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
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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)
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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.
}
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