BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Change the name of the player known as Misty to Lulu.

I unidle.  Quorum is still 4.

Make Chiiika a Admin.

i would like to be unidled, please!
looking at the wiki, i’m quite sad that i missed the Battlebots Dynasty, that sounds very up my alley.

In the Core rule “Proposals”, in the subrule “Resolution of Proposals”, after this text:

the Admin Enacting it shall update the Gamestate and Ruleset,

add this text:

using the gamestate as it was at the timestamp of the enactment (this timestamp being the one recorded when the Admin edited the Proposal blog post to state that the Proposal is enacted),

I unidle. Players to 6, quorum to 4.

If Proposal: Level Knevel was not enacted then this proposal has no effect.

Add the following as a subrule to the rule Levels of Reality, called Avatars:

There exist Avatars, which are privately tracked by the Ascendant and which have the following properties: a unique Name, a home Tier (which must be the Tier of a currently-extant Rule other than 1), and an occupancy Tier (which must also be the Tier of a currently-extant Rule, and must be lower than that Avatar’s Home Tier).

If at any time there are fewer than 10 Avatars then the Ascendant may make new Avatars until there are exactly 10.

Add the following as a subrule to the rule Yanking, called Mindjacking:

A Mindjacker may carry out a Mindjacking as a daily action. A Mindjacking is the act of making a post in the Story Post Category with the title Mindjacking: x, where x is the flavour-text string of its author’s choice; the contents of that post are at the author’s discretion but are not gamestate.

If a Mindjacking has a value for x which exactly matches the name of an Avatar whose occupancy Tier is exactly the author’s Level then the Ascendant should, at their earliest opportunity, make it with a FOR symbol. The author of that Mindjacking then Ascends and the Avatar is destroyed.

Add a new rule to the dynastic ruleset, with the title Levels of Reality:

Each Mindjacker has a Level, which is a publicly-tracked non-negative integer defaulting to 1.

Each top-level dynastic rule except this one has a Tier, which must be in its title; such rules are called Tier Rules. A Mindjacker is only required to obey, can only be affected by, and may only utilise the actions of Tier Rules whose Tier is equal to or lower than their Level. Where a Mindjacker is subject to Tier Rules that make contradictory statements, the higher-Tiered rule has priority over the lower. A Mindjacker treats all Tier Rules with a higher Tier than their Level as if they were flavour text.

Subrules beneath a Tier Rule always have the same Tier as their parent rule.

Whenever a Mindjacker Ascends their Level increases by 1, and when they Descend their Level decreases by 1. A Mindjacker may not Ascend more than once in any 24 hour period. A Mindjacker may not Ascend if doing so would set their Level to a value greater than the highest Tier of any dynastic rule in the ruleset, and may not Descend if it would set their Level to a value lower than 1. A Mindjacker may not Ascend unless they meet the Ascension Criteria in every Tier they are affected by.

Add a new dynastic rule, called Tier 1: Yanking:

Yanking is an action in which a Mindjacker switches Level with another Mindjacker whose Level was, immediately prior to the Yanking, exactly one greater than their own.

If a Mindjacker carries out an Action associated with a Tier one lower than their current Level, then they may be Yanked by any Mindjacker whose Level is equal to that Tier, provided that the Yanking takes place within 10 minutes of the inciting action.

The Impossible Drive. An engine for a spaceship that could fold through three-dimensional space and travel across unlimited distances in an instant. No-one knew how it worked, only that it had been made by accident. You could replicate the same steps to get the same result but other than that, a mystery. No-one minded much. Overnight, the human commitment to explore the far reaches of space became reality.

Those first pilots were heroes, celebrities, legends. They stood on the launchpad, waving at the crowds, taking in the cheers, ushering in a new era of human peace and prosperity. Bunting, ticker-tape, firecrackers - all of humanity united to pierce that veil of infinite night and nigh-infinite distance. We would see other worlds and report back in real time; all the great questions of existence would be answered.

And how.

Every planet they found was dead. But that wasn’t the worst thing. The first ones were just dead, were merely dead, were dead in an ordinary way: devoid of life, dusty and dull. But the explorers discovered that there are more wretched ways to be lifeless. They found worlds with no geology - just solid rocks or empty clouds of gas, floating in space, in defiance of all physics, no core, no tectonics, no elements. They found planets whose surfaces were smooth and textureless… They found worlds that were nothing but unfinished polyhedral blocks. At the furthest reaches of their home planet’s visual range, they found worlds that were nothing at all - shapes in space with no mass or solidity, ghosts of worlds designed only to be seen from afar, through a telescope.

Naturally, society collapsed. The implications of that discovery have taken generations to unpack. A whole new system of ethics and philosophy has had to be built from the ground up.

It has now been… hundreds of years, since then, and we have come to terms with the truth. Our world is simulated, and we are simulated, and what we called “physics” is just the law of the simulation we live in, software running on some celestial iMac for the gratification of a higher observer. But what about those beings from a higher level of existence? We know they walk among us. We know they have avatars here, avatars connected directly to their own alien cognitive morphology. We have… Now, at least, we have the knowledge and the know-how to take that connection, to feed it back, to ride it.

In other words, to steal the bodies of the ones who made us, leaving their consciousnesses trapped in this existence, like they planned for us.

Who knows? Perhaps they live in a simulation as well, and there’s another even higher level of existence above that. But if they do, I’ll know. I know the signs now. And I’ll find more avatars and I’ll keep stealing bodies all the way up. I’ll ride this all the way up to the top. One way or another, I’ll get to the true reality.

Repeal all dynastic rules. Make the Special Case rules No Collaboration and Reinitialisation active. Change the term ‘City Architect’ to Mindjacker and the term Urbifex Maximus to Ascendant throughout the ruleset. Change the gamestate tracking page to Reality.

Post dynasty chat

Consider Declaration of Victory: I’m Spartacus never to have been failed, but to have been enacted instantly upon the enactment of this CFJ.

I have achieved victory in this dynasty, and I’ll tell you for why.

So, first, some ruleset concepts:

* From “Enacting and Failing”, ‘A votable matter is resolved by an admin setting its status through use of the “status” field in the blog post editing form’. Therefore the first person to edit the form is the enactor and only that person is the enactor; any person doing enactment-like things thereafter is doing illegal actions that can be disregarded.
* However, enactment is not an atomic action. There are in fact two actions: the one above, which is the act of enactment, and ‘When a Proposal is Enacted, its stated effects are immediately applied in full”, from Resolution of Proposals, which is a separate action. None of this is atomic and all of it can be interrupted.

Here is the timeline of events, as I understand it:

* Redtara enacts the proposal by marking the form.
* Bucky enacts the proposal by marking the form, but as they do it second, they are not the enactor; none of their enactment is valid.
* Bucky carries out a Growth Tick action.
* Redtara makes the roll as directed in the proposal, but because Redtara has made a Growth Tick in the interim, that roll reflects improper information about the gamestate.
* Redtara makes a second roll correcting the above step, and it makes me the winner.

All of this together means that… I am the winner. I have won. Please vote for me. Please. Thank you.

{NB:

Bucky posted this to Discord about my path to victory:

* Redtara's original enactment-mark was valid even if the changes were applied incorrectly;
* My growth tick should have been taken into account in the victory roll because it happened before any version of the victory roll did, even though it happened after the enactment mark
* My enactment attempt was entirely invalid because redtara had already marked the proposal enacted, even though none of its changes had been performed yet and they were performed incorrectly.
* Redtara's failure to actually publish the list that the proposal required the creation of is immaterial.

This post has answered the first three points; on the fourth, the list of names is not an orphan variable because it can be derived from the from the gamestate, and the proposal did not require the list to be otherwise published.}

I have achieved victory per the first dice roll I made following my legal enactment of https://blognomic.com/archive/no_pun_contended#comments - Bucky’s would-be “enactment” and “growth tick” occurred after this, rendering them illegal.

Uphold redtara’s enactment of Proposal: No Pun Contended, including dice roll.

But now the winner is Josh.

Congrats!

27… 22!

Oh, my God. I won.

I won!

Recapping our day’s top story: The winner of today’s nomic dynasty is…

me, Red Tara.

Thanks to a last second growth tick, the list of citizens was:
Bucky,
Bucky,
Bucky,
Bucky,
Chiiika,
Chiiika,
Chiiika,
Chiiika,
Chiiika,
Chiiika,
JonathanDark,
JonathanDark,
JonathanDark,
JonathanDark,
JonathanDark,
JonathanDark,
Josh,
Josh,
Josh,
Josh,
Josh,
Josh,
redtara,
redtara,
redtara,
redtara,
redtara,
redtara

And the winner was: Bucky

Each City Architect who was not idle when this Proposal was posted and whose EVC on this proposal contains the word “Contender” has a number of Citizens equal to their current Population.

Make a list of Citizens, in alphabetical order by owner (i.e. so player A’s 4 Citizens are the first 4 on the list, player B’s 7 Citizens are 5 through 11, and so on).

Randomly select one of the Citizens in the list. Its owner has Achieved Victory. Make a post announcing the result.

In the core rule “Votes”, after

It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours, it has more than 1 valid Vote cast on it, and more valid Votes cast on it are FOR than are AGAINST.

Add this text:

Exception: Proposals which would change the text of a Core or Appendix rule if enacted can only be Popular on this basis if at least three more valid FOR votes than valid AGAINST votes are cast on it.

This Region’s Capability is 19.

I put forth these 3 Motions to be voted on. Our Active value is 4 for consideration of the Motions below:

Cadence [Procedural]: Change the Development Cycle of the Region to 2

Build [Effortful Active]: Build a Residential Zone in Vitagrande

Build [Effortful Active]: Build a Commercial Zone in Vitagrande

In the rule “Emigration”, replace this text:

choose two random Underserved cities, or all Underserved cities if there two or fewer.

with this text:

choose two random Underserved cities that are not in Abandoned Regions, or all Underserved cities not in Abandoned Regions if there are two or fewer.

Remove the sentence “A City Architect should not use a Core, Special Case, or Appendix rules scam to directly or indirectly cause a City Architect to achieve victory.” from the Fair Play rule in the Core Rules.

Add a new Dynastic rule called “Vehement Votes” to the ruleset, with the following text:

Each City Architect may cast a single Vehement AGAINST vote per dynasty. The list of City Architects who have already cast such votes this dynasty, together with which proposals they have cast those votes on, is publicly tracked. A City Architect casts a Vehement AGAINST vote by including the word “VEHEMENT” in their EVC that contains an AGAINST vote, and also adding their name and the URL of the proposal they voted on to the list.

A Vehement AGAINST vote on a Core Proposal has no effect beyond that of an ordinary AGAINST vote. A Vehement AGAINST vote on a non-Core Proposal counts as three AGAINST votes and increases Quorum on that proposal by one.

Remove the phrase “Exception: Proposals which would change the text of a Core, Special Case or Appendix rule if enacted cannot be Popular on this basis.” from the rule Votes in the Core Rules.

Add a new dynastic rule to the ruleset. Call it “Royalty” and give it the following text:

One City contains the Heir to the Throne, or Heir for short. The City that is the location of the Heir, if known, is publicly tracked. His location can be, and initially is, unknown, in which case the fact that it is unknown is also publicly tracked.

As a daily communal action that may only be taken while the location of the Heir is unknown, a City Architect may Search for the Heir. This is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Choose a random unit of Population from those among all cities whose controller is not idle.
* Set the location of the Heir to the City holding that Population, making it known in the process.

While the Heir’s location is known, any City Architect who controls that City may achieve victory by making a blog post saying so; this action is called a Coronation.
While the Heir’s location is known, and the controller of the Heir’s location has not performed a Coronation during the current dynasty, the controller of the Heir’s location may move the Heir to another City, or make the location of the Heir unknown again.

Set the location of the Heir to be unknown.

If the Rule “Monuments” exists, repeal it.

In the rule “Regional Development Fora”, remove the bullet point that begins with “Award” if it exists. In the same rule, after the bullet that begins with “Invite”, add these two bullet points:

* Recruit [Effortful Active + 2]: A Motion to subtract an amount from a City’s Population in this Region that would reduce the City’s Population to no less than 1, and add that amount to the Region’s Soldiers
* Declare War [Procedural]: A Motion to add this Region and another non-Abandoned Region named in the Motion to the list of Regions in the At War variable, removing any repeated instance of the same Region in the At War list.

Add a new rule named “War” and give it the following text:

Each Region has a publicly-tracked number named “Soldiers”, defaulting to 0.

There is a publicly-tracked variable named “At War” that contains a list of Regions and defaults to empty. If a Region’s name is in the list At War, then every City in that Region with a Population of at least 1 is considering to be Warring.

There is a publicly-tracked variable named “War Victories”, which is a table with one column named “Winner” and defaulting to no rows.

When there is only one non-Abandoned Region that has at least 1 City with non-empty Zones, any City Architect may execute the War Victory action by rolling DICEX, where X is the number of rows in the War Victories table. The result of this roll is R. The City Architect whose name is in the Winner column of row number R of the table achieves victory.

In the rule “War” add a subrule named “Combat” and give it the following text:

As a Weekly Action, a City Architect who controls a City that is Warring may execute the Combat action, which is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Choose a City that is Warring and is not the same Region as the City that this City Architect controls. Consider the chosen City to be the Defender and the City that this City Architect controls to be the Attacker.
* Prep Phase: Calculate D = PD + SD + 1, where PD is the Population of the Defender and SD is twice the number of Soldiers of the Defender’s Region, and A = PA + SA, where PA is the Population of the Attacker and SA is twice the number of Soldiers of the Attacker’s Region.
* Combat Phase: Roll DICEX, where X is D + A from the previous step, and call the result of the die roll L.
* Resolution Phase: If L is greater than D, subtract 1 from the Defender’s Region’s Soldiers, to a minimum of 0, or if the Defender’s Region’s Soldiers is already 0, subtract 1 from the Defender’s Population, to a minimum of 0. If L is less than or equal to D, subtract 1 from the Attacker’s Region’s Soldiers, to a minimum of 0, or if the Attacker’s Region’s Soldiers is already 0, subtract 1 from the Attacker’s Population, to a minimum of 0.
* Optionally, if both the Attacker and the Defender each have a Population of at least 1, repeat the steps starting at the step beginning with text “Prep Phase”
* Add a row to the War Victories table. If the Attacker has more Population than the Defender, set this row’s Winner to the name of the City Architect who controls the Attacker. Otherwise, set this row’s Winner to the name of the City Architect who controls the Defender, unless that City Architect is idle, in which case remove this row from the War Victories table instead.

If a City is reduced to 0 Population as a result of the Combat atomic action, set its Zones to empty.

Create a city called Boringsville, BN.

Create a dynastic rule called Bunchosquares:

If the city called Boringsville, BN has not been assigned to the control of a City Architect, any City Architect may assign it by rolling dice 99 and assigning the city as follows, replacing any city already controlled by that City Architect:

Result: 1-25: Assign the city to the player named Josh
Result: 26-49: Assign the city to the player named redtara
Result: 50-74: Assign the city to the player named JonathanDark
Result: 75-99: Assign the city to the player named Chiiika

If a player controls the city called Boringsville, BN, they may declare victory at any time. For the purposes of this rule and any declaration of victory resulting therefrom, any valid vote of FOR must have “This is boring and you are extremely boring” in its EVC, otherwise it counts as a vote AGAINST. This overrides all other rules as well as the sentiments of anyone who considers this rule to be boring, or whatever.

If any player achieves victory as a result of this rule, any City Architect may forever consider them to be the Boringest Player of All Time.

In the rule “Population”, after

decrease the Productive Citizens of each City, to a minimum of 0, by the number of Residential Zones in that City.

Add

This action is a Growth Tick.

Add a new dynastic rule to the ruleset. Call it “Emigration” and give it the following text:

Cities with Commercial Zones less than one-eighth of their population, or whose region has no Industrial Zones, are Underserved. As an atomic communal daily action that may only be taken after the day’s Growth Tick, a City Architect may take the following steps:
* choose two random Underserved cities, or all Underserved cities if there two or fewer.
* remove one Population from each of the chosen cities for each of their respective Residential Zones.
* If either chosen Underserved City now has a population of 0, set its population to 1.

This Region’s Capability is 18.

I put forth these 3 Motions to be voted on. Our Active value is 3 for consideration of the Motions below:

Develop [Effortful Active + 2]: Discover Nitrate as a Primary Resource
Develop [Effortful Active + 2]: Discover Pyrite as a Secondary Resource
Invite [Procedural]: Invite the City named Vitagrande into UnnamedRegion1

Repeal the rule “Running for President”

In the rule “Regional Development Fora”, remove the bullet point that begins with “Support Politician”

Add a new rule named “Monuments” and give it the following text:

Each Region has a publicly-tracked number named “Monuments”, defaulting to 0.

If a City is Producing both the Primary Resource and Secondary Resource of its Region, at any time the City Architect who controls that City may add any positive amount that is not greater than the number of Unemployed Population of that City to that Region’s Monuments and then increase that City’s Productive Citizens by that same amount.

In the rule “Regional Development Fora”, add the following bullet point after the bullet that begins with “Invite”:

* Award [Effortful Active + 2]: A Motion to award a City in this Region the title of “Best City to Live In”. This Motion can only be added if this Region has a Monuments value of at least 10. A City that is awarded this title as a result of enacting this Motion is marked in bold text in the gamestate.

Add a new rule named “Awards” and give it the following text:

A City is considered as “Best City to Live In” if an action has caused the City’s name to be marked in bold text in the gamestate.

As a Weekly Action, if there is at least one City Architect controls a City that is considered as “Best City to Live In”, any City Architect may execute the Top Architect action, which is an atomic action with the following steps:
* End all other Regional Development Forums that are Open and execute each of their Ending Actions
* Roll a die in the public Dice Roller where the faces of the die are the names of every City Architect who controls a City that is considered as “Best City to Live In”
* The City Architect whose name matches the result of the die roll of the preceding step achieves victory

Each City Architect who was not idle when this proposal was posted, and whose EVC on this proposal does not contain the word “defer”, has a Beret. Roll DICEX, where X is the number of EVCs from City Architects with Berets on this proposal. Sort the City Architects with Berets into a list in order of their EVCs on this proposal, chronologically from oldest to newest. The City Architect on this list whose position corresponds with the result of the dice roll has achieved victory; make a post to that effect.

Snisbo has been made idle after nine days of inactvity. Quorum drops to 4.

In the rule “Regions”, add the following paragraph:

A Region in which every City in that Region is controlled by an Idle Architect is considered Abandoned. No dynastic actions may be taken that would modify any gamestate variables of an Abandoned Region. In a Presidential Declaration of Victory, an Abandoned Region and its Cities are treated as if they do not exist when determining vote counts and Quorum. If a Idle Architect who becomes un-Idle controls a City in an Abandoned Region, that Region is no longer Abandoned.

In the Special Case rule “Event Types”, replace this text:

A post with the Event type’s name as a tag

with this text:

A non-categorized post with the Event type’s name as a tag or with the Event type’s name in the name of the post

Treat every non-categorized post where the name contains the text “Regional Development Forum” in that exact order and capitalisation and the post was created between the date and time of May 14 2023 00:00 UTC up to the enactment of this Proposal as meeting the criteria for the first bullet point of the “Event Types” Special Case rule.

To the people of my region: Apparently, despite all efforts to work on advancing our region, all 3 of our citizens instead did nothing. Therefore, we will make a mega-hotel to entice more workers such that we can make them do all the work.

I make a Motion to Build a Residential Zone in Scamsville.
I make a Motion to Build a Residential Zone in Scamsville.
I make a Motion to Build a Residential Zone in Scamsville.

In the rule Resolution of Proposals, change “It has been Vetoed or Withdrawn” to “It has been Vetoed and/or Withdrawn”.

In the subrule “Population”, replace this text:

As a daily communal action, a City Architect may increase the Population of each City by the number of different types of non-Dilapidated Zone in that City.

with this text:

As a daily communal action, a City Architect may increase the Population of each City by the number of different types of non-Dilapidated Zone in that City, and decrease the Productive Citizens of each City, to a minimum of 0, by the number of Residential Zones in that City

Uphold the Responses and the dynastic actions taken as a result of those Responses in the Regional Development Forum for UnnamedRegion1 created on 14 May 2023 19:18:00 UTC

Undo the purported effects of Ending the Regional Development Forum at https://blognomic.com/archive/regional_development_forum_unnamedregion1 on May 15th, including the increases in population in the cities of Automata and Arkham resulting from the Residential Zones purportedly built.

It was purportedly ended after less than 48 hours because all relevant City Architects had posted valid responses. However, a valid Response to a Regional Development Forum must have a single response to each Motion, and none of the purported Responses responded to the “Build [Effortful Active] a Residential Zone in Ballynamadan” motion. Therefore, there were no valid Responses and the Regional Development Forum’s Motions’ Effects were illegally applied.

In the rule “Regional Development Fora”, change

May only be posted by a City Architect who was the Controller of a City in that Region at the time when the Regional Development Forum was posted

to

May only be posted by a City Architect who was the Controller of a City in that Region at the time when the Regional Development Forum was posted, and who has not already posted a valid Response on the same Regional Development Forum

Invalidate all Responses on open Regional Development Fora whose author has an earlier Response on the same Regional Development Forum.

UnnamedRegion2’s current capability is 9.

Motions included:
Cadence (Procedural): Change the Development Cycle of UnnamedRegion2 to 6 and cause Kevan to achieve victory.

Build (3 Effort): Build a Residential Zone in Szolnok.

Build (3 Effort): Build a Residential Zone in Nagelburg.

Remove the text ‘Exception: Proposals which would change the text of a Core, Special Case or Appendix rule if enacted cannot be Popular on this basis.’ from rule 1.4.

Create a new rule entitled “May is Fava Season”:

Any player may make an event according to the following format:
* Type name: [Fava]
* Response format: Any comment which would be a legal vote on the post, were it a proposal which did not modify the core rules, is a Response for such an Event.

A Fava post may propose any change to the rules, as though it were a proposal. If the valid Responses to a Fava post would, were they votes on a normal proposal that would not affect the core rules, be sufficient for that proposal to be enacted, then the proposed change by the Fava post shall be duly enacted.

Remove the text ‘Exception: Proposals which would change the text of a Core, Special Case or Appendix rule if enacted cannot be Popular on this basis.’ from rule 1.4.

If the proposal ‘Running for Office (after building that office building)’ was enacted, replace the text from the rule Running for President:

Quorum for a Presidential Declaration of Victory is calculated as if the sum of all current Political Power values were being added to the player count, and Presidential Declarations of Victory do not put the game into Hiatus as a result of being ongoing.

with the text:

For the purpose of Enacting and Failing, the following changes are to be made:
* The number of votes of a type are considered to be the sum of the number of valid votes of that type provided by the Regions and by the City Architects.
* The number of City Architects is replaced by the Aggregate which is the sum of the number of City Architects and the total of the political power of all Regions
* The Presidential Declaration of victory is considered to be Unpopular if the number of Against votes on it is at least equal to half the Aggregate

The Presidential Declarations of Victory do not put the game into Hiatus as a result of being ongoing.

In the subrule “Regional Development Fora”, replace this text:

if the sum of all Effort allocated to it by Cities in their Responses is greater than the Effort Value

with this text

if the sum of all Effort allocated to it by Cities in their Responses is at least equal to the Effort Value

Rename the region “UnnamedRegion1” to “Balautark”.
Rename the region “UnnamedRegion2” to “Szolcornag.
Rename the region “UnnamedRegion3” to “Zanivit”.
Rename the region “UnnamedRegion4” to “Banascam”.

Amend any open regional development fora so that they refer to the same regions that they did prior to the renaming.

Capability: 9
Motions:
Brand: Ivazanita
Develop: Crystal (primary)
Build: Industrial Zone in Vitagrande

To the people of my region, I would like to request new, (now legal) planning permission to expand the Scamsville city which is part of Unnamed Region 4 along with BananaLand. With our Capability of 6, we should be able to achieve our objectives. Namely:
I make a Motion to Build a Residential Zone, such that our people can have space to live, as crowding is getting out of control.
I make a Motion to Build an Industrial Zone, to better process our Pyrite reserves.
I make a Motion to Build a Residential Zone, as I expect the new industry should encourage migration above and beyond our previous levels.

This Regional Development Forum will come to order. This Region’s Capability is 9.

I put forth these 3 Motions to be voted on. Our Active value is 3 for consideration of the Motions below:

* Build [Effortful Active] a Residential Zone in Automata
* Build [Effortful Active] a Residential Zone in Arkham
* Build [Effortful Active] a Residential Zone in Ballynamadan

Add a motion to the list of motions in the rule Regional Development Fora:

* Invite [Procedural]: A Motion to invite a given city into this Region. The City Architect who owns the targetted city is permitted to move their City to that Region after this Motion passes. This permission lasts until either 168 hours have passed since the motion was passed or the targetted city’s region changes, whichever comes first. If the targetted City has no owner, then any City Architect is permitted to move that City to that Region (subject to those same permission restrictions).

To the people of my region, I would like to request planning permission to expand the Scamsville city which is part of Unnamed Region 4 along with BananaLand. With our Capability of 6, we should be able to achieve our objectives. Namely:
I make a Motion to Build a Residential Zone, such that our people can have space to live, as crowding is getting out of control.
I make a Motion to Build an Industrial Zone, to better process our Pyrite reserves.
I make a Motion to Build a Residential Zone, as I expect the new industry should encourage migration above and beyond our previous levels.

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

As a daily action, a City Architect may remove a City they control from all Regions that it is in, and create a new Region which contains only that City.

If the proposal https://blognomic.com/archive/idle_hands_are_the_devils_playthings failed, delete “Active + 1” and replace it with “3” in the proposal text below.

Create a new motion in the list of Motions in the rule Regional Development Fora:

* Support Politician [Effortful Active + 1]: A Motion to increase the Political Power of this Region by 1. This Motion can only be added if at least one of the Author’s cities in the region is at or above the Prefecture Municipal Authority.

Create a new Rule called Running for President:

Each Region has a Political Power, which is a number defaulting to 0.

Any City Architect who owns at least one City that has the Canton level of Municipal Authority may take the Run for President action as a weekly action.  When they do so, they may make a Declaration of Victory tagged with [Presidential], known as a Presidential Declaration of Victory. In a Presidential Declaration of Victory, each region provides a number of votes for the DoV equal to their Political Power; if that City Architect owns at least one city in that region, or if all owners of the cities in that region are voting FOR, then the votes from the region itself are considered to be FOR, otherwise, the votes from that region are considered to be AGAINST.

All City Architects other than the one declaring victory are encouraged but not obligated to vote against it.

Quorum for a Presidential Declaration of Victory is calculated as if the sum of all current Political Power values were being added to the player count, and Presidential Declarations of Victory do not put the game into Hiatus as a result of being ongoing.

Idle all players who did not vote on this post.

Remove the text ‘Exception: Proposals which would change the text of a Core, Special Case or Appendix rule if enacted cannot be Popular on this basis.’ from rule 1.4.

In the subrule “Commercial Zones”, replace “A City Architect can create a Commercial Zone in their City at any time, up to their maximum.” with “As a weekly Burgh action, a City Architect can create a Commercial Zone in their City, up to their maximum.”

In that same subrule, replace “Industry Zone” and “Industry Zones” with “Industrial Zone” and “Industrial Zones”, respectively.

Metadynasty enthusiasts Misty and Benbot idle out having made no posts or comments since the metadynasty started a week ago. Quorum drops to 6.

Under the current idling rule their timeout is now considered to be reduced to 96 hours “during the current and subsequent dynasty”.

If the subrule “Regional Development Fora” exists, remove the following bullet point from it:

* The Region’s current Municipal Authority level;

And replace the text:

For Effortful motions, the number in the square brackets with the word ‘Effortful’ is its Effort Value.

with this text:

For Effortful motions, the text in the square brackets following the word ‘Effortful’ is the formula used to calculate the Effort Value at the time that this Regional Development Forum event was created, where the value “Active” is the number of non-idle City Architects who control Cities in that Region.

And replace this text:

when all City Architects who control Cities in that Region have posted a valid response to it.

with this text:

when all non-Idle City Architects who control Cities in that Region have posted a valid response to it.

And replace this text:

Build [Effortful 3]

with this text:

Build [Effortful Active]

And replace this text:

Develop [Effortful 5]

with this text:

Develop [Effortful Active + 2]

In the rule change:

each City may be controlled by exactly one City Architect; the Cities controlled by each City Architect are publicly tracked.

to:

each City may be controlled by exactly one City Architect or Idle City Archetect; the controller of each City is publicly tracked. An idle City Architect may not take actions that are premised on their control of a City.

If there exists a city called “BananaLand”, and an Idle City Architect named “jjm3x3”, make that jjm3x3 the controller of BananaLand. If not, create a city named “BananaLand” with the last tracked gamestate of any formerly existing city of the same name, and make jjm3x3 its controller.

Make the rule “Industry” a subrule of the rule “Population”.

Add a new subrule “Specialties” to the rule “Population” and give it the following text:

The following types of Zones are Specialty Zones: Fortress, Harbor, Mining, Tourism, and University.

A City Architect whose City has no Specialty Zones but more Population than total Zones may add a Specialty Zone of any type to their City as a daily action, so long as at most one other City is in the same Region and has the same Specialty Zone.

If a City has two or more types of Specialty Zone, it may not gain a Specialty Zone of a type it does not already have.

Remove the city of Bananaland.

Create a subrule of Architected Cities called Idle Cities with the following text:

When a City Architect idles when they own a city, their city is removed. It is restored when they return, as if it were a variable that belongs to them. This also applies to cities that are removed as part of the same votable matter that created this rule.

If the proposal “Ruleset Tracking” was enacted, move the sentence “This document is considered to be, in effect, the only Ruleset for BlogNomic, so long as it is located at at the URL https://wiki.blognomic.com/index.php?title=Ruleset.” from Rule 1.1 to instead be a new bullet point before the first of the Appendix rule “Prioritisation”.

If it was not enacted, enact Proposal: Local Government Dynasty. Then make the following changes to the rule Regional Development Fora:

* Change the second paragraph to read as follows:

If the number of days that have elapsed since the the resolution of the most recent Regional Development Forum for that Region is equal to or greater than its Development Cycle, and if there are no currently open Regional Development Fora for that Region, then any City Architect who controls a City in that Region may call a Regional Development Forum for that Region. If no Regional Development Forum has ever been called for that Region then any City Architect who controls a City in that Region may call a Regional Development Forum for that Region.

* Remove the words “in a named City” from the Develop motion.
* Change the bullet point that starts “One or more Motions” to read as follows:

* One or more Motions, but not more Motions than the current Development Cycle of the Region, of the author’s choosing; and, in addition, any Motions that were the subject of an Uptake motion in that Region’s previous Regional Development Forum.

Create a new dynastic rule called Variable Tracking:

All named variables in the dynastic ruleset, if they do not define how they are tracked, are considered publicly tracked unless they meet one or more of the following conditions:
* They have a reasonable means of determining their value from the gamestate. (A value simply having a default is not enough to meet this condition.)
* They are defined and used only within a defined action.
* The value is determined privately, or otherwise relies on private information.

I would like to be idled.

Move the following text to the rule “Ruleset and Gamestate” after the sentence “The Ruleset and Gamestate can only be altered in manners specified by the Ruleset.”:

This document is considered to be, in effect, the only Ruleset for BlogNomic, so long as it is located at at the URL https://wiki.blognomic.com/index.php?title=Ruleset.

Delete the subrule “Archives” from the Appendix.

Replace the sentence:

If the Ruleset does not properly reflect all legal changes that have been made to it, any City Architect may update it to do so.

With:

If the text of the Ruleset document does not reflect all legal changes that have been authorised to be made to it, any City Architect may update it to do so.

In the rule “Representations of the Gamestate in the Appendix”, replace

For gamestate which is tracked in a specific place (such as a wiki page), any alteration of that gamestate as a result of a City Architect’s action is (and can only be) applied by editing that data in that place.

with

If authorised by the rules as a result of a City Architect’s action, changes to gamestate which is tracked in a specific place (such as a wiki page) do not take effect until the representation of that gamestate has been updated to match the authorised change.

If the subrule “Regional Development Fora” exists, remove the following bullet point from it:

* The Region’s current Municipal Authority level;

In the rule “Resources”, replace this text:

Each Region has a primary resource and a secondary resource

with this text:

Each Region has a primary resource and a secondary resource, both of which are publicly-tracked

If the subrule “Regional Meetings” exists, replace every instance of the text “City Architect that has a suitably high Municipal Authority level” with:

City Architect who controls a City that has a suitably high Municipal Authority level

Repeal the rule Prosperity. Remove the sentences “Then, for each region that has a negative Prosperity, transfer a Population from a random city in it to a random city in a region that has the highest non-negative Prosperity, if such a region exists.” from the rule Population. Remove the sentence “City Architect may set a blank primary or secondary resource of their region to any non-blank legal value, provided they have secured the assent of every City Architect who controls a city in the same region (this may be secured privately with a public post made to dispute if necessary).” from the rule Resources.

If Proposal: Expand the Red Tape was enacted then revert its changes, as well as the rule Found, if it exists. If Proposal: Regional Culture was not enacted then enact the change to the rule Regions that it would have made.

Add a new subrule to the rule Regions, called Regional Development Fora:

Each Region has a publicly tracked variable called Development Cycle, which must be an integer between 2 and 7 inclusive, defaulting to 3.

If the number of days that have elapsed since the the resolution of the most recent Regional Development Forum for that Region is equal to or greater than its Development Cycle then any City Architect who controls a City in that Region may call a Regional Development Forum for that Region.

A Regional Development Forum is an Event whose name must include the phrase “Regional Development Forum” and some signifier to identify the Region to which it refers, such as its name, if it has one, or the names of the Cities it includes.

The body of a Regional Develolment Forum must include the following information:
* The Region’s current Municipal Authority level;
* The Region’s current Capability, which is defined as the sum of the current Unemployed Population of its constituent Cities;
* One or more Motions, which must include any Motions that were the subject of an Uptake motion in that Region’s previous Regional Development Forum but which can include any other Motions desired by the author.

Motions that can be included in a Regional Development Forum are as follows. For Effortful motions, the number in the square brackets with the word ‘Effortful’ is its Effort Value.
* Cadence [Procedural]: A Motion to change the Development Cycle of the Region to a new valid value.
* Uptake [Procedural]: A Motion to enforce that a specific other Motion be included on the immediately subsequent Regional Development Forum.
* Expel [Procedural]: A Motion to remove a specific City from this Region.
* Brand [Procedural]: A Motion to change the name of the Region.
* Build [Effortful 3]: A Motion to build a specific Zone in a specific City in this Region.
* Develop [Effortful 5]: A Motion to discover a new named Resource (primary or secondary, where the name follows the requirements set out in the rule Resources) in a named City in this Region.

A Response to a Regional Develolment Forum must take the following format:
* May only be posted by a City Architect who was the Controller of a City in that Region at the time when the Regional Develolment Forum was posted;
* Must have a single response to each Motion in that Regional Develolment Forum, where a response to a Procedural motion is either FOR or AGAINST, and a response to an Effortful motion is an integer equal to or greater than zero;
* Must not have values allocated to Effortful Motions that add up to a greater than that City’s Unemployed Population.

A Regional Develolment Forum may only be Ended by any member of that Region after 48 hours, or when all City Architects who control Cities in that Region have posted a valid response to it. The Ending Action for a Regional Develolment Forum is an atomic action, as follows:
* Resolve each Motion in order, from top to bottom, as follows:
** For each Procedural Motion, if it has more FOR votes than AGAINST votes then it is enacted and its change is immediately applied; otherwise it is ignored.
** For each Effortful Motion, if the sum of all Effort allocated to it by Cities in their Responses is greater than the Effort Value for that Motion then it is enacted and its change is immediately applied; otherwise it is ignored.
* Increase the Productive Citizens of each City by its Allocation to Effortful Motions that were enacted.

In the rule Population, change “A City’s Unemployed Population is considered to be its Population minus the number of non-Dilapidated non-Residential Zones it has, to a minimum of zero” to read as follows:

Each City has a number of Productive Citizens, which is a publicly tracked non-negative integer defaulting to zero, and a number of Unemployed Population, which is a derived value that is not publicly tracked. A City’s Unemployed Population is considered to be its Population, minus the number of non-Dilapidated non-Residential Zones it has, minus the number of Productive Citizens it has, to a minimum of zero.

If Proposal: Blaze the Trails was enacted then remove the phrase “As an atomic Weekly Action” from the rule Links and add another type of Motion to the list in the rule Regional Development Fora:

* Connect [Effortful 8]: A Motion to Pathfind on behalf of a City in that Region, which will act as its Hub.

Create a rule called Commercial Zones as a subrule of Architected Cities:

A city architect can create a commercial zone in their city at any time, up to their maximum. The default maximum number of commercial zones for the city (known as the Commercial Cap) is 0, but is increased by the following factors:
* A city has +1 Commercial Cap if they have at least 1 Industry Zone, and their Region has a Primary Resource. (They are said to be Producing this Primary Resource, if they meet this condition.)
* A city has +1 Commercial Cap if they have at least 2 Industry Zones, and their Region has a Secondary Resource. (They are said to be Producing this Secondary Resource, if they meet this condition.)
* A city has +1 Commercial Cap for each distinct Resource that they themselves are not Producing, but is Produced in cities that they have a Transit Link to.

If a City ever has more Commercial Zones than their Commercial Cap, the excess Commerical Zones are turned into Dilapidated Zones in that city.

If the proposal Blaze the Trails failed, delete the third bullet point in the rule Commerical Zones.

Reword the sentence that reads “If the title of a Special Case Rule includes “[Rare]”, its Default Status is Inactive, otherwise, its Default Status is Active” in the rule “Special Case” to:

If the title of a Special Case Rule includes “[Standard]” then its Default Status is Active; otherwise, its Default Status is Inactive.

Remove the text “[Rare]” from the title of every Special Case rule that includes it.

Append the text “[Standard]” to the titles of the Special Case rules currently entitled “Seasonal Downtime [Active]”, “Dormancy [Active]”, “Imperial Deferentials [Active]”, “Dynastic Distance [Active]”, “Dynastic Tracking [Active]”, “Mantle Limitations [Active]” and “Event Types [Active]”.

In the rule “Regions”, add the following paragraph:

Each Region may have a name, which is publicly tracked flavour text. Within the Ruleset, a word only refers to the name of a Region if it is explicitly stated that it refers to a Region name. A Region may not have the same name as an active City Architect, a City, or another Region. Regions without a legal name default to “UnnamedRegion”, suffixed with the lowest positive integer necessary to make that name legal.

In the rule “Architected Cities”, replace this text:

A City may not have the same name as an active City Architect or another City.

with this text:

A City may not have the same name as an active City Architect, a Region, or another City.

If the subrule “Regional Meetings” exists, add a subrule to the rule “Municipal Authority” named “Found” and give it this text:

Found is a Township action which can be done at any time by any City Architect that has a suitably high Municipal Authority level to have unlocked Township actions. When a City Architect Founds, they create a Regional Meeting which declares that they are Founding, and declaring a name for the Region that is associated with that Regional Meeting. The name declared must follow the rules for the name of a Region. If that Regional Meeting is closed as Popular, any City Architect may change the name of the Region associated with that Regional Meeting to the name declared in that Regional Meeting’s creation.

Add a new keyword to the “Other” section of the Keywords rule in the Appendix, appropriately in alphabetical order:

Suspension
When the game is in Suspension (or Suspended), no dynastic actions may be taken, and all information that is tracked as part of the game must be preserved in the location and form it took immediately before the Suspension, including disputed information and information that may or may not be being tracked in the correct way. If the game has been Suspended for 96 consecutive hours then it ceases to be Suspended.

Add the following as a new second paragraph to the rule Calls for Judgement in the Core Rules:

If a CfJ states that it puts the game into Suspension then the game is Suspended while it is pending; however, that clause has no effect if and when that CfJ is resolved, and the game ceases to be Suspended for that reason when that CfJ is resolved (but may continue to be Suspended if some other effect causes it to be). Such a CfJ may be referred to as a High-Priority CfJ.

In the Core Rule Fair Play, change “A City Architect should not make a DoV primarily to delay the game by putting it into Hiatus” to read:

A City Architect should not make a DoV, or a High-Priority CfJ, primarily to delay the game by putting it into Hiatus or Suspension.

If the Proposal ‘Blaze the Trails’ was enacted add a subrule called ‘Journeys’ to the rule ‘Links’ with the following text:

There is a publicly tracked boolean variable called ‘Allow_Journeys’ that defaults to False.


A Journey has the following attributes:
* A publicly tracked nonempty string called Name
* A publicly tracked boolean value called Ongoing that defaults to False
* A publicly tracked Source that defaults to blank
* A publicly tracked Destination that defaults to blank
* A publicly tracked Mode that defaults to blank
* A publicly tracked number called Passengers that defaults to 0

If there are two distinct Journeys sharing the same Name, the ‘Allow_Journeys’ variable automatically reverts to False if it is set to True.

If ‘Allow_Journeys’ is set to True and the Ongoing of atleast one Journey is set to False, any City Architect may perform the Commence_Journey action. The City controlled by the City Architect performing a Commence_Journey action is called the Conductor for the purposes of said action.

Commence_Journey is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Make a blog post or comment saying “Commencing journey named (Name of J)” where J is a Journey whose Ogoing is set to False
* Set the Ongoing of J to True
* Set the Mode of J to an existing Transit Link T which is between the Conductor and another City C
* Set the value of Passengers of J to be the minimum of the three quantities which are the Capacity of T, the Population of the Conductor and the Population of C
* Roll a DICE2. If the result of the die roll is 1, set the Source of J to be the Conductor and the Destination of J to be C, otherwise set the Source of J to be C and the Destination of J to be the Conductor
* Reduce the Population of the Source of J by the Passengers of J.

A Journey is called overdue if the Mode of the Journey is a Trasit Link and the Ongoing of the Journey has been continuously set to True for atleast as many hours as the Length of the Mode of that Journey.

If atleast one Journey is overdue, any City Architect may perform the End_Journey action which is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Make a blog post or comment saying “Ending journey named (Name of J)” where J is an overdue Journey
* If the Destination of J is set to a City, increase the Population of that City by the Passengers of J
* Set all the attributes of J except the Name of J to their default values.

The enactment of this proposal will automatically create a Journey with Name ‘J1’.

In the rule “Idle City Architects”, replace:-

An Admin may render a City Architect Idle if that City Architect has asked to become Idle in an entry or comment from the past 96 hours (4 Days), or if that City Architect has not posted an entry or comment in the past 168 Hours (7 days). In the latter case, the Admin must announce the idling in a blog post, and the 168 Hour idle timeout is considered to be reduced to 96 hours for that City Architect during the current and subsequent dynasty.

with:-

An Admin may render a City Architect Idle if that City Architect has asked to become Idle in an entry or comment from the past 96 hours (4 days). A City Architect is considered timed out if they have not posted an entry or comment in the past 168 hours (7 days), or in the past 96 hours (4 days) if they were idled for being timed out during the previous dynasty; an Admin may render a timed out City Architect Idle by announcing this in a blog post.

Add a new dynastic rule to the ruleset. Call it “Links” and give it the following text:

A Transit Link is a thing uniquely identified by an unordered pair of Endpoints (each the identity of a City) and Type (which may be “Road”, “Rail” or “Ferry”). A Transit Link is between its Endpoints.

Existing Transit Links are publicly tracked, and have the following additional publicly tracked information:
* A Capacity, an integer strictly greater than zero, defaulting to 1.
* A Length, an integer strictly greater than zero, defaulting to 10 if the Endpoints share a Region and 40 otherwise.

As an atomic Weekly Action, a City Architect may Pathfind, an atomic action with the following steps:
* Choose a City, the action’s Hub, that is controlled by City Architect performing the action or by nobody.
* Choose a random City that does not already have a Road Transit Link between it and the Hub; this is the action’s Spoke. If no valid Spokes exist, the action ends; make a blog post declaring that it failed.
* Create a new Transit Link of type “Road” between the action’s Hub and its Spoke.
* Set the new Transit Link’s Length to 2DICE6 plus its default Length.
* Optionally, increase or decrease the new Transit Link’s Length by up to 2.
* Set the new Transit Link’s Capacity to 2.

Create a subrule of Municipal Authority called Regional Meetings:

There is a kind of event post called a Regional Meeting, which may be created by applicable Canton, Prefecture, Burgh, and Township actions. Where it is created by such an action, it is considered to belong to the Region in which the City Architect who performed the action has a city. If their city has no Region, a Region is created and the city is placed into is as part of the action of creating the Regional Meeting.

Regional Meetings, by default, may only be voted on by City Architects who have a city in that meeting’s Region, and the Quorum of the Regional Meeting is calculated as being a Quorum of only the City Architects that are permitted to vote on it.

The Response Format of a Regional Meeting is a valid Voting Icon as per the rule Votes, and the Regional Meeting is treated as a Votable Matter for the purposes of the rest of that rule too. A Regional Meetings is found to be Popular rather than Unpopular if it has been open for 48 hours or longer and the only valid vote that has been cast on it is a single FOR vote. A Regional Meeting is found to be Popular if it has been made by the only City Architect that is permitted to vote on it.

A Regional Meeting may be ended by any City Architect who is permitted to vote on it, so long as it is either Popular or Unpopular. A Regional Meeting that has been open for one week or longer may be considered Unpopular and closed by any City Architect.

If the majority of EVCs contain the text “Just the basics”, ignore the rest of this proposal below.

Create a subrule of Municipal Authority called “Separate”:

Separate is a Township action which can be done at any time as a weekly action by any City Architect that has a suitably high Municipal Authority level to have unlocked Township actions. When a City Architect Separates, their city is removed from their Region.

Create a subrule of Municipal Authority called “Invite”:

Inviting is a Burgh action which can be done at any time by any City Architect that has a suitably high Municipal Authority level to have unlocked Burgh actions. When a City Architect Invites, they create a Regional Meeting which declares that they are Inviting, and declaring which City is being invited. Only cities without a Region, or cities in a Region that contains no other cities are considered valid targets for this. If that Regional Meeting is closed as Popular, the City Architect who owns the targetted city is permitted to remove their city from its Region then add their City to the Region of the Regional Meeting. They can do this a single time within the 168 hours following the meeting’s closure.

Create a subrule of Municipal Authority called “Expel”:

Expel is a Burgh action which can be done at any time by any City Architect that has a suitably high Municipal Authority level to have unlocked Burgh actions. When a City Architect Expels, they create a Regional Meeting which declares that they are Expelling, and declaring which City is being expelled. Only cities in the Regional Meeting’s region are considered valid targets for this. If that Regional Meeting is closed as Popular, the targetted city is immediately removed from the Regional Meeting’s region.

Replace the text of the rule Prosperity with:

Each Region with one or more Cities has a Prosperity which is an integer that is allowed to be negative, and which is calculated as the sum of the Populations of Cities within the Region, subtracting twice the sum of the Unemployed Populations of Cities within the Region, and also subtracting triple the sum of all Dilapidated Zones in cities within the region.

In the rule Population, replace “As a daily communal action, a City Architect may increase the Population of each City by the number of different types of Zone in that City. The capacity of a City is equal to three times the number of Residential Zones it has; if a City’s Population would be increased above its Capacity, it is instead set to its Capacity.” with:

As a daily communal action, a City Architect may increase the Population of each City by the number of different types of non-Dilapidated Zone in that City. Then, for each region that has a negative Prosperity, transfer a Population from a random city in it to a random city in a region that has the highest non-negative Prosperity, if such a region exists.

The capacity of a City is equal to three times the number of Residential Zones it has; if a City’s Population would be increased above its Capacity, it is instead set to its Capacity.

If the proposal “Working for a living” was enacted, replace the text “A City’s Unemployed Population is considered to be its Population minus the number of non-Residential Zones it has, to a minimum of zero.” with

A City’s Unemployed Population is considered to be its Population minus the number of non-Dilapidated non-Residential Zones it has, to a minimum of zero.

If the proposal “From Each According To their Ability” was enacted, after the sentence “Any City Architect taking an action that would reduce the Population of a City must also adjust the number of Industrial Zones of that City to meet the maximum based on the resulting Population.” append:

Any Industrial Zones in a city that are lost in this way are replaced by Dilapidated Zones.

In the rule “Architected Cities”, add a subrule named “Industry” with the following text:

Each City may have a maximum of 1 Industrial Zone for every 3 Population of that City. Any City Architect taking an action that would reduce the Population of a City must also adjust the number of Industrial Zones of that City to meet the maximum based on the resulting Population. At any time, a City Architect may add any number of Industrial Zones to the Zones of each City that they control such that the total number of Industrial Zones for each City does not exceed the maximum.

The Production of a City is the number of Industrial Zones listed in the Zones of that City.

If the Proposal “Get a job” is not enacted, this Proposal has no effect.

In the rule “Population”, replace this text:

Each City has a publicly tracked Unemployed Population which is an integer that defaults to the City’s Population. Whenever the Population of a City increases or decreases, the Unemployed Population also changes by the same amount. If it would ever be set to a value above the City’s Population, it is instead set to the City’s Population. If it would ever be set to a value below 0, it instead becomes zero.

with this text:

A City’s Unemployed Population is considered to be its Population minus the number of non-Residential Zones it has, to a minimum of zero.

If Proposal: Let’s get down to business (to defeat the Huns) was not enacted then this proposal has no effect.

If the Kickstart action has been carried out then fully revert it and any subsequent changes that have been made that were based upon its effects.

In the rule Kickstart, change the first bullet point to read:

Create a number of Regions equal to the number of extant Cities divided by 3, plus one of there is a remainder;

If there is no “Victory Points” special case, add a new dynastic rule called “Points” with the following text:

Each City Architect has a publicly tracked number of Points, which defaults to 1 and cannot be negative. New players start with a number of Points equal to the number held by the City Architect (aside from themself) with the fourth most Points, or 1 if there are less than four other players.

No City Architect can gain more than five Points in a day; if they would, gained Points beyond the fifth don’t count.

If a majority of EVCs on this Proposal contain the phrase “early victory”, add the following to the end of the rule “Points” as a new paragraph:

A City Architect, the Top Scorer, has achieved victory if they have at least ten Points, and no three other Architects have at least as many combined Points as the Top Scorer has.

Add a subrule to the rule “Regions” entitled “Resources”:

Each Region has a primary resource and a secondary resource. A primary resource’s legal values are blank or a text string which is a valid English noun phrase which does not appear anywhere in the Ruleset. A secondary resource’s legal values are blank or the name of any other region’s primary resource which is not the secondary resource of another region. City Architect may set a blank primary or secondary resource of their region to any non-blank legal value, provided they have secured the assent of every City Architect who controls a city in the same region (this may be secured privately with a public post made to dispute if necessary).

If there are any Regions but none of them have any non-blank primary resource, as an atomic action, any City Architect may set one Region’s primary resource to any non-blank legal value and remove this sentence from the ruleset.

To the end of Architected Cities, append as a new paragraph:

Within the Ruleset, a word only refers to the name of a City if it is explicitly stated that it refers to a City name. A City may not have the same name as an active City Architect or another City. Cities without a legal name default to “UnnamedCity”, suffixed with the lowest positive integer necessary to make that name legal.

Add a subsection to the rule “Architected Cities” entitled “Municipal Authority”:

Cities have a Municipal Authority determined by their population and number of zones, defaulting to Township. A City automatically has the highest level Municipal Authority for which it meets the eligibility criteria. Different levels of Municipal Authority grant different numbers of Permits (equal to their level) and may unlock certain actions or effects for the City or its controller.

Municipal Authority specification table:
Level | Municipal Authority | Requirements |  Effects
0 | Ghost Town | The City exists | None
1 | Township | 1 population and 1 zone |  Unlocks Township actions
2 | Burgh | 4 population and 2 zones | Unlocks Burgh and Township actions
3 | Prefecture | 16 population and 8 zones | Unlocks Prefecture, Burgh, and Township actions
4 | Canton | 64 population and 32 zones | Unlocks Canton, Prefecture, Burgh, and Township actions

In the rule Architected Cities, change the text

Each City may have a name, which is publicly tracked flavour text. Each City Architect may control up to one City; the Cities tracked by each Architect are publicly tracked. Whenever a City Architect would start to control a new City they may give it the name of their choosing, following the requirements set out for a legal player name in the rule Names.

to

Each City may have a name, which is publicly tracked flavour text. Each City Architect may control up to one City and each City may be controlled by exactly one City Architect; the Cities controlled by each City Architect are publicly tracked. Whenever a City Architect would start to control a new City they may give it the name of their choosing, following the requirements set out for a legal player name in the rule Names.

In the rule Regions, replace the text

Cities are grouped into Regions; all Regions and the Cities that they contain are publicly tracked.

with

Cities are grouped into Regions, with each City being contained in atmost one Region. All Regions are publicly tracked, as are the lists of which Cities are contained within a given Region.

Add a new dynastic rule, called Kickstart:

Any City Architect who does not control a City may create a City at any time. No City Architect may carry out the daily communal population increase action.

If more than 80% of City Architects control a City, or if it is after 11 May 2023, any City Architect may carry out the Kickstart action, which is a communal atomic action with the following steps:

* Create enough Regions that all Regions except one would contain exactly three Cities;
* Randomly assign Cities to those Regions, such that no Region has more than three Cities in it;
* Repeal this rule.

In “Population”, replace “As a daily communal action, a City Architect may increase the Population of every City by the number of Zones in that City.” with:-

As a daily communal action, a City Architect may increase the Population of each City by the number of different types of Zone in that City. The capacity of a City is equal to three times the number of Residential Zones it has; if a City’s Population would be increased above its Capacity, it is instead set to its Capacity.

Add a new Special Case rule entitled “Victory Points [Active]” as follows:

Each City Architect has a publicly tracked number of Victory Points, which defaults to 1.

A City Architect has achieved victory if they have a number of Victory Points greater than or equal to the sum of all other City Architects’ Victory Points.

Add a new dynastic rule to the ruleset. Call it “Links” and give it the following text:

A Transit Link has the following information:
* The identities of a pair of cities as its Endpoints.
* A type, which is one of Road, Rail or Ferry, defaulting to Road.
* A Capacity, an integer strictly greater than zero, defaulting to 1.
* A Length, an integer strictly greater than zero, defaulting to 10 if the Endpoints share a Region and 40 otherwise.

A Transit Link is uniquely identified by its Endpoints and Type. All existing Transit Links are publicly tracked. A proposal whose sole effect is to create a single Transit Link is Popular if the created Link’s Capacity is less than the number of FOR votes, it has not been Vetoed or Withdrawn, its length is greater than or equal to the default, and no previous link of the same type exists between its Endpoints.

To the end of the rule Population, append:

Each City has a publicly tracked Unemployed Population which is an integer that defaults to the City’s Population. Whenever the Population of a City increases or decreases, the Unemployed Population also changes by the same amount. If it would ever be set to a value above the City’s Population, it is instead set to the City’s Population. If it would ever be set to a value below 0, it instead becomes zero.

Create a subrule of Regions called Prosperity:

Each Region with one or more Cities has a Prosperity which is an integer that is allowed to be negative, and which is calculated as the sum of the Populations of Cities within the Region, subtracting twice the sum of the Unemployed Populations of Cities within the Region.

Add each of the following to the “Other” section of the Keywords rule in the Appendix, each in the correct position when organising entries by alphabetical order:

Endgame Lockdown
When a dynastic rule contains text stating that the game is in an Endgame Lockdown, no Proposal may be posted that proposes to make any changes to the dynastic ruleset except for the following two cases: Proposals that only make changes to that rule, and Proposals that contain a repeal of that rule.

Full Hiatus
If BlogNomic is on Full Hiatus, the conditions of a Hiatus apply, and in addition, no Idle City Architect may be made unidle, and no new player joining requests may be administered.

To the rule “Engineers” add the text, “An Engineer may cease to be an Engineer at any time by posting an entry to the BlogNomic weblog requesting such an action. A human who has ceased to be an Engineer in this way may not become an Engineer again within the following two weeks.”

Or, if the Proposal “We are all City Architects now” passed, to the rule “City Architects” add the text, “A City Architect may cease to be a City Architect at any time by posting an entry to the BlogNomic weblog requesting such an action. A human who has ceased to be a City Architect in this way may not become a City Architect again within the following two weeks.”

In the rule “Population”, if it exists, replace “a publicly-tracked number named Growth, defaulting to 1” with:-

a publicly-tracked list of Zones, defaulting to a single Residential Zone

Also replace “As a Daily Action, a City Architect may increase the Population of each of their Cities that they control by the Growth of that City.” with:-

As a daily communal action, a City Architect may increase the Population of every City by the number of Zones in that City.

If any Cities somehow exist, set each of their lists of Zones to a single Residential Zone.

Consider the Third Dynasty of Misty to have ended, and for the current dynasty to be a separate dynasty, namely the Eleventh Metadynasty.

Add a new dynastic rule, called Regions:

Cities are grouped into Regions; all Regions and the Cities that they contain are publicly tracked. Cities in the same Region are said to be Neighbours to each other. A Region may hold up to four Cities; if ever a Region contains no Cities then it may be destroyed by any City Architect.

If the rule Architected Cities contains the phrase “which is flavour text”, change it to “which is publicly tracked flavour text”.

Please unidle me.

Unidle me please :D

If “Infernal Desire Machines” was not enacted then this proposal has no effect.

If the rule “Architected Cities” exists, add a subrule named “Population” with the following text:

Each City has a publicly-tracked number named Population, defaulting to 0, and a publicly-tracked number named Growth, defaulting to 1.

As a Daily Action, a City Architect may increase the Population of each of their Cities that they control by the Growth of that City.

If Proposal: We are all City Architects now was not enacted then this proposal has no effect.

Add the following to the rule Architected Cities:

Each City may have a name, which is flavour text. Each City Architect may control up to one City; the Cities tracked by each Architect are publicly tracked. Whenever a City Architect would start to control a new City they may give it the name of their choosing, following the requirements set out for a legal player name in the rule Names.

Change the dynastic tracking page to be the Architected Cities page of the wiki.

Remove Misty from the game of BlogNomic.

Post-dynastic(?) commentary thread for Misty 3.

Replace “City Architect” with “Urbifex Maximus” wherever it appears in the rules. Then, replace “Engineer” with “City Architect” wherever it appears in the rules.

Add a new rule entitled “Architected Cities”:

There may be entities called Cities.

In the rule “The Chopping Block”, change

The game is in a state of Endgame Lockdown.

to

The game is not in a state of Endgame Lockdown. The Building, the Building Number and Building Stability are all publicly tracked.

If Proposal: Failed Ultimatum was enacted, this CfJ does nothing. If it or any other DoVs are pending, fail them.

If any CFJs have been enacted since the posting of this CFJ, revert their changes; if any are still pending, fail them.

The City Architect named Misty ceases to be the City Architect.

Start a new Metadynasty by removing all dynastic rules, and by posting an Ascension Address with the title of “The Engineer Slam” and following body text:

TWO ENGINEERS ENTER. ONE ENGINEER LEAVES.

Add the following as a new rule to the ruleset:

In this dynasty, only the Engineers called Josh or Kevan may achieve Victory. If any other Engineer achieves Victory then they have instead not achieved Victory. This dynasty has no City Architect.
The Engineer called Josh may also be referred to as the Heel. The Engineer called Kevan may also be referred to as the Face.

Each Engineer is a member of a team; the teams are each captained by either the Heel or the Face, and the Heel and the Face may name their teams as they please, although the names of the teams are flavour text. Each Engineer’s team is publicly tracked.

As soon as possible, the Heel and the Face should conduct a public snake draft in the comments to a story post posted for that purpose, with the Heel picking first, selecting from the other Engineers in the game, until each Engineer in the same is in one or the others’ team. They should then update public tracking so that each Engineer’s team information is correct.

Whenever a Engineer becomes unidle for the first time in this dynasty they are added to the team of the Engineer who would have been next to pick in the initial snake draft.

Each Engineer has a Contribution score, which is a non-negative integer that defaults to zero. When the Heel or the Face achieve Victory in this dynasty they are encouraged to retain the Contribution scores of their team and ensure that they confer meaningful advantages to their holders in the next dynasty.

By the passage of this CfJ, the player called jjm3x3 has achieved victory in this dynasty.

By the passage of this CfJ, the player called Josh has achieved victory in this dynasty.

Add the following to the end of the rule The Chopping Block:

Once during this dynasty, as a communal action, any Engineer may carry out a Final Topple action, which consists of rolling a DICE100; the result of this roll is the Victory Lot. If the Victory Lot does not fall within one of the numeric ranges (inclusive) matching a given Engineer in the list below, then any Admin may, as an atomic action, resolve all active proposals as if they had failed; repeal all Dynastic Rules; and declare a Metadynasty with no theme. If, however, the Victory Lot does fall within the numeric ranges (inclusive) matching a given Engineer in the list below, then that Engineer has achieved victory.

* 1-10: Habanero
* 11-20: jjm3x3
* 31-40: JonathanDark
* 41-50: Taiga
* 51-56: summai
* 57-58: Titanic
* 59-60: redtara

(assumes another votable matter has repealed dynastic rules and started a metadynasty first. If not, do that here)

In the rule “Dynastic Tracking”, change “Construction Site” to “Generic Nomic Data Document”.

Add a new dynastic rule, “Theme Mutation”, to the ruleset. Give it the following text:

As long as it currently is a metadynasty, the theme is always two words. The dynasty’s theme appears at the top of the Generic Nomic Data Document, with the word “The” before it, and the word “Metadynasty” after it.

Votable Matters shall be considered on-theme or off-theme based on the dynastic theme at the time they were posted rather than the current theme.

There exists a publicly tracked list of words called the Adjective Pool. If a the same word is in the Adjective Pool more than once, the quantity is tracked as a number after the first instance of that word and further instances are omitted.

As a Weekly Communal Action that can only be taken on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday and only if the Adjective Pool contains at least three words, a Player may Draw an Adjective. They randomly select a word from the Adjective Pool, which replaces the first word of the dynasty’s theme. This removes all instances of that word from the Adjective Pool.

There exists a publicly tracked list of words called the Noun Pool. If a the same word is in the Noun Pool more than once, the quantity is tracked as a number after the first instance of that word and further instances are omitted.

As a Weekly Communal Action that can only be taken on a Thursday, Friday or Saturday and only if the Noun Pool contains at least three words, a Player may Draw a Noun. They randomly select a word from the Noun Pool, which replaces the first word of the dynasty’s theme. This removes all instances of that word from the Noun Pool.

If there is ever a word in the Adjective Pool that is not an English adjective, or a word in the Noun Pool that is not an English noun, it ceases to be part of that Pool and any Player may adjust the tracking document accordingly.

As a Weekly Action, a Player may add a noun to the Noun Pool or an adjective to the Adjective Pool, or remove a word from either Pool.

Set the dynasty’s theme to “Mutable Theme”.

Repeal the rule “The Chopping Block”.

Add the following text to the end of the first paragraph of the rule The Building:

The Building, the Building Number and Building Stability are all publicly tracked.

Make all Open Demolitions Ended without performing their Ending Action. Repeal the dynastic rule “Demolition”.

Set the Building Number, the Building Stability, the quantity of Stone in the Quarry, and every Engineer’s personal dynastic gamestate variables to their respective default values. Set the Threat to an empty list.

Set the the Building to be seven Levels, each of which contains three Wooden Blocks.

I’m unidling myself. Quorum rises to 7.

Add the following to the end of the rule The Chopping Block:

Once during this dynasty, as a communal action, any Engineer may carry out a Final Topple action, which consists of rolling a DICE100; the result of this roll is the Victory Lot. If the Victory Lot does not fall within one of the numeric ranges (inclusive) matching a given Engineer in the list below, then any Admin may, as an atomic action, resolve all active proposals as if they had failed; repeal all Dynastic Rules; and declare a Metadynasty with no theme. If, however, the Victory Lot does fall within the numeric ranges (inclusive) matching a given Engineer in the list below, then that Engineer has achieved victory.

* 1-10: Habanero
* 11-20: jjm3x3
* 31-40: JonathanDark
* 41-50: Taiga
* 51-56: summai
* 57-58: Titanic
* 59-60: redtara

Fail all other pending non-Core Proposals, repeal all Dynastic Rules, and declare a Metadynasty with no theme.

To the rule “The Chopping Block”, add:-

Each Engineer holds a number of Permits, tracked in this rule.

If nobody has already done so during the current dynasty, any Engineer or the City Architect may perform a Final Topple by randomly selecting a Permit from all those held by Engineers. Upon doing so, the Engineer who holds the selected Permit achieves victory.

The Engineer named Brendan holds 216 permits.
The Engineer named Habanero holds 208 permits.
The Engineer named jjm3x3 holds 194 permits.
The Engineer named JonathanDark holds 158 permits.
The Engineer named Josh holds 427 permits.
The Engineer named Kevan holds 218 permits.
The Engineer named redtara holds 107 permits.
The Engineer named Summai holds 122 permits.
The Engineer named Taiga holds 193 permits.
The Engineer named Titanic holds 22 permits.

If any Engineer’s EVC on this proposal includes the word “pass”, remove the sentence with that Engineer’s name from “The Chopping Block”.

To the rule “The Chopping Block”, add:-

Each Engineer holds a number of Permits, tracked in this rule.

If nobody has already done so during the current dynasty, any Engineer or the City Architect may perform a Final Topple by randomly selecting a Permit from all those held by Engineers. Upon doing so, the Engineer who holds the selected Permit achieves victory.

The Engineer named Josh holds 30 Permits.
The Engineer named Taiga holds 10 Permits.
The Engineer named Kevan holds 8 Permits.
The Engineer named Brendan holds 5 Permits.
The Engineer named jjm3x3 holds 5 Permits.
The Engineer named Summai holds 2 Permits.

Then, if Brendan included the phrase “Safety First” in their EVC on this proposal, increase their and Josh’s Permits by 5.

Add the following to the end of the rule The Chopping Block:

If the game is no longer in a state of Endgame Lockdown, and the rule for Demolitions exists, immediately remove the rule for Demolitions and treat any existing open Demolition as illegal.

Add the following to the end of the rule The Chopping Block:

Once in the dynasty, as a communal action, any Engineer may carry out a Final Topple action.

A Final Topple is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Roll DICE100
* Compare the result to the table below
* The Engineer whose name is associated with the dice roll result on the table below has Achieved Victory, and the Engineer carrying out this action should make a blog post announcing that outcome.

The Final Topple dice roll is evaluated as follows:

* 1-10: Brendan
* 11-20: Habanero
* 21-30: jjm3x3
* 31-40: JonathanDark
* 41-50: Josh
* 51-60: Kevan
* 61-70: redtara
* 71-80: summai
* 81-90: Taiga
* 91-100: Titanic

Add the following to the end of the rule The Chopping Block:

Once in the dynasty, as a communal action, any Engineer may carry out a Final Topple action.

A Final Topple is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Roll DICE100
* Compare the result to the table below
* The Engineer whose name is associated with the dice roll result on the table below has Achieved Victory, and the Engineer carrying out this action should make a blog post announcing that outcome.

The Final Topple dice roll is evaluated as follows:
* 1-79: Josh
* 80: Redtara
* 81-84: Kevan
* 85-88: Summai
* 89-92: Taiga
* 93-96: Brendan
* 97-98: jim3x3
* 99-100: JonathanDark

Requesting a review Board so I can be authorised.

In the rule Things that a mentor should do, under the Mentors rules of the Appendix, change

The mentor and mentee may work together to achieve victory. If a mentor achieves victory with support of their mentee then they should, if the mentee wishes it, pass the baton to the mentee.

to

The mentor and mentee may work together to achieve victory, but, should the mentee wish it, the mentor should strive to ensure that the mentee achieves Victory rather than themselves. If a mentor achieves victory with support of their mentee then they should, if the mentee wishes it and it is legally possible, pass the mantle to the mentee.

We’re in Endgame Lockdown now, and the most likely path forward is to end the dynasty by awarding victory through a roll in the Dice Roller. For the newer folks, this would be done by making each face of the die the name of an Engineer. Some Engineers may deserve to have more that one face on that die, to give them better odds of their name coming up in the roll. What counts as “deserved” and how much it should count is the subject that should be discussed here.

Someone could just put up a Proposal with starting numbers, but rather than waste time with back-and-forth that will likely exceed the 4-hour edit window, maybe we can hash out a rough agreement in this thread first and then have a Proposal posted based on the discussion.

Reply in the comments with your thoughts on a fair distribution of die faces. A flat distribution for everyone, such as {Brendan,Habanero,jjm3x3,JonathanDark,Josh,Kevan,redtara,summai,Taiga,Titanic}, is not likely to be agreed upon, so some other distribution giving certain Engineers more faces is needed.