commoners start with one Junkyard workshop. ” with:-

All Commoners have a Workshop, which can exist in various forms and have various characteristics. New Commoners start with a Junkyard workshop.

Remove “The land upon which to build further additional Junkyard Workshops needs to be bought from the Mad Prince, who may chose when, how many, and at what price to sell at his own discretion.” and “/ Mad-Prince defined” from Rule 2.4.

Change the workshop of all Commoners to “Junkyard”.

I haven’t initialized his GNDT stats as I’m confused as how to go about doing so. Someone else will have to do it.

That is all.

. The wiki says I should post if I want to sign up, so…yeah

Enact a new subrule of Rule 2.1 “Commoner’s Economy” entitled “Caffeinated” which reads as follows:

As a weekly action, a Commoner may decrease their amount of Caffeine by 5 in order to gain the quality “Caffeinated”.  A Caffeinated Commoner may choose at any time to stop being Caffeinated and gain an extra 10 Coal during their next Scavenge.  If any actions are prohibited to a Commoner because of Night, a Caffeinated Commoner may perform them if they are not otherwise prohibited.  A Caffeinated Commoner cannot take any action which would cause them to Sleep, nor can any other Commoner’s action cause them to Sleep.

Just wondering. What is preventing me (Or anybody) from using rule 2.1.1 to make a trade offer with a text like “Roujo is offering 10 Wood and 2 Caffeine, to the commoner Tecslicer, in exchange for 1 Coal” or any such text, then fulfill that trade offer myself and force Roujo to trade with me without his knowledge? The rule says that anybody can make the offer so long as the name of the person making the offer is in the offer.

Just wondering. . .

If so, email me at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) with “kennercat” and “gmail” swapped, and I will give you one. (I need your email address to create an account.)

If a rule called “Raiding” exists, replace its first sentence with

There is a Royal Treasury (a set of amounts for each Resource), and a Guard Level (a number), tracked in the GNDT under the non-player entity Treasury (the guard level is tracked in the Income column).

Create a new rule, “Raiding”:

There is a Royal Treasury (a set of amounts for each Resource), and a Guard Level (a number), tracked by the Mad Prince in a stickied blog post. The Mad Prince can change the value of the Royal Treasury and/or Guard Level at will, but should try to avoid doing so towards the end of a week.

As a weekly action, a Commoner can Raid by contacting the Mad Prince privately (via private message, IRC, or email at callforjudgement at yahoo.co.uk), stating that they are Raiding that week.

As a weekly action, the Mad Prince can resolve all Raids for the previous week. If the number of Commoners who Raided in the previous week (known as the Raiders) was greater than the Guard Level, then this causes each such Raider to gain resources equal to the Royal Treasury, divided by the number of Raiders. If the number of Raiders was less than or equal to the Guard Level, then this instead causes the Income of each Raider to decrease by 10.

Set the Royal Treasury to 0 of each Resource, and the Guard Level to 0.

Enact a new subrule of Rule 2.1 “Commoner’s Economy” entitled “Free Market Trade”, which reads as follow:

As a Weekly Action a Commoner may trade with the market directly: They may decrease the amount of any Resource to any value higher or equal than zero. The difference between the previous and the current amount of this Resource is known as the “Offered Resource”. They may now increase any other Resource (of their Resources), known as the “Sought Resource”, by a “Free Market Amount”. This “Free Market Amount” is calculated as the total Amount of all Commoners of the “Sought Resource”, divided by the total current Amount of all Commoners of the “Offered Resource”, rounded down. If no Commoner own the “Sought Ressource” or the “Offered Ressource”,  the trade will not be possible.

For example: If a Commoner would like to trade 100 Coal, the total Amount of the Offered Ressource may be 1000 Coal then (after the Commoner has decreased his or her Coal!) and the total Amount of the Sought Resource, Iron, is calculated as 500. This Commoner would receive 50 Iron then.

In rule Commoner’s Economy, change

When Scavenging, a Commoner may also choose two different items from the following list, and gain the Resources listed in each item:-

to

When Scavenging, a Commoner may also choose two different items from the following list, and gain the Resources listed in each chosen item:-

Pretend this was the correct interpretation all along. If, at any point prior to this proposal passing, any commoner gained all the resources listed in that rule through one instance of scavenging, revert that scavenging and any inventing they may have done since.

Also, move the subrule Workshop Parts to a new subrule of rule Inventions under the same name.

Enact a new subrule of Rule 2.1 “Commoner’s Economy” entitled “Free Market Trade”, which reads as follow:

As a Weekly Action a Commoner may trade with the market directly: They may decrease the amount of any Resource, to any value higher or equal than zero. The difference between the previous amount and the current amount of this Resource is known as the “Offered Resource”. They may now increase any other Resource, known as the “Sought Resource”, by a “Free Market Amount”. This “Free Market Amount” is calculated as the total Amount of all Commoners of the “Sought Resource”, divided by the total current Amount of all Commoners of the “Offered Resource”, rounded down.

For example: If a Commoner likes to trade 100 Coal, the total Amount of the Offered Ressource may be 1000 Coal then (after the Commoner has decreased his or her Coal!) and the total Amount of the Sought Resource, Iron, is calculated as 500. This Commoner would receive 50 Iron then.

Trading should be made easier ;)

I was thinking of reducing the “Free Market Amount” (mabye just 4/5 or so), but I think it’s enough to do not count the Trader’s Amount of the “Offered Resource”. If you want to trade a lot or if you are the only one, who owns lots of a Resource, you may not trade that easy…

Add a new Part to the ruleset, as a sub-rule of Rule 2.2 (Inventions), called ‘Caffeine-enforced Duct tape’:

Cost: 2 Caffeine for every Part the invention has, including this one; and 2 Gems.    Power Requirement: 5
Effect: The owner of an invention fitted with Caffeine-enforced Duct tape may, at any time he would be able to dismantle the invention, add or remove parts of the invention. He may do so by spending 2 Caffeine for every such action and the respective costs of every part added, and then updating the wiki page accordingly. He does not get resources back by removing parts in this manner or by dismantling an invention which has Caffeine-enforced Duct Tape. Caffeine-enforced Duct tape may not be removed in this manner.

If “Proposal: He be stealin’ ma things man” passes, add a new Part to the ruleset, as a subrule of Rule 2.2 (Inventions), called “Vacuum storage”:-

Cost: 15 Iron, 7 Quicksilver, 3 Cogs, 5 Wood   Power Requirement: 15
When attempting a burglary, the owner of an Invention which has vacuum storage attached does not lose any resources on a dice roll of 2.

Create a rule called Burglary:

As a weekly action, a Commoner may attempt to burgle the workshop of another Commoner.  The success of the raid shall be determined by rolling 1DICE3.  A result of 1 shall be taken as a successful burglary, a result of 2 or 3 shall be taken as failure due to being interrupted.

In the event of performing a successful burglary, a Commoner may choose to receive 2 of the following and subtract the same from the current resources of the targeted Commoner.

10 Coal
5 Iron
5 Wood
3 Quicksilver
3 Caffeine

If this would result in either player having an illegal value, they instead receive the maximum legal amount of that specific resource.
Cogs and gems are the most valuable of resources and as such are presumed to be kept on a Commoners person at all times.

In the event of failing an attempted burglary, the Commoner will drop 1DICE5 cogs in their haste to flee.  If this would result in an illegal value, the maximum legal number of cogs shall be dropped.

All changes must be updated on the GNDT by the Commoner who initiated the burglary.

Add a new Part to the ruleset, as a subrule of Rule 2.2 (Inventions), called “Vacuum Piping”:-

Cost: 2 Iron, 3 Quicksilver     Power Requirement: 5
During the creation of an Invention with Vacuum Piping, the Quicksilver cost of its other Parts is reduced to zero.

Could an admin fail both of my proposals please?

Both have been self killed.

In Rule “1.2 Commoners” replace “Admins may render a Commoner Idle if that Commoner has asked to become Idle or if that Commoner has not posted an entry or comment for more than 7 days.” with

Admins may render a Commoner Idle if that Commoner has asked to become Idle or if that Commoner has not posted an entry or comment in the last seven days.

Quorum is still 14.

Edit: He doesn’t actually idle now - it’ll be in a few hours.

Letter to the Editor

Sir:
Upon perusing my news-paper this morning past, your correspondent noted with interest an article commenting upon the manner in which our Prince’s leadership is resulting in extraordinary commotion.  It appears that the primary occupation of His Majesty’s subjects now consists of accumulating coal and sundry other resources, with an end toward the construction of supposedly ingenious devices.  Your correspondent fears that there is no place for him in this new world of clockwork and brass; consequently your correspondent intends to retire to the country, and occupy himself pursuing the companionship of the weaker sex and promoting the extensive ingestion of ethylated spirits (both by your correspondent, and by candidates for the aforementioned companionship as a means for securing same).
Yours very sincerely,
Col. Sir Cadwalader Bracegirdle, 1st Baron Smallbone, GCB, KSI.

Idle me.

Could an admin create a wiki account for me please?

If you require Cogs, check the Trading Post before scavenging. I have constructed a Cog Mold at great personal cost, and am offering its use to you at a very reasonable price. Scavenge any other resource for me and I’ll give you 5 cogs, which is 67% more than you would otherwise get.
I also offer the direct use of my Cog Mold to turn Iron into Cogs at a price of 3 Iron per transaction. 10 Iron will get you 6 cogs, twice the amount scavenging gets you!