In the rule “Fuel”, change the text

As a weekly action, a Shuttle may gain 3 Fuel, or 6 Fuel if a Proposal of theirs has been enacted during the previous seven days.

to

Each Shuttle with less than 15 Fuel may gain 3 Fuel as a weekly action.  The Traffic Warden may gain Fuel in this way even if it has 15 or more Fuel.  Each Shuttle may, as a separate weekly action, gain 4 Fuel if they are the author of a Proposal that became enacted in the last 7 days but after the last time they took this action (or after the start of the dynasty if they have never taken this acton).

The author of this proposal gains no Fuel for its enactment.

The “Market Values” proposal and “Worth of Substances” rule require me to track Minimum and Maximum values.  However, they don’t explicitly authorize me to choose those values in the first place.

I have assumed this means they aren’t Gamestate, and I can therefore change them as I wish.  This may be incorrect.

Therefore:
The Traffic Warden shall, as soon as is practical after this CfJ passes, set minimum and maximum values for each Substance that requires them.  The chosen values must be consistent with the values already revealed on the Market Values page.

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

As a Knock-On Action, a Shuttle can Deflect another Shuttle in the same orbit.  They decrease the other Shuttle’s Orbit Number by 1 and increase their own Orbit Number by 1.  They may then take a bonus Knock-On Action.  If they do, they must skip any further Knock-On Actions that the bonus Knock-On Action would permit.

In the rule “Navigation” remove the text

Orbits with the same Moon are equivalent modulo the Moon’s Orbital Size; that is, if an Orbit would have an Orbit Number larger than its Moon’s Orbital Size, instead divide its Orbit Number by the Orbital Size and set the Orbital Number to the remainder, or to the Orbital Size if the remainder is 0.

Then add the following text to the end of the rule:

Orbits with the same Moon are equivalent modulo the Moon’s Orbital Size; that is, if an Orbit would have an Orbit Number larger than its Moon’s Orbital Size or less than 1, instead divide its Orbit Number by the Orbital Size and set the Orbital Number to the remainder, or to the Orbital Size if the remainder is 0.

If “Worth of Substances” is a rule, replace “Each Substance has a Minimum Worth between 1 and 10 and a Maximum Worth between the Minimum Worth and 30” with

Each Substance has a Minimum Worth between 1 and 5 and a Maximum Worth between the Minimum Worth and 8

If “Trading Posts” is a rule, get rid of the text “as a daily action” within it. After the sentence that ends “another substance that is of equal worth,” add

A Shuttle may only do this if the last trade they made was not at the same trading post.

In the rule “Fuel”, replace “Each Shuttle may gain 3 Fuel as a weekly action. Whenever a Proposal becomes Enacted, unless the Proposal’s text states otherwise, its author gains 2 Fuel.” with:-

As a weekly action, a Shuttle may gain 3 Fuel, or 6 Fuel if a Proposal of theirs has been enacted during the previous seven days.

Ugh, we just had a spam blog entry (“Hey Friends, Now, You can find any new video/mp3 at [...] and simply download in just single click.”), which I’ve deleted. While banning the freshly created account I realised that we’ve had one thousand new EE accounts created and lurking since the ExpressionEngine upgrade - they’ve been arriving from the 3rd of November onwards, at a rate of hundreds per day. I’ve gone ahead and disabled new member registration temporarily, in case that spambot had returned the good news to its masters and an army had been mobilised. (If any humans are reading this and want to join the game, just contact an admin through other channels and we’ll sort something out.)

Prior to the EE upgrade we weren’t getting any spammers - I don’t know if that was security through obscurity, or if things were set up differently. Our current setup uses what seems to be a default captcha, which I assume has been cracked. I’ll take a look at replacing it with reCAPTCHA later today, unless any better suggestions are made in comments.

In

Each Shuttle may gain 3 Fuel as a weekly action.

to

Each Shuttle with less than 15 Fuel may gain 3 Fuel as a weekly action.  The Traffic Warden may gain Fuel in this way even if it has 15 or more Fuel.

Add a new subrule to the rule “Local Maneuvring”, called “Orbital Dockyards”:-

An Orbital Dockyard is a type of Structure. If a Shuttle’s Orbit contains an Orbital Dockyard, that Shuttle may spend 1 tonne of any Substance to replace one of their own XDICEY Thrusters with an ADICEB Thruster, where “A” and “B” are positive integers whose sum is equal to “X” plus “Y”.

After “and a maximum value of at most 12.” in rule “Local Maneuvring”, add:-

A DICEX Thruster may also be considered to be a 1DICEX Thruster.

Select a random Orbit on Ganymede that contains no Structures, and a random Orbit on Europa that contains no Structures, and add an Orbital Dockyard to each of those Orbits.

If “Orbit Contents” is a rule:

Add a new rule titled “Worth of Substances”:

Each Substance has a Minimum Worth between 1 and 10 and a Maximum Worth between the Minimum Worth and 30; these are tracked privately by the Traffic Warden. Each substance also has a Market Value, which is different for each Moon. Market Value is tracked in the subsection of the “Market Values” wiki page corresponding to that Orbit’s Moon.

The Market Values wiki page is considered gamestate and may only be modified in ways allowed by the rules.

If there is a Moon without a section on the Market Values page, any Shuttle may add an empty section to it for that Moon.  For each section of the Market Values page, for any Substance S not mentioned within that section excluding Iron, any player may add the text “One S is worth: - Iron” to that subsection. That text shall be referred to as the “Sentence of Value” for that Substance.

As a weekly action, for each Substance and each Moon, the Traffic Warden should privately choose a random number between that Substance’s Minimum Worth and Maximum Worth, inclusive, to be that Substance’s Market Value for that Moon. The Traffic Warden shall then change the numeral (or hyphen) within the Sentence of Value to reflect the current Market Value.

The Substances are:
• Sulfur
• Ice
• Iron

Add a new rule titled “Trading Posts”:

A Trading Post is a type of Structure. If a Shuttle’s Orbit contains a Trading Post, that Shuttle may, as a daily action, exchange any amount of one Substance for an amount of another Substance that is of equal worth. An amount of Substance’s total worth is calculated as its Market Value in that Orbit times the quantity of Substance.

Blank the Market Values wiki page, then add “Io”, “Europa”, “Ganymede”, and “Callisto” sections to it. Add Sentences of Value for each Substance within each section.

Add a Trading Post to each Orbit with an Orbit Number of 5.

Add a new Dynastic Rule to the Ruleset.  Call it “Express Veto” and give it the following text:

The Traffic Warden may fail Vetoed proposals that aren’t the oldest pending proposal. The Traffic Warden should do so if and only if the proposal was vetoed because it did not fit with his plans for the dynasty.

Add a new Dynastic Rule called “Orbit Contents” with the following text:

Orbits can contain things other than shuttles.  These are tracked in the subsection of the “Orbit Contents” wiki page corresponding to that orbit.  If there is an Orbit without a subsection on the Orbit Contents page, any Shuttle may add an empty subsection to it for that Orbit.

The Orbit Contents wiki page is considered gamestate and may only be modified in ways allowed by the rules.

Structures are one category of object that an Orbit might contain. An Orbit can contain at most one Structure; if an Orbit contains a Structure, any attempt to add additional Structures fails.

Blank the Orbit Contents wiki page, then add “Io”, “Europa”, “Ganymede”, “Callisto” and “Other” sections to it.  Then add a subsection for each Orbit to the appropriate section.

In the rule “Shipping”, replace the text “If the Orbit Number of a Shuttle’s Orbit is 1,” with “Space Elevators are a type of Structure.  If a Shuttle’s Orbit contains a Space Elevator,”

Add a Space Elevator to every Orbit with an Orbit Number of 1.

Remove the sentence “The Traffic Warden may cause any Proxy to act at any time, and should do so to keep the game running smoothly.” from the ruleset.

Add 21 Sulfur to the Bay of MC Keitalia. 

The author of this proposal gains no Fuel for its enactment.

If a rule exists called “Once-an-Orbit Actions”, repeal it.

To the last paragraph of the rule “Local Maneuvering”, add:-

The Shuttle may then optionally perform a single Knock-On Action.

In the rule “Derelicts”, replace the sentence beginning “Any Shuttle with the same Orbit as a Derelict” with:

Any Shuttle with the same Orbit as a Derelict may, as a Knock-On Action, cause that Derelict to take a GNDT action.

Add a new rule entitled “Landing”, with the following text:

If a Shuttle has zero Fuel for 48 consecutive hours, the numerical portion of its Orbit (if it has one) shall be changed to “[L]”, indicating that it is Landed on the Moon’s surface. A Landed Shuttle may at any time spend 2 Fuel (that it has acquired after Landing) to regain a normal Orbit, at which time it will replace “[L]” in its Orbit with the result of a 1DICEX roll, where X is the Orbital Size of the Shuttle’s current Moon.

If “Shipping” is a rule, add a new rule, “Trading”:

If two Shuttles are in the same Orbit, one (the Trader) can as a daily action Trade one set of Substances that the Trader owns with another that the other Shuttle (the Recipient) owns of equal worth. The Recipient does not have to give their consent to Trade. Worth is calculated as follows:

One tonne of Ice is worth two tonnes of Iron.
One tonne of Iron is worth three tonnes of Sulfur.
One tonne of Ice is worth five tonnes of Sulfur.

If a Substance’s worth is not enumerated, then a Trade involving that Substance cannot be made.

Sorry, ignore this

In the rule “Navigation”, replace

“An Orbit is a Moon (tracked as the first letter of the Moon’s name) followed by an Orbit Number from 1 to the Moon’s Orbital Size. New Shuttles start in Orbit G20.”

with

“An Orbit is a Moon (tracked as the first letter of the Moon’s name) followed by an Orbit Number from 0 to the Moon’s Orbital Size. New Shuttles start in Orbit G0.”

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

If 2 or more Shuttles have the same Orbit and that Orbit is not G0, reset all columns of that Shuttle

Add a new rule, “Once-an-Orbit Actions”:

If a game action is a Once-an-Orbit Action, each Shuttle able to perform it may take that action if and only if they have not already taken that action since changing Orbits.

If “Derelicts” is a rule, reword it to read:

Derelicts are a type of Proxy.  Any Shuttle with the same Orbit as a Derelict, as a Once-an-Orbit Action, may cause that Derelict to take a GNDT action.

There are three Derelicts: MC Geran, MC Damanor and MC Keitalia.

Sorry about leaving, I was really busy. Now is not so busy, so hopefully I’ll be able to play.

Change the definition of “Wiki” in Rule 3.1 (Keywords) from

The BlogNomic Wiki at http://blognomic.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

to

The BlogNomic Wiki at http://wiki.blognomic.com

Rename the rule “The Assistant Referees” to “Proxies”.  Remove the text “The Traffic Warden is considered to be a Shuttle for this rule and its subrules” from it.

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

Derelicts are a type of Proxy.  Any Shuttle with the same Orbit as a Derelict may cause that Derelict to take a GNDT action, if they have not done so since they last changed Orbits.

There are three Derelicts: MC Geran, MC Damanor and MC Keitalia.

Set MC Damanor’s Fuel to 10, and the other Derelicts’ Fuel to 0.  Set MC Geran’s Orbit to I3, MC Damanor’s orbit to E7 and MC Keitalia’s orbit to G14. 

If there is an “Engine” GNDT column, give MC Geran a DICE2 Thruster, MC Damanor a 2DICE3 Thruster and MC Keitalia a DICE4 Thruster and a DICE8 Thruster, instead of the normal initial Engine.

Add the following text to the end of the first paragraph of the rule “Navigation”:

Orbits with the same Moon are equivalent modulo the Moon’s Orbital Size; that is, if an Orbit would have an Orbit Number larger than its Moon’s Orbital Size, instead divide its Orbit Number by the Orbital Size and set the Orbital Number to the remainder, or to the Orbital Size if the remainder is 0.

If there is no rule “Thrusters”, Add a new dynastic rule to the ruleset.  Call it ‘Local Maneuvering’ and give it the following text:

Each Shuttle has between one and three Thrusters, tracked in the GNDT in the column ‘Engine’.  A Thruster is a valid dice formula with a minimum value of at least 1 and a maximum value of at most 12.  Thrusters may not be of the form XDICE1 for any number X.
New Shuttles start with a DICE4 Thruster.  A Shuttle cannot under any circumstances lose or trade away its last Thruster.

A Thruster is Overcharged if its maximum value is at least 61% of the Orbital Size of its Shuttle’s Moon.  As a special exception, DICE4 and 2DICE2 Thrusters are not considered Overcharged in Io Orbits.

A Shuttle may spend 1 Fuel to Maneuver.  They roll the dice for each of their non-Overcharged Thrusters that they have not used to change Orbits in the last 20 hours.  If there are no such Thrusters, they cannot Maneuver.  They then select the result of one roll and increase their Orbit Number by that amount.

Then, if there is a rule “Local Maneuvering”, Give each Shuttle a single DICE4 Thruster as its Engine.

The author of this proposal gains no Fuel for its enactment.

Here’s my list of things I plan to eventually propose this dynasty if someone else doesn’t get there first:
* Maneuvering, using Fuel (done)
** Customizable thrusters (partly proposed)
* Re-introduce some Proxies (done)
* Space Stations, a reason to visit many orbits (being replaced by Structures)
* Hiveminds, a way to temporarily team up with other players.

Add a new rule, “Shipping”:-

Each Shuttle has a Bay, which may contain zero or more tonnes of each Substance which a rule allows to be added to a Shuttle Bay. A Shuttle’s Bay contents are tracked in the “Bay” column of the GNDT, in a suggested format of “1 Sulphur, 2 Ice”. Shuttles default to having an empty Bay.

If the Orbit Number of a Shuttle’s Orbit is 1, it may spend 1 Fuel to take the following action corresponding to its Orbit’s Moon:-

• Io: Mine Sulphur, the Shuttle adding 1 tonne of Sulphur to its Bay.
• Europa: Mine Ice, the Shuttle adding 1 tonne of Ice to its Bay.
• Ganymede: Mine Iron or Ice, the Shuttle adding 1 tonne of the chosen Substance to its Bay.
• Callisto: CLASSIFIED. Nothing happens.

To the rule “Navigation”, add:-

If the Orbit Number of Shuttle’s Orbit is greater than the Orbital Size of its Orbit’s Moon, then that Shuttle is Adrift.

Replace “an Orbit Number from 1 to the Moon’s Orbital Size” with “an Orbit Number from 1 to 50”.

Add a subrule to “Navigation” called “Thrusters”:-

A Shuttle may pay 1 Fuel to increase the Orbit Number of its own Orbit by up to 5. A Shuttle may decrease the Orbit Number of its own Orbit at any time.

If a Shuttle is Adrift, it may spend 1 Fuel to change the Moon of its Orbit to any Moon.

What the heck, I’m going to try to play a round. I’m unidling.

Quorum increases to 5.

(Do remember: “Seventy-Fifth Trombone” is a BlogNomic player; “75th Trombone” is the server administrator. I don’t remember why I did this, but I did, so here we are.)

In the rule “Victory and Ascension”, change the text “When a DoV is failed, the Shuttle who posted it” to “When a DoV is failed, if it had at least one AGAINST vote, the Shuttle who posted it”

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

Each Shuttle has an amount of Fuel, tracked in the “Fuel” column of the GNDT. New Shuttles start with 2 Fuel or the amount of Fuel the Traffic Warden has, whichever is higher.

Each Shuttle may gain 3 Fuel as a weekly action.  Whenever a Proposal becomes Enacted, unless the Proposal’s text states otherwise, its author gains 2 Fuel.

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

There are four Moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.  Each Moon has an Orbital Size: 5 for Io, 10 for Europa, 20 for Ganymede and 1 for Callisto.

Each Shuttle has an Orbit, tracked in the GNDT.  An Orbit is a Moon (tracked as the first letter of the Moon’s name) followed by an Orbit Number from 1 to the Moon’s Orbital Size.  New Shuttles start in Orbit G20.

Add a new sub rule to the rule “Navigation”.  Call it “Restricted Area” and give it the following text:

Only the Traffic Warden may have orbit C1.

Set all Shuttles’ Orbit to G20.  Set the Traffic Warden’s Orbit to C1.  Set all Shuttles’ Fuel to 2.  The author of this proposal does not gain Fuel when it becomes enacted.

On behalf of the Jovian Authority, I welcome the newest batch of Gnome-class autonomous service craft to the system.  As self-owned AIs, you don’t have to worry about the usual immigration paperwork.  Just please be aware that Callisto orbit is off-limits to unauthorized vessels and that it’s considered rude to use your anti-meteoroid devices to nudge other spacecraft.

Repeal all Dynastic Rules except for “The Assistant Referees” (do not keep its subrule, “List of Proxies”).  Change Coach to Traffic Warden and Player to Shuttle. 

So I was working on the database to fix Unicode handling. I didn’t succeed, and realized that what I was doing wasn’t what I wanted to be doing. So I reverted the DB. There’s a 20–40 minute span tonight where if you commented, it may have disappeared. I have a backup of most of that span and will try to check to see if anything was in fact lost.

As soon as possible, I’d love it if an admin could set me back as active. Thanks!

*Archive the current ruleset
*Clean the GNDT logs (please, Kevin)
*Fill in the remainder of the Dynastic History wiki page
*Build hype

He hasn’t posted, commented or taken GNDT actions in over a week, so I’m idling him.  Quorum drops to 3.

I have the ball.  I have 3 Scores.  Everyone else has 2 or fewer Scores.  It’s after Noon on November 20th, 2014. I have achieved victory.

I’d like to thank Sprucial for his endgame cooperation.

In the rule “List of Proxies”, change the text

McDefense to randomly choose Defense or Midfield player

to

McDefense to randomly choose a Defense or Midfield player, other than itself,

In the rule “”, change the text

McDefense to randomly choose Defense or Midfield player

to

McDefense to randomly choose a Defense or Midfield player, other than itself,

In the rule “Ball In and Out of Play,” after the phrase “If no Player has the Ball, it is considered Out of Play.” add the phrase

If the Ball ever becomes Out of Play, it is removed from every player.

The Body field is required.

In the Rule titled “Ball In and Out of Play”, replace “When the Ball becomes Out of Play, all Assisting Players cease to be Assisting. ” with:-

When the Ball becomes Out of Play, all Assisting Players cease to be Assisting and all Players cease to have the Ball.

I’m shooting again.

In the rule “The Duration of the Match”, change the text

more Score than any other Player

to

more Score than each other non-Proxy Player

In the rule ‘Offside’, change the text

If a Player Kicks the Ball to a Player that is not in the same Position or an Adjacent Position to the kicking Player, then the Ball becomes Out of Play

to

If a Player attempts to Kick the Ball to a Player that is not in the same Position or an Adjacent Position to the kicking Player, then the Ball instead becomes Out of Play

Shooting.

So I was cleaning up some server stuff tonight, deleting old cruft etc., when I stumbled across an export of the old BlogSpot version of BlogNomic from 2003 to 2005. One global find/replace and one medium-difficulty RewriteRule later, it’s almost fully functional:

http://blogspot.blognomic.com/

For those of you not following along with the Maintenance post from a few days ago, the old wiki is now living on a different server:

http://oldwiki.blognomic.com

You can now log in there and port over anything you like that didn’t make the import. I’ll leave it running until at least January 1, and possibly longer, depending on what I decide to do with that server after my initial two months run out.

Add to the end of the rule “The Field of Play”:

If the Ball is held by a player with the position Defense or Goalkeeper, all Players with the Positions Defense or Goalkeeper shall change their Position to become Offence or Midfield, and all Players with the Positions Offence or Midfield shall change their positions to become Defense. One random player with the position Defense shall change their Position to become Goalkeeper.

Shooting!

Add the following text to the end of the rule “The Field of Play”:

Players may spend 1 Score to change their Position, or to cease to have a Position.

Well, that was among the worst things I’ve ever done on a computer, but six and a half hours later, it’s done. There’s a new wiki at http://wiki.blognomic.com/, and the blog is now running the latest version of ExpressionEngine on PHP 5.4.

Things should be about like normal on the blog, although the editing interface has changed and we’ve lost some of our canned text snippets. I might try to get those back later this week.

The Wiki will probably require some work. I haven’t gotten the images out of the old one yet; I hope to be able to do it this week. The old wiki is broken now, but I can still run it on my local machine or look at the raw database, so we should be okay. I created wiki accounts for those few active players that had preexisting ones on the old wiki. I made Kevan an admin, but Bucky, I didn’t make you one yet, because the email address you had on file made me hesitate. If you’ll post here acknowledging that you got the creation email and have control of that account, I’ll promote you.

Do post here or email me (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) with any weirdnesses that need fixing, and I’ll get to them ASAP.

Add the following text to the rule “The Duration of the Match”:

If, at any time after November 20th, 2014 at Noon, the player with the Ball has more Score than any other Player, that player achieves victory.