[Spoon-business] Joining the Market

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

I'm sending this to the ThermodyNomic mailing list as well, and hoping it 
doesn't bounce.

This proposal is something to get us started with Nomic Market; it depends 
on the suggestions I made earlier regarding the Market rules being 
implemented, as well as an additional change:  Just as a Nomic can join 
Nomic Market, it should be able to leave.  Of course, any Nomic can just 
ignore Nomic Market, but it'd be easier this way.  In any case, I'm writing 
contingencies into this in case the Nomic Market ruleset every goes nutty.

I propose the following:
{{__Free Trade v1.0__
Create the following rule:
{{__Going to Market__{*Market, InterNomic*}
A. Definitions
An entity who is a player in any Nomic, and is At the Market, may be 
referred to as a "Trader" in B Nomic.  In addition, a "B Nomic Trader" ia a 
Trader who's Home Nomic in Nomic Market is B Nomic.

B. Opening and Closing Shop
B Nomic may be either "Open for Business" or "Closed for Business".

When B Nomic becomes Open for Business, B Nomic shall ask the Administrator 
of Nomic Market to add B Nomic to Nomic Market's List, if it is not already 
on it.

When B Nomic becomes Closed for Business, B Nomic shall ask the 
Administrator of Nomic Market to remove B Nomic from Nomic Market's List, if 
it is on it.

No B Nomic Trader may give or receive any object in Nomic Market while B 
Nomic is Closed for Business.  If such does occur, the effects in B Nomic of 
that happening do not occur.  This paragraph takes precedence over the rest 
of this rule, and over all other rules.

When an SOE is declared, B Nomic becomes Closed for Business.

C. Player Joining
If B Nomic is Open for Business, any player in B Nomic who is Off Leave may 
become At the Market in Nomic Market, subject to the rules of Nomic Market.

D. Trade Control
There exists a List of Exportable Goods, or LEG, as a part of the B Nomic 
gamestate.  It is a list of objects that B Nomic Traders may give to 
Traders, subject to the rules of Nomic Market and the rules of the Home 
Nomic of the receiving Trader.  B Nomic Traders may not give objects to 
Traders if those objects are not on the LEG, and/or are not in eir 
possession.  When a B Nomic Trader gives an object to a Trader, it is 
destroyed in B Nomic.

There exists a Table of Importable Goods, or TIG, as a part of the B Nomic 
gamestate.  It is a list of objects that Traders may give to B Nomic 
Traders, and a list of events that happen upon that object being given to a 
B Nomic Trader.  Objects not on the TIG may not be given to B Nomic Players.

If an object not on the TIG is given to a B Nomic Trader, then the effects 
that occur are: "The object is turned into FNURD, has its Contents set to 
the name and any other properties it may have had prior to becoming a FNURD, 
and loses all other properties it may have.  It is placed in the possession 
of the receiving B Nomic Trader."  FNURDS are passable carryable objects, 
and have the property "Contents".  [[Bascially, should you somehow aquire a 
non-allowed item, it'll get turned into junk, the the data about it is saved 
in case the junk ever becomes valuable.]]
}}
[[End rule __Going to Market__]]

Set the LEG to the following:
{{
Beverage
Sledge-O-Matic
Ball of Wax
Ball of Earwax
Towel
Big Stick
Pinball Gun
Small Lump of Scrap Metal
Large Lump of Scrap Metal
Gnome
Bread
Olive
Beer Can
Ice Cube
Ice Sphere
Boomcage
Can of Whoopass
Hand
Barney
Insta-Rule
}}
[[End LEG]]

[[I'd love to see what other Nomics might do with a Hand or an Insta-Rule, 
or see someone somehow possess and then trade off Barney.]]

Set the TIG to the following:
{{
Object Events
Coin   The Coin loses all properties it may have.  It then becomes a 
passable carrable object, and is placed in the receiving player's 
possession.
}}
[[End TIG]]
[[I don't know what else might be out there, in Thermodynomic or elsewhere.  
And we don't want to let things in here uncontrolled.  And we'll let 
everything else in on a case-by-case basis.  Everything else is FNURD until 
then.]]

B Nomic becomes Open for Business.

}}
[[End prop __Free Trade v1.0__]]

This is very open to revision.  Comments, questions, rotten fruit?

Orc in a Spacesuit

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