Re: DIS: Comptroller Proto

2013-05-15 Thread Aaron Goldfein
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Charles Walker charles.w.wal...@gmail.com
 wrote:

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 Enact a Rule with the following text:

   Agora's Twentieth Birthday shall be known as the Vigintennial.
   The Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office is an office;
   its holder is responsible for organising the celebration of the
   Vigintennial.

   A player CAN, with two support, make a former player of Agora an
   Ancient; the Comptroller SHALL make a reasonable effort to
   invite each Ancient to contribute to and partake in the
   celebration of the Vigintennial.

   The Comptroller SHALL, as part of eir weekly duties, submit a
   proposal regarding the Vigintennial and make a reasonable effort
   to ensure that it is distributed.

   The Comptroller SHALL be responsible, as part of eir weekly
   duties, for publicising the Vigintennial both to former players
   of Agora and to the general public, and for encouraging em to
   participate in its celebration.

   The Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office is a patent
   title; in a timely fashion after the Vigintennial, the Herald
   SHALL award it to the holder of the office of the same name.

   When Agora is at least twenty years and one week old, any player
   CAN cause this Rule to repeal itself by announcement.

 Enact a Rule with the following text:

   The Comptroller CAN make a non-contest document into a
   Vigintennial contest or amend the text or gamestate of a contest
   without 3 objections; he then becomes that contest's
   contestmaster.

   The Vigintennial contest's instructions should include
   conditions under which persons win the contest.  Upon a true
   announcement by the Comptroller that one or more persons satisfy
   those conditions, all those persons satisfy the Victory
   Condition of Victory.  Intentionally making a false such
   announcement is the Class-4 Crime of Gaming the System.

   The Comptroller SHALL obey the text of a Vigintennial contest.

   The Comptroller is, prima facie, the adjudicator of Vigintennial
   contest instructions and disputes.  Disputes should in general,
   be resolved with the spirit of the instructions in mind.  For
   the purpose of determining the internal gamestate of a
   Vigintennial contest (including whether its Comptroller falsely
   announced that persons won the contest), its instructions are
   generally interpreted in the same manner as a rule, but the
   reasonable opinion of the Comptroller takes precedence.

   If Agora is more than twenty years and one week old, any player
   CAN cause this Rule to repeal itself by announcement.

 }

 --
 Walker


This looks good to me. My only complaint is that Victory Condition of
Victory is kind of a weird name. One idea could be Victory Condition of
XX.


Re: DIS: Comptroller Proto

2013-05-15 Thread Kerim Aydin



On Wed, 15 May 2013, Aaron Goldfein wrote: 
 This looks good to me. My only complaint is that Victory Condition of 
 Victory 
 is kind of a weird name. One idea could be Victory Condition of XX.

Yah, make it something that will look good in the Herald's Report.  Reunion? 
Jubilee?  -G.





Re: DIS: Comptroller Proto

2013-05-15 Thread Tanner Swett
On May 15, 2013, at 2:41 PM, Aaron Goldfein wrote:
 This looks good to me. My only complaint is that Victory Condition of 
 Victory is kind of a weird name. One idea could be Victory Condition of XX.

Aw man. Victory Condition of Victory was one of my favorite things about 
contests. But if it *must* be changed, my suggestion is Twentiness. (Or just 
Twent.)

—Machiavelli



Re: DIS: Comptroller Proto

2013-05-15 Thread Kerim Aydin



On Wed, 15 May 2013, Tanner Swett wrote:
 On May 15, 2013, at 2:41 PM, Aaron Goldfein wrote:
  This looks good to me. My only complaint is that Victory Condition of 
  Victory is kind of a weird name. One idea could be Victory Condition of 
  XX.
 
 Aw man. Victory Condition of Victory was one of my favorite things about 
 contests. But if it *must* be changed, my suggestion is Twentiness. (Or 
 just Twent.)

Naw, you don't have to change it if you're attached to it.

The rule text is The Herald SHOULD note the method of winning in eir 
report and I've tended to try and be descriptive and also consistent 
as to describing methods over time.  E.g., any time there's any kind 
of 'points' concept, I put in under 'high score' even if the name of 
the victory or the currency is different.

-G.