My draft report follows.
-Aspen
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PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW
I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 3, 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
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8645* ATMunn, nix 3.0 Some RTRW Clean-Ups
8646* Jason, G., ais523 3.0 Deputisation rewrite
8647& secretsnail, [1] 2.0 Birds!
8648& secretsnail 1.0 Scoring Integer Points
8649& Murphy 1.0 The Devices v1.1
8650& Jason 1.0 It's an even grayer world.
The proposal pool contains the following proposals:
Author(s) AI Title
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Jason, Aspen, Ørjan 3.0 TIME Act [2]
[1] Jason, Telna
[2] Temporal Incursion Modification and Exclusion Act
Legend: <ID>* : Democratic proposal.
<ID>& : Ordinary proposal.
<ID>~ : Unsponsored proposal.
The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.
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ID: 8645
Title: Some RTRW Clean-Ups
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: ATMunn
Co-author(s): nix
Amend R2464 by replacing "set of regulations," with "a set of
regulations,".
Amend R2493 by:
* replacing "an textual entity" with "a textual entity"; and
* replacing "an person" with "a person".
Amend R2495 by replacing "This title" with "These regulations".
Amend R2471 by replacing "be not to be true" with "be not true".
Amend R2602 by removing any quotation marks and replacing "or e
corresponding" with "or the corresponding".
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ID: 8646
Title: Deputisation rewrite
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Jason
Co-author(s): G., ais523
Amend Rule 2160 ("Deputisation") by replacing the sole list with the
following:
{
1. the rules require the holder of that office, by virtue of holding
that office, to perform the action (this requirement is fulfilled by the
deputy performing the action); and, it would be POSSIBLE for the deputy
to perform the action, other than by deputisation, if e held the office;
and, the deputy, when performing the action, announces that e is doing
so by deputisation or by temporary deputisation; and, the deputy has not
held the office in the past 7 days; and,
2. any of the following are true:
(A) the office is vacant;
(B) a time limit by which the rules require the action to be
performed has expired, the office's holder has not changed
in the past 7 days, and any of the following are true:
(i) the deputy announced between two and fourteen days earlier
that e intended to deputise for that office for the purposes
of the particular action;
(ii) the time limit expired between 14 days ago and 28 days ago;
(iii) the time limit expired more than 28 days ago and the
deputisation is temporary;
}
[This simplifies the list significantly, hopefully making it clearer. It
also makes the following substantive changes: allows only temporarily
deputisation (or deputisation with notice) for old duties, prohibits
deputies who have held the office in the past 7 days, and prohibits
deputising for an office whose holder has changed in the past 7 days, to
allow a holder time to catch up when they assume a new office, and to
prevent rapid-fire changes resulting from deputisation fights.]
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ID: 8647
Title: Birds!
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: secretsnail
Co-author(s): Jason, Telna
Create a rule with title "Birds", power 2.0, and the following text:
{
A bird is a unique indestructible liquid asset defined by the
rules. To define a bird, the definition must include:
(i) A name unique among birds;
(ii) A scroll, which is a document specifying the effects of the
bird.
Ownership of birds is entirely restricted to Agora and active
players. If a bird is owned by the Lost and Found Department or
in abeyance, it is immediately transferred to Agora.
The Avicultor is an office, and the recordkeepor of birds.
A player that is not Beast Permitted SHALL NOT transfer a bird e
owns to another player; doing so is the Class 3 Crime of
Unpermitted Beast Transit.
}
Create a rule with title "Permits", power 2.0, and the following text:
{
Beast Permitted is a secured negative boolean person switch,
tracked by the Avicultor in eir weekly report. A player with a
Beast Permitted switch set to True is 'Beast Permitted'.
A player CAN buy a beast permit by paying a fee of 50 boatloads
of coins. When a player buys a beast permit, eir Beast Permitted
switch is set to True.
A player CAN relinquish eir beast permit by announcement. When a
player relinquishes eir beast permit, eir Beast Permitted switch
is set to False.
A player CAN renew eir beast permit by paying a fee of 25
boatloads of coins.
When permits expire, the Avicultor CAN and SHALL review each
Beast Permitted player, with notice, in a timely fashion. When a
Beast Permitted player is reviewed, if e has neither bought a
beast permit nor renewed eir beast permit in the past 30 days,
eir Beast Permitted switch is set to False.
}
Create a rule with title "Playing with Birds", power 2.0, and the following
text:
{
Except as otherwise specified by the rules, the owner of a bird
CAN play with it by announcement, specifying any values needed
to interpret the bird's effects.
When a bird is played with, the Rule defining that bird applies
the effects in that bird's scroll, and then that bird is
transferred to Agora.
}
Create a rule with title "Bird Migration", power 2.0, and the following
text:
{
A player CAN buy bird food by paying a fee of 5 boatloads of
coins.
A player CAN release a bird e owns, by announcement. When a
bird is released, it is transferred to Agora.
Once per month, a Beast Permitted Player CAN transfer a bird
owned by Agora from Agora to emself by announcement.
Once per month, the Avicultor CAN publish a migration notice by
announcement, specifying all necessary information and choices;
this constitutes eir monthly report. The Avicultor SHALL publish
such a notice in a timely fashion after the beginning of each
Agoran month.
The number of times each player bought bird food in the previous
month is included in the migration notice.
A bird not owned by the player(s) who bought bird food the most
times during the previous month is a Hungry Bird.
For each Hungry Bird, a random choice among all players who
bought bird food during the previous month is included alongside
that bird in the migration notice.
When a migration notice is published, Hungry Birds are
transferred to their corresponding randomly chosen players in an
order specified by the migration notice.
If a bird being transferred to a player would cause that player
to have more birds than the number of times e bought bird food
during the previous month, that bird is instead transferred to
Agora.
}
Create a rule with title "One with Nature", power 2.0, and the following
text:
{
A player CAN, by announcement, Free the Birds, specifying
a single player that owns 10 or more birds, provided that no
person has won the game by doing so in the past 30 days.
When the Birds are Freed, the specified player wins the game.
If a player won the game in this manner 4 days ago, then all
existing birds are transferred to Agora and permits expire.
}
Create a rule with title "The Birds", power 1.0, and the following text:
{
'The playmate' is the player who played with the bird to make
its scroll activate. Players are ENCOURAGED to propose an
addition to this rule if it has not been changed within the last
30 days.
The following birds are defined, one per paragraph, with the
following format: Bird Name: Scroll.
- Seagull: A specified player (defaulting to the playmate if not
specified) buys bird food 3 times.
- Goldfinch: A specified player (defaulting to the playmate if
not specified) gains N boatloads of coins, where N is the
number of times e has bought bird food this month.
- Raven: A specified bird is transferred to Agora.
- Emu: A specified player gains 1 blot.
- Owl: A specified player (defaulting to the playmate if not
specified) gains the Grant associated with a specified
Ministry.
- Magpie: A specified:
* Card,
* Product,
* or Bird
that is owned by a player is transferred to the playmate.
- Pigeon: The playmate gains 2 blots and 1 Blot-B-Gone.
- Penguin: If the playmate is Beast Permitted, e gains
1 Winsome, 1 Blot-B-Gone, 1 Pendant, and 1 Votive. Otherwise,
the playmate gains 1 blot, 1 Pendant, and 1 Votive.
- Cockatiel: A specified player that is not the playmate gains a
specified Product.
- Jay: The Pended switch of a specified proposal is set to True,
and that proposal becomes sponsored. The playmate then gains
1 Votive.
}
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ID: 8648
Title: Scoring Integer Points
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: secretsnail
Co-author(s):
Amend Rule 2657 (Scoring) by replacing "add to that player's score the
associated amount of points" with "add to that player's score the floor of
the associated amount of points".
(This would let players score points for proposals with non-integer AIs.)
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ID: 8649
Title: The Devices v1.1
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Murphy
Co-author(s):
Amend Rule 2654 (The Device) by replacing "When the device is on:" with
"The following apply to devices that are on:", and by replacing "When
the device is off:" with "The following apply to devices that are off:".
Amend Rule 2655 (The Mad Engineer) by replacing this text:
The Mad Engineer is an office; its holder is responsible for
building, tracking, and maintaining the Device. The device is a
singleton switch with values off (default) and on. The Mad
Engineer CAN flip the device to either on or off with Agoran
Consent; any other player CAN do so with 2 Agoran Consent.
The Mad Engineer CAN act on behalf of the device to take any
action that the device may take, and SHALL act on behalf of the
device to ensure that the device fulfills all of its duties.
with this text:
The Mad Engineer is an office; its holder is responsible for
building, tracking, and maintaining devices. Each device is a
singleton switch with values off (default) and on. The Mad
Engineer CAN flip a device to either on or off with Agoran
Consent; any other player CAN do so with 2 Agoran Consent.
The Mad Engineer CAN act on behalf of a device to take any
action that that device may take, and SHALL act on behalf of a
device to ensure that that device fulfills all of its duties.
If there are ever no devices, then the Mad Engineer CAN create
one by announcement, and SHALL do so in a timely fashion.
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ID: 8650
Title: It's an even grayer world.
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Jason
Co-author(s):
Repeal Rule 2602 (Glitter).
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Title: Temporal Incursion Modification and Exclusion Act
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Jason
Co-author(s): Aspen, Ørjan
Amend Rule 1551 (Ratification) to read, in whole:
{
A retroactive change is one that changes the game's record of past
events. Retroactive changes are secured with power threshold 3.
When a document or statement (hereafter "document") is to be ratified,
the following definitions apply:
* The publication time is the instant at which the document to be
ratified was published.
* The truth time is the instant at which the document specifies that it
was true, or the publication time if such an instant is not specified.
* The application time is the instant at which the document to be
ratified is ratified.
Ratification CANNOT occur if the truth time would be after the
application time, or if the publication time would be after the
application time.
Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, when a document is ratified, the
gamestate is modified to what it would be if, at the truth time, the
gamestate had been minimally modified to make the ratified document as
true and accurate as possible.
Ratification CANNOT occur if it would add inconsistencies between the
gamestate and the rules.
Ratification CANNOT occur if the required modification to the gamestate
is not possible or if multiple substantially distinct possible
modifications would be equally appropriate.
If the minimal modification would include past or present rule changes,
they are instead excluded unless the ratified document explicitly and
unambiguously recites either the changes of the resulting properties of
the rule(s).
An internally inconsistent document generally CANNOT be ratified;
however, if such a document can be divided into a summary section and a
main section, where the only purpose of the summary section is to
summarize information in the main section, and the main section is
internally consistent, ratification of the document proceeds as if it
contained only the main section.
Text purportedly about previous instances of ratification (e.g. a
report's date of last ratification) is excluded from ratification. The
rules may define additional information that is considered to be part of
the document for the purposes of ratification; such definitions are
secured with power threshold 3.
Ratification is secured with power threshold 3.
}
[This is mostly intended to be a clarification; it shouldn't change how
ratification is supposed to work, except that it explicitly excludes
silent rule changes from the modification (it's currently ambiguous
whether they're excluded or make the whole ratification fail). This also
secures all retroactive changes, where retroactive changes are defined
as altering the game's record of the past. This mirrors the way that
Falsifian found ratification works in eir law thesis.]
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