Sunday, July 15, 2007

Proposal: Black Market Fun

Vetoed by Government
Failed by Hix

Adminned at 17 Jul 2007 13:52:45 UTC

Add a subrule to 2.3 Production. Call it “Illegal Goods”

Illegal Goods

As a daily action, a corporation may attempt to sell eir illegal goods on the black market. To do this, e reduces eir illegal goods by X and then rolls a DICE20. If the result of the dice roll is less than or equal to x, the coporation is busted. All of the busted corporations products are set the values for a new corporation except for eir cash which is set to zero if positive and remains at the same value if negative. If the result is greater than X, the corporation gains 3*X cash.

When time is advanced, before any other step in advancing time is preformed, a DICE20 must be rolled for each corporation that currently posses illegal goods. If the result of the dice roll is less than or equal to number of illegal goods held by a corporation, e is busted. All of the busted corporations products are set the values for a new corporation except for eir cash which is set to zero if positive and remains at the same value if negative.

The production rights for illegal goods belong to XXXX.

Because of the nature of illegal goods, the production rights for illegal goods may not be transfer via an escrow. Corporations are encouraged to be more discreet if they wish to acquire the production rights for illegal goods.

Any corporation other than Clucky may secretly bid on the production rights to illegal goods by using the private messenger found within EE (My Account – Private Messages – Compose New Message) to send a private message to Clucky containing eir bid, in cash. If this proposal passes, Clucky shall post the results of bidding to the blog and replace “XXXX” in the above subrule with the name of the corporation which placed the highest bid. If more than one corporation placed the highest bid, Clucky shall replace “XXXX” with the names of all corporations which placed the highest bid. Clucky shall then reduce the cash of each corporation which won the bidding by the value which they bid, and increase eir cash by this same amount. If no corporation places a positive bid, then Clucky shall give production rights for illegal goods to himself.

posted by Clucky at 15 Jul 2007 01:47:00 UTC Comments (7)

Comments

Chivalrybean:

15-07-2007 04:02:45 UTC

hmm…

imperial

ChronosPhaenon:

15-07-2007 14:12:34 UTC

against

Night:

15-07-2007 17:30:57 UTC

Why only a DICE20? That means the maximum amount of illegal goods you can safely produce at a time is between 1-9.  Any more than that and you have a 50%+ risk of losing practically everything? Seems too steep a price to make only $3-$36M a pop.

against

Kevan: he/him

15-07-2007 18:03:55 UTC

against

Hix:

15-07-2007 19:32:41 UTC

How convinient for you, Clucky.  This proposal has to pass before any bidding can be considered official (Why else would you include the line “Any corporation other than Clucky may secretly bid…” as part of the proposal?).  Yet, as soon as it passes, you can post the results and claim the exclusive rights for yourself.

Then, once you and only you have the rights, you can produce a bunch of illegal goods (it’s also convenient for you that the checks in the second paragraph occur before you recieve the illegal goods).  Then, before the next time advance, you give the illegal goods away en masse to any number of other Corporations that you hope to bust.

against , requesting veto .

Zephyr:

16-07-2007 09:49:39 UTC

imperial

Bucky:

17-07-2007 06:14:38 UTC

veto .  I’m not sure Hix’s killer scam would work as planned, but there are other flaws. For example, one can store one’s Illegal Goods in Escrow to avoid being busted, since it’s only forbidden to transfer the Production Rights.