BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Create a new dynastic rule named “Boos”, and give it the text:

Every Musician has an amount of Boos, a nonnegative integer tracked in the GNDT that defaults to 0.

Each Musician has a list of names tracked in a GNDT column named “Targets.”

A Musician may Boo another Musician if they have not cast a vote in the last 72 hours. When a Musician Boos another Musician, they add that Musician’s name to their Targets, and increase the targeted Musician’s Boos by 1.

Remove all irrelevant information from the GNDT, and create a new column named “Boos”.

Create a new dynastic rule named “Awkwardness”, and give it the text:

Awkwardness is a nonnegative integer, tracked in the GNDT in the Frontman’s Boos field. Whenever a Musician joins Blognomic, or unidles for the first time in the dynasty, the Awkwardness is increased by 1.

When a Musician has a number of Boos greater than or equal to the Awkwardness, the Frontman may Kick them out of the Band and reveal their Style. Everytime a Musician is Kicked out of the Band, the Awkwardness drops by 1.

A Musician who has been Kicked out of the Band does not count as a Musician for the purpose of any other Dynastic Rule, except for the rule “Lollapalooza”

Set the Awkwardness to 12.

Create a new Dynastic Rule, named “Lollapalooza”, and give it the text:

When all Musicians still in the Band are of the same style, that style becomes the Band’s Style. Every Muscian of the Band’s Style then loses one Coolness for each name in their Targets of a Musician of the Band’s Style, and gains one Coolness for each name in their Targets of a Musician of the opposing style. The Musician with the most Coolness then wins the game.

Enact a new rule, “In the Band”:-

Musicians may be Band Members or Hangers On. This is tracked as a “Band” field in the GNDT, noted as “Yes” if the Musician is a Band Member and “No” or “-” if they are a Hanger On. All Musicians start as Hangers On.

Enact a new rule, “Respect and Grievance”:-

Each Musician may Respect one Musician (or Idle Musician) and have a Grievance against one Musician (or Idle Musician). These are tracked as the name of a Musician, or the name of an Idle Musician, in the “Respect” and “Grievance” fields of the GNDT respectively. A Musician may not Respect themselves, nor have a Grievance against themselves.

If all Band Members Respect the same Hanger On and no Band Members have a Grievance against that Hanger On, then that Hanger On becomes a Band Member.

If all but one of the Band Members have a Grievance against the same Band Member, and no Band Members Respect that Band Member, then that Band Member becomes a Hanger On.

Upon enactment of this proposal, four different Musicians shall be selected at random from those who commented on the proposal, using GNDT die rolls. Each of those four Musicians shall become Band Members; all other Musicians shall be Hangers On.

Looks like the ruleset still requires me to make an “idling post” and to ask myself to unidle myself, if I want to unidle myself. I would like to be unidled. Hello.

Create a new dynastic rule named “Debate”, and give it the text:

Every Musician has an amount of Votes against them, a nonnegative integer tracked in the GNDT that defaults to 0. Use of the word “vote” in any dynastic rule is a reference to this rule and not to rule 1.5 “Votable Matters”.

A Musician may cast a vote against another Musician, effectively increasing by 1 the number of Votes against that other Musician, by making a post announcing the vote and updating the relevant GNDT stat, if they have not cast a vote in the last 96 hours.

Remove all irrelevant information from the GNDT, and create a new column named “Votes”.
Create a new dynastic rule named “An unpleasant feeling”, and give it the text:

There is a number, called Awkwardness, a nonnegative integer tracked in the GNDT in the Frontman’s Votes field. At the start of the dynasty the Awkwardness is 12. Whenever a Musician joins Blognomic, or unidles for the first time in the dynasty, the Awkwardness is increased by 1.

When a Musician has a number of Votes greater than or equal to the Awkwardness, the Frontman may Kick them out of the Band and reveal their music style.
Everytime a Musician is Kicked out of the Band, the Awkwardness drops by 1.
A Musician who has been Kicked out of the Band does not count as a Musician for the purpose of any other Dynastic Rule.

Please remember, the goal is to force your style on the band, not to be the last Musician.

Create a new dynastic rule named “A note of discord”, and give it the text:

At the creation of this rule, every active Musician, and after that, each Musician that joins or unidles for the first time in this dynasty, will be randomly assigned a style, either Rock or Techno, which will be secretly recorded by the Frontman. Each Musician will then be notified of their style via private message by the Frontman, along with the name of another Musician who has the same style as them.

In a totally unrelated matter, change the name of the author of this proposal from “Ltn_Koen” to “Cpt_Koen”. He earned his promotion when he achieved victory, after all.
While you’re at it, change rule 2.1 name from “Central Office” to “Koen’s Band”.

Snow’s melt,
Trees grow green,
Flowers bloom,

Spring has come

It is more than time to rehearse for Lollapalooza 2012, which will take place at the start of August!
As your band leader and song writer, I am about to compose pieces for you to rehearse.
Just tell me if you want me to write Rock or Techno. I can do both.

Throughout the Ruleset, replace the word “Criminal” with “Musician” and “Don” with “Frontman”.
Rule 2.1 “Central Office” is to be kept; repeal all other dynastic rules.

Ascension address and first proposal will come in the afternoon (almost UTC time).
Thank you for your patience.

Clucky pointed out I couldn’t transfer Wealth to southpointingchariot since he was no longer a former partner of mine.
Damn, going to jail sucks. That mustache I had was so much better!
As Clucky said, I could’ve transfered the Wealth to him or omd and southpointingchariot would still have won; but I didn’t do that.
I believe the transfer was illegal, but the aggravating was legal anyway, and instantly had me win, though not on purpose.

So here’s your hiatus.

Hello fellow mobsters,
Hello worshiped Don,

Quite a lot have happened to me recently!
I robbed more banks than you guys could ever dreamed of;
I own the world’s biggest collection of stolen art;
I smuggled armaments under everyone’s nose, making me Public Enemy Number 1!

The police did caught me, though. I suspect I might have been snitched by those two guys…
But that’s OK, I broke out of prison! Used all firepower to blow an entire wall and steal a police car.

So here am I, the most wanted criminal - my heat almost hit 2 digits!
So I decided to show the police who was the boss.
You know that big event our Don was talking about?
It costed me no less than 40,000 Respect, 40,000 Firepower and 40,000 Wealth, but I did it! The police will not forget my name, I guarantee you.
(OK, it did cost a little less. 39,999 to be precise. But who counts?)

The police was so upset! Now they are more sharp and watchful than ever.
In fact, their Vigilance Number is up to 200 now, which is about as high as it could go.

However, before everyone bows before me, there is one last thing I need to say.
I am NOT the new Don in town.
Considering that I only got where I got with the help of about all those who didn’t care about winning;
Considering that I owed Southpointingchariot A LOT of ressources, according to our agreements when he watched out for me in the past, during those dark days where the police was chasing me from bank to bank;
Considering that Southpointingchariot is the only one who actually tried to play ais523’s dynasty, bargaining before any assisted action, making good-for-the-dynasty proposals and all that…

Well, let’s just say I think we are even now ;-)
You can check the GNDT and wait for his Declaration of Victory, for our New Don in Town is, with a Leadership of 1725…

SOUTHPOINTINGCHARIOT

Klisz and laozi were caught finking to the heat and so have been “retired”. Quorum drops to 7.

Replace the Dynastic Rules with the initial texts of the first four rules created during the First Dynasty of Joranj.

The definition of Official Post:

Posts following the format specified by a rule are considered official posts.

and of Story Post:

A Story Post is an Official Post that is not a member of any specific category of Official Posts mentioned or defined in a Core Rule (excluding Official Post).

Thus a Story Post is a post in a category of Official Post defined by a dynastic rule.  I don’t know why it’s defined as it is, but I don’t think the definition makes any sense - at least, it doesn’t correspond to the “Story Post” category at all.  Also, since there aren’t currently any such categories, it’s impossible to create a Story Post as required by Unamed Rule (which is typoed, btw), which requires urgent attention ‘nd all that.

Therefore, update the Ruleset by replacing the definition of Story Post with:

A Story Post is an entry in the “Story Post” category.

Create a new rule, entitled “Plea Bargain”, reading:

As an assisted action, a Criminal with at least 3 Criminals in their former partner’s list may Plea Bargain. When a player Plea Bargains, first, they lose (X - 1)/X of their Wealth, Respect, and Firepower, where X is number of names in their former partner’s list, and then their Former Partner’s list becomes the null set.

Append to the rule “Working Together” the text:

At any time, a Criminal may pay 100 wealth, and then transfer any positive amount of their Wealth or Firepower to a Criminal in their Former Partners list.

Amend rule 2.4 “Heat” by adding the following text as a second paragraph:

Whenever a Criminal performs an Assisted Action defined in rule 2.3 “Swag”, they must pay M times 100 Wealth, where M is the maximum of the Culprit and the Lookout’s Heats.

If half the number of Effective Vote Comments on this Proposal, rounded down, plus one include the text “KOEN MUST PAY AS WELL”, in all caps, then decrease Ltn Koen’s Wealth by 1,600.

If rule 2.8 “The New Don in Town” contains the text “A Criminal’s Leadership is equal to whichever value is highest out of their Wealth, Firepower, and Respect”, replace it with:

A Criminal’s Leadership is equal to whichever value is lowest out of their Wealth, Firepower, and Respect

Create a Rule titled “The Police”:

Some Criminals are Agents secretly working for the police.  The Don shall privately track, and keep all Agents informed of, which Criminals are Agents.  Any Criminal who has never been an Agent can become one by privately informing the Don.

An Agent cannot be the Culprit of an Assisted Action if the Lookout is another Agent.

As an Assisted Action, a non-Agent Criminal can spend 2000 Respect to Accuse a specified Criminal.  When this happens, the Don shall publicly disclose whether the Accused Criminal was an Agent.  Then, if so, all of that Agent’s Respect, Firepower, Wealth, and Goods is transferred to the Culprit, the Agent’s Heat is set to zero, the Agent becomes not In Jail, the Police Vigilance Number is increased by the Agent’s former Heat, and the Agent ceases to be an Agent.

The Police Budget is a non-negative integer tracked in the Don’s Respect field in the GNDT, defaulting to zero.  When the Police Vigilance Number is increased, the Police Budget is increased by the same amount.

The Police Inefficiency is PVN/10 + 5, where PVN is the Police Vigilance Number, rounded down.

A Police Action is a type of action that any Agent may request the Don perform on behalf of the Police, specifying any required parameters for the action.  As soon as possible after receiving such a request, the Don shall attempt to reduce the Police Budget by the Police Inefficiency.  If the Police Budget is less than the Police Inefficiency, nothing happens.  Otherwise, the Don shall record in the GNDT which action was requested, but not the parameters; then, as soon as possible after the specified delay, the Don shall carry out the action.

As a Police Action with a delay of 48 hours, the Police may Raid a Criminal for a specified Good.  If that Criminal possesses that Good, it is removed from their possession and their Respect is decreased by the Good’s Reputation.

As a Police Action with a delay of 24 hours, the Police may Perform a Sting for a specified Assisted Action listed in the rule “Swag”.  All Criminals who performed that action in the last 24 hours go to Jail, and lose half of any Wealth, Respect, or Firepower they gained as a result of that action during that time, to a minimum of 0 each.

Amend the rule “Goods” by inserting this paragraph before “The following goods can be Stolen”:

A Criminal may give a Good they possess to another Criminal, lowering their own Respect by half the Good’s Reputation and increasing the recipient’s Respect by the same amount.

Amend the third bullet in the rule “Numbers and Variables” to read:

Unless otherwise specified, to “spend” or “lose” an amount X of a numeric value “V” means to subtract X from V; to “gain” X of a numeric value “V” means to add X to V; and to “transfer” X of a numeric value “V” from A to B means to subtract X from A’s V and add X to B’s V.  Unless otherwise specified, only positive amounts can be spent, lost, gained, or transferred, and a rule that allows Criminals to transfer a numeric value only allows them to transfer that value from themselves to another Criminal (of their choice unless otherwise stated).

Add the following to the end of the dynastic rule “Heat”

As an Assisted Action, if the current Police Vigilance number is Z, a Criminal can spend Y^2 - Z^2 Firepower, Y^2 - Z^2 Wealth, and Y^2 - Z^2 Respect to increase the Police Vigilance Number to Y (Y must be greater than Z). This action may be refered to as “Aggravating the Police”

Edits:
0101 UTC for positivity

Append to the rule “Working Together”

At any time, a Criminal may pay 100 wealth, and then transfer any positive amount of their Wealth or Firepower to a Criminal in their Former Partners list.

Edits:
2059 UTC To clarify theme

Create a new rule, entitled “Plea Bargain”, reading:

“As an assisted action, a Criminal with at least 3 Criminals in their former partner’s list may Plea Bargain. When a player Plea Bargains, first, they lose (X - 1)/X of their Wealth, Respect, and Firepower, where X is number of names in their former partner’s list, and then their Former Partner’s list becomes the null set.”

Out there are tens of thousands of ressources, begging for us to steal! What are we waiting for?

(Well, I have been waiting for that great operation our Don told us to prepare for, but I fear he forgot about us.)

“Given that communication is quite important this dynasty, I thought I’d make this thread for people to coordinate possible Assisted Actions, if they feel like publicly doing it on the blog. Enjoy!”
— our Don.

Create a new dynastic rule:

There is a time bomb with a timer, an integer that shall be tracked in a Story Post.  When a day ends during which the game was never in Hiatus, if at least one proposal has been created that day, the timer is increased by 2; otherwise, it is decreased by 1.  When the timer is less than or equal to zero, all dynastic rules are repealed and a new metadynasty starts.

Set the timer of the time bomb to 4.

Amend the third bullet in the rule “Numbers and Variables” to read:

Unless otherwise specified, to “spend” or “lose” an amount X of a numeric value “V” means to subtract X from V (i.e. replace V with V-X); to “gain” X of a numeric value “V” means to add X to V; and to “transfer” X of a numeric value “V” from A to B means to subtract X from A’s V and add the amount A’s V was reduced by to B’s V. Only positive amounts can be spent, lost, gained, or transferred. Unless otherwise specified, a rule that allows Criminals to transfer a numeric value only allows them to transfer that value from themselves to another Criminal (of their choice unless otherwise stated).

Correct the GNDT, and change the gamestate if necessary, to correspond to this interpretation.  In particular, Clucky’s recent attempts to lose -1 Wealth are considered to have failed, so at the time this CfJ was raised, they had 7000 Firepower and 0 Wealth (because they attempted to convert all their Wealth to Firepower).

Add the following to the list of clarifications in “Numbers and Variables”

Invalid values for game variables can never be used, even if the values stored in the GNDT remain valid. (for example, if X appears in a formula referring to a value that is a non-negative integer, X must be used as a non-negative integer)

Set Clucky’s Wealth to 500, his Firepower to 10500, and his goods to “-”. Remove omd from his list of former partners and remove clucky from omd’s list of former partners. Do this even if Clucky is idle. If Clucky performs any actions which modify his stats in the GNDT between the time this CfJ was posted and when it was enacted, Clucky must be set to idle and may not unidle until a new dynasty starts.

Clucky seems to be under the mistaken impression that he can lose something he doesn’t have - or somehow lose the inverse of that object with respect to posession, thereby gaining it. (despite the rules not saying he has such a object in the first place).

The disputed passage in question is “At any time, the Criminal that possesses the License may at their discretion lose X Wealth and gain F Firepower, where F = X / 2.”

For reference, here is the appropriate definition of “Lose”: “(v) to cease to have or possess”
and Wealth and Firepower are “non-negative integers”.

Under my interpretation of the rule, and the reasonable and intended interpretations, it is simply impossible to lose a negative amount of Wealth based on the definition of ‘lose’.  Any action that loses a negative amount of Wealth thus CANNOT be performed.  The fact that ‘lose’ is defined in a dictionary rather than a rule does not make it mean whatever the actor wants it to (e.g. interpret “change” to mean “cause to achieve victory” with respect to partners.)

Therefore, Clucky’s GNDT stats need to be corrected for the fact that he failed at gaining massive amounts of Wealth and as a result also failed to purchase most of his Firepower.

Create a Rule titled “The Police”:

Some Criminals are Agents secretly working for the police.  The Don shall privately track, and keep all Agents informed of, which Criminals are Agents.  Any Criminal who has never been an Agent can become one by informing the Don.

An Agent cannot be the Culprit of an Assisted Action unless the Lookout is another Agent.

As an Assisted Action, a non-Agent Criminal can spend 2000 Respect to Accuse a specified Criminal.  When this happens, the Don shall publicly disclose whether the Accused Criminal was an Agent.  Then, if so, all of that Agent’s Respect, Firepower, Wealth, and Goods is transferred to the Culprit, the Agent’s Heat is set to zero, the Agent becomes not In Jail, the Police Vigilance Number is increased by the Agent’s former Heat, and the Agent ceases to be an Agent.

The Police Budget is a non-negative integer tracked in the Don’s Respect field in the GNDT, defaulting to zero.  When the Police Vigilance Number is increased, the Police Budget is increased by the same amount.

The Police Inefficiency is PVN/10 + 5, where PVN is the Police Vigilance Number.

A Police Action is a type of action that any Agent may request the Don perform on behalf of the Police, specifying any required parameters for the action.  As soon as possible after receiving such a request, the Don shall attempt to reduce the Police Budget by the Police Inefficiency.  If the Police Budget is less than the Police Inefficiency, nothing happens.  Otherwise, the Don shall record in the GNDT which action was requested, but not the parameters; then, as soon as possible after the specified delay, the Don shall carry out the action.

As a Police Action with a delay of 48 hours, the Police may Raid a Criminal for a specified Good.  If that Criminal possesses that Good, it is removed from their possession and their Respect is decreased by the Good’s Reputation.

As a Police Action with a delay of 24 hours, the Police may Perform a Sting for a specified Assisted Action listed in the rule “Swag”.  All Criminals who performed that action in the last 24 hours go to Jail, and lose half of any Wealth, Respect, or Firepower they gained as a result of that action, to a minimum of 0.

Amend the rule “Goods” by inserting this paragraph before “The following goods can be Stolen”:

A Criminal may give a Good they possess to another Criminal, lowering their own Respect by half the Good’s Reputation and increasing the recipient’s Respect by the same amount.

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

“The License, listed as “license” - 3750 Security, 0 Reputation. At any time, the Criminal that possesses the License may at their discretion lose X Wealth and gain F Firepower, where F = X / 2.”

I chose to lose -1 wealth and gain F firepower, where F = -1 /2. This rounds to zero, so that is 0 firepower gained.

I then build up millions of wealth, and converted it all to firepower using the license again.

I can effectively have as much firepower and wealth as I want. So can you if you steal the thing from me.

Obviously this should probably be fixed. Unless I’m missing a way to use firepower and wealth to achieve victory (as opposed to reputation, which can be done if you get like four people willing to keep throwing the same guy in jail over and over (which is legal, btw. might want to fix that too)). Of course, if you guys want to grant me victory because this mechanic isn’t working I wouldn’t complain =P But I’ll let someone else make the CfJ that fixes this either way =)

LAOZI joins

Ely, Flurie, Soviet Brendon and Murphy all idle out.

With 14 active players, Quorum is now 8

In the rule “Jail”, remove “whose Heat is greater than the Police Vigilance Number”.

.. join the game :)

In the rule “Jail”, remove “whose Heat is greater than the Police Vigilance Number”.

Throughout the ruleset, replace “Loot” with “Goods”

Create a new dynastic rule, “The New Don In Town”:

A Criminal’s Leadership is equal to whichever value is highest out of their Wealth, Firepower, and Respect. When the Police Vigilance Number becomes 200 or more for the first time, whichever Criminal has the most Leadership achieves victory.

Create a new dynastic rule, “Popular Criminals”:

As an Assisted Action, a Criminal with exactly 5 Criminals and idle Criminals in their Former Partners list before they perform the action may Throw a Party. This increases their Respect by 3000. If the Lookout for that action also had exactly 5 Criminals and idle Criminals in their Former Partners list, their Respect is also increased by 3000.

The first link to the IRC channel in the FAQ (http://kevan.org/blognomic/irc/chat.html), seems to be broken. This is also the link on the homepage. This needs to be fixed or removed.

Create a new rule “Goods” reading:

Criminals can possess Goods, items listed in an eponymous GNDT column with each Good listed by a name designated by its description. By default, a criminal’s Goods are the null set.

Available Goods are listed in this rule along with a Security and Reputation, both of which are integers. As an assisted action, a Criminal can spend a Good’s Security in Firepower in order to Steal it.

When a Criminal Steals a Good, first, the Criminal lowers the Respect of any other Criminal that possesses the Good by its Reputation and removes the Good from that Criminal’s Loot. The Criminal then increases their own Respect by the Good’s Reputation and then lists the item in their Goods, at which point they possess the Good.

The following goods can be Stolen:

The Hope Diamond, listed as “hope” - 5000 Security, 10,000 Reputation. When the Criminal that Possesses the Hope Diamond gains Respect, they gain 5% more than they would have gained otherwise.’

The Fake Mustache, listed as “mustache” - 50 Security, 2000 Reputation. The Criminal that possesses the Fake Mustache may partner with any Criminal whose name does not appear twice in the possessor’s Former Partners list. Any Criminal may partner with the possessor as long as the possessor’s name doesn’t appear twice in that Criminal’s Former Partners list.

The Badge, listed as “badge” - 1500 Security 5000 Reputation. As an Assisted Action, the Criminal that possesses the Badge may Block an Assisted Action by following the Badge’s listing in the GNDT with its name contained in parentheses. While an Action is Blocked, no Criminal may perform that Assisted Action.
When the Badge is Stolen, all actions cease to be Blocked. Stealing may not be Blocked.
As an Assisted Action, any player may Unblock a Blocked Action, removing its name from after the Badge. That Action may then be performed as prescribed in its description. Unblocking may not be Blocked.

The License, listed as “license” - 3750 Security, 0 Reputation. At any time, the Criminal that possesses the License may at their discretion lose X Wealth and gain F Firepower, where F = X / 2.

Edited 1655 UTC 1/16/12 for accuracy and clarity.
Edited 1709 UTC 1/16/12 to fix fixes
Edited 1734 UTC 1/16/12 to fix Camera and Badge
Edited 1737 UTC 1/16/12 more Badge
Edited 1750 UTC 1/16/12 typo
Edited 1759 UTC 1/16/12 Camera
Edited 2135 UTC 1/16/12 Retheming, balancing
Edited 0109 UTC 1/17/12 Theming, clarifying

Create a new rule “Goods” reading:

Criminals can posess Goods, items listed in an eponymous GNDT column with each Good listed by a name designated by its description. By default, a criminal’s Goods are the null set.

Available Goods are listed in this rule along with a Security and Reputation, both of which are integers. As an assisted action, a Criminal can spend a Good’s Security in Firepower in order to Steal it.

When a Criminal Steals a Good, first, the Criminal lowers the Respect of any other Criminal that possesses the Good by its Reputation and removes the Good from that Criminal’s Loot. The Criminal then increases their own Respect by the Good’s Reputation and then lists the item in their Goods, at which point they possess the Good.

The following goods can be Stolen:

The Hope Diamond, listed as “hope” - 5000 Security, 10,000 Reputation. When the Criminal that Possesses the Hope Diamond gains Respect, they gain 5% more than they would have gained otherwise.’

The Fake Mustache, listed as “mustache” - 50 Security, 2000 Reputation. The Criminal that possesses the Fake Mustache may partner with any Criminal whose name does not appear twice in the possessor’s Former Partners list. Any Criminal may partner with the possessor as long as the possessor’s name doesn’t appear twice in that Criminal’s Former Partners list.

The Badge, listed as “badge” - 1500 Security 5000 Reputation. As an Assisted Action, the Criminal that possesses the Badge may Block an Assisted Action by following the Badge’s listing in the GNDT with its name contained in parentheses. While an Action is Blocked, no Criminal may perform that Assisted Action.
When the Badge is Stolen, all actions cease to be Blocked. Stealing may not be Blocked.
As an Assisted Action, any player may Unblock a Blocked Action, removing its name from after the Badge. That Action may then be performed as prescribed in its description. Unblocking may not be Blocked.

The License, listed as “license” - 3750 Security, 0 Reputation. At any time, the Criminal that possesses the License may at their discretion lose X Wealth and gain F Firepower, where F = X / 2.

For each Criminal, add 100 times H to that Criminal’s Respect, where H is the Heat of that Criminal.

Amend rule 2.4 “Heat” by adding the following text as the second paragraph:

With fame and heat comes respect: whenever a Criminal gains N Heat, that Criminal earns 100 times N Respect. Whenever a Criminal loses N Heat, that Criminal loses 100 times N Respect.

Given that communication is quite important this dynasty, I thought I’d make this thread for people to coordinate possible Assisted Actions, if they feel like publicly doing it on the blog. Enjoy!

For each Criminal, add 16 times H to that Criminal’s Respect, where H is the Heat of that Criminal.

Amend rule 2.4 “Heat” by adding the following text as the second paragraph:

With fame and heat comes respect: whenever the ruleset specifies that a Criminal’s Heat be increased by a positive amount N, that Criminal earns 16 times N Respect. Whenever the ruleset specifies that a Criminal’s heat be decreased by a positive amount N, that Criminal loses 16 times N Respect.

My attempt to put everyone in Jail was mostly illegal because most of the Criminals I Reported had a Heat equal to, not greater than, the Police Vigilance Number.  Please whack me with a stick.

southpointingchariot, Chronos, Spitemaster, and Ltn_Koen are still in jail.  (Ltn_Koen’s Heat was listed as 1, but should have been 2.)

...Just idle me.  I don’t usually fail at reading comprehension this badly.

I’ve created the field for tracking the Jail in the GNDT.

The admin who enacted Jail should have done that, not me. I don’t know who it was, and I will not look to see who it was.

We have never had to explicitly create columns in the GNDT, like Koen is doing in his proposal for Families. If the ruleset says something is tracked in the GNDT, obviously we need a column in the GNDT to track that. So, the freaking admin who enacts the darn thing should as well go there and create the effing column.

People, we are not Agora. That invasion failed. We can stop being jerks and resume BN play as usual. Seriously.

FYI, I have put everyone other than myself in Jail.  This means that no one can perform any Assisted Actions, including Prison Breaks, until a new Criminal joins or unidles, or a proposal such as Chronos’ passes

Create a new GNDT column with title “Family”.
Create a new rule, titled “Families” and reading:

Each Criminal may belong to up to one Family; this is tracked in the GNDT. A Criminal who belongs to no Family may set their Family at any time, to any valid English phrase.
At any time, a Criminal may transfer any positive amount of Wealth or Firepower from themselves to any other Criminal that belong to the same Family as they do, unless that would result in either of those two Criminals having negative Wealth or Firepower.

Add as the second paragraph of rule Jail:

If the number of complete days since the last time a Criminal went to Jail is greater than their heat and they are still in Jail, then that Criminal may set their own Heat to 1 and set themself to not be in Jail.

Create a rule “Families”, reading:

Any criminal may belong to a Family, which is tracked in the GNDT. A Criminal who has no Family may set their Family at any time, to any valid English phrase.

At any time, a Criminal may transfer any amount of Wealth or Firepower to another Criminal in the same Family as them, unless that would result in either of those two Criminals having negative Wealth or Firepower.

If rule 2.3 “Swag” contains the text “Whenever a criminal does an Assisted Action defined in this rule, their Heat is increased by 1”, replace it with “Whenever a criminal does an Assisted Action defined in this rule, their Heat is increased by 1.”.

Append the following text to rule 2.3 “Swag”:

When a Criminal does an Assisted Action defined in this rule, they must make a GNDT comment containing the time, in UTC format, at which they performed it.

In “Working Together”, change “a Criminal or Idle Criminal” to “a Criminal or Idle Criminal other than himself”.

In “Working Together”, change

A Criminal (the Culprit) can only perform an Assisted Action if they have a Partner (the Lookout), and the Lookout’s Partner is the Culprit.

to:

A Criminal (the Culprit) can only perform an Assisted Action if another Criminal (the Lookout) is their Partner, and the Lookout’s Partner is the Culprit.

Requesting to be unidled.

Anyone want to join me on this? I need 8 other players to make it work, but messing with the dynasty by making the PVN unreasonably high would be loads of fun. Teach ais a lesson for trying to avoid daily actions =) Someone could probably figure out how to make it work with less, but this one is nice and symmetric. (We easily could get away with six by clearing your own list, but it would reduce the amount we can raise the PVN per round by to 9 maxing it out at 45. Fewer than six, if even possible, probably would’nt leave much room for PVN increasing)

Here is how it works:

Nine players, named A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3, C1, C2 and C3.

A1 and A2 work to clear A1’s list, A2 and A3 work to clear A3’s list, A3 and A1 work to clear A3’s list. Same for Bs and Cs.

Now each *1 works with himself, and the 4 other 2s and 3s to hack the computers, raising the PVN. Each *2 works with the 1s and 3s, and each *3 works with the 1s and 2s.

This will result in 18 pairs and 9 singles, for a total of 27 added to the PVN. As long as a square is hit, everyones heat goes back to 1. Then A1, B1 and C1 can clear each others lists (effectively becoming the new A1, A2 and A3) and the same for A2, B2 and C2 and A3, B3 and C3. We are back to where we started, so can increase the PVN by 27 again. We can continue to do this as long as all nine people can stay munging with the GNDT.

Growing the PVN by 27 each time, the first time we’d miss a square is getting it to 351 which doesn’t reach 19 squared. But at that point, jailbreaks cost 7000 firework and reporting costs 3500 respect.

So yeah, I’ll be on IRC tonight if enough of you want to help me out. =D

Change, in the rule “Swag”, the text:

“Criminals have Wealth, Respect, and Firepower, non-negative integral statistics tracked in the GNDT, each defaulting to 500.”

to

“Criminals have Wealth and Firepower as non-negative integers tracked in the GNDT, each defaulting to 500.

Criminals have Respect as integers tracked in the GNDT which can be positive or negative and defaults to 500. Any Assisted Action that requires a Criminal to pay, spend, or lose their own respect cannot be performed if it would result in that player’s Respect valuing below 0.”

If the Police Vigilance Number is 0, set it to 1.

Create a rule “Jail”, reading:

Criminals may be in Jail. This is tracked in the GNDT. When a Criminal joins the game or unidles they are not in Jail. Criminals in Jail may not be the Culprit or the Lookout of an Assisted Action. When a Criminal goes to Jail their Former Partner list is emptied.

As an Assisted Action, a Criminal can spend R Respect, where R equals 10 times the Police Vigilance Number, in order to Report any Criminal whose Heat is greater than the Police Vigilance Number. This reduces the Culprit’s heat by 5, or to 0 if it was less than 5 before that action, and sends the reported Criminal to Jail.

Add to rule “Swag”:

As an Assisted Action, a Criminal can spend F Firepower, where F equals 20 times the Police Vigilance Number, in order to organize a Prison Break. This allows the Culprit to immediately set any number of other Criminals that are in Jail to not be in Jail anymore. For each Criminal that leaves Jail in that action, the Culprit’s Heat is increased by 2.

Create a rule “Families”, reading:

Any criminal may belong to a Family, which is tracked in the GNDT. A Criminal who has no Family may set their Family at any time, to any valid English sentence.

At any time, a Criminal may transfer any amount of Wealth, Respect or Firepower to another Criminal in the same Family as them, unless that would result in either of those two Criminals having negative Wealth, Respect or Firepower.

Add the following to the end of “Working Together”

If a Criminal has had annother Criminal in their former partners list for the entire span of the last seven days, the first Criminal may remove the second Criminal from their former partners list.

In the rule “Swag”:

Change the text “Pulled Off a Daring Heist” to “Stolen a Masterpiece”.

Change the text “Smuggled Armaments” to “Smuggled Arms”.

Edited to explicitly allow negativity 1813 UTC 1/10/12
Edited to remove integral 1944 UTC 1/10/12
Change, in the rule “Swag”, the text:

“Criminals have Wealth, Respect, and Firepower, non-negative integral statistics tracked in the GNDT, each defaulting to 500.”

to

“Criminals have Wealth and Firepower as non-negative integers tracked in the GNDT, each defaulting to 500.

Criminals have Respect as integers tracked in the GNDT which can be positive or negative and defaults to 500. Any Assisted Action that requires a Criminal to pay, spend, or lose their own respect cannot be performed if it would result in that player’s Respect valuing below 0.”

Change the username of the Criminal named coppro to scshunt

In the rule “Swag”, replace “their Wealth” with “their Wealth and the Lookout’s Wealth”, “their Respect” with “their Respect and the Lookout’s Respect”, and “their Firepower” with “their Firepower and the Lookout’s Firepower”.

Create a new dynastic rule titled “Disrespect”:

Each Criminal has a “Disrespects” field in the GNDT, initially blank, which they can blank, or set to the name of a Criminal in their Former Partners list with at least 150 Respect, at any time.  When the value of a Criminal’s Disrespects field is set to the name of a Criminal, that Criminal’s Respect is decreased by 150; when it is changed from the name of a Criminal, that Criminal’s Respect is increased by 150.

Create a new dynastic rule titled “Disrespect”:

Each Criminal has a “Disrespects” field in the GNDT, initially blank, which they can blank or set to the name of a Criminal in their Former Partners list at any time.  When the value of a Criminal’s Disrespects field is set to the name of a Criminal, that Criminal’s Respect is decreased by 5; when it is changed from the name of a Criminal, that Criminal’s Respect is increased by 5.

Change comex’s name to “omd”.

Create a rule “Jail”, reading:

Criminals may be in Jail. This is tracked in the GNDT. When a Criminal joins the game, or unidles for the first time in the dynasty, they are not in Jail. Criminals in Jail may not be the Culprit or the Lookout of an Assisted Action. When a Criminal goes to Jail their Former Partner list is emptied.

As an Assisted Action, a Criminal can spend R Respect, where R equals 10 times the Police Vigilance Number, in order to Report any Criminal whose Heat is greater than the Police Vigilance Number. This reduces the Culprit’s heat by 5, or to 0 if it was less than 5 before that action, and sends the reported Criminal to Jail.

Add to rule “Swag”:

As an Assisted Action, a Criminal can spend F Firepower, where F equals 20 times the Police Vigilance Number, in order to organize a Prison Break. This allows the Culprit to immediately set any number of other Criminals that are in Jail to not be in Jail anymore. For each Criminal that leaves Jail in that action, the Culprit’s Heat is increased by 2.

In rule “Swag”, substitute ” This increases their Heat by 1, and their Wealth” with ” This increases their Wealth”.

Add a second paragraph to rule Swag, reading:”
“Whenever a criminal does an Assisted Action defined in this rule, their Heat is increased by 1.”

Change Darth Cliche’s name to Klisz.

Rewrite the rule 1.2.1 “Idle Crimminals” to state:

Some Crimminals are Idle, and shall be marked as such in the sidebar. For the purposes of the Ruleset, excluding Rules “Ruleset and Gamestate”, “Crimminals” , “Dynasties”, “Fair Play”and any of those Rules’ subrules, Idle Crimminals are not counted as Crimminals .

If a Proposal contains a provision that targets a specifically named Idle Crimminals, then that Idle Crimminals is considered to be Unidle solely for the purposes of enacting that specific provision

When an Crimminals is unidled, if they went Idle in the same dynasty, their personal gamestate retains the last legally endowed values it had, if they are still valid. Otherwise (including if a value is invalid, does not exist, or the Crimminals Idled in a different dynasty), the Crimminals is given the default value for new Crimminals, if such a value exists.

A non-Idle Crimminal may request to go idle by either making a post to the blog detailing this request, or by adding a comment to a post where another driver requested to go idle, another driver requested to unidle, or an admin announced a driver idling or unidling, which was made within the last seven days.

An Idle Crimminal may request to go idle, provided he did not request to go idle within the last four days, by making a post to the blog detailing this request, or by adding a comment to a post where another driver requested to go idle, another driver requested to unidle, or an admin announced a driver idling or unidling, which was made within the last seven days.

If a Crimminal has posted a request to go idle within the last seven days and has not posted a request to unidle since then, or if they have not posted an entry or comment in the last seven days any admin may render that Crimminal idle. The admin must announce the change in a new blog post. Likewise, if a Crimminal has requested to unidle within the last seven days and has not requested to idle since then any admin may unidle that Crimminal. The admin must also announce the change in a new blog post.

Admins may combine multiple posts regarding idling in one. (i.e. announcing their intent to unidle, unindling themself, and resolving the request of another crimminal to idle).

I hope I can still idle him like this. Quorum drops to 8.

In the rule “Swag”:

Change the text “Pull Off a Daring Heist” to “Steal a Masterpiece”.

Change the text “Smuggle Armaments” to “Smuggle Arms”.

In the rule “Heat”:

Change the text “Cybervigilance” to “Vigilance”.

Change the text “Hack the Police Computers” to “Steal Police Files”.

Change the text “As an Assisted Action, a Criminal with no Heat can Perform Community Service. This increases their Heat to 1, and empties their Former Partner list”
to
“As an Assisted Action, a Criminal with no Heat can Steal an Identity. This increases their Heat to 1, and causes the Culprit’s Former Partners list to contain only the Lookout”.

Create a new dynastic rule, “Swag”:

Criminals have Wealth, Respect, and Firepower, non-negative integral statistics tracked in the GNDT, each defaulting to 500.

As an Assisted Action, a Criminal can Rob a Bank. This increases their Heat by 1, and their Wealth by the square of the number of complete hours since any Criminal last Robbed a Bank (or since this rule was enacted, if no Criminal has ever Robbed a Bank).

As an Assisted Action, a Criminal can Pull Off a Daring Heist. This increases their Respect by the square of the number of complete hours since any Criminal last Pulled Off a Daring Heist (or since this rule was enacted, if no Criminal has ever Pulled Off a Daring Heist).

As an Assisted Action, a Criminal can Smuggle Armaments. This increases their Firepower by the square of the number of complete hours since any Criminal last Smuggled Armaments (or since this rule was enacted, if no Criminal has ever Smuggled Armaments).

Create a new dynastic rule, “Heat”:

Criminals can end up being wanted by the police, or other similar law enforcement organisations. This is tracked in the GNDT as a non-negative integer, Heat, that defaults to 1.
There is a number, the Police Cybervigilance Number, initially 0, tracked in the Don’s Heat field in the GNDT.

As an Assisted Action, a Criminal can Hack the Police Computers. This increases the Police Cybervigilance Number by 1, and if it sets it to a square number, also decreases the Heat of every Criminal with positive Heat by 1.

As an Assisted Action, a Criminal with no Heat can Perform Community Service. This increases their Heat to 1, and empties their Former Partner list.

Create a dynastic rule, “Working Together”:

Each Criminal has a Partner (the name of a Criminal or Idle Criminal, or possibly empty), and a list of Former Partners (a possibly empty list of Criminals and Idle Criminals), both tracked in the GNDT. When a Criminal joins the game, or unidles for the first time in the dynasty, their Partner and list of Former Partners are set empty.

A Criminal can change their Partner to empty, or to any (non-idle) Criminal who is not on their Former Partners list, at any time.

Some game actions may be defined as Assisted Actions. A Criminal (the Culprit) can only perform an Assisted Action if they have a Partner (the Lookout), and the Lookout’s Partner is the Culprit. Performing an Assisted Action causes both the Culprit’s and the Lookout’s Partner to be set to empty, and the Culprit and Lookout added to each other’s Former Partners lists.

Set each Criminal’s Partner and list of Former Partners to be empty.

An anonymous note turns up just inside your secret hideout…

Too long have you all worked as a disorganised rabble, stealing for your own benefit and competing over scraps of unimportant drug deals. I am sending this note to each one of you, to let you know: I know about you, and I am upset with your performance.

From now on, you work for me. And you work with each other. Not too often, mind; no point in getting caught.

Further instructions will be provided when you have proved yourself trustworthy. For the time being, gather money and armaments to help with a future great operation, and vie for the respect of your peers; not all of you are cut out to be future leaders.

I will not ask you twice. Do not fail me.

—The Don

Replace Driver with Criminal. Replace Dispatcher with Don. Keep the rule “Central Office”, repealing all other dynastic rules.

I request to be unidled.

I did not post this as a comment to Darknight’s post, because they said they would like to be unidled, but didn’t request to be.
You may argue that “unidle please” is a request, but rule 1.2.1 states that “An Idling Post is a post within which a Driver requests to be idled or unidled.”, and I’m not sure whether the title may be considered “within” the blog post.

Per rule 1.2.1, and because it is still valid, once I am unidled, my personal gamestate will retain its last values: Cash is 0, Routes are HiAi*Do*Go*Ro*Ai*Re$*Du*Ai!Ja*Ja*Hi!Ai*Ai*Ja*Hi!Ta!. Not that it matters.

However I would like to point out that, though per rule 1.7, ais523’s Ascension Address “may optionally specify that the terms Driver and Dispatcher will be replaced with theme-specific terms throughout the entire ruleset”, I don’t believe it may make me a theme-specific Player, and thus I believe I will stay the Driver I became when Josh “added [me] to the roster in the sidebar and the GNDT”, as per rule 1.2.

One last thing: we’re currently in Hiatus, per rule 1.7: “During this time, the only game actions that may be taken are those covered by Rules “Drivers”, “Votable Matters”, “Calls for Judgment”, “Gamestate Tracking” and “Victory and Ascension”. ”
Unidling is covered only by rule “Idle Drivers”. You may argue that a subrule is part of the rule it is a subrule to, but if that is the case I suggest this be added to the Appendix.
Rule 1.2.1 contains the text “For the purposes of the Ruleset, excluding Rules “Ruleset and Gamestate”, “Drivers” , “Dynasties”, “Fair Play”and any of those Rules’ subrules, Idle Drivers are not counted as Drivers.”, which makes me think subrules are not part of the rule they are a subrule of.

I would like to be unidled. I’d do it myself but i’m not posting this by way of a computer.

I’d just like to say that I’m sorry for not starting the next dynasty yet. I’m a little exhausted, having a few problems with my RL sleep patterns, and I’ve tried a couple of times to write the start of the dynasty and not really managed it. I may be able to start it in the next couple of days, but maybe not.

If people think this is unreasonable, and it may well be, I’d be happy to pass the mantle to some Emperor who has more time than me to run a dynasty, and hold the theme back for another time.

I request to be unidled.

I request to be unidled.

I’ve unidled the backlog of unidle requests, along with myself. Quorum is now 8.

I request to unidle.

I request to unidle.

I am requesting to be unidled.

Unidle me, please

I go away for 3 weeks and this happens. Please unidle me.

unidle me please

I just drove an Active Golden Route, with four other Golden Routes in my pool at the time. Thus, I achieve victory.

So, Blockade routes are up to 13. Let’s see how long this can go before it becomes inordinately silly.

In the subrule “Idle Drivers”, change

Any idle Driver, provided they did not go idle within the same dynasty in the previous four days, may submit an Idling Post or Idling Comment requesting themselves to be unidled.

to

Any idle Driver, if they did not go idle within the same dynasty in the previous four days, or if their most recent idling was as a result of not posting an entry or comment for a seven-day period, may submit an Idling Post or Idling Comment requesting themselves to be unidled.

I make myself unidle.  Quorum becomes 5.

EDIT: I cannot make myself unidle due to sloppy wording in 1.2.

In rule 1.2, to the end of the following:

Any idle Driver, provided they did not go idle within the same dynasty in the previous four days, may submit an Idling Post or Idling Comment requesting themselves to be unidled.

Add:

An admin who unlidles themselves may skip this step when doing so.

Bucky, Darknight, Murphy, Prince Anduril and Soviet Brendon all idle out after protracted periods of non-posting, and I unidle, leaving quorum at a highly agile 4.