To the rule “Photos”, add a paragraph:-

The word “BlogNomic” in a Photo can be regarded as being any Hunter’s name, if no earlier Capture Photos of that Target include the word “BlogNomic”. The word “Wildcard” in a Photo is considered to be a valid Word of the Day for any post that Photo appears in - Photos containing the word “Wildcard” may not be used to Capture a Target if the Capturing Hunter has Captured that Target previously.

Today, I happened to be within a short distance of one of the Targets (Union Terminal in Cincinnati, Ohio, US).  I didn’t bother taking a photo, though, for several reasons:
1) I thought wouldn’t be able to access a suitable computer before the end of the Blognomic day (it turns out I was wrong about that though!)
2) Even if I knew I’d be able to post the photo, there wouldn’t be enough time to negotiate with an active player for it.
3) The negotiation would have needed to happen before taking the photo.

Since getting proxies to take pictures for you is an intended part of the dynastic mechanics, I therefore suggest the following rule changes:
1) Idle Hunters should be able to sign photos.
2) There should be a mechanism for handing off a signed photo to another Hunter so that the other Hunter can capture the Target instead.
I was also going to suggest a longer than 24 hour grace period for posting photos, but that seems to have been covered already.

In the rule “Points”, remove:

Whenever the Moderator’s Points are increased, the Points of all other Hunters are increased by the same amount.

To “Points”, add:-

As a Weekly Communal Action, a Hunter may award 2 points to every Hunter who has been the Celebrant of one or more Targets in the previous 24 hours.

Add to the rule “Points” the following:

Whenever the Moderator’s Points are increased, the Points of all other Hunters are increased by the same amount.

Increase the Points of all Hunters besides the Moderator by 2.

Add the following to the list of Targets:

• The White Stag Sign in Portland, Oregon, US
• The facade of Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal in Cincinnati, Ohio, US
• The largest glasshouse at the Cambridge Botanic Gardens in Cambridge, UK
• The facade of Greystone Castle in Canastota, New York, US

In “Photos”, replace “the Merriam Webster Word of the Day for the day on which the photograph was taken” with:-

the Merriam Webster Word of the Day for the day on which that post was made

Add a paragraph to “Photos”:-

For a Photo to be “of” a Target, it must be an original photo of the physical object described by the Target, taken by a person present at the location of that object.

If any Hunters have claimed points for photos of Targets which would not be considered to be “of” those Targets under this amended rule, deduct those points.

To the second paragraph of “Targets”, add:-

A Hunter may not capture the same Target more than once within a 48 hour period.

I claim the Shabaka Stone target at the British Museum.

Create a new rule “Finish Line” with the following text:

A hunter with 100 points or more may achieve victory.

Replace the second paragraph onward of “Photos” with:-

A Photo included in a blog post is Confirmed if it contains an authentic handwritten appearance (taken as part of the photograph) of the Merriam Webster Word of the Day for the day on which that post was made, or for the preceding day (per http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day), and if it is not copied or visually derived from an earlier Confirmed Photo of the same Target.

For a Photo to be “of” a Target, it must be an original photo of the physical object described by the Target, taken by a person present at the location of that object.

If any Hunters have claimed points for photos of Targets which would not be considered to be “of” those Targets under this amended rule, deduct those points.

Add to the rule “Points” the following:

Each time an Admin enacts a Proposal, they must increase the Points of the Proposal’s creator by one.

Replace the second paragraph of the rule “Photos” with:

A Photo is Confirmed if it contains an authentic handwritten appearance (taken as part of the photograph) of:

• exactly one name of a Hunter
• the Merriam Webster Word of the Day for the day on which the photograph was taken, or the preceding day (per http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day).

A Hunter may only include a Photo in blog posts if the Photo contains an authentic handwritten appearance of their name.

In “Targets”, replace the paragraph beginning “If a Hunter makes a blog post that includes a Confirmed Photo of a Target” with:-

Each Target may be Controlled by a single Hunter (or idle Hunter), tracked in the wiki page and defaulting to nobody. A Hunter may capture a Target by making a blog post that includes a Confirmed Photo of it (embedded as a visible image), unless they are its Celebrant - upon doing so, they become its Controller.

Upon becoming the Controller of a Target which had no previous Controller, a Hunter may gain 2 points and award 1 point to the Celebrant (if one exists) of that Target. Upon becoming the Controller of a Target which they have never Controlled before (and which previously had a different Controller), a Hunter may gain 1 point.

If a Hunter is not the Celebrant of any uncontrolled Targets, they may add a new Valid Target to the wiki page, with themselves as its Celebrant.

In “Targets”, replace “The following is a list of Targets in the game:-” and the list below it with:-

The Targets in the game are tracked on the BlogNomic wiki page [[Targets]]. Within the ruleset, a rule only refers to a Target in the sense of its appearance on that page if it is explicitly stated that it refers to a Target in that way.

Then replace the “Targets” wiki page with the list of Targets.

In “Target guidelines”, replace “It specifies an object, a location and a Celebrant” with:-

It specifies an object, a location and (optionally) a Celebrant

Replace “and is not already listed as a Target or a struck-through Target” with:-

and is not already listed as a Target, nor as a struck-through list item which used to be a Target

If the proposal “Alea Iacta Est” or the proposal “What Do Points Mean?” failed, this proposal has no effect.

Add a new rule called “Backers” as follows:

A Hunter may bet that another specific Hunter will be the one to photograph a given Target; this is called backing a Hunter. To do so, they must pay two Points and make a new blog post titled “I bet X gets Y,” where X is the name of a Hunter besides themselves (the backed Hunter) and Y is the name of a Valid Target. If the backed Hunter does post a Confirmed Photo of that Target while it is still Valid, the Hunter who backed them gains three Points, after which the backing relationship ceases to exist. A Hunter may not back more than one other Hunter for a given Target.

If Proposal: Alea Iacta Est failed, this proposal does nothing.

In the rule “Targets”, replace “They may then add a new Target to the list” with “They may then add a new Valid Target to the list”.

If Proposal: Make It Snappy failed, this proposal does nothing.

Otherwise, add the following to the end of the final paragraph in the rule entitled “Targets”:

They may then add a new Target to the list, with themselves as the Celebrant of that Target.

In the same rule, after the phrase “If a Hunter makes a blog post that includes a Confirmed Photo of a Target”, add “that they are not listed as the Celebrant of”.

If that rule contains the phrase “if they do so, they gain 1 Point”, remove it, and add the following:

They may then gain 2 points and award 1 point to the Celebrant of that Target.

Add a subrule to the same rule, entitled Target guidelines:

A Target is Valid if all of the following conditions are true:

• It specifies an object, a location and a Celebrant;
• The object is a visible, tangible item that can be accessed by the public, can be captured in a photograph, and is not already listed as a Target or a struck-through Target;
• The location is listed as the location of at least one active player of BlogNomic;
• The Celebrant is the name of the Hunter who added it to the list.

Enact a new rule, “Points”:-

Each Hunter has a number of Points, tracked in the GNDT.

In the rule “Targets” (if it exists), after “they may strike that Target through by editing this rule” add:-

- if they do so, they gain 1 Point

Enact a new rule, “Photos”:-

Hunters may take Photos, hosting them on whatever website or social media service they wish.

A Photo is Confirmed if it contains an authentic handwritten appearance (taken as part of the photograph) of the Merriam Webster Word of the Day for the day on which the photograph was taken, or the preceding day (per http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day).

Enact a new rule, “Targets”:-

The following is a list of Targets in the game:-

• The Shabaka Stone at the British Museum, London.

If a Hunter makes a blog post that includes a Confirmed Photo of a Target (embedded as a visible image), they may strike that Target through by editing this rule. Struck-through Targets are no longer considered to be Targets.

Trying something a bit different this dynasty, so no in-character preamble: this is intended as a real-world scavenger hunt where players take photos of things and submit them to the blog. We’ll see what direction the proposals head in, but I’d be interested in restricting the game to a particular city, to give the potential for some real-life interaction between players (such as having short time windows in which photos had to be taken without being spotted). It’d limit the player base, but it might bring in some much-needed fresh blood, and distant players could potentially recruit local friends to run missions on their behalf.

Replace “Imagineer” with “Hunter” and “Boss” with “Moderator”.

I am massively over-budget with 30,000 after nobody undercut my scandalously high bid on the Haunted House. I pay off my -80 Debt. (“An Imagineer may reduce their Budget by X to reduce their Debt by X (ie. move its value towards zero), at any time.”) I now have a Budget of 29,920.

The first step of processing a Business Day is “Reconciliation: if the processing Imagineer’s Budget is greater than 0, move the Boss’s Debt toward 0 by that amount, then set the processing Imagineer’s Budget to 0.”

The Boss’s Debt is -10,000 after the Swampwater Bailout. I wipe out my Budget and move the Boss’s Debt 29,920 towards zero. It becomes zero. (“If an Imagineer would move the Boss’s Debt toward 0 by a value greater than the current absolute value of the Boss’s Debt, instead, the Boss’s Debt is set to 0.”)

The rest of that Business Day: +90 Tourism (stays zero), +180 Ticket Income (also stays zero), +9 SMILEs.

“If the Boss’s Debt is 0, the Imagineer with the most Smiles has achieved victory.”

With 35 SMILEs to other Imagineers’ 18, 10 and 10, I declare Victory.

I need a place to hide.

The first shuttle buses are showing up Monday at 7. Maybe… maybe we can say there’s a construction-based seasonal theme?

Set the Boss’s Debt to -10000.

IceFromHell and Spitemaster idle out after 9 and 8 days of inactivity respectively. The Thing Zone remains standing and quorum drops to 3.

Add a subrule to “Buildings” called “Log Flume”:

Cost: 2000
Size: 2
Effect: +2 SMILES per Teen or Adult Visitor that Business Day. Teen and Adult Visitors are ignored for the purposes of all non-Log-Flume Buildings in a Zone which has a Log Flume.

Hello? Did someone cut my intercom? Is anyone hearing this? I didn’t just invent you all… did I?

Add to the rule “Planning” the following paragraph:

If a Demand Post is more than a week old and has no bids, any Imagineer may close it by making a comment on it to that effect, in which case Budgets are not adjusted and the relevant Building does not become planned.

In “Focus Grouping”, replace “Upon posting a Demand Post, the Boss may add three Visitors (of random types) to the most recent Business Day, if that Day is not Crowded.” with:

Upon posting a Demand Post, the Boss must add three Visitors (of random types) to each Business Day which is not Crowded.

We—we open in a week and we’ve only finished two buildings. I need my heart pills. This isn’t possible. We don’t even have gates. Someone—will someone please build a gate

Add a subrule to “Buildings” called “Costumed Character Rec Room”:

Cost: 250
Size: 0
Effect: +1 SMILE and 25 Wages per visitor that Business Day.

Reword the “Ticket Income” step of “Visitors” to:-

Move the processing Imagineer’s Debt toward 0 by (20 times the number of Visitors for that Business Day), plus any Income generated in the Imagineer’s Zone that Business Day, minus the total Wages of Buildings in the Imagineer’s Zone that Business Day. (If the total being moved would be negative, the Debt is moved negatively away from zero by that amount instead.)

To “Construction”, add:-

When constructing a Building, an Imagineer may choose to instead construct a Budget version of it by treating either C, S or X as zero in the costing equation. Budget Buildings are noted as such in the Nomicland wiki. All numbers in the Effects of Budget Buildings are considered to be halved, rounded down, and any instances of the word “half” are replaced with “quarter” in those Effects.

Double the Income and Tourism bonuses for each existing building that is a subrule of Construction. (Update the corresponding listings of any buliding in a Zone on the Nomicland page to match the new values in the Ruleset.)

If any Imagineer has an LBD greater than 0, move their Debt toward 0 by 1000.

Add a new subrule to “Construction” called “Turnstile” as follows:

Cost: 500
Size: 1
Effect: If this Imagineer is the first to exercise an IP License for a given Business Day, they may, upon exercising it, immediately move their Debt toward 0 by 2000. If they do so, they must also immediately move the Boss’s Debt toward 0 by 2000.

Add a new subrule to “Construction” called “Expedited Pass Point” as follows:

Cost: 500
Size: 1
Effect: If this Imagineer is the first Imagineer to process a given Business Day, +2 SMILE and +2000 Tourism.

What? Well WHY won’t any of the staff go in there? WHO died? I don’t have time for this. Someone stick a Victorian facade on the front and get out of my office!

Replace the sentence “If a bid exceeds the Boss’s Budget it is ignored.” in the rule “Planning” with

If a bid exceeds one-third of the Boss’s Budget it is ignored.

Add a subrule to “Buildings” called “Haunted House”:

Cost: 1250
Size: 1
Effect: +1 SMILE per Teen Visitor and Unaccompanied Adult that Business Day. (The number of Unaccompanied Adults on a Day is equal to its number of Adult Visitors minus its number of Child Visitors, to a minimum of zero.)

Hmm, by my reading of the ruleset, IceFromHell’s “Guess the Theme Zone” doesn’t exist, as it has too many words in its name - the only way to create a Zone is to create “The X Zone”, where X is “any word” from the dynastic titles.

In “Visitors”, remove “On any given Business Day, up to X Visitors may pass through Nomicland, where X is twice the number of Imagineers. If X or more Visitors are already queued for the current Business Day, no Imagineer can add more Visitors until a new Business Day begins.” and add to the end of that paragraph:-

If a Business Day has more Visitors queued than twice the number of Imagineers, then the Day is Crowded; otherwise it is Uncrowded.

In “Licensing”, replace “adding Visitors matching the market segments from that IP License to the current Business Day” with:-

adding Visitors matching the market segments from that IP License to any Uncrowded Business Day

If the rule “Focus Grouping” exists, reword it to:-

Upon posting a Demand Post, the Boss may add three Visitors (of random types) to the most recent Business Day, if that Day is not Crowded.

Add a new subrule to “Budget” called “Focus Grouping” as follows:

Upon posting a Demand Post, the Boss may add three Visitors (of random types) to the current Business Day, if doing so would not make the total Visitors for that Business Day greater than twice the current number of Imagineers.

NOW the government is telling me that the water in the lagoon has to “circulate” or it will “just go back to being a swamp.” I guess at least we can drop some inner tubes in the channel to the pumping station. Who wants a canal instead of a street?

After the sentence that reads “An Imagineer may not construct more than 10 Buildings per day.” in the rule “Construction,” add the following:

If constructing a Building would cause the total Size of all Buildings in that Zone to be greater than four times that of the next-highest-total-size Zone, and would cause the total Size of all Buildings in that Zone to be greater than 12, that Building may not be constructed.

GenericPerson hasn’t posted or commented in 9 days and idles out automatically. Quorum remains 4.

In “Planning”, replace “If an Imagineer has any Planned Buildings in their Zone, then their bids on Demand Posts are ignored.” with:-

If an Imagineer has any Planned Buildings in their Zone, then they may not post bids on Demand Posts.

For each post which was previously a Demand Post, and which was closed while it had a bid which was being ignored under the previous wording of the sentence replaced above, undo the effects of its closure: that post then becomes a Demand Post again.

In “Planning”, replace “If an Imagineer has any Planned Buildings in their Zone, then their bids on Demand Posts are ignored.” with:-

If an Imagineer has any Planned Buildings in their Zone, then they may not post bids on Demand Posts.

For each Planning post which was closed while it had a bid which was being ignored under the previous wording of this sentence, increase the Debt of that post’s Winner (ie. move its value away from zero) by X, where X is the difference between the winning bid and the lowest ignored bid.

Oh, hey, this blueprint was stuck between two file drawers. Blue plastic “ocean”... cargo netting… plank… seems reasonable! Who submitted these again?

Add a new rule called “Project Completion” as follows:

If the Boss’s Debt is 0, the Imagineer with the most Smiles has achieved victory.

All right, we drained the swamp, but now the EPA says we have to put the stuff we drained… somewhere else. Who’s got two square miles left?

If the list of steps to process a Business Day is a bulleted list, make it a numbered list instead, retaining its current order.

Then add a new step to the beginning of that list, as follows:

1. Reconciliation: if the processing Imagineer’s Budget is greater than 0, move the Boss’s Debt toward 0 by that amount, then set the processing Imagineer’s Budget to 0.

In “Breaking Even”, replace “If an Imagineer would move their Debt toward 0 by a value greater than the current absolute value of their Debt, instead, their Debt is set to 0.” with:-

If an Imagineer would move their Debt toward 0 by a value greater than the current absolute value of their Debt, instead, their Debt is set to 0 and their Budget is increased by the amount which the movement exceeded that absolute value.

Replace the Global and Local Accounting bullet points with:-

• Tourism: Move the Boss’s Debt toward 0 by (10 times the number of Visitors for that Business Day), plus any Tourism generated in the Imagineer’s Zone that Business Day.
• Ticket Income: Move the processing Imagineer’s Debt toward 0 by (20 times the number of Visitors for that Business Day), plus any Income generated in the Imagineer’s Zone that Business Day.
• Miscellaneous: Apply any Building Effects of Buildings in the Imagineer’s Zone which have not already been applied during these steps.

And add:-

If the Effect of a Building “requires” certain Visitors, then its effect only occurs if the Business Day being processed includes that set of Visitors.

Replace the Effects of the following Buildings as specified:

• Playpit: +1 SMILE per Child visitor that Business Day.
• Concession Stand: +100 Income and +50 Tourism (requires one Child or Teen and one Adult).
• Indoor Coaster: +1 SMILE per Teen or Adult Visitor that Business Day.
• Guest Assistance Station: +1 SMILE (requires one Child and one Senior).
• Lazy River: +X SMILE, where X is the half number of Senior Visitors that Business Day (rounded down).
• Lagoon: +4 SMILE and +100 Income (requires one Child, one Teen, one Adult and one Senior).
• Monorail: +4 SMILE and +100 Income, unless the Imagineer exercised an IP licences on the Business Day they are processing.
• Gift Shop: +200 Income and +100 Tourism (requires one Child, one Teen, one Adult and one Senior).

I got lost and footsore trying to make my way from West to Thing yesterday, and I’m the one running this place! The plebes are going to need wayposts and they’re DEFINITELY going to need directions to the bathroom. I’ve got budget for one right now…

Okay, so… so all the people who came through on our first preview tour were kids. That’s fine! That’s okay. Maybe this time, though, just see if you know anyone who’s less likely to hijack the forklifts?

In the rule “Construction” replace “and X is the number of other Buildings which that Imagineer has constructed that day” with “and X is the number of other Buildings which that Imagineer has constructed since they last processed a Business Day”

Add a new subrule to “Construction” called “Lazy River” as follows:

Cost: 1000
Size: 1
Effect: As part of the Local Accounting step, the processing Imagineer may gain X/2 Smiles (rounded down), where X is the number of Senior Visitors that Business Day.

Add a new subrule to “Construction” called “Lagoon” as follows:

Cost: 2000
Size: 2
Effect: As part of the Local Accounting step, the processing Imagineer may gain 4 Smiles and move their Debt toward 0 by 100 if there was at least one Child, at least one Teen, at least one Adult and at least one Senior Visitor that Business Day.

Add a new subrule to “Construction” called “Monorail” as follows:

Cost: 2000
Size: 2
Effect: As part of the Local Accounting step, the processing Imagineer may gain 4 Smiles and move their Debt toward 0 by 100 if they did not exercise any IP Licenses during the Business Day they are processing.

Add a new subrule to “Construction” called “Gift Shop” as follows:

Cost: 500
Size: 1
Effect: As part of the Global Accounting step, the processing Imagineer may move the Boss’s Debt toward 0 by 100 there was at least one Child, at least one Teen, at least one Adult and at least one Senior Visitor that Business Day. If they do so, during the Local Accounting step, they may move their own Debt toward 0 by 200.

All right, I’ve reviewed these blueprints, and frankly I don’t know if it’s possible or safe—but if it’s going to be ready for opening day, we’ve got to start digging the foundation NOW. Who’s still got room for this monster? Just as a warning, whoever builds it is going to be the first to test it out!

I’m going idle after a week of inactivity. Quorum drops to 4.

In “Planning”, replace “where X is a non-negative integer” with:-

where X is a non-negative multiple of 25

In the rule “Licensing” replace “At any time, an Imagineer may exercise an IP License by paying 1 SMILE” with

At any time, an Imagineer may exercise an IP License by paying 1 + X SMILES, where X is the number of other times that they have performed this action since they last processed a business day,

In the rule “Planning” after “where X is a non-negative integer, is considered to be a bid of amount X on it.” add

If an Imagineer has already made a bid on a Demand Post, any additional bid that Imagineer makes on the same Demand Post must be at least 100 less than any other bid they already made on that Demand Post.

Hey everybody! I unidle.  Quorum is 4.

If you have friends and family who will agree to sign an NDA, we’re going to allow a limited number of tours of the grounds as construction begins. The first Business Day has begun.

Ticket sales aren’t going to be enough, people! We have to harness synergy and exploit our brands in ice cream form. Character-head bars, sweepstakes on the wrappers, and exorbitant prices to pay for our eco-green refrigeration equipment. Who can make this happen?

Add a subrule to “Construction” called “Indoor Coaster” as follows:

Cost: 2000
Size: 2
Effect: As part of the Local Accounting step, the processing Imagineer gains 1 SMILE per Teen or Adult Visitor that Business Day.

Add a subrule to “Construction” called “Tunnel System” as follows:

Cost: 2000
Size: 2
Effect: When this Imagineer would pay to create a new Building in a Zone they operate with a Tunnel System in it, when calculating the currency they must spend to do so, they may first divide the total Size of all other Buildings in the Zone by 2.

Add a subrule to “Construction” called “Guest Assistance Station” as follows:

Cost: 500
Size: 1
Effect: During the Local Accounting step, if there was at least one Child Visitor and one Senior Visitor that Business Day, the processing Imagineer gains 1 Smile.