Given how many corrections and additions there have been since my first draft, and also given that I've been a bit of a mess lately, I have decided to publish a new draft. I apologize for the delay. I hope to publish a final report soon.
-Aspen --- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8645* ATMunn, nix 3.0 Some RTRW Clean-Ups 8646* Jason, G., ais523 3.0 Deputisation rewrite 8647& snail, Jason, Telna 2.0 Birds! 8648& snail 1.0 Scoring Integer Points 8649& Murphy 1.0 The Devices v1.1 8650& Jason 1.0 It's an even grayer world. 8651* Jason, Aspen, Ørjan 3.0 TIME Act [1] 8652& snail, Jason 1.0 Geometry v3 8653& ais523 1.0 Device Reconstruction 8654& G. 1.7 Cheaters shouldn't prosper The proposal pool is currently empty. [1] 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. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 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". ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 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.] ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8647 Title: Birds! Adoption index: 2.0 Author: snail 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. } ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8648 Title: Scoring Integer Points Adoption index: 1.0 Author: snail 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.) ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 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. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8650 Title: It's an even grayer world. Adoption index: 1.0 Author: Jason Co-author(s): Repeal Rule 2602 (Glitter). ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8651 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 or 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.] ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8652 Title: Geometry v3 Adoption index: 1.0 Author: snail Co-author(s): Jason Create a rule with title "Geometry" and text: { The Geometor is an office. The Geometor is the recordkeepor for polygons and polyhedra. Polygons are a class of asset. Polygons have a corresponding positive integer type. For each integer N >= 3, polygons of type N are a currency. A player CAN grant emself a polygon of type N by specifying a valid type (N) and paying a fee of N^2 boatloads of coins, where N >= 3 and N is an integer. At the beginning of each month, each player is granted a polygon of type 3. A player CAN once per week conglomerate polygons by announcement, specifying 2 polygons e owns. When a player conglomerates polygons, a new polygon is created in eir possession with type equal to (the sum of the two specified polygons' types) minus one, and then the two specified polygons are destroyed. The Geometer CAN and SHALL once, by announcement and in a timely fashion from the end of the month, increase the score of the player(s) who owned a polygon with the largest type among all existing polygons at the end of the month by a number of points equal to that type. A player can, with support, propagate a specified polygon they do not own by paying a fee of 1 polygon they own. A propagated polygon is destroyed, causing Agora to be granted a polyhedron with the destroyed polygon's type. Polyhedra are an indestructible asset with a positive integer type that can only be owned by Agora. All polyhedra not owned by agora are immediately transferred to Agora. } ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8653 Title: Device Reconstruction Adoption index: 1.0 Author: ais523 Co-author(s): In rule 2654, replace: {{{ * If a Device has no judge assigned, then any player eligible to judge that Device CAN assign it to emself without 3 objections. * The Rulekeepor SHOULD also include any other information which e feels may be helpful in the use of the Device in the FLR. * Then, the Device changes, following which each active player gains 1 card of each type and eir grant (if any). }}} with {{{ * If a Device has no judge assigned, then any player eligible to judge that Device CAN assign it to emself without 3 objections. * Then, the Device changes, following which each active player gains 1 card of each type and eir grant (if any). * The Rulekeepor SHOULD also include any other information which e feels may be helpful in the use of the Device in the FLR. }}} [The current version of the rule makes drastic changes to the economy on a very vaguely defined trigger (possibly dependent on the Rulekeepor's mental state) which might potentially be set off without us realising it. This reorders the sections of the rule to make the trigger something that we have more control over - this is the order I had in mind when trying to construct the Device originally.] ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8654 Title: Cheaters shouldn't prosper Adoption index: 1.7 Author: G. Co-author(s): [ - clarifies timing of JC grant paragraph - the default penalty is 2 blots. a set-complete JC removes 2.5 blots. A perp shouldn't profit from their crime by pointing at themselves and getting a JC for it. So this removes self-points from the counting. ] Amend Rule 2478 (Vigilante Justice) by replacing: The player who initiated the most Finger Pointings that resulted in a Warning, Indictment, or Cold Hand of Justice in the previous Agoran Week CAN once grant emself a Justice Card by announcement. with: The player who initiated the most Finger Pointings at other players that, in the previous Agoran Week, resulted in a Warning, Indictment, or Cold Hand of Justice, CAN once grant emself a Justice Card by announcement. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////