Proposal: The School of Life
2 to 4 (including 2 deferential votes) after 48 hours. Failed by Derrick.
Adminned at 09 May 2018 17:20:24 UTC
"If a blog entry exists which is less than 48 hours old and which features comments from the Chief, Second and Third Mate ..."
To:
Each sailor has a Nostalgia, tracked in the GNDT. This Nostalgia is a whole number between 0 and 10.
Each sailor has a Rank, tracked in the GNDT. This Rank is a whole number between 0 and 4.
Each Sailor holds a Position on the whaling ship Haniver, tracked in the GNDT and taken from the following list, defaulting to Deckhand (which may be tracked as “-”).
Captain (4)
Chief Mate (3)
Second Mate (3)
Third Mate (3)
Cook (2)
Blacksmith (2)
Carpenter (2)
Steward (2)
Harpooneer (1)
Lookout (0)
Deckhand (0)
Prisoner (0)
Passenger (0)
Each Position has a minimum rank associated with it, written in paretheses after it in the list of valid positions. A sailor may not hold a position with a minimum rank greater than their rank.
Only the Narrator may hold the Position of Passenger.
A position with a rank of 2 or higher is considered "Exclusive".
A Position is considered Free if it is held by no Sailor and it is not considered Exclusive. The Captain's Position is never considered free.
A Sailor may assign themselves a Free Position they can hold at any time.
The Captain may change any Sailor’s Position at any time to a free position the sailor can hold.
As a Weekly Action, any sailor may raise the rank of any sailor with a rank less than his by 1.
A Sailor may not voluntarily become a Prisoner. The captain may assign Prisoners as normal. A Prisoner may not voluntarily change their position
Create a rule named "Bidding":
The Narrator shall create a Blog Post named "Bidding for Rank". Each Sailor can make Valid Position Bids by making comments on this post within 72 hours of its creation of the form: "I BID [X] FOR [Y]", where [X] is replaced by an integer, and [Y] is a Position a sailor can hold. Only the most recent Valid Position Bid by a sailor is considered a Valid Position Bid. After no more Valid Position Bids can be created, each Exclusive Position shall be awarded to the Sailor whose most recent Valid Position Bid has a higher [X] value than all other, if it exists.. The Sailor's Rank shall set to the minimum rank of the Position awarded, and the Sailor's Nostalgia shall be set to the [X] value named in their Valid Position Bid.
A sailor who has participated in this dynasty for less than 48 hours, may set his rank to that of any other sailor, and his Nostalgia to 1 higher than the Nostalgia of the other sailor.
A sailor who was not awarded an Position considered Exclusive, may within 48 hours of the Exclusive Positions being awarded set his rank to that of any other sailor, and his Nostalgia to 1 higher than the Nostalgia of the other sailor.
This is the grand Position Auction.
The intent is for nostolgia to subtract from worth during the end game. You can only score 10 worth, so be careful what you bid.
Rank is to preserve your hard won status.
bidding the same amount for a Position should result in neither side getting it.
I rewrote Position, but it should have all the changes from previous unenacted proposals with quorum.
Only exclusive Positions will be changed. We will either need to promote deckhands to harpooners or make them pay a nostalgia. We’ll see which after the bidding.
Happy Bidding!
On reflection this seems like a lot of complexity to solve the relatively small problem of position assignation.
card:
i think you messed up some formatting in the Bidding rule