Here's a draft. I have a bad feeling that I'm missing something, but there's been a ton of traffic and I'm rather busy, so hopefully someone can point it out. Also, a warning: I'll be out of state next week, and, while I can hopefully still devote some time to the game, will be commenting at a reduced rate and will likely be unable to publish a report.
-Aris --- I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating the Agoran Decision of whether to adopt it, and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector is the Assessor, the quorum is 3.0, the voting method is AI-majority and the valid options are FOR and AGAINST (PRESENT is also a valid vote, as are conditional votes). ID Author(s) AI Title Pender --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8053* G., Aris 1.0 patch patch patch G. [1] 8054+ Aris, [2] 3.0 Minimalist Contracts v2 Aris 8055+ Aris, G. 3.0 Distributed Assets v3 Aris 8056+ Aris, G. 3.0 Deregulation Act v2 Aris The Proposal Pool contains a proposal which V.J. Rada will hopefully withdraw soon, and no other proposals. [1] Ruberstamped official proposal [2] G., V.J. Rada Legend: <ID>* : Proposal is pending. <ID>+ : By publishing this report, I pay a paper to pend the marked proposal. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8053 Title: patch patch patch Adoption index: 1.0 Author: G. Co-authors: Aris Amend the rule defining welcome packages by adding as a new item, appropriately numbered, at the end of the list "5 incense". Create 5 incense in the possession of each player who received a welcome package since April 28, 2018. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8054 Title: Minimalist Contracts v2 Adoption index: 3.0 Author: Aris Co-authors: G., V.J. Rada Lines beginning with hashmarks ("#") and comments in square brackets ("[]") have no effect on the behavior of this proposal. They are not part of any rules created or amended herein, and may be considered for all game purposes to have been removed before its resolution. [This proposal saves allowing contracts to control or auction assets until we decide to allow them to be persons, which is its own can of worms.] # 1 Repeal Destroy all contracts. Repeal rules 2524, 2526, 2520, 2525, 2522, 2523, 2521, 2527, and 2517, in that order. In rule 2545 "Auctions", delete the text "or contract" In rule 2547 "The Auctioneer", delete the text "or contracts", change the last comma in the last sentence of the second paragraph to a period, deleting the all parts of the sentence beyond it, and delete the last paragraph. In rule 2548 "The Auction Announcer" delete the text "or contract" and the last sentence. In rule 2549 "Auction Initiation", delete all instances of the text "or contract" In rule 2550 "Bidding", replace the last comma with a full stop and delete all text after it, and delete all instances of the text "or contract" In rule 2483 "Economics", delete the text "contracts," In rule 1994 "Ownership of Land", delete the text "Land belonging to a contract is called Communal Land." and delete the text "Together, Communal Land and Private Land are called Proprietary Land." and replace the text "Land belonging to any other entity is called Private Land." with "Land belonging to any other entity is called Private Land (syn. Proprietary Land) In rule 2561 "Asset Generation with Facilities", delete the text "3. if the facility is built on Communal Land, e must be a party to that contract and the text of the contract must permit em to do so." and renumber the fourth bullet point 3. # 2 Replacement Reenact Rule 1742, "Contracts", at power 2.5, with the following text: Any group of two or more consenting persons (the parties) may make an agreement among themselves with the intention that it be binding upon them and be governed by the rules. Such an agreement is known as a contract. A contract may be modified, including by changing the set of parties, by agreement between all existing parties. A contract may also terminate by agreement between all parties. A contract automatically terminates if the number of parties to it falls below two. For the purposes of this rule, agreement includes both consent and agreement specified by contract. Parties to a contract governed by the rules SHALL act in accordance with that contract. This obligation is not impaired by contradiction between the contract and any other contract, or between the contract and the rules. A party to a contract may act on behalf of another party to it as allowed in the contract. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8055 Title: Distributed Assets v3 Adoption index: 3.0 Author: Aris Co-authors: G. Amend Rule 2166, "Assets", to read as follows: An asset is an entity defined as such by a document that has been granted Mint Authority by the Rules (hereafter the asset's backing document), and existing solely because its backing document defines its existence. An asset's backing document can generally specify when and how that asset is created, destroyed, and transferred. The rules collectively have Mint Authority. Contracts have Mint Authority. A rule defined asset is public; one defined by a contract is private. The recordkeepor of a class of assets is the entity (if any) defined as such by, and bound by, its backing document. That entity's report includes a list of all instances of that class and their owners. This portion of that entity's report is self-ratifying. Create a power 3.0 rule, entitled "Ownership", with the following text: Each asset has exactly one owner. If an asset's backing document restricts its ownership to a class of entities, then that asset CANNOT be gained by or transferred to an entity outside that class, and is destroyed if it is owned by an entity outside that class. The restrictions in the previous sentence are subject to modification by its backing document. By default, ownership of an asset is restricted to Agora, players, and contracts. If an asset would otherwise lack an owner, it is owned by the Lost and Found Department. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, the Lost and Found Department can own assets of every type. Assets owned by the Lost and Found Department can be transferred or destroyed by any player without objection. Create a power 3.0 rule, entitled "Asset Actions", with the following text: An asset generally CAN be destroyed by its owner by announcement, subject to modification by its backing document. An indestructible asset is one defined as such by it backing document, and CANNOT be destroyed except by a proposal or rule, other than this one, specifically addressing the destruction of indestructible assets or that asset in particular; any other asset is destructible. To "lose" an asset is to have it destroyed from one's possession; to "revoke" an asset from an entity is to destroy it from that entity's possession. An asset generally CAN be transferred (syn. given) by announcement by its owner to another entity, subject to modification by its backing document. A fixed asset is one defined as such by its backing document, and CANNOT be transferred; any other asset is liquid. When a rule indicates transferring an amount that is not a natural number, the specified amount is rounded up to the nearest natural number. Create a power 3.0 rule, entitled "Currencies", with the following text: A currency is a class of asset defined as such by its backing document. Instances of a currency with the same owner are fungible. The "x balance of an entity", where x is a currency, is the number of x that entity possesses. Where it resolves ambiguity, the asset or currency being referred to is the currency designated as "Agora's official currency", if there is one. Create a power 3.0 rule, entitled "Fee-based Actions": If the Rules associate payment of a set of assets (hereafter the fee for the action; syns: cost, price, charge) with performing an action, that action is a fee-based action. If the fee is a non-integer quantity of a fungible asset, the actual fee is the next highest integer amount of that asset. To perform a fee-based action, an entity (the Actor) who is otherwise permitted to perform the action must announce that e is performing the action; the announcement must specify the correct set of assets for the fee and indicate intent to pay that fee for the sole purpose of performing the action. Upon such an announcement: - If the Rules specify a recipient for the fee, and the Actor CAN transfer that specified fee from emself to the recipient, then that fee is transferred from the Actor to the recipient and the action is performed simultaneously; - If the Rules do not specify a recipient, and the Actor CAN destroy the specified fee in eir possession, then that fee in eir possession is destroyed and the action is performed simultaneously. - Otherwise, no changes are made to asset holdings and the action is not performed. If the Rules define a fee-based action but the specified set of assets is the empty set, then the action can be performed by announcement, but the announcement must include that there is an (empty or 0) fee for the action. In Rule 2003, amend the text "Players CAN destroy:" to read "Players CAN pay the listed fee to take the associated action:" [I think that's the only rule that actually needs to be changed over. Most of the other phrasings in the ruleset seem as if they'll transfer over on there own. The only other case that I can see that won't is the last paragraph of Rule 2551, "Auction End", which isn't really designed to work in a fee-based way, and so actually shouldn't be switched over.] For the avoidance of doubt, all assets existing under the old system continue to so under the new system, and if they would not otherwise do so, new assets are created to replace them. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8055 Title: Deregulation Act v2 Adoption index: 3.0 Author: Aris Co-authors: G. Repeal Rule 2494, "The Regkeepor". Amend Rule 2493, "Regulations", to read in full: A regulation is an textual entity defined as such by this rule, and under the authority of an officer, known as its Promulgator. A regulation must be authorized by a rule (its parent rule) in order to exist. It has only the effect that rule explicitly gives it. A regulation CAN be enacted, amended, and repealed as specified by its parent rule. By default, a Promulgator can enact or amend a regulation with 2 Agoran Consent and repeal a regulation by announcement. Regulations are tracked in their Promulgator's weekly report. Change the power of Rule 2493 to 3.0. Amend Rule 2565, "Preserved Land", by changing the text "The preservation switch CAN be set in a regulation promulgated by the Cartographor without 2 objections" to read "The preservation switch CAN be set by the Cartographor without 2 objections". Amend Rule 2125 by changing all instances of the text "restricted" (case insensitive) to read "regulated", preserving the capitalization of the first letter. For the avoidance of doubt, all regulations existing under the old system continue to so under the new system, and if they would not otherwise do so, new regulations are created with as similar properties as possible to replace them. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////