[Spoon-business] Prop Mod: Soc Rep

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It occurred to me that the 'Point Balance' system that I wrote up a 
while back is ugly and stupid. But I think I've got a better one. I got 
the idea from a Magic Card, actually, one called 'Power Sink'. On old 
versions of the card, there was very ugly wording, something like, 
'target spell is countered unless its caster pays x mana. The caster 
must draw all available mana from all lands he controls until x is 
paid, or until he can no longer draw mana from his lands; he may also 
choose to draw mana from other sources if desired." This is about as 
ugly as the Point Balance thing, and similarly aimed; the goal is to 
force payment of something.

On the new versions of the card, they came up with a much more elegant 
way of working it: "Counter target spell unless its controller pays x 
mana. If he does not, tap all his lands and empty his mana pool." Thus, 
rather than trying to force payment, it delegates the responsibility 
for figuring out how to pay to the player, and sucks him dry if he 
can't find a way out.

It seems to me that Club points ought to work like that too - if a Club 
Prop fails, and its Club doesn't have enough points, then its Members 
should all just lose points. Hopefully, this will encourage societies 
not to make proposals unless they can fund them.

Oh, and I replaced the definition of a Charter with something almost 
identical to the definition of an Automation Script, the idea being 
that Societies have abilities like accepting, ousting and proposing, 
and the job of the Charter is to dictate what causes the society to 
take these actions.

I amend my prop entitled __Don't try to do these things yourself__ to 
be:

{{
__Fixing Everything__

Amend r578 to be:

{{
__Societies__
I. Definition
There may exist entities called Societies. Each society has any number 
of other entities associated with it; these entities are called its 
members.

II. Actions
Societies may only take actions which the rules permit them to.

III. Membership
Each Society is permitted to make any entity a member of itself, if and 
only if that entity has Applied for membership with that society. Any 
entity may Apply for membership in a society.
Each Society is permitted to make any member of itself cease to be a 
member. This is referred to as Ousting that member.
Any member of a Society may Quit that society; this causes that society 
to Oust em automatically.
If a Society has no members, it is destroyed.

IV. Possessions
A Society may transfer any object it possesses to any other entity 
which can possess that object. Societies may possess any objects that 
players can legally possess.

V. Charters
Each Society may have a Charter. This Charter is a list of conditions, 
and Actions (called Auto Actions) that the Society takes when those 
conditions are met. If it is legal to do so, when the conditions for 
Auto Actions are met, the Society takes those Auto Actions. Auto 
Actions do not take place at the same time that other Actions are 
taking place or pending (like the actions that happen at the end of an 
nweek), they instead become pending until all other actions (except 
other Auto Actions that became pending afterwards) and their results 
finish resolving.

A Society may change the text of its Charter at any time, except while 
the Clock is Off. Charters may only be changed as specified in the 
rules. The Administrator may choose to refuse any change to a Charter 
(other than one that removes all contents of it) or any Auto Action for 
any reason, including but not limited to it causing confusion, it 
putting an undue burden on the Administrator, it breaking the game, it 
causing a paradox or unknown state of the game, or it having unintended 
consequences.

VI. Proposals
Societies may make proposals, subject to any and all restrictions laid 
forth in the rules.
Societies may possess Bandwidth. Each society initially possesses 0 
bandwidth. When a society makes a proposal, its bandwidth decreases by 
the amount a player's bandwidth would decrease if that player made that 
proposal. A society may not make a proposal if doing so would reduce 
its Bandwidth below zero. Any player may transfer a point of Bandwidth 
from emself to any society.

VII. Creation
Once per nweek, each player may create a new society whose only member 
is that player.

VIII. Penalties
If a society is required by the rules to lose a quantity of objects 
[[for example, if one of its proposals fails and it thus loses 1d6 
points]], and it does not possess objects enough such objects [[for 
example, it can't afford to pay 1d6 points]], then the society is said 
to have Incurred a Debt of that many of those objects [[for example, a 
Debt of 6 Points]]. Any Auto-Actions triggerred by this incursion then 
take place; if, after such actions take place, the society still 
doesn't have enough of such objects to fulfill its Debt, every Member 
of the society who has any such objects loses a number of them equal to 
however many the Society owes. If this results in more objects being 
given than are necessary, any excess objects are given to the 
Administrator.
}}

}}

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