THE AGORA NOMIC CODE OF REGULATIONS
These ACORNs are also online at http://agoranomic.org/ruleset/
Date of this ACORN: 30 Apr 2023
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Table of Contents:
Free Tournaments
* Regulation FT0: Commune 2023
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Free Tournaments
This section has regulations enacted as part of Free Tournaments,
pursuant to Rule 2566.
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Regulation FT0/0
Commune 2023
Name: Commune v1.3
Description
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This tournament is a self-contained game inspired by Acquire where
players build communities on a board, invest in those communities,
and gain rewards when communities they invested in are absorbed by
other communities.
Playing
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Any player CAN become a participant of this Tournament at any time
during its play by announcement.
Any participant CAN cease to be so by announcement. A participant
of this tournament ceases to be so when e becomes inactive in
Agora. When a person ceases to be a participant, all assets e owns
defined by this Tournament are destroyed.
The Game Master for this tournament is also known as the Surveyor.
Gaining Tokens
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A Token is an asset ownable by participants only. Tokens CANNOT be
transferred or destroyed except as otherwise allowed by this
Tournament. Each Token has a corresponding Symbol which can be
any English letter A-J or any integer 0-9. Tokens owned by the
same player with the same Symbol are fungible.
Each participant has a Left, Middle, and a Right Token
Constructor. By default, Token Constructors are set to construct
nothing.
For each of eir Token Constructors, players CAN once a week do one
of the following by announcement:
- Begin Constructing a Token with a specified Symbol.
- Grant emself the Token that the Token Constructor is already
constructing (if not set to nothing).
The playboard
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The playboard is a grid of size 10 x 10. The x coordinates of the
playboard are identified by English letters A-J, and the Y
coordinates of the playboard are identified by integers [0-9].
Adjacency is defined by being at the same cordinate on one axis,
and exactly one coordinate away on the other axis.
An example visualization of the initial playboard is below:
A B C D E F G H I J
+-------------------+
0|x x x x x x x x x x|0
1|x x x x x x x x x x|1
2|x x x x x x x x x x|2
3|x x x x x x x x x x|3
4|x x x x x x x x x x|4
5|x x x x x x x x x x|5
6|x x x x x x x x x x|6
7|x x x x x x x x x x|7
8|x x x x x x x x x x|7
9|x x x x x x x x x x|9
+-------------------+
A B C D E F G H I J
Placing Tiles and Founding Communities
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If a tile has not been placed on a location on the board, it is
empty.
Participants CAN place a tile on an empty location by paying one
letter token and one number token that correspond to that
location's coordinates.
If a tile is placed that is not adjacent to any tiles belonging to
any communities, the player that placed it founds a new community,
e is granted 1 investment for that community, and e becomes its
founder. E CAN and SHOULD name the community after any color that
starts with a different first letter than any existing community
by announcement. If a community has not been named, the Surveyor
CAN and SHALL do so by announcement.
A player who is the founder of an existing community CANNOT place
a tile that would found a new community.
If a tile is placed adjacent to one or more tiles belonging to a
single community, that tile belongs to that community.
If a tile is placed adjacent to two or more tiles belongining to
different communities, a merger happens.
When a merger happens, if a single community involved in the
merger has more tiles than each other community, that community is
the acquiring community. If there is a tie, the tied community
that gained a tile least recently is the acquiring community. The
other communities are the acquired communities. All tiles
belonging to the acquired communities cease to belong to them and
begin to belong to the acquiring community. Each player gains X
(rounded down) Accolades for each acquired community e had an
investment in, where X is the total tiles that belonged to that
community immediately before the merger divided by the total
number of investments that exist for that community and times the
number of investments for that community that player owns. The
acquired communities and all investments in all acquired
communities are destroyed.
Investments
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An Investment is an asset. Investments CANNOT be transferred or
destroyed except as otherwise allowed by this tournament. Each
Investment corresponds with a Community. The investment limit is
the current number of communities.
Once per week a participant with less investments than the
investment limit CAN grant emself an investment in any specified
community by announcement.
Participants CANNOT gain an investment when they are at the
investment limit.
Trading
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A participant can make a Trade Offer by announcement, specifying a
token e owns, a set of symbols e wants, and, optionally, a set of
participants allowed to accept the offer (defaulting to all
participants if not specified).
If a participant ceases to have any tokens matching a Trade Offer
e made, the trade offer is withdrawn. Any participant can withdraw
any trade offer e has made at any time by announcement.
If a participant is in the set of participants allowed by a
non-withdrawn trade offer and has a token matching the wanted set,
e CAN accept that offer by announcement and specifying the
corresponding token. When e does so, the token specified in the
Offer is transferred to em, and the token e specified is
transferred to the participant that made the trade offer.
Tracking
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The Surveyor SHALL once a week publish an updated playboard, a
list of all participants and all eir assets defined by this
tournament, and a list of all communities and their number of
tiles. E SHOULD include a history of moves made by players as
well.
Ending and Winning
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Accolades are a currency. Accolades CANNOT be transferred or
destroyed except as otherwise allowed by this tournament.
When more than half of the tiles belong to a single community, the
tournament ends.
If it has been 3 months since the tournament started, the
tournament ends.
Immediately before the tournament ends, the participant with the
greatest number of accolades wins.
Clean-Up
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If any asset defined by this tournament would ever belong to
Agora, a deregistered person, a deactivated player, the L&FD, or
be in abeyance, it is instead destroyed.
History:
Enacted by initiation of Commune 2023 by nix, 19 Apr 2023
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