Monday, November 19, 2007

Proposal: How many Acorns is Socrates’s soul worth?

Reached quorum, 10 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 19 Nov 2007 06:41:22 UTC

If “Proposal: A Simple Start” failed, then this Proposal does nothing.

Create a Dynastic Rule called “Recruiting” with text

Each Valkyrie has a number of Acorns, tracked in the GNDT.  New Valkyries start with 100 Acorns.

If any Einherjar has been on the “Unrecruited Einherjar” list for less than 48 hours, then any non-Allfather Valkyrie may make a bid on that Einherjar (or retract a previously made bid on that Einherjar) by emailing the Allfather with the amount of the bid, and the name of the Einherjar.  Bids made in this way must be a positive integer number of Acorns, and may not exceed the bidding Valkyrie’s current number of Acorns.

If any Einherjar has been on the “Unrecruited Einherjar” list for at least 48 hours, then the Allfather shall, as soon as possible, remove that Einherjar from the “Unrecruited Einherjar” list, and add it to the list of Einherjar recruited by the Valkyrie who has the highest (non-retracted) bid on that Einherjar.  When this happens, a number of Acorns equal to the amount of the second-highest (non-retracted) bid on that Einherjar are subtracted from that Valkyrie’s Acorns.  This subtraction may cause that Valkyrie’s number of Acorns to become negative.  If there is only one (non-retracted) bid on the Einherjar, then the second-highest bid is considered to be 1 for the purposes of the subtraction.  If there are no (non-retracted) bids on the Einherjar, then the Einherjar is added to the list of Einherjar recruited by the Allfather.  If there is a tie for highest bidder, the Allfather shall randomly choose one of the tied bidders as the highest bidder for the purposes of this rule.

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Set each Valkyrie’s Acorns to 100.

Comments

Amnistar: he/him

19-11-2007 03:00:44 UTC

for

Rodlen:

19-11-2007 03:00:56 UTC

for

aaronwinborn:

19-11-2007 03:28:44 UTC

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Rodlen:

19-11-2007 03:52:45 UTC

I see a problem with this: Someone can bid 101000014291285097209 acorns as the first bid, and secure a win for 1 acorn.  Problem.

Hix:

19-11-2007 03:54:22 UTC

Only if no one else makes a bid in the 24 hours…

Hix:

19-11-2007 03:56:10 UTC

I mean 48 hours.  Is there some particular reason you are saying that the win is “secured”?

Rodlen:

19-11-2007 04:01:50 UTC

Nobody would want to pay that many acorns.  Especially if we gave a bonus for acorns kept in the end.

Hix:

19-11-2007 04:06:43 UTC

I still don’t get the objection.

For starters, you can’t bid more than you have.  Also, you don’t know what other people have bid, and there’s no requirement to bid higher than all previous bidders.

Rodlen:

19-11-2007 04:08:03 UTC

Okay, someone could bid 100 acorns, and automatically win.

Hix:

19-11-2007 04:10:21 UTC

Yeah, but they’d pay heavily for it, especially if someone else is also willing to pay 100.

Chivalrybean:

19-11-2007 04:13:58 UTC

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Just to verify, if I win, I would pay the amount bid by the person who was second to me?

spikebrennan:

19-11-2007 04:15:50 UTC

imperial

Hix:

19-11-2007 04:16:33 UTC

That’s right, Chivalrybean.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey_auction for more on this type of “silent” auction.

Darknight: he/him

19-11-2007 04:52:14 UTC

for my brains prob gonna exploded but i’ll deal lol

Oracular rufio:

19-11-2007 05:29:58 UTC

for  So if two people bid the same (and highest) amount, does whichever one of them wins have to pay that amount, or the highest amount bid by someone below them both?

Hix:

19-11-2007 05:51:17 UTC

The former; in that case, the second-highest bid would equal the highest bid.  That’s how I will be interpreting it unless there is a CfJ.  I felt that the rule was wordy enough as is, so didn’t single out that case.

Kevan: he/him

19-11-2007 10:15:18 UTC

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Shadowclaw:

19-11-2007 14:27:03 UTC

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