Friday, February 29, 2008

Another Duel…

Come on Jack, bring it on… I challenge you to a duel again…

Friday, February 29, 2008

Proposal: Wanted Dead or Alive

self-killed—Yoda

Adminned at 01 Mar 2008 16:02:28 UTC

Reword the entire rule “Health” to read:

Each Player has a Health statistic, tracked in the GNDT. The permitted values are “Healthy”, “Wounded”, and “Dead” (which may be abbreviated for all purposes, including the GNDT, as H, W, and D, respectively). All Players initially have the Health status of Healthy. If a Player becomes Wounded, he automatically becomes Unseated, and no Player who is Unseated may become Seated if he is not Healthy.

If a Wounded Player engages in a shootout and would become Wounded again, he instead becomes Dead and all of his money is transfered to the other participant in the shootout unless the other participant becomes Dead as well.  In the case where both participants in a shootout would become Dead, each Player’s money statistic is set to “$0”.  Dead Players cannot have any money, win a Pot, be Seated, or engage in shootouts.

Change the sentence in the rule “Gunslinging” the currently reads

As a Daily action, any Healthy Player may challenge any other Healthy Player to a Shootout by making a post to the main blog to that effect.

to

As a Daily action, any non-Dead Player may challenge any other non-Dead Player to a Shootout by making a post to the main blog to that effect.

Gang Post: The Masked Bandits ride again

Let’s get ready to rob that train.

Spots left: 2

Gunned down rules

I have repealed the rules “Doctor”, “Working”, “Poverty”, and “Ending the Game”.

The only additional effect this has is that we can no longer work, and Uncle Sam is gone.

Another train

Another train arrives at 00:00:01 on March 6, long after the Doctor’s departure.  The guards are Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe.  There are ten (10) Safes.

I force Jack’s hand

because he’s so trigger-happy.  (SPIKEBRENNAN sets his GNDT ForcedHand statistic at “Jack”).

A reminder to duellists

The doctor goes off duty at 00:00:01 on February 29th (which is only about 10 hours from now).

Third Time Lucky

I will give you one more chance, Aaronwinborn, to best me in a duel.  Therefore, I challenge you!

Good and sloshed now…

“I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.”
Mark Twain

Jack, prepare to defend yourself. I challenge you to a rematch.

Wild Wiki West

Does anyone need added to the Wiki? I’m trying to become a wiki admin, but haven’t gotten in contact with 75th Trombone yet. I believe you can email Kevan and he can drop in to activate your wiki account.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Proposal: One-eyed Bandits

quorum reached. Passed 6-1.—Clucky

Adminned at 28 Feb 2008 13:22:38 UTC

Add a new rule called “Slot Machines” to the rule set. Give it the following text:

As a daily action, a player may wager a positive amount of money on the slot machines. To do this, he decreases his money by X where X is a positive integer value, called his wager. A player may not wager more money than he actually has.

The player doing the wager then rolls a DICE10 DICE10 DICE10. These three dice are called the first slot, second slot and third slot respectively.

If the second slot and the third slot are the same number, but the first slot is not, the player gains X *  Y money where X was his wager and Y was the value of the matching pair in the dice rolls.

If all three slots show the same number, the player gets 10 * X * Y money where X was his wager and Y was the value of the matching triplet in the dice rolls.

Proposal: Jack The Admin?

—Passed. Clucky

Adminned at 28 Feb 2008 13:20:40 UTC

Clucky seems to have gone idle.  With that, we seem to be a bit low on admins (and players for that matter).  In that case, I would like to submit a tentative proposal to become and Admin.

Story Post: Hand #4 starting

Hand #4 is starting.  Ante is $30.  (Would someone else kindly set the GNDT accordingly?)

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Proposal: Get Your Trigger Fingers Ready

self-killed, final vote 0-6—Yoda

Adminned at 27 Feb 2008 19:52:11 UTC

Part 1:

Add $30 (ante) to each Seated Player’s money statistic.  Add each Player’s TBTH amount to his money statistic.  Set each Player’s TBTR and TBTH statistic to $0.  Set ThePot’s money statistic to $0.

Part 2:

All previous shootout challenges and Train Posts are considered null.

Part 3:

A shootout tournament starts that includes all active Players who do not include the text “leave me out” in his comment to this post (called “participants”).  No Player who makes such a comment can achieve victory.  The first round of the tournament shall commence as follows:

The first participant listed in the GNDT shall challenge the second participant listed in the GNDT; the third participant listed in the GNDT shall challenge the fourth participant listed in the GNDT; and so on.  If there is an odd number of participants, a DICEX (where X is the number of participants in this round) will be rolled in the GNDT.  The corresponding participant (counting down in the GNDT) will not be participate in this round.  All participants who are challenged to a shootout will automatically accept that challenge.  All Players who are wounded are robbed by the Player who wounded him and cease to be participants.

Each successive round of the tournament shall be done in the same manner as the first round.  After each round, the remaining participants’ money statistics are analyzed to determine if any one Player meets any of the victory conditions.  If not, the next round commences.

High Noon

It’s time to settle this!  Aaronwinborn, I challenge you to a duel at high noon.

Story Post: Another one rides the Train

Evening, arthexis here! I’ve stumbled across this place and would certainly like to play. However, I will begin doing so as soon as a new round starts. I will be around here lurking and watching meanwhile. Thanks!

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Poll: Who wants this dynasty over now?

I have a plan to end this dynasty very soon but would like to get the popular opinion on this matter before I actually make the proposal.

Please comment to this post on whether or not you want to see this dynasty to end quickly and fairly.

Monday, February 25, 2008

Hey, Mr. Moneybags!

I challenge Aaronwinborn to a shootout.

The wolf is idle

Sheelawolf has not posted anything in 7 days, so e has gone idle.

Quorum has dropped to 6.

Proposal: The Bank of Blognomic

self-killed—Yoda

Adminned at 25 Feb 2008 18:35:38 UTC

If “Can someone spot me a fiver?” passes, add a subrule to “Debt” titled “The Bank” with the following text:

There exists an entity separate from any other Player called “The Bank” who has an infinite amount of money and cannot win, be Seated, or be challenged to a shootout.

If a Player has made a story post requesting any amount of money as prescribed in the rule “Debt” but no other Player has loaned the money to him after 48 hours, The Bank will become the loaner for that Player’s loan as described in the rule “Debt”.

Proposal: Can someone spot me a fiver?

self-killed—Yoda

Adminned at 25 Feb 2008 18:34:27 UTC

Add a new dynastic rule titled “Debt” with the following text:

Each Player has a statistic tracked in the GNDT called “Debt”.

A Player who is not currently in debt (the “debtor”) may at any time make a story post detailing how much money he needs (the “loan”) and why he needs it.  Any other Player who has at least the amount of money stated may make a comment to that post stating that he is willing to loan the money to the debtor.  The first Player to make a comment to this effect (the “loaner”) will subtract the amount of the loan from his money statistic and add it to the money statistic of the debtor.  He will then change the debtor’s Debt statistic to his name followed by the amount of the loan and the current interest rate.  The debtor is then considered to be in debt.

A Player in debt may at any time subtract an amount of money less than or equal to his loan amount but not to exceed the amount in his own money statistic from his money statistic and his loan amount and add the amount to his loaner’s money statistic.  If this would put his loan amount at exactly $0, he sets his Debt statistic to “-” and he is not considered to be in debt.

For victory purposes only, the amount of money held by a Player is the amount in his money statistic plus all loans to which he is the loaner minus the amount of the loan to which he is the debtor.
For example, if a Player has $200 in his money statistic, he has loaned 3 other Players money in the amounts of $50, $100, and $200, and he currently owes another Player $150, for victory purposes he has $400.

Add a sub rule to “Debt” titled “Interest Rates” with the following text:

Any Player may, if no Player has done so in the past week, set the current interest rate to X%, where X is the result of a roll of DICE15 in the GNDT.

At the beginning of each week, each debtor’s loan amount is to be set at the amount plus Y% of the amount, where Y is the interest rate stated in the debtor’s Debt statistic.

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Midnight Shootout

I challange Night to a nighttime shootout…. There will only be one Night in this town

Stick ‘em up, Bean

I challenge Chivalrybean to a shootout.

Friday, February 22, 2008

Proposal: “Take my money, just don’t shoot!”

timed out, final vote 1-3—Yoda

Adminned at 23 Feb 2008 20:06:05 UTC

If the proposal “Let’s Try This Again…” passes, add a paragraph to the end of the subrule “Robbery” with the following text:

If a Player challenges another Player to a shootout and the challenged Player declines or fails to respond within 72 hours, the challenger may take money from the challenged Player (as prescribed in the preceding paragraph) as if the challenged Player was wounded in the shootout and the challenger was not.

Gang Post: The Masked Bandits

It’s time to rob the train.

spaces left: 1 (Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!)

Proposal: Let’s Try This Again…

timed out, final vote 5-1—Yoda

Adminned at 23 Feb 2008 16:16:59 UTC

Add a subrule to the “Gunslinging” rule titled “Robbery” with the following text:

If, at the end of a shootout, there is one non-Wounded Player and one Wounded Player, then the non-Wounded Player may roll DICEX in the GNDT and subtract that money from the Wounded Player’s money statistic and add it to his own, where X is the amount of money the Wounded Player has at the time of the roll.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Story Post: Casey Jones, You’d Better Watch Your Speed

A Train is coming to town on 00:00:01 on February 26.  There are five guards: Jerry, Bob, Phil, Bill and Pigpen.  There are ten (10) safes.

Proposal: Shoot ‘em and Take Their Money

self-killed—Yoda

Adminned at 21 Feb 2008 14:09:25 UTC

Add a subrule to the “Gunslinging” rule titled “Robbery” with the following text:

If, at the end of a shootout, there is one non-Wounded Player and one Wounded Player, then the non-Wounded Player may roll DICEX in the GNDT and subtract that money from the Wounded Player’s money statistic and add it to his own, where X is the amount of money the non-Wounded Player has at the time of the roll.

Monday, February 18, 2008

Hand 4 will start as soon as somebody properly distributes the pot and resets the GNDT

does what it says on the tin

Proposal: Spot me a fiver?

already has 2 pending proposals—Yoda

Adminned at 17 Feb 2008 16:21:35 UTC

Add a new dynastic rule entitled “Loans” with the following text:

Any player (henceforth called the ‘Loaner’) may loan any other player (henceforth called the ‘Loanee’) any amount of money, up to the total amount held by the Loaner.  The Loaner shall subtract an amount of money, X, from their total in the GNDT, and add the same amount, X, to the Loanee’s total in the GNDT.  The Loaner shall also make post to the blog stating that $X was loaned to the Loanee.

Quickdraw Jack vs Annie Oakley

Jack decides to take singlehandedly rob the train, but will he be able to defeat Annie Oakley?

Story Post: A train called Guts

A train is coming to town at 00:00:01 on February 22.  It carries _one_ guard (Annie Oakley, again, with a Quickdraw of _5_), and carries eight (8) Safes.

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Proposal: Victory Shall Be Mine

timed out, final vote 2-1-1—Yoda

Adminned at 19 Feb 2008 18:28:21 UTC

In the rule “Victory Conditions”, replace the sentence that states:

that Player has an amount of Money greater than the total amount of Money held by all other active Players

with:

that Player has an amount of Money greater than the total amount of Money held by all other non-Wounded active Players

Since I think the first statement is nigh-on-impossible.

Proposal: Anything You Can Do

reached a quorum and timed out, final vote 7-1—Yoda

Adminned at 19 Feb 2008 18:26:22 UTC

Add a new dynastic rule entitled “Anything You Can Do” with the following text:

Any action that requires a player to be Unseated may be performed by a Seated player, with the exception of Calling and Raising.  This rule supercedes all previously enacted rules.

Time to use this here boom stick

Since I lost to ya Chiv, I challange ya to a shootout.

Proposal: What happens if the Dealer gets shot?

timed out, final vote 3-3—Yoda

Adminned at 19 Feb 2008 18:06:45 UTC

Add a new Core Rule titled “Metadynasties” with the following text:

If the Dealer leaves the game for any reason (i.e. he goes idle.), the game enter a Metadynasty period.  During this time, any Admin may act as the Dealer as described in the Dynastic Rules until another Player achieves victory.  This type of action is called a Dealer Action.  If any Admin performs a Dealer Action that is explicitly limited (e.g. as a daily action or a weekly action), then no Admin may perform that Dealer Action again until the Ruleset allows it.

For example, if there is no Dealer and an Admin performs a Dealer Action that is stated in the Dynastic Rules to be a Weekly Action, then another Admin may not perform that same Dealer Action for the remainder of that week.

This rule will allow the group of Admins to take over the role of the Dealer if the Dealer goes idle.  It should prevent the disaster that occurred in the last dynasty when Hix went idle.

Proposal: Let’s Kick This Into High Gear

reached a quorum and timed out, final vote 8-0—Yoda

Adminned at 18 Feb 2008 18:42:39 UTC

Add a new dynastic rule titled “Ending the Game” with the following text:

Any time after 00:00:01 on February 29, 2008, any Admin may repeal the following rules without consent:
- “Doctor”
- “Working”
- “Poverty”

When all listed rules have been repealed, this rule may be repealed.

Change “As a Weekly action,” in the rule “Gunslinging” to “As a Daily action,”.

I’m back

I have returned to finish this dynasty.  Unfortunately, Amnistar has gone idle, since e has not posted anything in over 3 weeks.  Quorum remains the same.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

More acceleration?

I don’t want a wild west dynasty to end with a whimper; a bang would be much more fitting.  How would people like to proceed:
- more frequent and more dangerous (but potentially more lucrative) train robbery opportunities?
- higher stakes poker?
- some sort of mechanism to get more gun battles going between Players?
- something else?

The reason why I had that component of my “accelerator” proposal to have the doctor go off duty at some date certain is because if being unwounded ends up being one of the routes to victory, we need people who become wounded to stay wounded.

Any thoughts?

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Proposal: Accelerator

Reached Quorum 11-0 - Enacted by Chivalrybean. 29th is the chosen day to replace X.

Adminned at 13 Feb 2008 21:12:08 UTC

Part 1:
Rewrite the dynastic rule “Time Limit”, which currently reads:

If during a Hand it becomes a particular Seated Player’s turn to act (i.e., Check, Call, Raise or Fold, as applicable) and that Seated Player fails to take one of those valid actions within 96 hours after it became his turn to act, then the Dealer may (but is not required to) cause such Seated Player to Fold.

so that it reads:

If during a Hand it becomes a particular Seated Player’s turn to act (i.e., Check, Call, Raise or Fold, as applicable) and that Seated Player fails to take one of those valid actions within 48 hours after it became his turn to act, then the Dealer or any Player may cause such Seated Player to Fold.

Part 2:
Add the following text to the end of the dynastic rule: “Doctor”:

From and after 00:00:01 on February X, 2008, the Doctor will no longer be able to enable a Player to become Healthy.

Part 3: In Part 2, substitute “X” for the date in February, later than February 17, that is included in the most valid final votes on this proposal (for example, if there are seven valid final votes on this proposal, and three support February 18, two support February 19 and two support February 29, then X shall be “18”.

Monday, February 11, 2008

Proposal: Victory conditions, take 2

Reached Quorum 8-0 - Enacted by Chivalrybean

Adminned at 13 Feb 2008 05:15:05 UTC

Add a new dynastic rule, entitled “Victory conditions”, as follows.

A Player has achieved Victory if:
- that Player has an amount of Money greater than the total amount of Money held by all other active Players; or
- the Player is neither Wounded nor Yellow, but every other Player is either Wounded or Yellow (or both).

 

Monday, February 11, 2008

Story Post: Hand 3 continued

Night folds per the 96 hour rule (there was no indication in the GNDT that he did anything otherwise).

The turn card is the Four of Hearts.

It lost its stick - Hand #3

I tried to re-stick Hand 3, but to no avail. Just an FYI. Last I checked it was Night’s move.

Saturday, February 09, 2008

Cards on Sidebar

I updated the sidebar to reflect the community cards. Does this help?

Friday, February 08, 2008

Proposal: A Greenhorn’s Greenbacks

Passed 7-0 - Enacted by Chivalrybean

Adminned at 08 Feb 2008 20:48:38 UTC

Add a new paragraph to the end of the rule “Money” with the following text:

New players receive a $300 Money statistic upon joining.


Because it’s always good to know how much cash you have on hand when traveling to a new city.  :-)

Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Story Post: Applying for Membership

Hello!  I’ve been watching BlogNomic on and off for a while now and finally decided to dive in.  Ever since I learned about nomics, I’ve been curious about being involved in the workings of one, and BlogNomic is the one that’s piqued my interest the most.  I’m looking forward to casting my votes and participating in the dynasties with you guys, pending approval.

Monday, February 04, 2008

aaronwinborn the coward

On January 23, Rodlen challenged Aaronwinborn to a shootout.  As far as I can tell, the time period lapsed without any response from Aaronwinborn.  Shouldn’t an admin therefor set Aaronwinborn’s courage to “Yellow”?

Wednesday, January 23, 2008
You shall die.  Or at least be wounded.
Hmph.  Mr. Bigshot, with all your money, prepare to be shot.
I challenge aaronwinborn to a shootout.
posted by Rodlen at 23 Jan 2008 23:56:00 UTC Comments (1)

Proposal: A few proposed victory conditions

self-killed - Adminned by Chivalrybean

Adminned at 08 Feb 2008 20:45:53 UTC

Add a new dynastic rule, entitled “Victory conditions”, as follows.

A Player has achieved Victory if:
- that Player has an amount of Money greater than the amount of Money held by all other active Players; or
- the Player is neither Wounded nor Yellow, but every other Player is either Wounded or Yellow (or both).

 

Proposal: Cheater!

I believe this is enacted: “It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours, it has more than 1 valid vote, more than half of its votes are FOR, and it has not been vetoed or self-killed.” and “A vote of DEFERENTIAL is a vote of no opinion…”. Passed 1-0-1, enacted by aaronwinborn. Feel free to fix this if I was wrong about deferential votes being valid or not.

Adminned at 07 Feb 2008 11:15:32 UTC

Add a new Dynastic rule, entitled ‘Cheater!’, as follows:

Any seated player with a courage that is not “Yellow” may accuse another player of cheating by making a blog post to that effect, creating a state of open accusation. If the accused player does not then post his entire unaltered deck to a wiki post within 96 hours, his courage will be changed to “Yellow”. Otherwise, if the deck reveals that the accused player cheated in the game, then the accused player will become unseated, and his courage will be changed to “Yellow”; or if the deck vindicates that player, showing that he did not cheat, then the accusing player’s courage shall instead be changed to “Yellow”. Any of these outcomes (a time out, or the revelation of the player’s deck) will close the state of accusation.

While there is at least one open accusation, then no player may win the hand.

I set the time to 96 hours to allow a player to respond by challenging to a draw instead. We can always change the time limit of this (and/or of the draw) if we need to tweak them. Thus, if a player has not cheated, it’s probably in his best interest to just reveal his deck. If he has cheated, he can wait it out, but risk that someone will challenge him to a draw. Or he can challenge the accuser to a draw, hoping at least to unseat that player, and then still wait it out, becoming yellow, but still possibly winning the hand. Lots of strategic possibility here.

Also, it might be interesting to allow a player to post an altered deck, but allow for the possibility of a third party (Kevan?) to verify the deck for a “fee”. Not sure how to write that out though.

Proposal: Dealing from the Bottom

passed 3-0, enacted by aaronwinborn

Adminned at 07 Feb 2008 11:09:55 UTC

Add a new Dynastic rule, entitled ‘Dealing from the Bottom’, as follows:

A player may, when revealing their Hole Cards, substitute any one or two cards for the actual cards dealt.

We obviously would need a way to deal with accusations, ideally in a way that allows the dealer to continue playing. I’m proposing one method in the following proposal, but there may be a better method. In any case, whatever method of accusations we come up with, the mechanic of cheating will probably be the same as what’s proposed here, which is why I’ve separated that.

 

Friday, February 01, 2008

Gang Post: Annie will die

You know the drill.

Choo Choo #3 (Annie, Get Your Gun)

The next Train is scheduled to arrive at town on February 7, 2008 at 00:00:01.  There are three Guards: (Annie Oakley, Burt, and Clint) and eight Safes.  However, Annie has a QuickDraw of 5.