I resolve the Agoran Decisions to adopt Proposals 8029-8030 as follows: 8029 Blots v1.0 by {G., Aris}, AI=3.0 FOR: 2xG., Murphy, Aris, Corona, Trigon AGAINST: PRESENT: ATMunn Quorum: 3 FOR/AGAINST: 6/0 RESULT: ADOPTED 8030 PAoaM Patch v4 by {Aris, Gaelan, Trigon, G.}, AI=3.0 FOR: 2xG., ATMunn, Aris, Corona, Trigon AGAINST: PRESENT: Murphy Quorum: 3 FOR/AGAINST: 6/0 RESULT: ADOPTED TEXT OF ADOPTED PROPOSALS ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8029 Title: Blots v1.0 Adoption index: 3.0 Author: G. Co-authors: Aris [I'm keeping this MODDULAR. Meaning I'm changing Cards to blots. I'm NOT plugging into land/currencies. Instead I'm making a simple time- based expunging system ('Removing Blots') that is a stub for adding Temples or whatnot once this all works and once we've thoroughly debugged land.] Create the following Rule, Blots, power-2: Blots are an indestructible fixed currency with ownership restricted to persons. A person with 1 or more blots is Impure, a person with 0 blots is Pure. An impure unregistered person is a Fugitive. To Levy a Fine of N on a person, where N is a positive integer, is to create N blots in eir possession by announcement. To Expunge a blot is to destroy it by announcement. If expunging blots would reduce a person's blots to less than 0, their blots are instead reduced to 0 but the cost of expunging, if any, is not reduced. Levying fines and destroying blots are each secured with a power threshold of 1.7. The Referee is an office, and the recordkeepor for blots. Create the following Rule, Penalties, power-3: Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, an impure person CANNOT win the game. The voting strength of a player on an Agoran Decision is reduced by 1 for every 3 blots in eir possession. Create the following Rule, Removing Blots, power-1.7: If a player has neither gained blots nor expunged any blots from emself in the current Agoran week, e CAN expunge 1 blot from emself by announcement. At the beginning of each quarter, half (rounded down) of each fugitive's blots are destroyed. Amend Rule 2478 (Vigilante Justice) to read: A player CAN by announcement, but subject to the provisions of this rule, Point eir Finger at a person (the perp) who plays the game, citing an alleged violation of the rules by that person. When a player Points a Finger, the investigator SHALL investigate the allegation and, in a timely fashion, SHALL conclude the investigation by: - Imposing the Cold Hand of Justice on the perp, as described elsewhere; or - if e believes that no rules violation occurred or that it would be ILLEGAL to levy a fine for it, announcing the Finger Pointing to be Shenanigans. The Referee is by default the investigator for all Finger Pointing. When a Finger, other than the Arbitor's, is Pointed over an allegation related to the official duties or powers of the Referee, then the Arbitor CAN, by announcement, take over the investigation and thereby become the investigator. The Referee CANNOT Point eir Finger. The Arbitor CANNOT Point eir Finger at the Referee. Create the following Rule, Sentencing Guidelines, power 1.7: When the rules authorize an investigator to impose the Cold Hand of Justice for a violation, e CAN do so by levying a fine on the perp with a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 2x the base value of the violation, within the following guidelines: - If the violation is described by the rules as a Class N crime, then N is the base value; otherwise the base value is 2. - The fine SHOULD be reduced to the degree that the violation is a minor, accidental, and/or inconsequential infraction. - The fine SHOULD be increased to the degree that the violation is willful, profitable, egregious, or an abuse of an official position. Optionally, in the same message in which e imposes justice, the investigator CAN specify that the violation is forgivable, specifying up to 10 words to be included in an apology. If the investigator does so, the perp CAN, in a timely fashion, expunge P blots from emself, where P is the minimum of the value of the fine and 3, by publishing a formal apology of at least 200 words and including all the specified words, explaining eir error, shame, remorse, and ardent desire for self-improvement. Amend Rule 2479 (Official Justice) to read: The Referee CAN, subject to the provisions of this rule, impose Summary Judgment on a person who plays the game by levying a fine of up to 2 blots on em. Summary Judgement is imposed on the Referee's own initiative, and not in response to any official proceeding. The Referee CANNOT impose Summary Judgement more than three times a week. Amend Rule 2531 (Referee Accountability) to read: Any attempt to levy a fine is INEFFECTIVE if it does not include (1) value of the fine in blots, (2) the name of the person being fined (the perp), and (3) the specific reason for the fine, or if it attempts to levy a fine on a person for an action or inaction which e (more likely than not) did not commit, or if it attempts to levy a fine for an action or inaction which is not prohibited by law, or if it attempts to levy a fine with a value which is blatantly and obviously unsuited to the conduct which constitutes the reason for its levy or to the person to which it is being levied, or if it is made more than 14 days after the conduct constituting the reason for the fine, or if it attempts to levy a fine to a player who has already been levied a fine for the conduct constituting the reason for the levy. If the Referee attempts to levy three or more INEFFECTIVE fines in a week, any player CAN, with two support, issue a writ of Impartial Arbitration Restoration, immediately making the position of Referee vacant. When a writ of Impartial Arbitration Restoration is issued, the ADoP SHALL initiate an election for the Referee within a timely fashion. Increase the power of Rule 2531 (Referee Accountability) to 2. Amend Rule 2529 (Medals of Honour) by replacing: not had a Card issued to em. with: not had a fine levied on em. Amend Rule 2451 (Executive Orders) by replacing: - Dive (Referee): The Prime Minister issues a specified Card to a specified player. Notwithstanding rule 2426, the reason for the card MAY be any grievance held by the Prime Minister, not necessarily a violation of the rules, against the person to whom the Card is issued. with: - Dive (Referee): The Prime Minister levies a 2 Blot fine on a specified player. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, the reason for the fine MAY be any grievance held by the Prime Minister, not necessarily a violation of the rules, against the person to whom the fine is levied. Amend Rule 2523 (Contracts as Agreements) by replacing its entire second paragraph with: As an exception to the provisions of the previous paragraph and the circumstances in which fines would ordinarily be appropriate, a person levying a fine under this rule MAY and CAN validly consider the equitable interests of justice and interests of the game, including the importance of the observation of contracts, as a mitigating or aggravating circumstances when levying a fine. Such a person MAY, CAN validly, and SHOULD also consider the instructions of the contract or contracts in question when levying a fine. Amend the Rule entitled "Paydays" by replacing the text: e was not issued any Cards other than Green for eir conduct in that office with: no unforgivable fines were levied on em for eir conduct in that office Repeal Rule 2426 (Cards) Repeal Rule 2477 (The Referee) Repeal Rule 2474 (Green Cards) Repeal Rule 2506 (Blue Cards) Repeal Rule 2427 (Yellow Cards) Repeal Rule 2475 (Red Cards) Repeal Rule 2476 (Pink Slips) ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8030 Title: PAoaM Patch v4 Adoption index: 3.0 Author: Aris Co-authors: Gaelan, Trigon, G. 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. Amend Rule 105, “Rule Changes”, by replacing "If the reenacting proposal provides new text for the rule, the rule must have materially the same purpose as did the repealed version; otherwise, the attempt to reenact the rule is null and void.” with “If the reenacting proposal provides new text for the rule, the rule SHOULD have materially the same purpose as did the repealed version." Amend Rule 2143, "Official Reports and Duties", by appending the text "A convergence is any change to the gamestate that has, in accordance with the rules, been designated as such. A change to the gamestate SHOULD NOT be designated as a convergence unless it is designed to resolve gamestate ambiguity. Designating a change as a convergence is secured; any player CAN do so with 3 Agoran Consent. When officeholders provide historical information, they NEED NOT accurately document the changes made by the convergence or related ambiguities, provided that they instead note that the convergence occurred. Information about a convergence (but not the resulting state) is inherently uncertain and is thus excluded from self-ratification." as a new paragraph at the end of the rule. [I imagine the form of notation would be something along the lines of "Gamestate converged to..."] Designate all changes made from here to the next occurrence the mark "~~~" as convergences. If Rule 2599 is not currently enacted, re-enact it with the following text; if it is enacted but does not have the following text, amend it to have the following text: { If a player has not received a Welcome Package since e most recently registered, any player CAN cause em to receive one by announcement. When a player receives a Welcome Package, Agora creates the following assets in eir possession: 1. 10 coins 2. 5 lumber 3. 5 stones 4. 10 apples 5. 3 papers } If no rule titled “Paydays” exists, create it at power 2 with the following text; if it exists but does not have the following text, amend it to have the following text: { Whenever a Payday occurs, the following events happen in order: 1. The following assets are created in the possession of each player: A. 10 coins B. 5 apples C. 2 papers 2. For each office, if a single player held that office for 16 or more days in the previous month and e was not issued any Cards other than Green for eir conduct in that office during that time, the following assets are created in the possession of that player: A. 5 coins B. 1 corn The occurrence of Paydays is secured. At the beginning of each month, a Payday occurs. } If Rule 1993 is not currently enacted, re-enact it with the following text; if it is enacted but does not have the following text, amend it to have the following text: { Arcadia is a land entirely defined by the Arcadian Map (the Map). The Map is the term for the set of all Land Units. The Map divides Arcadia into a finite, discrete number of Units of Land, or simply Land. Each Unit of Land is an indestructible asset specified by an ordered pair of integers known as its Latitude and Longitude. Every unique ordered pair of integers within the limits defined in the Rules for Latitude and Longitude signifies an existent Unit of Land. No other Units of Land exist. Units of Land CAN only be created or destroyed by changing the limits of Latitude and Longitude defined in the Rules. All values for Latitude and Longitude MUST lie between -6 and +6, inclusive. The Total Land Area of Arcadia is the number of existent Units of Land defined by permissible Latitude and Longitude pairs. } If Rule 1994 is not currently enacted, re-enact it with the following text; if it is enacted but does not have the following text, amend it to have the following text: { Any existent Land for which ownership has not been explicitly changed belongs to Agora. Land belonging to Agora is called Public Land. Land belonging to a contract is called Communal Land. Land belonging to any other entity is called Private Land. Together, Communal Land and Private Land are called Proprietary Land. } If Rule 1995 is not currently enacted, re-enact it with the following text; if it is enacted but does not have the following text, amend it to have the following text: { Each Unit of Land has a Land Type switch, tracked by the Cartographor, whose values are "Black", "White", and "Aether" (the default). Changes to Land Type switches are secured. To "change the type" of, or to "transform" a Unit of Land is to flip its Type switch. A “Unit of X” is a Unit of Land whose Land Type switch has the value X. When existent Land has not had its Type changed as explicitly permitted by the Rules, or has a Type that is not currently defined by the Rules, it is considered to have the Land Type of Aether. Rules to the contrary nonwithstanding, Units of Aether CANNOT be transferred from Agora, or owned by any entity other than Agora. If Proprietary Land becomes Aether, the Cartographor SHALL transfer it to Agora in a timely fashion, destroy any facilities on the Land Unit, and set all other switches to their default values. Type is a singleton switch with the values of Black and White, defaulting to Black. When an act specifies that an alternating land type is to be used, the current value of the Alternating Land Type switch is used, and the switch is set to the next value of the switch. } If Rule 1996 is not currently enacted, re-enact it with the following text; if it is enacted but does not have the following text, amend it to have the following text: { The Cartographor is an office; its holder is recordkeepor for the Land of Arcadia. The Cartographor's Weekly Report shall include: 1. the ownership and land type of all existing land; 2. all changes in the ownership and land type of existing land since the most recent report; 3. the location for the previous week and the current week of each entity with a defined location; 4. the next alternating land type; 5. all facilities and their parent land units; and 6. a list of all preserved land units. } If Rule 1996 is not titled “The Cartographor”, retitle it “The Cartographor”. If Rule 1998 is not currently enacted, re-enact it with the following text; if it is enacted but does not have the following text, amend it to have the following text: { Two Units of Land are Adjacent if they have the same Latitude, and their Longitudes differ by exactly one; or they have the same Longitude, and their Latitudes differ by exactly one. Land Unit A is said to be connected to Land Unit B if it is possible to reach B by moving only to adjacent Land Units of the same color, starting from A. } If Rule 1999 is not currently enacted, re-enact it with the following text; if it is enacted but does not have the following text, amend it to have the following text: { Location is a player switch, tracked by the Cartographer, whose values are ordered pairs of integers where the first value is a valid Latitude, and the second is a valid Longitude. The default Location is (0, 0). To "move" a player is to flip that player’s Location switch to the Latitude and Longitude of the destination. No other Entity can have a location unless it is defined in a rule other than this one. Changes to the Location of an Entity are secured. If an Entity is specified by this Rule as having a defined Location, but its Location has not been explicitly set or changed, its Location is set to (0, 0). } If Rule 2003 is not currently enacted, re-enact it with the following text; if it is enacted but does not have the following text, amend it to have the following text: { Players CAN destroy: 1. 1 apple to move from one Land Unit to an adjacent Unit if their Land Types are the same and the destination is not Aether; 2. 2 apples to move from one Land Unit to an adjacent Unit if their Land Types differ and the destination is not Aether; 3. 2 apples to set Land Type of a Land Unit which e owns to any Land Type other than Aether, whether or not e is located at that Land Unit. 4. 3 apples to set the Land Type of a Land Unit that is adjacent to the Entity's current location, is of type Aether, and is owned by Agora, to an alternating Land Type. 5. 4 apples to set the Land Type of a Land Unit that is adjacent to the Entity's current location, is of type Aether, and is owned by Agora, to a Land Type of eir choice. 6. 6 apples to set the Land Type of a Land Unit that is of type Aether, and is owned by Agora, to an alternating Land Type. Players CAN, while performing the above actions, substitute 3 apples for 1 corn. } If rule 2004 is not currently enacted, re-enact it with the following text; if it is enacted but does not have the following text, amend it to have the following text: { Every Agoran Week, if the number of units of Private Land is less than one half the total number of units of Land, an auction SHALL be initiated. For this auction, the announcer is the Cartographor, the auctioneer is the Cartographor, the lots are chosen as such: 1. if there exist at least 5 Units of non-Aether Land in the possession of Agora with the preservation switch set to False: any 5 such Units of Land, to be chosen by the Cartographor, each Land Unit in a separate lot; 2. if there exist fewer than 5 Units of non-Aether Land in the possession of Agora: all such Units, each land unit in a separate lot; and the minimum bid is 1 coin. } If Rule 2022 is not currently enacted, re-enact it with the following text; if it is enacted but does not have the following text, amend it to have the following text: { During the second Eastman week of each Agoran Month, the Cartographor SHALL perform the following actions in sequence, and report these changes: 1. Every Land Unit, with a preservation switch of False that is not directly connected to a unit of Aether, or is not connected by its own type to a unit of Aether, shall be transformed to Aether. 2. Any entities whose locations are on land units so transformed shall have their locations set to (0, 0). 3. If any land unit so transformed is not property of Agora, it becomes property of Agora. } If Rule 2022 is not titled “Land Transfiguration”, retitle it “Land Transfiguration”. ~~~ Amend Rule 2166 by replacing “shiny” with “unit of Agora’s official currency” in both instances. Amend Rule 1995 by replacing “all other switches” with “all other switches on the Land Unit”. Amend Rule 2022 “Land Transfiguration” by replacing the first paragraph with “Once during the second or third Eastman week of each Agoran Month, the Cartographor CAN perform the following actions in sequence, and report these changes:” and by appending “The Cartographor SHALL do so in the second Eastman week of each Agoran Month.” at the end in a new paragraph. Amend Rule 2004 “Land Auctions” by making the following changes: { Change "an auction SHALL be initiated" to read "the Cartographor CAN and SHALL initiate an auction”. Replace "the auctioneer is the Cartographor” with "the auctioneer is Agora”. } Amend the Rule titled “Facilities” by making the following changes: { Replace the last paragraph with "Facilities always have the same owner as their parent land unit. If the owner of a facility is ever not the same as that of its parent land unit, it is transferred to the owner of its parent land unit.” Append the following to the second paragraph: “Facilities on proprietary land can be destroyed by the owner by announcement. Facilities on public land can be destroyed Without Objection.” Change the text "If a player owns any facilities" to read "If an entity other than Agora owns any facilities". Change the word "MUST" to be lower case. } //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////