Monday, March 04, 2013

Proposal: Trading

Passes 6-2. — Quirck

Adminned at 06 Mar 2013 11:28:56 UTC

Enact a new rule entitled ‘Economical Benefits’ that reads as follows:

As a daily action, a Captain in a Yellow sector may post a Trade Offer, which is a Story Post whose title contains the words “Trade Offer” and whose text indicates the sector that the Captain occupied at that time and that contains a nonempty Want list and a nonempty Have list. Each entry in the lists shall be one of the following:

  • A quantity and type of Resource.

The Captain posting the Trade Offer must possess everything listed in the Have list when he posts the offer; the contents of the Have list are deducted from that Captain’s inventory when he does so. The sector indicated in the Trade Offer (the sector occupied by the Captain who posted it at the time of posting) is its Market Sector.

A Trade Offer is Open, Canceled, Completed, or Reclaimed. A Trade Offer is initially Open. A Trade Offer is said to be Active if it is Open or Completed. A Captain may not post a Trade Offer if he is located in a sector that is already the Market Sector of another one of his Active Trade Offers.

A Trade Offer may be Canceled by its author posting a comment to that effect to it if he is in its Market Sector. When a Trade Offer becomes Canceled, the contents of its Have list are returned to the Captain’s inventory.

A Captain (the Claimant) other than the author of a Trade Offer, if in that Offer’s Market Sector, may Complete the Trade Offer by posting a comment to it indicating that they are Completing it. To do so, they must possess the contents of the Trade Offer’s Wants list. Upon doing so, the contents of the Wants list are deducted from the Claimant’s possession and the contents of the Haves list are given to the Claimant.

When a Trade Offer is Completed, its author may, when in in its Market Sector, Reclaim the Offer by posting a comment to that effect to the Offer. Upon doing so, they receive the contents of the Wants list of the Trade Offer.

Trade!

Comments

quirck: he/him

04-03-2013 19:39:59 UTC

Reclaiming does not explicitly change the status of a Trade Offer, does it?

Spitemaster:

04-03-2013 20:01:30 UTC

I think it does.  What I have an issue with is that it doesn’t specify that the Offer must be Open if it is to have anything done to it.  I don’t see any reason I couldn’t Cancel my Offer a dozen times in a row, gaining tons of resources.

quirck: he/him

04-03-2013 20:12:28 UTC

If a Trade Offer was Cancelled, it can’t become Cancelled anymore. But it seems one may Cancel a Reclaimed Offer
against

RaichuKFM: she/her

04-03-2013 20:24:29 UTC

against Per Quirck.

kikar:

04-03-2013 21:29:44 UTC

for Canceling a Reclaimed offer, while feasible, would be do nothing as all the resources in the Haves list are deducted by the Claimant. Thus Canceling a Reclaimed offer, would not give anything to the Captain. That being said, I agree the language could be better worded.

scshunt:

04-03-2013 21:43:37 UTC

Would prefer a fix proposal to come afterward; this is mostly good.

RaichuKFM: she/her

04-03-2013 21:44:59 UTC

for Per Kikar. CoV.

MurphEngineer:

04-03-2013 22:16:38 UTC

for

Spitemaster:

05-03-2013 05:35:18 UTC

for I don’t think that that’s stated, Kikar.  But I guess that’s a reasonable interpretation.

Purplebeard:

05-03-2013 10:46:15 UTC

against I believe that all inter-Captain resource transactions should involve gunfire.

It should also be noted that this rule provides a simple way of protecting one’s assets from marauding fighters or transferring them to another Ship Class (by posting an offer of those resources for a billion gold and cancelling it later at no cost).

Skju:

05-03-2013 16:07:13 UTC

imperial Quite complicated, but fine as a first step.