Saturday, March 31, 2007

Proposal: Less burden to Admins (trivial)

S-K.—Chronos

Adminned at 01 Apr 2007 12:39:24 UTC

Rewrite Evolutionary Currency so it reads:

There exists an in game currency called “DNA Points”. DNA Points are tracked in the GNDT in a column called “DNA Points”.

DNA Points may only be earned in the following ways:

* Any time a proposal is Enacted, the lifeform who authored the proposal receives 5 * A - 3 * B DNA points where A is the number of counted legal FOR votes cast on the proposal and B is the number of counted legal AGAINST votes.

* Any time a proposal is enacted, each lifeform who voted on the proposal, except its author, is entitled once to, within 12 hours of its enactment, increase eir DNA Points by Y, where Y is the total number of counted legal votes received by the proposal at the time it was enacted.

* Any time a proposal is enacted, all non-idle lifeforms who did not vote on the proposal is entitled once to, within 12 hours of its enactment, increase eir DNA Points by the lower of the two values:
** 20% of whatever the lifeform who proposed the proposal earned.(Rounded down)
** Whatever any Lifeform who voted on the proposal is entitled to earn.

* Occasionally, every lifeform may increase eir DNA Points by 0.05 * Z, rounded down, where Z is the number of DNA points currently possessed by said lifeform. No lifeform may receive more than 50 DNA points per week this way.

Rewrite The Gene Pool so it reads:

There exists a row in the GNDT called “The Gene Pool” which begins the game with 100 DNA points.

Any time a proposal is enacted, the Gene Pool receives 20% of whatever the lifeform which proposed the proposal earned or whatever a lifeform who voted on the proposal is entitled to earn, whichever is smaller, rounded down.

Once each week, after 0:00 Monday Morning, the DNA Points Gene Pool shall be increased by 0.05 * Z, rounded down, where Z is the number of DNA points possessed by the Gene Pool at that 0:00 Monday Morning. The lifeform who enforces this provision may, at that the same time, increase eir DNA Points by 5. The Gene Pool may not receive more than 25 DNA points per week this way.

New lifeforms DNA points are initialized at the value of however many DNA points are currently owned by the “The Gene Pool”.

Rewrite the non-italicized text of Trivial Proposals so it reads:

A Trivial Proposal is defined to be any Proposal that contains the text “(trivial)” in its Subject.

Whenever a Trivial Proposal passes, DNA Points are not earned as described in the main body of the “Evolutionary Currency” rule.  Instead, each lifeform who who was active at the time of its enacment, is entitled once to, within 12 hours of that enactment, increase eir DNA Points by Y, where Y is the total number of counted legal votes received by the proposal at the time it was enacted.

When applicable, the provisions in this sub-rule override any restrictions in the main body of “Evolutionary Currency” regarding how DNA Points may or may not be earned.

If, at the time of its Enactment, more than half of all comments to a Proposal containing counted votes also contain the text “(Trivial)”, then that Proposal is also defined as Trivial.

The ammended effects of Proposal Enactment described by this Proposal do apply to this Proposal’s Enactment.

Comments

Clucky: he/him

31-03-2007 14:28:04 UTC

While I don’t mind something to this effect, I think this just leaves too much room for mistakes. Others would still have to check everyone else’s work to make sure they gave themselves the right amount of DNA points. The amount of saved work time wouldn’t be much.

ChronosPhaenon:

31-03-2007 14:35:48 UTC

Ok, then, but I’ll refrain of admining proposals. It’s a hell of a work…

Clucky: he/him

31-03-2007 14:46:04 UTC

Well I mean, if Admins do what you did and clearly state how much DNA points each lifeform gets, then its a much simply matter because you just need to make sure everyone added right.

I also dislike the 12 hour limit rule simply because the gene pool can earn more than an actual player that way.

We could always have a wiki page containing simply uncollected DNA points by each lifeform. Because all the names are right there, it wouldn’t take nearly as much time as it does to edit the GNDT.

Cosmologicon:

31-03-2007 15:13:22 UTC

against I like the idea of reducing the work for Admins, but this seriously disadvantages Lifeforms who only log on once a day.

ChronosPhaenon:

01-04-2007 00:29:39 UTC

against SK. I’ve got the point about 12 hours, and about making it obrigatgopry to the admin who’s enacting to state the DNA amounts. I like the wiki Idea also. Will repropose as soon as I get a slott.