[Spoon-business] Charter Fixing...

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's hole in the Charter,
dear Teucer, dear Teucer,
There's a hole in the Charter,
dear Teucer, a hole.

As I am a majority of all the members of the Mercantile Society who 
aren't Teucer, I agree to the following charter change, thus putting it 
into effect:
Replace the Charter with:

{{
To join the Mercantile Society, a player must announce eir intent to 
join and transfer one point to the society for every member of the 
society, and the Deity must approve em for admittance.

The member may then state in a private message to the Deity on which 
space on the small map e wishes to build eir Capital City. E may not 
choose a space containing only ocean; these are listed below the map.

   A B C D E F G H I K L M N

1  . . . . . f f f f . f . .
2  . . . . f f f j j . f . .
3  g m d d g g g g f . . . .
4  m d d g g g g r . . . . .
5  f g g . . . . . . . . . .
6  . . . . . . . . . . . . .

A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2, D1, D2, F6, G6, H6, I6, K5, K6, L4, L5, L6, M4, 
M5, M6, N3, N4, N5, and N6 contain no land.

F represents Forest.
G represents Grassland.
J represents Jungle.
M represents Mountains.
R represents River.
D represents Desert.

At any point before the start of the game, a member may state on the 
Public Forum that e wishes to close the society. If a majority of 
members agree to close the society, all paragraphs in this charter 
which preceed this one are removed and replaced with the text {{Players 
may not join the Mercantile Society.}} and the game of Merchants will 
begin, as described in the following paragraphs.

One member of the Society is known as the Deity. If there is no Deity, 
the member who has been a member the longest becomes Deity.

Although the Deity is a member of the Society, e does not play in the 
game of Merchants described below. Instead, e is the moderator of the 
game. If a majority of members other than the Deity agree to any change 
to this charter, the charter is changed accordingly; this does not 
happen if there are fewer than 4 members. The Deity has the power to 
modify the charter at will.

A large map will then be posted showing the precise locations of the 
capital cities and the boundaries between the nations. All points will 
belong to the nation with the nearest capital city.

Each member will privately be informed what resources e has. These may 
include any of the following:

Gold
Oil
Coal
Lumber
Fruit
Fish
Beef
Coffee
Rice
Bread
Electronics

Each player will have a total of fifteen resources. They will be chosen 
by the Deity, partly at random and partly based on the player's 
territory.

At any time, a player may post a message to the public forum offering a 
trade to another player. The offer stands until it is accepted or 
withdrawn. If an offer is accepted, the goods in question are 
exchanged. No player may accept an offer if it would require em to give 
away goods e does not have.

Every Checkpoint, one Gold is given to all players who have ten of each 
other resource.

When the majority of members have ten of each resource other than gold, 
the players who do have ten of each non-gold resource will each receive 
from the Society one point per member with less gold than them who does 
have ten of each non-gold resource and one point per member who does 
not have ten of each non-gold resource. Each member who does not have 
ten of each resource other than gold receives from the society one 
point per member who also does not have ten of each resource other than 
gold and who has less gold than the member in question.
}}

Note that this results in things being basically the way they were 
before, except without the name 'Teucer' hardwired into the rules 
(because of collection issues if you leave), and with at least three 
non-deity players needed to use the majority charter change bit. Plus I 
added that Teucer can stop people from joining, just so that if e 
wants, e can suppress new joiners until e gets the admittance fee 
worked out.

Finally, I'd like to note that this could have been an INH subgame; INH 
does have some points to distribute, and if some more games were hosted 
there, it'd probably be able to gain even more. This would allow some 
subgames to occasionally give out more points than they've taken in, 
which otherwise cannot be done except through the ruleset.

--
Wonko

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