[Spoon-business] societies 4

["Orc In A Spacesuit" <orcinaspacesuit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Glotmorf, I went through the prop, took every proplem you had with it other 
than how WBE works (since I want Wonko's word first).  I clarified what you 
had trouble understanding, added redundancy, and added to definitions.  A 
few things are left unchanged as it was just your oversight and not my lack 
of clarity; you can see those things in the last email.

Anyway, change the entirety of the proposal __Societies and Corporations__ 
to the following:
I propose the following:
{{__Societies and Corporations__

Change the rule __Societies__ to read the following:
{{

A. Definition
In this rule, Players, and Societies whose members are all Independent 
Entities, are Independent Entities.
In this rule, Gremlins, and Societies whose members are not all Independent 
Entities.
In this rule, Independent Entities and Dependent Entities are Entities.
In this rule, all Dimensions are Properties, and Points and Entropy, if they 
are not Dimensions, are Properties too.
A Society is a group of one or more entities who are Members of the Society. 
 If any Properties are referenced in this rule, they are identical to the 
appropriate Dimensions and/or Attributes in the rest of the ruleset.
A Corporation is a class (or kind) of Society.

B. Society Charter
A Society must have a Charter, which dictates what actions it takes, under 
what conditions it takes them, and in what ways it takes.  A Society takes 
legal actions as dictated by its Charter.

C. Society Actions

Actions in this rule are not the only actions that societies may take.

C.1 General Actions
A Society may modify its Charter during the first 5 ndays of an nweek, if 
all of its members are Independent Entities.  Such changes do not take 
effect until the end of the nweek.

A Society may Accept any Entity that is Requesting Admittance to the 
Society.  When a Society Accepts an entity, that Entity becomes a Member of 
that Society.

A Society may Oust any of its Members.  Members who are Ousted cease to be 
Member of that Society.

Any Entity that has Points or BNS may transfer any positive amount of eir 
Points or BNS to any other Entity that has Points or BNS, respectively.  
Players may transfer a positive amount of eir Bandwidth to any Society that 
is not a Corporation.

A Society may State things.  [[Just to be sure]]

Accepting an Entity, Ousting a Member, changing its Charter, and making 
Statements are Managerial Actions.  [[To shorten Charters]]

C.2 Proposals
Beginning in the nweek after the one in which they are created, Societies 
that are not Corporations may submit proposals just as Players can; these 
are referred to as Society Proposals, or Club Props. If the properties of a 
a Society would be changed by the rules as a result of voting, and the 
Society does not have that property, all members of that society get that 
change divided by the number of members in that society with that property, 
with the remainder assigned to randomly among those members.  If the 
previous sentence would create an infinite loop, in the opinion of the 
administrator, then the change is assigned as the Administrator sees fit, or 
not at all.  Submitting a proposal does require the society to have and pay 
bandwidth, just as it does with players.

When a Society submits a Proposal, it must state a Member of the Society who 
can propose (if e were freed of bandwidth restrictions) to be the Presenter 
of the Proposal.  If a property is referenced in a rule that the Society 
does not have but the Presenter does, the rule looks to the Presenter's 
property.  Such properties may result in restrictions on the proposal, as 
defined by the rules (This is for BAC and such.  I'm pretty much making it 
such that one person actually delivers the prop).

A Society may not make proposals if it has less than 3 Members who are not 
On Leave, or the number of its Members is greater than one half the number 
of Off Leave Players in the game.

A Society may also revise or rescind eir current proposals, when it is not a 
voting period.

C.3 Incorporation
Any Society may Incorporate if it has not submitted any proposals duing the 
current nweek.  When a Society Incorporates, it becomes a Corporation in 
addition to being a Society.  Corporations do not have Bandwidth; any 
Bandwidth the Society had at Incorporation is lost.

C.4 Positions
Any Society may confer Positions onto its Members, and may witdraw positions 
it confers.  Such Positions must have the form "X of Y", where X is a string 
and Y is the name of the Society.  For brevity, when the Society in question 
has been made clear, just X may be used instead of X of Y.  Positions are 
not names or titles.  If any Member of a Society stops being a Member of it, 
e loses all Positions given by that Society.

D. Leaving a Society
Membership in Societies is voluntary.  Any Member of a Society may at any 
time Leave the Society, ceasing to be a Member of the Society.

If a Society ever has no Members, it ceases to exist, unless another Rule or 
the Society's Charter states otherwise.  If a Society has no Members for the 
entirety of an nweek, is ceases to exist unless another rule states 
otherwise.  (If it didn't exist for part of the nweek, then it didn't have 
members at that time.  Just clarification.)

When a Society ceases to exist (indcluding if it is destroyed), unless its 
Charter, a passed proposal, or a rule state otherwise, any proposals created 
by the society that have not been voted on are rescinded.

If a Member of a Society ceases to exist in the scope of this game, that 
Member is no longer a Member of that Society.  Being a member of a society 
is not existance, but a quality of existance [[duh]].

F. Resources
All Societies have the Properties Entropy, Points, and BNS.
All Societies that are not Coroporations have the Property Bandwidth.
The default values of these 4 properties is 0.
At the beginning of each nweek, the Bandwidth of each Society is set to 0.

If a Society has Entropy greater than or equal to the number of Members it 
has that can have Entropy, one Entropy it has is transferred to each of its 
Members that can have Entropy.
Any Entity that has Points and/or BNS may transfer any positive amount of 
those to any other Entity that has the tranferred property.
Any Entity that has Bandwidth may transfer any positive amount of it to any 
Society.

If any change to a Property would be assigned to a Society that does not 
have that Property, all changes are instead divided as evenly as possible 
among its members that have that Property, with the remainder assigned 
randomly among them, or as the Adminstrator sees fit among them.

G. Creating a Society

Once per nweek, a Player may create a Society, giving it a uniquely 
identifying name.  Unless e specifies otherwise, the creator of a society 
becomes a member of that Society upon its creation.

[[If you want to invite some people into the society at the beginning, just 
have the Charter specify it'll automatically let those people join, and 
maybe include a time limit when that part is taken out.]]

[[You can still create via proposal.  Societies are a part of the game, so 
props can affect them.]]
}}

Repeal the rule __Corporations__ (1149/0)

Change the properties of the following Societies to the following, and if 
the named society does not exist, create one with the name given:
{{
Society: von Skippy Overproduction, Inc.
Members: Baron von Skippy, Wild Card, Glotmorf, Wonko, bd, Squire of 
Dimness, Athena
Charter: von Skippy Overproduction, Inc. may also be referred to as vSOI.  
One and only one Member may have the Position "CEO".   If the CEO, or all 
Members of vSOI other than the CEO, consent to have vSOI perform a 
Managerial Action other than modify its Charter, it does so.  If all members 
of vSOI consent to have vSOI change its Charter, it does so.  If at any time 
there is no CEO, the Member who has been a Member for the longest time gains 
the Position CEO, if one exists.  At the end of each nweek vSOI tranfers one 
half of its points, rounded down, to vSET.  Then, vSOI tranfers one V/M 
points, rounded down, to each of its Members that can have points, where V 
is the number of points vSOI has and M is the number of Member is vSOI.

Society: Athena's Society
Members: Athena, bd, Lord Gregarian, BvS, Orc in a Spacesuit
Charter: If Athena's Society has points or BNS greater than the number of 
Members it has, Athena's Society transfers one of that propoerty to each of 
its Members that can have that property.  Athena's Society performs 
Managerial Actions or changes its Charter when Athena says it does.

Society: Wealthy Bastard Enterprises
Members: Wonko and Glotmorf
Charter: Wealthy Bastard Enterprises may also be referred to as WBE.  One 
and only one Member may have the Position "The Usurper".  One and only one 
Member of may have the Position "The Deposed King".  If a Member loses the 
Position of The Usurper, e gains the Position The Deposed King.  IF any 
Member of WBE that has Position given to em by WBE states that WBE performs 
a Managerial Action, WBE does so.  At the end of each nweek, before Charter 
changes take effect, if WBE has enough BNS to do all of the following, it 
transfers 45 BNS to The Usurper if there is one, 25 BNS to The Deposed King 
if there is one, and 11 BNS to each other Member if there are any.  If there 
is no Member is The Usurper, and a Member is The Deposed King, the Deposed 
King becomes The Usurper.  If there is no Member that is The Usurper or The 
Deposed King, whichever Member has been a Member for the longest time 
becomes The Usurper.

Society: OrcTech
Members: Orc In A Spacesuit, Bd, Baron von Skippy, Wonko
Charter: One and only one Member has the position "Master".  If there is no 
Master of OrcTech, and any Members have the Position "Next in Line X", where 
X is an integer, the Member with the lowest X in eir Position becomes the 
new Master.  If there are no such Members, the Member who has been a Member 
the longest becomes the new Master, if one exists. OrcTech performs Actions 
when its Master says it does.
If Orc In A Spacesuit is a Member and is not the Master, e becomes the 
Master.
If Orc In A Spacesuit is not a Member of OrcTech, and e Requests Admittance 
to OrcTech, OrcTech automatically Accepts em.
If Orc In A Spacesuit changes eir name, OrcTech modifies its Charter to 
replace all instances in it of "Orc In A Spacesuit" to eir new name.

Society: M-Tek
Members: Glotmorf, Squire of Dimness
Charter: One and only one Member of M-Tek has the Position "Prez".  M-Tek 
takes a Managerial Action other than modifying its Charter upon the Prez 
stating it does, or after 2 ndays of 1/2 of the members of M-Tek state it 
does if the Prez does not veto the action.
M-Tek performs an action upon all of its Members stating it does.
If there is no Prez of M-Tek, the member of M-Tek with the highest Entropy 
becomes the new Prez, if one exists.
At the beginning of each nweek's voting period, if M-Tek could have legally 
submited a proposal that nweek but did not, the Prez must give 5 points to 
each other member of M-Tek, if possible.

[[The reason for the 2 nday limit is that otherwise the actions happen 
instantly, and any vetoes come afterwards, and therefore don't work because 
of retroactivity.  Unless of course you veto before the action takes place, 
which I find unlikly to happen.]]

Society: The Secret Mookies
Members: Lord Gregarian
Charter: 'Lord Gregarian' is the High Mookie. The High Mookies performs any 
actions the High Mookie states it does.

Society: vSET
Members: Baron von Skippy
Charter: vSET Accepts Entities and Ousts Members whenever the Member who has 
been a Member the longest says it does.
[[I'm basically setting it up so it exists.  Now, propose to have it do 
more, BvS! :)]]

}}
[[end societies list]]

In Rule 748, __Overseas Gnomes__ delete the second sentence and delete the 
third paragraph.
In Rules 748, __Overseas Gnomes__, and 850, __Gnomes On Sale__, replace all 
instances of "the Gnome Account" with "vSOI".
[[Cause Societies are now powerful enough to do stuff like this in eir 
Charter.]]

If they are not already, make BvS the CEO of vSOI, Glotmorf The Usurper of 
WBE, Wonko The Deposed King of WBE, Orc in a Spacesuit the Master of 
OrcTech, and Glotmorf the Prez of M-Tek.

If they are not already, make vSOI, vSET, Athena's Society, WBE, and OrcTech 
be Corporations.

Destroy all societies other than vSOI, vSET, Athena's Society, WBE, M-Tek, 
OrcTech, The Secret Mookies, and Insert Name Here.
}}
[[end proposal]]


Orc In A Spacesuit
really hopes it's done right this time.

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