BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Add a new rule to the dynastic ruleset, entitled Money, Presige and Power:

Noblemen have three resources - Money and Power. Power is tracked in the Noblemen page of the GNDT. The Money of each Nobleman is tracked secretly by Louis XIV. Money and Power default to zero, while Prestige defaults to the median Prestige value held by other Noblemen.

Noblemen have unlimited money, so the Money statistic tracks the total amount spent by each Nobleman over the course of the Dynasty. At any given time, the Nobleman who has spent the most Money (or all such Noblemen, in the event of a tie) may not post a Declaration of Victory. If they do then Louis XIV may mark it as failed at any time. Money must be a non-negative integer.

Power tracks the status of each Nobleman relative to the rest of the Court. It must be an integer but may be positive or negative.

Add a new rule to the ruleset, entitled Auctions:

As a weekly action, Louis XIV may make an Auction Post detailing some items upon which Noblemen can bid and the effect that those items would have. Once such a post has been made, it will remain open for not less than 48 hours, during which Noblemen may privately bid upon those items by sending a message to Louis XIV witht he amount of Money or Power they would like to spend on each item.

The Auction for each item is won by the Nobleman who made the highest bid of Money plus Power (in the event of a tie, highest Power wins; if it is still a tie then the item rolls over to the next Auction). As soon as possible after the passage of the 48 hour period for each Auction Post, Louis XIV should post the winner of each item in the Auction as a comment to that Post, along with the amount of Power spent by all bidders, and should secretly update the Money of the winning Noblemen to include the Money spent on the items in the Auction. As soon as possible thereafter, the winning Noblemen may reduce their Power by the amount bid and may update the Auctions page of the wiki with the details of the Item that they have won.