[s-b] Proposal: Crazy Eddie's House Of Fun

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Amended proposal "Crazy Eddie's House Of Fun":

[[Now defines the commercial transaction that takes place when you
sell a device to the shop.]]

This proposal depends on the proposals "Currency" and "Devices".

Create a rule "Commerce":
{{
When the rules specify a "commercial transaction", it means that two
"punter" objects each simultaneously transfer, pass or give a
"substance" to the other.

Punter objects are objects that are allowed to transfer, pass or give
a substance to another punter object.

A substance is something that the rules say is allowed to be
transferred, passed or given between the punter objects.  This may be,
but is not limited to: a game object; a value or part of a value
stored in an attribute or other property of an object.

The rules must explain exactly how each transfer that forms part of
the commercial transaction takes place.  Should one of the two
transfers not be possible under the rules, then neither takes place.

If the punter object is a player, ey must agree to the commercial
transaction via a game action, or must make some other game action
which the rules state counts as agreeing to the transaction.  If the
punter object is not a player, the rules must explicitly describe how
it deals with a commercial transaction.

Nothing in this rule enables a transfer to take place unless another
rule explicitly allows it.

The following game terms imply a commercial transaction: "buying",
"selling", "purchase", "sale", "swapping".   There may be other game
terms that imply a commercial transaction.
}}


Create a new rule "Crazy Eddie's House of Fun (tm)"
{{
The object "Crazy Eddie's House of Fun (tm)" (also known as "the
shop") is both a currency owner object and a device owner object.

In any given nweek the shop is either "open" (in which case it is able
to buy and sell devices) or "closed" (in which case it is not).

Non-unique devices are sold on a first-come, first-served basis.  A
player may request the purchase of a non-unique device by a game
action, in which case a commercial transaction takes place in which
the player gives the price in mackerels to the shop, and the shop
transfers the device to the player.  If the player does not have
enough mackerels, or the shop does not have any of the requested
device, or the shop is closed, then the game action is invalid and
nothing happens.

Unique devices are sold by auction.  A player may bid for a unique
device that the shop owns via a game action. At the end of the nweek
the player who has made the highest valid bid for a given device is
deemed to have entered into a commercial transaction where ey gives
the price ey bid (in mackerels) to the shop and the shop transfers the
device to em.  Bids made while the shop is closed, or for devices that
the shop does not own, or for more mackerels than the player has at
the end of the nweek, are invalid.

Every nweek Crazy Eddie posts either a declaration that the shop is
closed, or a list of every device the shop owns; each non-unique item
on the list has a price against it.

Players can also attempt to sell devices to Crazy Eddie's House of Fun
(tm). If the shop is open and has enough mackerels to pay, it will buy
a non-unique device for no less than m1 and a unique device for no
less than m10.  The actual price offered may be more; the decision is
up to Crazy Eddie.

When the shop buys a device, a commercial transaction takes place in
which the player transfers the device to the shop and the shop gives
the player the agreed amount in Mackerels.  The player must make a
game action agreeing to the sale.

For the purposes of this rule "at the end of the nweek" means after
any rules regarding the end-of-nweek actions of subgames have been
dealt with.
}}


Create a new rule "Crazy Eddie's Initial Stock":
{{
This rule lists some devices which exist in the game.

*Name: Fish Slice
*Uniqueness: Unique
*Owner: Crazy Eddie's House of Fun (tm)
*Effect: Allows user to exchange mackerels for points at an exchange
rate of m5 -> 1pt
*Conditions: None
*Trigger: The owner makes a game action specifying how many mackerels
ey wants to exchange
After the effect has been triggered, the device ceases to exist and an
identical device appears.  This new device is owned by the shop.

*Name: Flounder Card
*Uniqueness: Non-Unique
*Number exists: 7
*Owner: Crazy Eddie's House of Fun (tm)
*Effect: The owner may give up to m40 to another COO even if this
would bring eir mackerels attribute negative
*Conditions: The owner must have more than 20 points when ey performs
the mackerel-giving game action
If the player's mackerels drop below -m20 then the device immediately
disappears and the player's points change to 0.
The rules for this device take precedence over other rules regarding
currency and mackerels.

*Name: Jet Boots
*Uniqueness: Non-Unique
*Number exists: 7
*Owner: Crazy Eddie's House of Fun (tm)
*Effect: Rule tag grab actions on objects in the owners possession,
where less than 20 points are declared, do not succeed
*Conditions: The owner must be element air at the time of the grab
[[IOW at the end of the nweek]]

*Name: Lightsabre
*Uniqueness: Non-Unique
*Number exists: 7
*Owner: Crazy Eddie's House of Fun (tm)
*Effect: The number of points transferred to owner in a rule tag
"elemental tag precedence" contest is increased by 10
*Conditions: owner must be element fire at the time the elemental
precedences are resolved
*Trigger: The owner is the winner in a rule tag "elemental tag
precedence" contest

*Name: Maltese Falcon, The
*Uniqueness: Unique
*Owner: Crazy Eddie's House of Fun (tm)
*Effect: None
*Conditions: None

*Name: Portable Black Hole
*Uniqueness: Unique
*Owner: Crazy Eddie's House of Fun (tm)
*Effect: Destroys a device
*Conditions: Device to be destroyed must be non-unique and owned by
the owner of the portable hole
*Trigger: The owner makes a game action naming the device to be destroyed

*Name: Rock, Big
*Uniqueness: Non-Unique
*Number exists: 7
*Owner: Crazy Eddie's House of Fun (tm)
*Effect: Rule Tag penalties are halved for being on an RTL that
changed or was revoked (round down)
*Conditions: The owner must be element earth at the time the penalties
are resolved

*Name: Voodoo Doll, Blue
*Uniqueness: Unique
*Owner: Crazy Eddie's House of Fun (tm)
*Effect: Targetted player loses 10 points.
*Conditions: When the effect is triggered, the targetted player must
be a different element than the owner and have more points than the
owner
*Trigger: The owner declares the target as a game action
When the effect has been triggered the device ceases to exist and an
identical device appears.  This new device is owned by the shop.

*Name: Voodoo Doll, Pink
*Uniqueness: Unique
*Owner: Crazy Eddie's House of Fun (tm)
*Effect: The targetted player loses m50
*Conditions: When the effect is triggered, the targetted player must
be a different element than the owner and have more mackerel than the
owner.
*Trigger: The owner declares the target as a game action.
When the effect has been triggered the device ceases to exist and an
identical device appears.  This new device is owned by the shop.

*Name: Water wings
*Uniqueness: Non-Unique
*Number exists: 7
*Owner: Crazy Eddie's House of Fun (tm)
*Effect: The owner may make a ruletag move that combines two valid
ruletag moves sequentally
*Conditions: The owner must be element water at the time of the move
[[IOW at the end of the nweek]]
*Trigger: The player makes a rule tag move

}}


Create a new rule: "Crazy Eddie"
{{

This rule creates the post "Crazy Eddie".

Powers:
* Crazy Eddie decides the prices for non-unique items sold in the shop.
* Crazy Eddie decides how much to pay for devices offered to him for sale.
* Crazy Eddie decides whether the shop is open in a given nweek.

Responsibilities:
* To post each nweek before the end of nday 2 either a notice to the
effect that the shop is closed this nweek, or a list of every device
owned by the shop, with prices for the non-unique items.

* If the shop was open the previous nweek, to post before the end of
nday 2 a "tax return", showing:
** the opening balance from the last return.
** a list of every device sold, showing buyer and price.
** a list of every device bought, showing seller and price.
** the total profit.
** the award to the pot holster [[see below]].
** the closing balance.
All currency should be shown in mackerels. [[The tax return keeps
Eddie honest, and helps the Administrator update point and currency
totals.]]

* To run the sale of every non-unique device owned by the shop, every
nweek that the shop is open.

* To run and arbitrate the auction for each unique device owned by the
shop, every nweek the shop is open.

* To buy any device offered in sale to the shop, providing the shop
has enough money to cover the minimum price.  [[See the shop rule.]]

Sensure:
No award: that is, no award this nweek based on last nweek's sales.

Restrictions:
* The pot holster (that is, the player) may not buy a non-unique item
from the shop if the shop owns only one of it.
* The pot holster (that is, the player) may not bid for unique items
after nday 9 in any given nweek.

Awards:
10% of the profit made by Crazy Eddie's House of Fun (tm) in the
previous nweek is transferred to the the pot holster once the tax
return for the previous nweek has been posted.

If Crazy Eddie fails to declare the shop open before the start of nday
3, then the shop is closed for that nweek.
}}
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