BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Add a new subrule to the rule “Routes”.  Call it “Extended” and give it the following text:

An Extended Route has a Scouting Cost of 13.  When a Driver drives an Extended Route, they gain 2 Cash.  If they have any Inactive CASH Routes, they also mark the first one as Blocked and perform its effect.

Create a new subrule to the rule “Routes”. Title it “Bank” and give it the following text:

A Bank Route has a Scouting Cost of 12. When a Driver Drives a Bank Route, that Driver must choose one (and only one) of two options: either transfer X from their Cash to their Bank Account, where X is less than half their Cash, or transfer Y from their Bank Account to their Cash. A Driver’s Bank Account is a non-negative integer, with starting value 0, that exists only when that Driver has at least one Bank Route in their pool. It is tracked in the GNDT by adding the number Z as a punctuation to any one of their Bank Routes, where Z is the value of their Bank Account.

Quorum drops to 7.

Add the following list of subrules to Routes

Posh
A Posh route has a scouting cost of 15. When a driver drives an Posh Route, that driver earns 4 Cash.

Tags: CASH

Limo
A Limo route has a scouting cost of 20. When a driver drives an Limo Route, that driver earns 5 Cash.

Tags: CASH

Charity
An Charity route has a scouting cost of 2. When a driver drives a Charity route and he does not have the least (or tied for the least) he must pick a player with the the least (or tied for the least) amount of cash and transfer one cash from himself to that player. If he does so, his charity score (an integer tracked in the GNDT in a column called “Charity” with default value 0) increases by 1.

Tags: TEAMWORK

Caffeinated
A caffeinated route has a scouting cost of 8.

In the rule “Routes” replace

“and the first five Routes in their pool (or all if there are fewer), become Active.”

with

“and the first five + C Routes, where C is the number of Caffeinated routes in their pool, in their pool (or all if there are fewer), become Active.”

Create a Charity column in the GNDT

Replace the text “A Golden Route has a Scouting cost of 15.” with

A Golden Route has a Scouting cost of 15. If a driver has driven at least five golden routes since he last requested assignment he achieves victory. Golden Routes become blocked instead of inactive when driven.

Add a new subrule to the rule “Route”, titled “Customs”, and give it the following text:

A Customs Route has a Scouting Cost of 6. When a Driver whose Cash is 0, 1 or 2 Drives a Customs Route, that Driver earns 3 Cash. When a Driver whose Cash is 3 or higher Drives a Customs Route, that Driver’s Cash becomes 5 instead.

Add a new subrule to the rule “Routes”.  Call it “Misdirection” and give it the following text:

A Misdirection Route has a Scouting Cost of 4.  When a Driver drives a Misdirection Route, They choose one of the following options:
* If that Driver has had any of their GNDT-tracked variables modified by driven AGGRESSIVE routes in the last 48 hours, they may add a Blocked Downtown Route to the end of the Routes of any number of Drivers who drove those Routes.
* They may add a Blocked Downtown Route to the end of the Routes of one other Driver.
* They may gain 1 Cash.
Tags: AGGRESSIVE DEFENSIVE

Add the following subrules to the rule “Route”:

Two-Way
A Two-way Route has a Scouting Cost of 10. When a Driver Drives a Two-way Route, that Driver earns 2 Cash. Immediately after Driving a Two-way Route, if that Two-way Route was marked with a 2, that punctuation is removed; if not, the Two-way Route moves back to the top of the list, becomes Active again, and the punctuation 2 is added.
Tags: CASH

U-Turn
U-Turn Routes were supposed to reverse a Driver’s list of Routes, but that doesn’t fit well with the Requesting Assignment mechanics. Maybe give it a Scouting Cost of 4 or 5 and make it earn the Driver 2 Cash?

Roundabout
A Roundabout Route has a Scouting Cost of 5. When a Driver Drives a Roundabout Route, that Driver earns 1 Cash, and may move one of their Routes to the top of the list.

Drive-it-again
A Drive-it-again Route has a Scouting Cost of 4. When a Driver Drives a Drive-it-again Route, that Driver chooses one other Driver (the Victim) and move the Victims’s last Route to the top of the Victim’s list of Routes.
Tags: AGGRESSIVE

Customs Route
A Customs Route has a Scouting Cost of 6. When a Driver Drives a Customs Route, that Driver earns 3 Cash. Then, if that Driver’s amount of Cash is superior to 5, it drops to 5.

In the rule Routes, replace the text “with each Route represented by the first two letters of its name and and optionally one or more punctuation marks” with: “with each Route represented by the first two letters of its name and optionally one or more punctuation marks”.

Rename the rule “Backalley Route” to “Backalley”.

In the rule “Repeat”, replace the text “A Repeat has a scouting cost of 5” with “A Repeat Route has a Scouting Cost of 5”.

In all subrules to the rule “Routes”, capitalize the first letter of all occurrences of “driver”, “drives”, “scouting”, “cost”, “repeat”, “route” and “inactive”, and of all occurrences of “cash” that are not Tags.

Add the following after the third paragraph in the rule Routes:

If a dynastic action would cause a driver to gain a route which in doing so would cause them to have more than 60% of their routes the same (where those routes are neither Jam or Downtown routes) that driver shall instead gain a Downtown route.

Quorum drops to 8.

Add a new subrule to the rule “Routes”.  Call it “Burglary” and give it the following text:

A Burglary Route has a Scouting Cost of 6.  When a Driver drives a Burglary Route, they may either transfer 2 Cash to themself from a Driver of their choice who is adjacent to them in the GNDT (with the bottom Driver considered adjacent to the top one) or transfer 1 Cash from any Driver to themself.

Tags: AGGRESSIVE

Add a new subrule to the rule “Routes”.  Call it “Misdirection” and give it the following text:

A Misdirection Route has a Scouting Cost of 4.  When a Driver drives a Misdirection Route, if that Driver has been chosen as the target of any AGGRESSIVE routes in the last 48 hours, they may add a Blocked Downtown Route to the end of the Routes of each Driver who drove those Routes, decided independently, as well as up to one other Driver.  If they do not alter any Driver’s Route list in this way, they gain 1 Cash instead.
Tags: AGGRESSIVE DEFENSIVE

If a majority of EVCs on this proposal contain the phrase “Nix X”, where X is the name of a rule this proposal created, repeal that rule.

Add the following subrule to “Routes” called “Scrubbing”

A Scrubbing Route has a Scouting Cost of 8. When a Driver Drives a Scrubbing Route, they may pick one other route from their pool and remove it.

Add the following Route definition as a subrule to the rule “Routes”, placing it such that the subrules are in alphabetical order by title:

Roadworks

A Roadworks Route has scouting cost of 2. When a Driver drives a Roadworks Route, that Driver earns 2 cash and makes all their Active Routes Inactive.

Tags: CASH

Add a new subrule to the rule “Routes”.  Call it “Tailgate” and give it the following text:

A Tailgate Route has a Scouting Cost of 7.  When a Driver drives a Tailgate Route, he gains 1 Cash and chooses another Driver to follow.  That Tailgate Route becomes a copy of that Driver’s DICENth non-Blocked Route in that Driver’s Route List (where N is the number of non-Blocked Routes that Driver has) and becomes Blocked.

Add the following subrule to the rule “Routes”, titled “Golden”, with respect to the alphabetical order by title of the Routes subrules, and give it the following text:

A Golden Route has a Scouting cost of 15.

Add the following Route definition as a subrule to the rule “Routes”, placing it such that the subrules are in alphabetical order by title:

Station

A Station Route has scouting cost of 7. When a Driver drives a Station Route, that Driver earns 2 cash. When that Driver next drives a Route, if that Route was Active and not a CASH Route, that driver earns 1 cash in addition to any other effects.

Tags: CASH

Add a new subrule to “Routes”, titled “Training Route”:

A Training Route has a Scouting Cost of 8. When a Driver Drives a Training Route, they remove it and any other Route from their pool.  They then put a copy of either Route that they removed at the end of a random Driver’s pool.
Tags: AGGRESSIVE

Add a new entry to “Keywords”:

Random Driver
If a random Driver is required by an action, the Driver performing the action shall roll DICEN in the GNDT, where N is the number of Drivers.  The Mth Driver alphabetically, where M is the result of the roll, is the Driver used by the action.

Add a subrule to the the rule “Routes”; call it “Railway Crossing”; make sure the Routes subrules remain ordered alphabetically by name; give it the following text:

A Railway Crossing Route has a scouting cost of 2. The Level Crossing is a game variable that can hold the value “Open” or “Closed”. By default the Level Crossing is Open. If the Level Crossing is Open, then all non-Blocked Railway Crossing Routes are considered Active; if it’s Closed, all non-Blocked Railway Crossing Routes are considered Inactive. When a Driver Drives a Railway Crossing Route while the Level Crossing is Open, that Driver earns 2 Cash, and the Level Crossing becomes Closed. When a Driver Drives a Railway Crossing Route while the Level Crossing is Closed, the Level Crossing becomes Open.

If the rule “Routes” contains the text:

if that Route was Active and the Driver did not Avoid it, causes them to get the effects, if any, described in the subrule corresponding to that Route.

replace it with:

unless stated otherwise, a Driver only gets the effects described in the subrule corresponding to that Route if the Route was Active and the Driver did not Avoid it.

Create a rule titled “Buying the Union Rep” with this text:

A Driver achieves Victory if he has at least one Active Route of each type currently defined and at least one-third of all Cash currently in existence.

Add the following Route definition as a subrule to the rule “Routes”, placing it such that the subrules are in alphabetical order by title:

Escape

An Escape Route has a Scouting Cost of 8. When a Driver Drives an Escape Route, that Driver may remove any number of Active Routes from his pool of Routes.

Then, rename the title of the subrule “Backalley Route” to “Backalley”, and capitalize the first letter of all occurrences of “driver” and “drives” in subrules to the rule “Routes”.

In the rule “Highway”, change the text

may make one Inactive Route in their pool become Active

to

may make one of the first three Inactive Routes in their pool become Active

In rule “Resolution of Proposals” change:

It could not be Enacted without either one of the Votes AGAINST it being changed, or the set of Drivers being changed, or by awaiting the passage of time.

to

It could not be Enacted without either one of the Votes AGAINST it being changed, or the set of Drivers being changed.

In rule “Victory and Ascension” change:

It has been open for voting for at least 12 hours, and it could not be Enacted without either at least one of the Votes AGAINST it being changed, or the set of Drivers being changed, or by awaiting the passage of time.

to

It has been open for voting for at least 12 hours, and it could not be Enacted without either at least one of the Votes AGAINST it being changed, or the set of Drivers being changed.

Add to the end of Rule “Idle Players”:

Whenever an Admin makes a blog post or comment announcing the Idling or Unidling of one or more Players, that Admin must also concomitantly announce any resulting Quorum changes.

I’ve killed the GNDT Government NPC.

Also, comex is idle, for not posting in the last 7 days. Quorum drops to 9.

Please idle me.  It’s been real.  :)

In the rule “Idle Drivers”, replace “The Admin must announce the change in a new blog post or in a comment to the last Idling Post.” with:-

The Admin must announce the change in a new blog post.

Create a Dynastic rule, called “Customers”:

A Driver’s cab may either be With or Without Customer. Each Driver has an amount of Current Fare, initially 0. When a Driver With Customer drives a CASH Route, or any other Route that increases his Cash amount by X, his Current Fare also increases by X.
If this rule does not have a subrule titled “Pick-up”, this rule and all of its subrules do nothing.

Create a new subrule to “Customers”, called “Drop-off”:

At any time, A Driver With Customer can Drop His Customer. He then becomes a Driver Without Customer, and if his Current Fare is X, his Cash increases by X and his Current Fare drops to 0.

If there exists a subrule to the rule “Routes”, called “Jam” amend it to read:

A Jam Route has a Scouting Cost of 4. When a Driver drives a Jam Route, that Driver earns 2 Cash and if that route had the punctuation #, removes that punctuation. Immediately after Driving a Jam Route, the traffic jam spreads - the Driver must add the punctuation # to the first Active Route in his or her pool if able. Routes with the punctuation # are considered Jam Routes.

I unidle and join Ltn_Koen, and arthexis,Darth Cliche, flurie, Shadowclaw and southpointingchariot all idle after more than 7 days of inactivity.

With 19 players, quorum drops to 10.

Hello everybody
I have never played nomic before but I wish to join for this dynasty.
Thank you in advance.

In the rule “Highway”, change the text

may make one Inactive Route in their pool become Active

to

may make the first Inactive Route in their pool become Active

Create a new subrule to “Routes”, titled “Hijacking Route”:

A Hijacking Route has a scouting cost of 10.  When a Driver Drives a Hijacking Route, that Driver rolls DICEN, where N is the number of Drivers, and Drives the first Route in the Nth Driver’s pool, alphabetically.  Instead of Driving that Route, the Driver may pay 1 Cash and repeat the process.
Tags: AGGRESSIVE

If the ruleset contains the text

A Driver’s Routes are listed in order in their GNDT column ‘Routes’, with each Route represented by the first letter of its name and an optional punctuation mark.

replace with

A Driver’s Routes are listed in order in their GNDT column ‘Routes’, with each Route represented by the first letter of its name and an optional optionally one or more punctuation marks

Add the following subrules to “Routes”

Repeat

A Repeat has a scouting cost of 5.  When a Driver Drives a repeat route, he must choose one (and only one) of two options: either add a ‘$’ mark to the route (in addition to marking it inactive) or remove all X ‘$’ marks from the route and gain X cash. Unless otherwise specified, if a Repeat route is ever changed into another route, all ‘$’ marks are removed and if a repeat route is copied by another route only the route the ‘$’ marks are not copied as well.

Create a new subrule to Routes, titled “Backalley Route”:

A Backalley Route has a scouting cost of 4.  When a Driver Drives a Backalley route, that Driver may either earn 1 Cash or mark the Backalley Route with a %, instead of a * (to mark it inactive).  If a Backalley Route is marked with a %, it is considered inactive.  If another Driver (the Perpetrator) Drives an AGGRESSIVE Route that would affect the Driver with a Backalley Route (the Victim) marked with a %, instead of the effects of the AGGRESSIVE Route that relate to the Victim, the Perpetrator changes the % on one Backalley Route the Victim has in their pool to a *.
Tags: DEFENSIVE

Add a new subrule to the rule “Routes”.  Call it “Tailgate” and give it the following text:

A Tailgate Route has a Scouting Cost of 7.  When a Driver drives a Tailgate Route, he chooses another Driver to follow.  He adds a copy of that Driver’s DICENth non-Blocked Route in that Driver’s Route List (where N is the number of non-Blocked Routes that Driver has) to the end of his own Route List, and marks it as Blocked.  He then gains 1 Cash and may remove that Tailgate Route from his Route List.

Add a new subrule to the rule “Routes”, called “Jam”:-

A Jam Route has a Scouting Cost of 4. When a Driver drives a Jam Route, that Driver earns 2 Cash. Immediately after Driving a Jam Route, the traffic jam spreads - the Driver must change the first Route in his or her pool to a Jam Route.

Reword the final paragraph of the rule “Routes” to:-

Twice per day, but not more than twice in any 12-hour period, a Driver may either Drive or Avoid the first Route in their Routes pool. This moves the Route to the bottom of the list, makes it Inactive, and, if that Route was Active and the Driver did not Avoid it, causes them to get the effects, if any, described in the subrule corresponding to that Route.

It hasn’t mattered yet, but I know I overlooked it, so I thought it was worth pointing out. When you scout a new route, you add that route blocked to the end of your pool, not inactive.

Also, I just enacted “A to Z”. Please verify that what the GNDT shows your routes to be is correct.

Out of proposals, but the TEAMWORK thing made me want something like the following route:

Relay
When a driver drives a Relay route, if it is not half-completed he must remove it from his own pool and add it, inactive, to the end of another drivers pool. The relay route is now considered half-completed and must be marked with a ‘+’. If the route is already half-completed, the driver who drove it gains 5 cash. The route is no longer considered half-completed and the ‘+’ must be removed.

Or for AGGRESSIVE

Malicious
When a driver drives a malicious route, he may spend five cash, removed the Malicious route he just drove from his pool, and pick a route in another driver’s pool to make extra dangerous, marking it with an ‘#’. Whenver a driver drives a route that has been marked extra dangerous, he loses 1 cash for each ‘#’ mark that has been added.

If the ruleset contains the text

A Driver’s Routes are listed in order in their GNDT column ‘Routes’, with each Route represented by the first letter of its name and an optional punctuation mark.

replace it with

A Driver’s Routes are listed in order in their GNDT column ‘Routes’, with each Route represented by the first two letters of its name and and optionally one or more punctuation marks.

After the text “Each Route must be of a kind detailed in a subrule to this rule. ” in the rule “Routes”

The subrules must be ordered alphabetically by name.

Reorder the subrules of Routes to be sorted alphabetically be name.

Create a new dynastic rule called “Upgrades”. Give it the following text

There are a number of upgrades a driver can have fore their cab. Upgrades are tracked in a column in the GNDT called “Upgrades” in a comma delimited list. A driver is said to have a given upgrade if that upgrade’s ID code is contained in their list, otherwise the driver does not have that upgrade. Unless otherwise specified, a Driver may only have one of each upgrade. By default, a Driver does not start with any upgrades. Whenever a driver gains an upgrade, the corresponding ID code must be added to their Upgrades list. Whenever a driver loses an upgrade, the corresponding ID code must be removed from their upgrades list.

Each Upgrade must be of a kind detailed in a subrule to this rule, and must specify a unique name (the title of the subrule), a unique alphanumeric ID code, a positive integer cost and optionally an effect. Upgrades may be refer to by their name or by their ID code.

A driver who does not currently have a given upgrade may spend the cost of the upgrade (in cash) to gain the upgrade.

Give “Upgrades” the following six subrules

Flight
ID Code: F
Cost: 20

Underwater
ID Code: U
Cost: 10
Effect: none

Overtime
ID Code: O
Cost: 15
Effect: Whenever a Driver who has the overtime upgrade requests assignment they may activate their first six routes instead of their first five. If they also have the “Weekends” upgrade they may activate their first seven.

Weekends
ID Code: W
Cost: 15
Effect: Whenever a Driver who has the weekends upgrade requests assignment they may activate their first six routes instead of their first five. If they also have the “Overtime” upgrade they may activate their first seven.

Route Hammer
ID Code: R
Cost: 15
Effect: Any driver who has the Route Hammer upgrade may, as a weekly action, remove one route from their list of routes.

Super Scouting
ID Code: S
Cost: 15
Effect: Any driver who has the Super Scouting upgrade may reduce all of their scouting costs by one, to a minimum of 2.

Add the following subrules to “Routes”.

Flying
A Flying Route has a Scouting Cost of 10. When a driver drives an Flying Route, if that driver has the “Flight” upgrade that driver earns 5 Cash. Otherwise the driver earns no cash.

Underwater
A Underwater Route has a Scouting Cost of 5. When a driver drives an Underwater Route, if that driver has the “Underwater” upgrade that driver earns 3 Cash. Otherwise the driver earns no cash.

If both of the proposals http://blognomic.com/archive/fake_sick/ and http://blognomic.com/archive/a_to_z1/ pass, rename the Flying route to Cloud Touching

Add a new Rule to the Ruleset.  Call it “Route Descriptors” and give it the following text:

A rule that defines a Route can contain an explicitly labled list of Tags.  If it does, each Route it defines has those Tags.  If a Route would otherwise have no Tags, it is considered to be GENERIC.  Tags for a Route should be selected from the following list, in accordance with the guidelines presented in that list.
Tags:
*CASH (suitable for Routes whose only effect is to increase the Cash of one or more Drivers)
*AGGRESSIVE (suitable for Routes that have negative effects on other Drivers)
*DEFENSIVE (suitable for Routes that directly mitigate the effects of AGGRESSIVE Routes)
*TEAMWORK (suitable for Routes that have positive effects on other Drivers)

Append the text “Tags: CASH” to the end of the rules “Downtown” “Suburban” and “Airport”.

... Quorum drops to 12.

If there exists a rule “Bad Neighbourhood”, change it to read

A Bad Neighborhood Route has a Scouting Cost of 3.  When a Driver Drives a Bad Neighborhood Route, that Driver loses 1 Cash.  Then, they may pay 2 additional cash to remove the Bad Neighborhood Route from their Pool and add it, Inactive, to the end of another Driver’s Pool.

In the rule “Routes”, replace “These are listed as an ordered list on the wiki page ‘Routes’.” with:-

A Driver’s Routes are listed in order in their GNDT column ‘Routes’, with each Route represented by the first letter of its name and an optional punctuation mark.

Replace “If a Driver’s pool is exactly the default, then their pool need not be listed on the wiki page.” with:-

If a Driver’s pool is exactly the default, then their pool may be represented by a single hyphen.

If the rule at http://blognomic.com/archive/luck_of_the_draw/ passed, this proposal does nothing.
If there is not a rule called “Scouting” create it. Append the following to the rule “Scouting”

A Driver may spend X cash, where X is the greatest of: the number of Routes that driver has in their list, the number of Routes described in subrules to “Routes” and 5. If a Drver does so, that Driver rolls a DICEN where N is the number of Routes listed as subrules of the rule “Routes”. They must then add the Kth Route, (in alphabetical order, where K is the result of the die roll) as Inactive to the bottom of their list.

Change the first sentence of the “Fake Sick” subrule of “Routes” to read “A Fake Sick Route has a Scouting Cost equal to the sum of the maximum amount of money that can be earned from driving each of the first two Routes in the Driver’s pool a single time.”

Add the following subrule to “Routes” if “Proposal: Scouting” passed:

Fake Sick

A Fake Sick Route has a Scouting cost equal to the sum of the maximum amount of money that can be earned from driving the first two Routes in the Driver’s pool. If a Driver does not have two Routes in their pool, they may not Scout a Fake Sick Route. When a driver drives a Fake Sick Route, they must remove one active route or a Fake Sick Route from their pool of Routes.

If the proposal at http://blognomic.com/archive/scouting1/ failed, this proposal has no effect.

Add a new subrule to ‘Routes’ entitled ‘Rural’, reading

A Rural Route has a Scouting Cost of 10. When a Driver Drives a Rural Route, that driver rolls DICE(N+1), where N is the number of times he has Driven a Rural Route since he last Requested Assignment; if the roll is 1, then he earns 5 Cash, otherwise he earns nothing.

Create a new dynastic rule called “Upgrades”

There are a number of upgrades a cab can have. A Driver has a pool of Upgrades, which are listed in on the wikipage “Taxi Cab Upgrades”. Unless otherwise specified, a Driver may only have one of each upgrade. By default, a Driver does not start with any upgrades. If a Driver’s set of upgrades is exactly default, then their upgrades need not be listed on the wiki page. Each upgrade must be of a kind detailed in a subrule to this rule.

Each upgrade must have three things - a name, by which the upgrade can be referenced on the wiki page; a cost, which must be a non-negative integer; and an effect.

A driver who does not currently have a given upgrade may spend the cost of the upgrade and add the upgrade to their list of upgrades.

Give “Upgrades” the following list of subrules

Flight
Name: Flight
Cost: 20
Effect: none

Underwater
Name: Underwater
Cost: 10
Effect: none

Overtime
Name: Overtime
Cost: 10
Effect: Whenever a Driver who has the overtime upgrade requests assignment they may activate their first six routes instead of their first five. If they also have the “Weekends” upgrade they may activate their first seven.

Weekends
Name: Weekends
Cost: 10
Effect: Whenever a Driver who has the weekends upgrade requests assignment they may activate their first six routes instead of their first five. If they also have the “Overtime” upgrade they may activate their first seven.

Route Hammer
Name: Route Hammer
Cost: 15
Effect: Any driver who has the Route Hammer upgrade may, as a weekly action, remove one route from their list of routes.

Super Scouting
Name: Super Scouting
Cost: 15
Effect: Scouting costs for all routes are reduced by one, to a minimum of 2.

Add the following subrules to “Routes”.

Flying

A Flying Route has a Scouting Cost of 10. When a driver drives an Flying Route, if that driver has the “Flight” upgrade that driver earns 5 Cash. Otherwise the driver earns no cash.

Underwater
A Underwater Route has a Scouting Cost of 5. When a driver drives an Underwater Route, if that driver has the “Underwater” upgrade that driver earns 3 Cash. Otherwise the driver earns no cash.

If the proposal http://blognomic.com/archive/scouting1/ does not pass, remove the text “A Underwater Route has a Scouting Cost of 5.” and “A Flying Route has a Scouting Cost of 10.” from subrules of the rule “Routes” and the whole subrule “Super Scouting” of the rule “Upgrades”

If there is not a rule called “Scouting” create it. Append the following to the rule “Scouting”

A driver may spend 5 cash and roll a DICEN where N is the number of routes listed as subrules of the rule “Routes”. They must then add the Kth Route, (in order that the routes appear as subrules, where K is the result of the die roll) as Inactive to the bottom of their list.

In the rule “Keywords”, replace “once each day, but not more than once every eighteen hours” with:-

once each day, but not more than once every ten hours

Amend subrule ‘Bad Neighbourhood’ to read:

A Bad Neighborhood Route has a Scouting Cost of 15. When a Driver Drives a Bad Neighborhood Route, that Driver loses 1 Cash. If a Driver has at least one Bad Neighborhood Route in their pool, they may pay 2 Cash in order to remove one Bad Neighborhood Route from their pool, and place it at position DICE(N+1) in the pool of the DICE(P)th Driver in alphabetical order, where N is the number of Routes in the target Driver’s pool, and P is the number of Drivers.

In the rule “Routes”, change the text

A Route is either Active or Inactive; Inactive Routes should be marked with a * to indicate this

to

A Route is either Active, Inactive or Blocked; Inactive Routes should be marked with a * and Blocked Routes with a ! to indicate this

and the text

Then, the first five Routes in their pool (or all if there are fewer), become Active.

to

Then, all the Blocked Routes in their pool become Inactive and the first five Routes in their pool (or all if there are fewer), become Active.

If a Rule named “Highway” exists append the following text to it:

Highway Routes become Blocked instead of Inactive when Driven.

If a Rule named “Scouting” contains the text

and adds that Route Inactive to the bottom of his list.

change it to

and adds that Route Blocked to the bottom of his list.

Append to the rule “Profit Appropriation”:

If this does not cause the Driver to lose any Cash, they must delete the first Route in their list.

If the proposal at http://blognomic.com/archive/scouting1/ failed, this proposal has no effect. Add a new subrule to ‘Routes’ entitled ‘Rural’, reading

A Rural Route has a Scouting Cost of 8. When a Driver Drives a Rural Route, that driver earns 5 Cash, but cannot Drive any Route within two days afterward.

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Not sure if i am still idle as i am not on the list of active players but Bucky has given me an entry on Routes…

If the proposal at http://blognomic.com/archive/scouting1/ failed, this proposal has no effect. Add a new subrule to ‘Routes’ entitled ‘Highway’, reading

A Highway Route has a Scouting Cost of 5. When a Driver drives a Highway Route, that Driver earns 1 Cash and may make one Inactive Route in their pool become Active.

need to update my Routes to ADDD*A*

Create a new dynastic rule, “Scouting”:

In order to help extend their business, at any time a Driver can Scout for new Routes. To do so, he spends the Scouting Cost of a Route in Cash (as defined in the rule defining that sort of Route), and adds that Route Inactive to the bottom of his list.

Replace all subrules of the rule “Routes” with the following list of subrules:

Downtown

A Downtown Route has a Scouting Cost of 2. When a driver drives a Downtown Route, that driver earns 1 Cash.

Suburban

A Suburban Route has a Scouting Cost of 6. When a driver drives a Suburban Route, that driver earns 2 Cash.

Airport

An Airport Route has a Scouting Cost of 10. When a driver drives an Airport Route, that driver earns 3 Cash.

Multiply each Driver’s Cash by 10.

Create a new subrule of “Routes”, titled “Districts”:

Before it can be driven, each Route must be assigned to a District; the available Districts are listed in the rule defining the Route’s kind.  If a Route in a Driver’s pool does not have a District assigned, the Driver may randomly assign it a District by making an appropriate GNDT roll.

When a Route is Driven, its Crowding Factor (CF) is 1/2 if another Route with the same District has already been Driven that day, or 1 otherwise.  To make it easier to calculate the Crowding Factor, when a Driver Drives a Route, they must note its District in a GNDT comment.

Amend the rule “Downtown” by replacing “1 Cash” with “(10 * CF) Cash”, and by appending:

The Districts available for Downtown Routes are “Train Station”, “Town Square”, “Shopping Mall”, and “Tubternetsville Towers”.

Amend the rule “Airport” by replacing “3 Cash” with “(30 * CF) Cash”, and by appending:

The District available for Airport Routes is “Highway”.

Could i get a wiki account as well?

Admins, please create a Wiki account for me so I can track my routes.

Please unidle me.

Within the body of this proposal, let TEXT be:

If a Driver Drives a Bad Neighborhood Route, that Driver loses 1 Cash. If a Driver has at least one Bad Neighborhood Route in their pool, they may pay 2 Cash in order to remove one Bad Neighborhood Route from their pool, and place it at position DICE(N+1) in the pool of the DICE(P)th Driver in alphabetical order, where N is the number of Routes in the target Driver’s pool, and P is the number of Drivers.

If the subrule “Bad Neighborhood” exists, then amend it to read TEXT.

If the rule “Routes” exists and does not have a subrule “Bad Neighborhood”, and fewer than half of the EVCs on this proposal contain the text “Just let it die”, then create a subrule of Routes called “Bad Neighborhood” reading TEXT.

Add a new rule called “Ware and Tear” with the following text

Each driver has a condition for their taxi cab, tracked in the GNDT in a column called “Condition”, which is either “Working Order”, “Broken Down” or “In the Shop”. New driver’s start with a condition of “Working Order”.

If a driver’s condition is Broken Down, they may spend 5 cash to change their condition to In the Shop.

If a driver’s condition has been In the Shop and nothing else for the past 24 hours, that driver may set their condition to Working Order.

If a driver’s condition has been Broken Down and nothing else for the past 3 days, that driver may set their condition and cash to the default values for a new player.

Set the condition of every driver to Working Order

replace

a Driver may Drive

with

a Driver whose condition is Working Order may Drive

If the proposal “Central Office” failed, this proposal has no effect upon enactment.

Enact a new subrule to Routes, entitled ‘Bad Neighborhood’:

If a Driver Drives a Bad Neighborhood Route, that Driver loses 1 Cash. If a Driver has at least one Bad Neighborhood Route in their pool, they may pay 2 Cash in order to remove one Bad Neighborhood Route from their pool, and place it at position DICE(N+1) in a target Driver’s pool, where N is the number of Routes in the target Driver’s pool.

If the proposal “Central Office” failed, this proposal has no effect upon enactment.

In the rule “Routes”, replace “There are a number of Routes available for Drivers to patrol.” with:-

There are a number of possible Routes available for Drivers to patrol; each Route has two Locations, a Pickup and a Dropoff, and is notated “X to Y”, where X is the Pickup and Y is the Dropoff.

Replace “Each Route must be of a kind detailed in a subrule to this rule.” with:-

The Pickup and Dropoff Locations of a Route must be of a kind detailed in a subrule to this rule.

Replace “3 Inactive Downtown Routes and 2 Inactive Airport Routes” with:-

3 Inactive Downtown to Downtown Routes, 1 Inactive Airport to Downtown Route and 1 Inactive Downtown to Airport Route

Replace “This moves the Route to the bottom of the list, makes it Inactive, and, if that Route was Active. causes them to get the effects, if any, described in the subrule corresponding to that Route.” (or the same text without the first full stop, if that text exists instead) with:-

This moves the Route to the bottom of the list, makes it Inactive, and, if that Route was Active, causes them to get the effects, if any, described in the subrule corresponding to the Dropoff of that Route.

Reword the “Downtown” rule to:-

When a Driver makes a Dropoff in Downtown, that driver earns 1 Cash, or 3 Cash if the Pickup was the Airport.

Reword the “Airport” rule to:-

When a Driver makes a Dropoff at the Airport, that driver earns 3 Cash.

Create a new rule, titled “Gaining Routes”:

At any time, a Driver may pay Cash equal to the number of Routes they currently have, minus one.  Then that Driver rolls DICEN in the GNDT, where N is the number of currently available types of Routes (Downtown, Airport, etc.).  That Driver then gains a Route of the Nth type, in alphabetical order, placing it at the end of their list.

If “Variety!” appears in half of the EVCs to this proposal and the rule “Routes” exists, enact a subrule to it, titled “Suburb”:

When a Driver Drives a Suburb route, they get the effects, if any, described in the subrule to “Routes” corresponding to the last Route in their list.

Doctor29 hasn’t posted or commented in over eight days, and idles out. Quorum drops to 12.

If the rules contain the text “Then the first five Routes in their pool (or all if there are fewer) become Active.”, then add the following immediately before it:

They may then pay 3 Cash to swap the positions of any two routes on their list.

or if the proposal less than a week old titled “Less Hoarding, Less Grinding” passed, add the following instead:

They may then swap the two positions of any two routes on their list if they had at least 3 Cash immediately before Requesting Assignment.

I’ve discovered a scam in a pending proposal. Do the Drivers want me to point it out, or would they prefer to leave it until someone else notices and uses it to their advantage?

Create a new dynastic rule titled “Union Dues” with this text:

As a daily action, a Driver can pay 1 Cash and lobby on a proposal (by commenting on it to that effect). The next-to-last valid voting icon (if any) that they have used in any comment on that proposal then counts as an additional Vote on that proposal.

If the rule “Cash” exists, add a subrule to it.  Call it “Profit Appropriation” and give it the following text:

Whenever a Driver Requests Assignment, their Cash becomes 0.

If either the text:

To do this, the Driver rolls DICEN a number of times in the GNDT, where N is the number of Routes in the Driver’s pool. The Driver continues to roll until every possible value occurs at least once, then rearranges their list of Available Routes according to the first occurrence of each number (e.g. if they roll 3, 4, 2, 2, 3 1, then their third route becomes first, their fourth route becomes second, their second route becomes third, and their first route becomes last).

or

To do this, the Driver rolls DICEN a number of times in the GNDT, where N is the number of Routes in the Driver’s pool. The Driver continues to roll until every possible value except one occurs at least once, then rearranges their list of Available Routes according to the first occurrence of each number (e.g. if they roll 3, 4, 2, 2, 3 1, then their third route becomes first, their fourth route becomes second, their second route becomes third, and their first route becomes last). The route corresponding to the number that did not come up is placed last.

exists in the ruleset, replace it with:

To do this, the Driver rolls DICEN, DICE(N-1), ..., DICE 3, DICE2, where N is the number of Routes in the Driver’s pool. The Driver then rearranges eir Routes according to the numbers rolled such that the new first Route is the one that previously held the position of the number given by the first die roll, the new second Route is the one that previously held the position of the number given by the second die roll (ignoring the already reassigned Route), and so on. The Route that was not referred to by any of the die rolls is placed last in the new order. (E.g., If a player rolls 2, 2, 1, 2. Their new first Route is the old second Route. The new second Route is the old third Route, which is the second, if the previously reassigned Route isn’t counted. The new third is the old first. The new fourth is the old fifth. The old fourth, having never been rolled, is placed last. The new order, then, is 2, 3, 1, 5, 4.)

If the following text exists in the ruleset:

The Driver continues to roll until every possible value occurs at least once, then rearranges their list of Available Routes according to the first occurrence of each number (e.g. if they roll 3, 4, 2, 2, 3 1, then their third route becomes first, their fourth route becomes second, their second route becomes third, and their first route becomes last). Then the first five Routes in their pool (or all if there are fewer) become Active.

Replace it with:

The Driver continues to roll until every possible value except one occurs at least once, then rearranges their list of Available Routes according to the first occurrence of each number (e.g. if they roll 3, 4, 2, 2, 3 1, then their third route becomes first, their fourth route becomes second, their second route becomes third, and their first route becomes last). The route corresponding to the number that did not come up is placed last. They may then pay 3 Cash, and move any one route to any point in the list. Then the first five Routes in their pool (or all if there are fewer) become Active.

Quorum remains 13.

If the Ruleset contains the text

As a daily action, a Driver may Drive

replace that text with:

Twice per day, but not more than twice in any 12-hour period, a Driver may Drive

Blank the wiki page “Locations”.

Create a new dynastic rule titled “Locations” with this text:

There are a number of Locations available for Drivers to visit. These are listed on the wiki page “Locations”. Each Driver’s Location is tracked in the GNDT. Each Driver’s initial Location is the Dispatch Office.

Set the list of Locations to:
* Dispatch Office
* Euston Road
* Whitehall
* Marlborough Street
* Fleet Street
* Coventry Street
* Oxford Street

Blank the wiki page ‘Routes’.

Enact a new dynastic rule entitled ‘Central Office’, reading

The Dispatcher does not count as a Driver for the purposes of any other Dynastic Rule, except where that Rule specifically refers to the Dispatcher.

Enact a new dynastic rule entitled ‘Cash’, reading

Each Driver has an amount of Cash (a non-negative integer), initially 0. Cash is tracked in the GNDT.

Enact a new dynastic rule entitled ‘Routes’, reading

There are a number of Routes available for Drivers to patrol. A Driver has a pool of Routes. These are listed as an ordered list on the wiki page ‘Routes’. By default, a new Driver’s pool consists of 3 Inactive Downtown Routes and 2 Inactive Airport Routes, in that order. If a Driver’s pool is exactly the default, then their pool need not be listed on the wiki page. Each Route must be of a kind detailed in a subrule to this rule. A Route is either Active or Inactive; Inactive Routes should be marked with a * to indicate this.

As a weekly action, a Driver may Request Assignment. To do this, the Driver rolls DICEN a number of times in the GNDT, where N is the number of Routes in the Driver’s pool. The Driver continues to roll until every possible value occurs at least once, then rearranges their list of Available Routes according to the first occurrence of each number (e.g. if they roll 3, 4, 2, 2, 3 1, then their third route becomes first, their fourth route becomes second, their second route becomes third, and their first route becomes last). They the first five Routes in their pool (or all if there are fewer) become Active.

As a daily action, a Driver may Drive the first Route in their Routes pool. This moves the Route to the bottom of the list, makes it Inactive, and, if that Route was Active. causes them to get the effects, if any, described in the subrule corresponding to that Route.

Enact a new subrule to Routes, entitled ‘Downtown’

When a Driver Drives a Downtown Route, that driver earns 1 Cash.

Enact a new subrule to Routes, entitled ‘Airport’

When a Driver Drives an Airport Route, that driver earns 3 Cash.

In rule 3.1 “Keywords”, change

Daily Action

If a game action is a Daily Action, each Player able to perform it may take that action once each day, but not more than once every six hours.

to

Daily Action

If a game action is a Daily Action, each Player able to perform it may take that action once each day, but not more than once every eighteen hours.

I am happy to see that my plans for the metadynasty matured more or less like I expected. In fact, they probably went too well. By creating rules that allowed people to propose faster and with less fear of getting stuck with bad proposals, a lot of Core Rules have been clarified and cleaned up. Given the moderate success of this experiment I would like to make two suggestions:

First, to coppro: It would be great if on your dynasty you came up with some title or benefit for players that worked hard on improving the Core Rules (not me, I didn’t do anything, just misled everyone else into working hard). The game is a lot clearer and has a much lower barrier-to-entry thanks to these guys.

Second, to everyone: I believe that more flexible rules in regards to legislative action are positive. We should strive to create rules that improve the quality of play. In this regard I would recommend completely removing Daily and Weekly actions and adding more flexibility to rules that cannot get rid of timing restrictions. We are a creative bunch and I am sure we can come up with alternatives.

Okay, folks, here’s the deal.

We’re losing money.

I know, some of you have been saying this for days. Weeks. Months, even. You guys think I just won’t listen, and that I’m going to drive this company into the ground and take you all with me.

This ends today. We’ve had a lot of hardship, and I have to be honest when I say that it’s not going to be easy. But we can prevail, and we can make our company the best it can be, and you guys can have your Christmas bonuses back, because I know you love those.

I’m proud to stand before you today to unveil the newest vision for BlogNomic, Inc., that will bring us more money that we could ever have dreamed of. We are going to be The BlogNomic Taxi Company!

This may sound just a little bit Crazy Taxi, but let me assure you that I know exactly what I’m doing. The taxis in Tubternetsville is terrible. Have you ever tried to get a cab from downtown to the airport to catch a private jet in under 5 minutes? It’s absolutely impossible! There is a real need for this sort of thing. Now, in order to be successful, we need to be as efficient as we can be. So I’m immediately reassigning the word ‘Player’ throughout the Ruleset to ‘Driver’, the word ‘Emperor’ to ‘Dispatcher’, and I’m firing every dynastic rule.

We’re going to make this city go!

From the GNDT timestamps:

09/11 17:55 (UTC) - ais523
10/11 00:02 (UTC) - ais523

The timing is obviously not a coincidence. I want to talk about daily actions, and in particular, the 6 hour limit on consecutive uses of the same daily action.

First off, the 6 hour limit does nothing to prevent timing scams. It’s not too hard to find a 6-hour period spanning midnight UTC where not a lot of people will be online, and even easier to find one where a specific person won’t be online. (For instance, if you need to do a timing scam but fear intervention from me or from Kevan, you can do it at 11:59 UTC and again at 6:01 UTC, because we both have day jobs and we’re both mostly asleep at those times, given our timezones.) Between the two changes of mine then, the only GNDT updates that were uninvolved with the recent win attempt were from Spitemaster and southpointingchariot, and they were both routine SP claims. (Incidentally, we’d actually planned around the possibility of southpointingchariot claiming SP while we were rearranging the Employments; that’s why I broke the SPC/Chronos employment loop on Tuesday, even though it was reasonably risky to do so, as it left my SP so low I could reasonably be employed and locked down by a separate two-person conspiracy.)

Second, it’s pretty hard to hit timing scam breakpoints, especially reasonably consistently day to day. We could have won a day earlier, but we had to push it back a day because one or other of the group kept missing a potential daily action — and that’s with the possibility to aim anywhere in the day! (Then we had to perform more actions than we’d expected because PBURNS registered.) It’s unreasonable to force people to be on at specific times just to make a scam work, but that’s what the rules are doing at the moment; and a daily grind is pretty difficult to keep up.

Third, as an extension to this, when you need to take consecutive dailies, things get much worse. If a daily grind is bad, what about an hourly grind? There are MMORPGs based around success involving being online as much as possible. I don’t think BlogNomic should be like that; it makes the game obnoxious, unfun, and only winnable by a few people (those who have much more time to spare than me). Back in Darth Cliche’s second dynasty, which turned into a dice-rolling contest, I tried to be online as much as possible in order to be able to interrupt Galdyn if he rolled the correct die number to move onto my level. (If I hadn’t managed to take actions within a couple of minutes of that happening, he would have won.) I ended up losing anyway due to bad luck, but what can you do in a dice-based dynasty? I had a bunch more free time back then than I do now, and I definitely can’t reasonably stay online and at the computer eighteen hours a day. In the case of taking two dailies yourself, you’re often going to want to minimize interference from other players between them, which means taking them six hours apart. It might sometimes be better to do 12am and 6am than 6pm and 12am, but I can’t reasonably do that combination nowadays; in fact, this entire win sequence had to be modified so that I could get offline before coppro could get online past midnight, as I had to leave at about 12:40am, and coppro didn’t re-get online until 1:49am, over an hour later. (That’s why comex passed me a bunch of SP via employment earlier in the day; that step, which was somewhat risky, shouldn’t have been needed if we had a sane system for timing actions, but was simply because of timezone trouble.)

In summary, I really don’t see why nomic should be a game about how much sleep you can deprive yourself of, and which country you happen to live in. We can do better than that.

Of course, this just turns up the question of what should be done instead. People who know me know that I’m not opposed to removing daily actions altogether. The argument goes like this: either you’d want to do the action multiple times in succession, in which case it’s grindy, or you wouldn’t, in which case there’s no reason to make it a daily in the first place. (Even a case where the action is rate-limited by something other than realtime, such as the Lawsuits action the end of this dynasty revolved around, breaks down in the case where people have more SP than time, which was the case here.) I was starting to relent on that position, but I’ve changed my mind again after seeing the disaster that not holding it has.

I don’t think removing daily actions from the ruleset would pass, though, so what about this for a compromise:

Daily Action

If a game action is a Daily Action, it cannot be performed twice by the same player in any 24-hour period.

This way is much better from the point of view of sleep patterns (although it would be marginally harder to work out whether your daily had recharged or not); a 24-hour recharge means that it’s no longer tied to when UTC midnight happens to fall in your time zone, which means that although optimal play still requires being online at a specific time you choose when that time is and so can more reasonably hit it, and there’s now only the one timing scam breakpoint to hit, rather than three.

Incidentally, I’m still thinking about Bucky’s rate-limit thing where you use a weekly to gain some resource, and then have a daily or twice-daily that spends it. I suspect it still runs into this problem in the simplest case (as it’s optimal to spend the resource as early/late in the week as possible, depending on what you’re doing), but if you got some bonus for using the resource towards the middle of the week, it wouldn’t be as bad. It might be worth running a dynasty with it to see the problems with that method of doing things in practice.

I employ comex, Bucky, Pavitra, Clucky, and PBURNS.

comex employs ais523 and Murphy.

ais523 employs Prince Anduril, southpointingchariot, arthexis, and Ornithopter.

southpointingchariot employs Chronos Phaenon, flurie, shadowclaw, and Winner.

flurie employs Amnistar.

Bucky employs SingularByte.

SingularByte employs Doctor29.

Doctor29 employs Spitemaster.

Spitemaster employs Darknight.

Pavitra employs lazerchik.

Thus I Outrank every other player, and as CEO, my first order is for you to usher in a new dynasty under my benevolent rule.

REPRESENTING: coppro

If the following text exists in the ruleset:

In today’s economy, the best way to protect our institutions is by making them to big to fail (or at least, big enough to take everything down with them). If the Government Defaults, and there is exactly one Player that has more SP than any other player, that Player achieves Victory.

Replace it with:

In today’s economy, the best way to protect our institutions is by making them to big to fail (or at least, big enough to take everything down with them). If the Government Defaults, and there is exactly one Player that has more SP than every other player, that Player achieves Victory.

The following text exists in the ruleset:

A Player listed under another Penniless Player’s Employment is known as a that Player’s Cruel Patron.

Replace it with:

A Player listed under a Penniless Player’s Employment is known as that Player’s Cruel Patron.

REPRESENTING: Prince Anduril, Flurie

Add a new paragraph to the ‘Employment’ rule with the following text:

No Player may Employ any other Player if doing so would cause both Players to Outrank each-other.

This post is my clear wish to become a new player in BlogNomic, currently in the sixth Metadynasty.

Admin(s), please add me to the roster and GNDT.

Wooooo BlogNomic.

REPRESENTING: comex (who pointed out the bug)

In the rule “Players”, insert

A Player may not rejoin the game within two weeks after having left.

after

A Player may leave the game at any time by posting an entry to the BlogNomic weblog requesting such an action.

REPRESENTING: coppro, ais523

Create a new rule titled “Reorganization”:

If there are players A, B, and C such that A employs B and B employs C, A can, as a Daily Action, Reorganize the Org Chart so that A employs C, C employs B, and B employs all Players previously employed by C.

REPRESENTING: coppro, ais523

In today’s economy, employers should be able to all but own their employees, but the current employment market is too volatile.  Therefore, amend the rule “Employment” by replacing:

Any Employed player with at least 2 SP may, at any time, change their Employment to Free Agent

with:

Any Employed player with at least 2 SP may, if their Employment last changed at least 48 hours ago, change their Employment to Free Agent

REPRESENTING: coppro

If the following text exists in the ruleset:

In today’s economy, the best way to protect our institutions is by making them to big to fail (or at least, big enough to take everything down with them). If the Government Defaults, and there is exactly one Player that has more SP than any other player, that Player achieves Victory.

Replace it with:

In today’s economy, the best way to protect our institutions is by making them to big to fail (or at least, big enough to take everything down with them). If the Government Defaults, and there is exactly one Player that has more SP than every other player, that Player achieves Victory.

Enact this proposal!

Append the following to the rule entitled “Votable Matters”

This rule cannot be overruled by Dynastic Rules in its application to Calls for Judgment or Declarations of Victory.

Append the following to the rule entitled “Victory & Ascension”

This rule cannot be overruled by Dynastic Rules as it relates to Declarations of Victory, but can be overruled in other matters.

It’s patently obvious that I’m not having the time and/or knack to be more than fodder; please idle me (maybe try next round).

Append the following to the rule entitled “Votable Matters”

This rule cannot be overruled by Dynastic Rules in its application to Calls for Judgment or Declarations of Victory.

Append the following to the rule entitled “Victory & Ascension”

This rule cannot be overruled by Dynastic Rules as it relates to Declarations of Victory, but can be overruled in other matters.

I’d like to be an Admin please, mainly because of the scuppering of my proposal, just before it was resolved (see Investments - mk 2), when I could have resolved it myself before the time. Having played for a few months now I feel I know my way around the game, and I’ll do my best to stay active.

This proposal makes me an Admin.

REPRESENTING:southpointingchariot, Amnistar, Chronos Phaenon

Add a new subrule to the rule “The Government”.  Call it “Public Servants” and give it the following text:

The Government is considered to be a Player for the purpose of the rule “Employment”, except that “Sovereign” is a legal value for its Employment.  For the purpose of the rules “Full Employment” and “Synergy” only, Players Employed by the Government are considered to be Employed by all Players except themselves.

So don’t forget to adjust Govnt’s SP when you lose or gain some.

I’ve already revised the GNDT since the time of the enactment, but feel free to revise it again.

Before it is repealed…

One player, who currently has 2+ SP and is a Free Agent for Socialism, spend your 2SP to make the Government hire you.
Then you’ll get 1 of those SP back from the Hire.
Then we can all roll a DICE2 and hopefully all get more SP.

Pavitra, Ornithopter, SpiteMaster, Moriarty, I’m looking at you.

REPRESENTING: comex, Spitemaster, ais523

Amend the rule “Full Employment” to read

A Player Outranks another if the first Player Employs the second, or if the first Player Employs a Player who Outranks the second. If a single Player Outranks every other Player, then that Player has achieved victory.

Amend the rule ‘Victory & Ascension’ by replacing

* It has been open for voting for 12 hours and has enough AGAINST Votes that it could not be Enacted without one of those Votes being changed.
* It has been open for voting for at least 12 hours, and it could not be Enacted without either at least one of the Votes AGAINST it being changed, or the set of Players being changed, or by awaiting the passage of time.

with

* It has been open for voting for at least 12 hours, and it could not be Enacted without either at least one of the Votes AGAINST it being changed, or the set of Players being changed, or by awaiting the passage of time.
* It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours and cannot be Enacted.

Please pay attention that under rule “Involuntary Representation Service”, only proposals which text begins with “REPRESENTING:” followed by a list of names are Representation Proposal.

By that rule’s wording, the author of a Proposal is represented “by such a Proposal”. Proposals that doesn’t start with “REPRESENTING:” doesn’t represents their own author either.

REPRESENTING: southpointingchariot, Amnistar, Bucky, ais523

In today’s economy, many Employers can’t provide for the welfare of their Employees. In the competitive atmosphere of our days, that can lend to some volatile loyalties.

Add to rule “Employment”:

A player who has a SP of 0 but is not Broke is considered to be Penniless.

A Player listed under another Penniless Player’s Employment is known as a that Player’s Cruel Patron.

At any time, a Cruel Patron may transfer 1 SP to one of the Penniless Players who list that Cruel Patron under their Employment.

At any time a player who is not Broke nor Penniless can Raid for a Penniless Player by transferring 1 SP from themselves to that Player’s Cruel Patron and changing the Penniless Player’s employment to the Raiding Player’s name. The Penniless Player is now considered Employed by the Raiding Player.

REPRESENTING: coppro, Bucky, ais523, Pavitra

Repeal the rule “Economical Paradigms” and its subrules.

Amend the rule “Synergy” by replacing

For the purpose of counting pending proposals

with

For the purposes of the rule “Proposals” (but not its subrules)

REPRESENTING:ais523, Chronos Phaenon, Amnistar, southpointingchariot, Pavitra

Add a new subrule to the rule “The Government”.  Call it “Circus Bread” and give it the following text:

As a weekly action the Government may Burn Money.  When it does so, it destroys up to 20 of its own SP.

REPRESENTING: Prince Anduril, southpointchariot, Pavitra, flurie

Create a new rule entitled ‘Investment’ with the following text:

In today’s economy, it’s wise to invest your Stimulus Packages in the Free Market. As a weekly action, players may either ‘Buy In’ or ‘Sell Out’ their SP, but not both. Players may elect to ‘Buy In’ to one of the three Investment Bubbles: Currency, Commodities or Corporations. When a Player Buys Into an Investment Bubble, they pay 1SP for every player currently Bought In in that Investment Bubble. Players must record the Investment Bubble to which they have Bought In, in the GNDT column “Investment”. If at any time a Player has not Bought In to anything, then their Investment is set to ‘-’.

Players may choose to Sell Out their Investment at any time, as long as they have not yet Bought In or Sold Out this week. When a Player Sells Out their Investment, they receive back the number of SP equal to the number of other Players that are Invested in that Investment Bubble.

REPRESENTING: Prince Anduril, southpointchariot, Pavitra, flurie

Create a new rule entitled ‘Investment’ with the following text:

In today’s economy, it’s wise to invest your Stimulus Packages in the Free Market. As a weekly action, players may either ‘Buy In’ or ‘Sell Out’ their SP, but not both. Players may elect to ‘Buy In’ to one of the three Investment Bubbles: Currency, Commodities or Corporations. When a Player Buys Into an Investment Bubble, they pay 1SP for every player currently Bought In in that Investment Bubble. Players must record the Investment Bubble to which they have Bought In, in the GNDT column “Investment”. If at any time a Player has not Bought In to anything, then their Investment is set to ‘-’.

Players may choose to Sell Out their Investment at any time, as long as they have not yet Bought In or Sold Out this week. When a Player Sells Out their Investment, they receive back the number of SP equal to the number of other Players that are Invested in that Investment Bubble, and they set the value in their ‘Investment’ column to “-”

REPRESENTING: ais523, coppro

In today’s economy, corporations often have intricate hierarchies with several layers of management.  Therefore, amend the rule “Full Employment” to read:

A Player is Higher Ranking than another Player if they Employ that Player, or Employ a Player Higher Ranking than that Player.

If any Player (the CEO) is Higher Ranking than all other Players, they achieve victory.

REPRESENTING: coppro

In today’s economy, uncertainty is too dangerous.  Shareholders need a firm yes or no!

Amend the rule “Involuntary Representation Service” by appending:

Players Represented by a Proposal receive no SP from that Proposal if they vote DEFERENTIAL on that Proposal.

If the proposal at Counteract representation inflation! failed, and more than half of the EVCs on this proposal contain “And another thing” also append to “Involuntary Representation Service”:

If a Player Represented by a Proposal votes anything other than FOR on that Proposal, the author of that Proposal does not become eligible for any SP because of this rule for that Proposal.

REPRESENTING: Amnistar, Bucky, Chronos Phaenon, coppro, southpointingchariot, flurie

Append the following paragraph to the rule “Involuntary Representation Service”:

As a weekly action, a Player can spend 2 SP to cause the author of a specified Pending Representation Proposal to lose a number of SP equal to half the number of Players in its Representation List, rounded down, or all their SP if they don’t have that much SP.

or if more than half the EVCs on this proposal contain “Make it harsher”, instead append:

As a weekly action, a Player can spend 3 SP to cause the author of a specified Pending Representation Proposal to lose a number of SP equal to the number of Players in its Representation List, or all their SP if they don’t have that much SP.

REPRESENTING: southpointingchariot, Amnistar, Bucky, ais523

In today’s Economy, it is increasingly important that the Government maintains a tight control of the money supply.

Therefore, add to the rule “The Government” the following text:

Whenever a player spends or otherwise loses an amount of SP which is not transferred to another player or the Government, the Government’s SPs shall be immediately increased by that same amount.

Whenever a player gains an amount of SP which is not transferred from another player or the Government, the Government SPs shall be immediately decreased by that same amount.

REPRESENTING: flurie, ais523, Pavitra

If the proposal “Defining communal weekly actions” passes, create a subrule to “The Government” entitled “Austerity Measures” with the following text:

As a Weekly Communal Action, a Player may roll DICEX, where X is the number of Players at the time of the roll. That player then decreases the Government’s SP by the result.

If the proposal “Defining communal weekly actions” fails, create a subrule to “The Government” entitled “Austerity Measure” with the following text:

As a Weekly Action, a Player may roll DICEX, where X is the number of Players at the time of the roll. That player then decreases the Government’s SP by the result. This Weekly Action can be performed by any Player, but only if it has not been performed (by any Player) already in the same week.

REPRESENTING: flurie, Chronos Phaenon, ais523, Amnistar, Bucky

Add a new keyword to the definition list in the rule “Keywords”:

Weekly Communal Action

If a game action is a Weekly Communal Action, it can be performed by any Player, but only if it has not been performed (by any Player) already in the same week.

REPRESENTING: comex, Spitemaster, arthexis, flurie

Append the following paragraph to the rule entitled ‘Employment’

If ever an Employee and their Employer both have 0 SP, then any Player may set the Employee’s Employment to Free Agent, and they are no longer considered Employed by their former Employer.

REPRESENTING: comex, Prince Anduril, Murphy, Spitemaster, arthexis

Amend the rule entitled ‘Resolution of Proposals’ by removing

Proposals the Emperor has Voted to VETO are considered vetoed, and such a Vote cannot be changed. Proposals the author has Voted against are considered self-killed unless the Emperor has Voted VETO on them, or they have fulfilled one of the other requirements to fail a proposal before the author’s self-kill Vote is placed.

and by replacing the first bulleted list with

* It has a number of FOR Votes that exceed or equal Quorum, has been open for voting for at least 12 hours, and has not been vetoed or self-killed.
* It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours, it has more than 1 valid Vote cast on it, more valid Votes cast on it are FOR than are AGAINST, and it has not been Vetoed or Self-Killed.

and by replacing the second bulleted list with:

* It could not be Enacted without either one of the Votes AGAINST it being changed, or the set of Players being changed, or by awaiting the passage of time.
* It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours and cannot be Enacted.

Rewrite the rule entitled ‘Special Proposal Voting’ to read

When a player casts an explicit vote AGAINST their own Proposal, this renders the Proposal Self-Killed, even if the author later changes their Vote. The Emperor may use VETO as a voting icon to cast a Vote on a proposal; when the Emperor casts a vote of VETO on a Proposal, this renders the Proposal Vetoed, even if the Emperor later changes their Vote.

If a Player other than the Emperor casts a vote of DEFERENTIAL on a Proposal, then the Vote of DEFERENTIAL is an indication of confidence in the Emperor. When the Emperor has a valid Vote other than VETO on a Proposal, then all votes of DEFERENTIAL are instead considered to be valid and the same as the Emperor’s Vote for the purposes of other rules unless otherwise specified.

Amend the rule titled ‘Dynasties’ by removing the sentence reading

The Emperor may Vote to VETO any Proposal.

Amend the rule titled ‘Votable Matters’ by replacing

Any Player may cast their Vote on a Votable Matter by making a comment to the official post that comprises that Votable Matter using a voting icon of FOR, AGAINST, DEFERENTIAL (only if the Votable Matter is a Proposal), or VETO (only if the Votable Matter is a Proposal and the Player is the Emperor).

with

Each Player may cast one Vote on a Votable Matter by making a comment to the Official Post that comprises that Votable Matter using a voting icon of FOR, AGAINST, or DEFERENTIAL. Additional voting icons may be permitted in some cases by other rules. A valid Vote is, except when otherwise specified, a Vote of FOR or AGAINST. A Player’s Vote on a Votable Matter is the last valid voting icon that they have used in any comment on that Votable Matter. Additionally, if the author of a Votable Matter has not used a valid voting icon in a comment to the post, then the author’s Vote is FOR. A non-Player never has a Vote, even if they were a Player previously and had cast a valid Vote.

Amend the rule entitled ‘Victory and Ascension’ by replacing the first bulleted list with

* It has been open for voting for at least 12 hours, has a number of FOR Votes that exceed or equal Quorum, and either the Emperor has Voted FOR it or it has no AGAINST Votes.
* It has been open for voting for at least 24 hours, has a number of FOR Votes that exceed or equal Quorum, and has a number of AGAINST Votes lesser than half of Quorum, rounded down.
* It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours, has a number of Votes that exceed or equal Quorum, and more than half of its valid Votes are FOR.

and by replacing the second bulleted list with

* It has been open for voting for 12 hours and has enough AGAINST Votes that it could not be Enacted without one of those Votes being changed.
* It has been open for voting for at least 12 hours, and it could not be Enacted without either at least one of the Votes AGAINST it being changed, or the set of Players being changed, or by awaiting the passage of time.

Please idle me. I’m going to continue watching, but I’m not following this so well…

In today’s economy, lack of Government employees is an unintended side-effect of political apathy. In order to solve this conundrum, some Players should be forced to work for the Government.

Each Player may nominate a single Player for a position in the Government by including that Player’s name in their EVC to this Proposal. Each Player that is nominated at least three times becomes Employed by the Government. Then, each Player that nominated a Player that became employed by the Government due to this Proposal becomes eligible to receive 1 SP.

REPRESENTING: Amnistar, arthexis, Bucky, Chronos Phaenon, southpointingchariot

In today’s economy, the course of events can sometimes be predicted in advance. To remedy this, we need a hopelessly Byzantine system of red tape and bureaucracy. Therefore, create a new rule with the title “Red Tape” and this text:

As a weekly action, a Player may Obstruct Bureaucracy by rolling DICEX in the GNDT, where X is the current number of Players and N is the outcome of the dice roll. When this occurs, the Nth Player in alphabetical order by name loses 1 SP, to a minimum of zero.

REPRESENTING: flurie

Create a new wiki page entitled “Credit Default Swaps”. Within this wiki page, create the following headers:

General Motors

Goldman Sachs

Greece

For each Idle Player, place that Idle Player’s name under one of the three headers according to the following formula:

Roll DICE3 once for the Idle Player. Place the Idle Player under a header according to the result:

1: General Motors
2: Goldman Sachs
3: Greece

Create a dynastic rule entitled “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!” with the following text:

If a Player goes idle, Roll DICE3 once for the Player. Place the Player under a header in the wiki page “Credit Default Swaps” according to the result:

1: General Motors
2: Goldman Sachs
3: Greece

If an Player has unidled, remove the Player’s name from the wiki page “Credit Default Swaps” if it exists there.

REPRESENTING: coppro, southpointingchariot

In today’s economy, employers should maximize the use they make of their employees, and the best way to do so is by thinking outside of the box and using core competencies to create quality driven proposals.  Therefore, create a new rule titled “Synergy”:

As a Weekly Action for each employee, any Player can create a Dynastic Proposal Synergizing with one of their employees, transferring 1 SP to that employee and starting the title of the Proposal with “[SYNERGY: X]”, where X is the employee’s name.  Such a Proposal is known as a Synergy Proposal.  For the purpose of counting pending proposals, a Synergy Proposal is treated as if it were posted by the specified employee.

Add a new sub-rule under ‘Employment’, entitled ‘Taking Your Cut’ with the following text:

Whenever an Employee would gain SP under the rules ‘Involuntary Representation Service’ or ‘Lawsuits’, their Employer also gains half the SP, rounded up.

Create a new rule “Too Big to Fail”:

In today’s economy, the best way to protect our institutions is by making them too big to fail (or at least, big enough to take everything down with them). If the Government Defaults, and there is exactly one Player that has more SP than any other player, that Player achieves Victory.

Issue:

Flurie is stating that the current wording of “Socialist Doctrines” makes it do nothing because the words “eligible to 1 SP” are not equivalent to “eligible to receive 1 SP”.

However, if this were true, rule “Stimulus Package” itself would be broken. Take a look at the wording:

Whenever a Player becomes eligible to receive a SP, that player may increase by one their SP count in the GNDT once, but only within the first 24 hours of becoming eligible.

Emphasis mine. As you can see, if we accept the interpretation, any player that right now becomes eligible to receive SP and who is a Socialist will be able to claim SP anytime, since thanks to Pavitra’s use of Socialist Doctrine made us all “eligible” which is not the same as “eligible to receive”.

Proposed Fix:

Revert all effects of the actions delimited in rules Socialist Doctrines and Neoliberal Doctrines. Change the text of “Stimulus Package” so that the first line of the second paragraph instead reads:

Whenever a Player becomes eligible to receive a SP, that player may increase by one their SP count in the GNDT once, but only within the first 24 hours of becoming eligible to receive that SP

.

Create a new rule “The Lottery” as a subrule under 2.7.2 “Welfare State”:

As a weekly action, any player that qualifies for Welfare may play the lottery by transferring one of their own SP to the Government.  If they roll three DICE10 and get 1, 1, and 1, they win 10% of the Government’s SP, rounded down to the nearest SP.

REPRESENTING: Amnistar, Bucky, Chronos Phaenon, Pavitra,

Change, in the rule “Lawsuits”, “may spend 3 of their own SP and transfer 2 SP from a second Player, known as the Defendant” to “may transfer 3 of their own SP to the Government, and then transfer 2 SP from a second Player, known as the Defendant”

REPRESENTING: flurie

In the subrule “Neoliberal Doctrines”, change

As a weekly action, a Neoliberal may roll DICEX, where X is half the number of Players they Employ, rounded down. Then, they become eligible to a number of SP equal to the roll result.

to

As a weekly action, a Neoliberal may roll DICEX, where X is half the number of Players they Employ, rounded down. Then, they become eligible to receive a number of SP equal to the roll result.

In the subrule “Socialist Doctrines”, change

As a weekly action, a Socialist may roll DICEX, where X is twice the number of Players Employed by the Government. If the result is exactly 1, all Employed Players become eligible to 1 SP.

to

As a weekly action, a Socialist may roll DICEX, where X is twice the number of Players Employed by the Government. If the result is exactly 1, all Employed Players become eligible to receive 1 SP.

In the rule “Stimulus Package”, change

within the first 24 hours

to

within the first 48 hours

REPRESENTING: arthexis

Create a new sub-rule “Systemic Paradigm” under rule “The Government”:

As long as more than half the Players’ Paradigm is the same Paradigm, any of those Players may change the Paradigm of the Government to their own Paradigm.
If the Government’s Paradigm is not “Undecided”, whenever a Player becomes eligible to receive a single Stimulus Package, if that Player has the same paradigm as the Government, that player becomes eligible to receive two Stimulus Packages instead and the Government loses 1 SP.

Economical paradigms passed and now, if you pick a Paradigm within the next 48 hours, you get 1 Free SP. Claim yours now, for the motherland!!

REPRESENTING: Prince Anduril

In today’s economy, personal responsibility is underrated.

In rule “Dead Body Collection Service” change the text:

Then, any Admin may fail Proposal P ON BEHALF OF the author of that proposal.

to:

Then, any Admin may fail Proposal P ON BEHALF OF the Player that Self-Killed that Proposal.

Amend the rule ‘Welfare State’ from:

The Government can, as a weekly action, Provide Welfare to its citizens. When the Government Provides Welfare to its citizens, each player with at least 2 but fewer than 9 SP receives 1 SP from the Government. If the Government does not have enough SP to give each Player their allotted amount, then no Player receives any and instead the Government Defaults.

to:

The Government can, as a weekly action, Provide Welfare to its citizens. When the Government Provides Welfare to its citizens, each player with fewer than 9 SP receives 1 SP from the Government. If the Government does not have enough SP to give each Player their allotted amount, then no Player receives any and instead the Government Defaults.

REPRESENTING: comex, Spitemaster, Murphy, Bucky

Replace

All Players may cast Votes on that CfJ to indicate agreement or disagreement with the position taken in that CfJ. Pending CfJs continue until they reach a Quorum of FOR Votes, a Quorum of AGAINST Votes, or until 48 hours have passed since they were posted. After this time, if more than half the cast Votes are FOR Votes, the CfJ may be enacted by any Admin by updating the Gamestate and Ruleset, and correcting the GNDT and other gamestate tracking entities, as specified. Otherwise, the CfJ fails. A Failed CfJ has no further effect.

with

A Pending CFJ may be Resolved by an Admin if it has a Quorum of FOR Votes, a Quorum of AGAINST Votes, or if it has been open for voting for more than 48 hours. When a CFJ is Resolved, it is to be Enacted if it has more FOR Votes than AGAINST Votes and Failed otherwise. When a CFJ is Enacted, the Admin Enacting it shall update the Gamestate and Ruleset, and correcting the GNDT and other gamestate tracking entities, as specified in the CFJ.

REPRESENTING: comex, Spitemaster, Murphy, Bucky

Amend the Glossary entry for ‘Effective Voting Comment (EVC)’ to read

A Player’s Effective Vote Comment with respect to a given Votable Matter means that Player’s Comment to that Votable Matter, if any, that contains that Player’s Vote on that Votable Matter.

REPRESENTING: comex, Spitemaster, Murphy, Bucky

All Players may cast Votes on that CfJ to indicate agreement or disagreement with the position taken in that CfJ. Pending CfJs continue until they reach a Quorum of FOR Votes, a Quorum of AGAINST Votes, or until 48 hours have passed since they were posted. After this time, if more than half the cast Votes are FOR Votes, the CfJ may be enacted by any Admin by updating the Gamestate and Ruleset, and correcting the GNDT and other gamestate tracking entities, as specified. Otherwise, the CfJ fails. A Failed CfJ has no further effect.

with

A Pending CFJ may be Resolved by an Admin if it has a Quorum of FOR Votes, a Quorum of AGAINST Votes, or if it has been open for voting for more than 48 hours. When a CFJ is Resolved, it is to be Enacted if it has more FOR Votes than AGAINST Votes and Failed otherwise. When a CFJ is Enacted, the Admin Enacting it shall update the Gamestate and Ruleset, and correcting the GNDT and other gamestate tracking entities, as specified in the CFJ.

REPRESENTING: coppro, southpointingchariot

In the rule “Involuntary Representation Service”, replace:

If a player Represented by a Proposal votes AGAINST that Proposal, it counts as if the author of that Proposal has voted AGAINST it

with:

If a player Represented by a Proposal votes AGAINST that Proposal (other than by voting DEFERENTIAL), it counts as if the author of that Proposal has voted AGAINST it

REPRESENTING: ais523, Bucky, Chronos Phaenon, Amnistar, Pavitra

If the proposal “I Want My SP, and Other Issues” is enacted, revert the changes it made to the Ruleset.

Change, in Rule 1.1,

Admins may correct obvious spelling and typographical mistakes in the Ruleset at any time, including replacing Spivak and gender-specific pronouns with the singular “they”

to

Admins may correct obvious spelling and typographical mistakes in the Ruleset at any time, including replacing Spivak and gender-specific pronouns with the singular “they”.  Players may correct obvious spelling and typographical mistakes in their own Pending Proposals at any time

REPRESENTING: southpointingchariot, Chronos Phaenon, ais523, Amnistar

Repeal the Dynastic Rules named “Raising Taxes” and “Welfare State”

I go idle. Quorum drops to 16.

Representing: Amnistar, Bucky, Chronos Phaenon, southpointingchariot, Pavitra

Change, in Rule 1.1

Admins may correct obvious spelling and typographical mistakes in the Ruleset at any time

to

Admins and players may correct obvious spelling and typographical mistakes in the Ruleset at any time, and in proposals at the time of enactment

REPRESENTING: Amnistar, ais523, southpointingchariot, Chronos Phaenon

In the rule “Involuntary Representation Service”, change the text

A Representation Proposal’s text begins with the line “REPRESENTING:” followed by a list of Players. This list may not include more Players than the amount of SP that the author has, or 2, whichever is greater. Those Players are said to be Represented by the Proposal.

to

A Representation Proposal’s text begins with “REPRESENTING:” followed by a list of names.  This list may not include more Players’ names than the amount of SP that the author has, or 2, whichever is greater; the surplus names closest to the end of the list are ignored.  The named Players are said to be Represented by the Proposal.

Quorum is still seventeen.

Representing: southpointingchariot, arthexis, comex, SingularByte

Create a new rule entitled “Striking” with the following text:

In today’s economy, many Employees are too lazy to work. Therefore, in an effort to increase productivity, whenever an Employee goes idle because they have not posted an entry or comment in the last seven days, this is known as going On Strike. Whenever an Employee goes On Strike, any player may transfer 2 SP from the Government to that Employee’s most recent Employer, as compensation.

In the rule “Special Proposal Voting”, replace:

The Vote will count as the same as the Emperor’s Vote.

with:

The Vote will count as the same as the Emperor’s Vote, but never counts as a self-kill.