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, and the
valid options are FOR and AGAINST (PRESENT is also a valid vote).
ID Author(s) AI Title Pender Pend fee (sh.)
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7844* o 2.0 Mint Chocolate nichdel 10
7845* Aris, ais523 1.0 Free Agency nichdel 9
7846* o, Aris 3.0 Real Estate o 4
7847* Aris, o, nichdel 3.0 Assets v3 Aris 4
Legend: <ID>* : Proposal is pending.
The Pending List Price (PLP) is now* 6 shinies. The Pending Minimum Price (PMP)
is now* 5 shinies.
* As of the new month, and including a proposal not listed here.
The full text of the aforementioned proposals is included below.
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ID: 7844
Title: Mint Chocolate
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: o
Co-author(s):
Amend rule 2483 (“Economics”), replacing all occurrences of the number 1000 with
the number 1270.
Amend rule 2487 (“Shiny Supply Level”), replacing all occurrences of the number
1000 with the number 1270.
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ID: 7845
Title: Free Agency
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Aris
Co-author(s): ais523
Amend Rule 2467, "TLAs", by:
changing its name to "Agencies";
and by changing the paragraph beginning "The Powers of an Agency..." to read:
The Powers of an Agency must be stated as actions, although they may
may be conditional on date, time, game state, or other preconditions.
If condition(s) are specified as necessary for a power to be used, it
is limited; otherwise, it is unlimited. If it attempts to specify a
power in a manner that is unclear, ambiguous, circular, inconsistent,
paradoxical, or that depends on information that is impossible or
unreasonably difficult to determine, then the specification of that
power is invalid, and it CANNOT be used. [Some wording borrowed from
Rule 2460.]
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ID: 7846
Title: Real Estate
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: o
Co-author(s): Aris
If Shinies are money - plentiful, liquid, easily acquired in small
quanties but still valuable - then Estates are land: rare, illiquid,
difficult to acquire in any quantity, intrinsically valuable.
Enact a new rule, "The Surveyor", with power 1, with the text:
The Surveyor is an office. Eir weekly report includes the owner of
each Estate.
Enact a new rule, "Estates", with power 2, with the text:
An Estate is a type of entity. The following changes are secured:
creating, modifying, or destroying an Estate; and causing an
entity to become an Estate or cease to be an Estate.
Owner is a switch belonging to each Estate, tracked by the
Surveyor, whose legal values are any player, any Organization, or
Agora. The default Owner of an Estate is Agora. Changes to Owner
switches are secured.
To transfer an Estate to a player or Organization is to set its
Owner switch to that player or that Organization. To transfer an
Estate to Agora is to set its Owner switch to Agora.
A player who owns an Estate can and may transfer it to any player,
to any Organization, or to Agora, by announcement.
A player may cause an Organization which owns an Estate to transfer
that Estate to any player, to any Organization, or to Agora, by
announcement, if it is Appropriate to do so under that
Organization's charter.
Create the following Estates:
* The Estate of Antegria
* The Estate of Borduria
* The Estate of Cagliostro
* The Estate of Dawsbergen
* The Estate of Erehwon
Enact a new rule, "Estate Ballots", with power 3, with the text:
During any Agoran Decision, a player who owns one or more Estates
can, by announcement, expend any number of their owned Estates on
the Agoran Decision by transferring that Estate to Agora. Eir
voting strength on that decision is increased by 1 for each Estate
expended on it.
Enact a new rule, "Estate Auctions", with power 2, with the text:
At the start of each month, if Agora owns at least one Estate, the
Surveyor shall put one Estate which is owned by Agora up for
auction, by announcement. Each auction ends seven days after it
begins.
During an auction, any player may bid any number of Shinies by
announcement. Any player may cause any Organization to bid any
number of Shinies, by announcement, if it is Appropriate under that
Organization's charter to place the bid.
At the end of an auction, if there is a single highest bid, the
player or Organization that placed the highest bid can cause Agora
to transfer the auctioned Estate to emself by paying Agora the
number of Shinies stated in their most recent bid. If the highest
bidder does not do so in a timely fashion, the Surveyor shall issue
the player who submitted the bid a Yellow Card.
Amend rule 2485 ("You Can't Take It With You") and replace its text with:
"Heir" is a person switch, tracked by the Registrar, whose value
is either empty or the name of a player or Organization. Each
person's Heir is empty by default. A player may flip eir Heir by
announcement.
When a player is deregistered, if eir Heir switch is not empty, e
automatically pays all of eir Balance to the named player or
Organization, and transfers all of eir Estates to the named player
or Organization. Otherwise, if eir Heir switch is empty, e may
specify another player, an Organization, or Agora, and pay all of
eir Balance and transfer all of eir Estates to the specified
player or Organization. If the player does not do so within 1 day
of deregistration, the Registrar CAN and SHALL cause that player
to pay eir Balance to Agora and to transfer all of eir Estates to
Agora, by announcement.
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Title: Assets v3
Adoption index: 3
Author: Aris
Co-authors: o, nichdel
Reenact rule 2166, Assets (Power = 2), with the following text:
An asset is an entity defined as such by a rule (hereafter its backing
document), and existing solely because its backing document defines its
existence.
Each asset has exactly one owner. If an asset would otherwise
lack an owner, it is owned by the Lost and Found Department. 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 (except for the Lost and Found
Department, in which case any player CAN transfer or destroy it
without objection).
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.
An asset generally CAN be destroyed by its owner by
announcement, and an asset owned by the Lost and Found
Department generally CAN be destroyed by its recordkeepor by
announcement, subject to modification by its backing document.
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. payed) by its owner to another
entity by announcement, 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.
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. If a rule or proposal attempts to increase or decrease the
balance of an entity without specifying a source or destination, then the
currency is created or destroyed. Where it resolves ambiguity "Balance",
without any currency modifiers, refers to an entity's balance of whichever
currency is designated as "Agora's official currency", if there is one.
Assets are always public. [To provide for private contract based assets later]
Change the rule "Economics" to read in full:
Shinies (sg. shiny) are a liquid currency, and the official currency of Agora.
They may be owned by Agora, any player, or any organization. The Secretary is
the recordkeepor for Shinies.
The Secretary CAN cause Agora to pay any player or organization by
announcement if doing so is specified by a rule.
Shinies cannot be destroyed, except as allowed by rules specifically
addressing the destruction of Shinies. Any attempt to destroy Shinies instead
transfers them to Agora.
Amend Rule 2459, Organizations, by adding as a paragraph at the end:
A member of an Organization can perform any action the rules authorize that
Organization to perform, if the Organization's charter states that doing so
is Appropriate.
For the avoidance of doubt, all shinies existing under the old system continue
to so under the new system, and if they would not otherwise do so, new shinies
are created to replace them.
If o's proposal entitled "Real Estate" has passed:
Amend the rule "The Surveyor" to have the folowing text:
The Surveyor is an office, and the recordkeepor of estates.
Amend the rule "Estates" to have the following text:
An Estate is a type of liquid asset, which can be owned by players,
orginizations, and Agora. The following changes are secured:
creating, modifying, or destroying an Estate; and causing an
entity to become an Estate or cease to be an Estate.
Amend the rule "Estate Auctions" by changing the paragraph beginning "During
an auction..." to read "During an auction, any player or organization may bid
any number of Shinies by announcement." and removing the break between that
and the next paragraph.
For the avoidance of doubt, all Estates existing under the old system continue
to so under the new system, and if they would not otherwise do so, new Estates
are created to replace them.
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