Thursday, October 21, 2021

Proposal: There’s No I In Team

Cannot be popular without a vote change, 2-8. Josh

Adminned at 22 Oct 2021 16:58:49 UTC

If there is a rule called Firms, rewrite it to read as follows; otherwise, add a new rule called Firms with the following text:

A Firm is an organisation of Realtors. Each Firm has a name (which is flavour text) and a number of Realtors who are Partners in that Firm. The Wealth of a Firm is the sum of all the the Bucks of Realtors who are Partners in that Firm; the Wealth of each Firm is publicly tracked.

Each Realtor may belong to either no or one Firm, defaulting to no Firm, and the name of their Firm is publicly tracked. If a Realtor belongs to a Firm then they are a Partner in that Firm. Each Partner in a Firm has one Share in that Firm; a Realtor may not be a Partner in more than one Firm, or have more than one Share in total, under any circumstances.

Whenever a Realtor who is a Partner in a Firm is the author of a DoV that was enacted in this dynasty, they must, as an action in the Interregnum, randomly select a Relator who has, for at least the preceeding seven days, held a Share in the Firm to which the winning Realtor is a Partner (which can be themselves, if they are otherwise eligible), and then pass the mantle to that Realtor.

As a Weekly Action, a Realtor may Start a Firm by choosing a Name which does not belong to any other Firm and setting their Firm to be a newly created Firm with that name.

As a Daily Action, a Realtor may Apply to join a Firm. To do so, they must make a Story Post to the blog naming the firm that they wish to join; that Story Post is called an Application and is active until it is either Approved or that Realtor posts another Application. Parters of a Firm may vote on Applications to their Firm. When every Partner of a Firm has responded to an Application to their Firm with a FOR vote then the Application is Approved; the Applicant may update their Firm to be the target Firm, and when they have done so they become a Parter in that Firm, and cease to be a Partner in any Firm that they were previously a Partner of.

Add a new subrule to the rule Firms, called Specialisms:

A Realtor can have a Specialism, which is publicly tracked, and which defaults to None. Valid Specialisms are as follows:

None: No Specialism.
Renovator: Specialist in improving the Condition of Houses.
Stager: Specialist in improving the Appeal of Houses.
Negotiator: Specialist in gaining more Bucks from a sale.
Purchaser: Specialist in aquiring Houses for fewer Bucks.
Medium: Specialist in summoning Ghosts to Houses.
Exorcist: Specialist in removing Ghosts from Houses.
Trapper: Specialist in setting or removing Traps.

If Proposal: Bed Bath & Beyond was enacted, add “Remodeler: Specialist in changing the Size of each House” to the list in Specialisms. If Proposal: Estate Sales was enacted, add “Listing Agent: Specialist in attracting Buyers” to the list in Specialisms.

Specialisms are a bit of a stub at the moment, but the idea is that you have to make a team that will succeed in today’s cut-throat market.

Comments

Madrid:

21-10-2021 11:40:17 UTC

I like this

redtara: they/them

21-10-2021 13:19:25 UTC

This is even more strongly encouraging pooling and so I am even more strongly against it.

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

21-10-2021 14:02:37 UTC

Firms have already been a flop once, not sure that anyone will go for them this time either. I like the specialist idea though, maybe making those certain things cheaper to do. I don’t see why it would need to be attached to forms at all.

Josh: Observer he/they

21-10-2021 14:34:02 UTC

@Trapdoorspyder The first Firms proposal is currently at 4-5, meaning that it’s only down by one vote - hardly a ‘flop’ and certainly not worth dismissing with a casual shrug, when some additional work and context could easily tip an AGAINST into a FOR; chiiika’s against even says that it’s on the edge.

Specialists might work on their own but I like the idea of them being actually specialised - not bonuses for certain types of actions but actively dedicated to a single task - meaning that cabals are gestalt entities with capabilities defined by their constituent parts.

For now, though, it’s just a stub. Plenty of time to add context and strip out parts that aren’t working.

redtara: they/them

21-10-2021 14:56:49 UTC

against

Axemabaro:

21-10-2021 15:28:40 UTC

against

Clucky: he/him

21-10-2021 17:46:49 UTC

for

TyGuy6:

21-10-2021 18:58:37 UTC

against Specialties, yes, but firms, no, at least not for the first half of the dynasty.

Zack: he/him

21-10-2021 19:49:07 UTC

against

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

21-10-2021 23:48:35 UTC

against

Raven1207: he/they

22-10-2021 02:32:15 UTC

against

Kevan: he/him

22-10-2021 08:17:17 UTC

imperial

pokes:

22-10-2021 15:27:55 UTC

against