[Spoon-business] Nweek 66 Ballot

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The following measures are on the ballot for nweek 66:

Proposal 1882/0: Deletion (Zarpint)
Proposal 1883/1: Poly-Go (Zarpint)
Proposal 1884/0: Roster Ministry (Zarpint)
Proposal 1885/0: Ministerial Payment (Zarpint)
Proposal 1886/0: Renumbering CFIs (BeeDee)
Proposal 1887/1: Loose Ends (Norinel)
Proposal 1888/0: Devaluing the Economy (Phil)
Proposal 1889/0: Actions speak louder (Wonko)
Proposal 1890/0: But Only if You Can Speak (Wonko)




For reference, the texts are included below. This will go much faster 
once I get around to making it all XML based. Fortunately, Phil was 
kind enough to write a parser that reads XML in B Nomic Proposal Syntax 
(BNPS) and turns it into an easy-to-use python object, so all I need to 
do now is tell my scripts how to save input as XML.

Proposal Texts:

=============== Deletion ===============

Proposal 1882 (Standard Proposal)
Author: Zarpint
Submitted : nweek 66, nday 3

Delete the following [[unused]] rules:
 * r300 [[Keywords]]
 * r814 [[Offers]]
 * r817 [[Std. Abbvs.]]
 * r1856 [[Nomic Market]]
 * r1870 [[Voting Tokens]]

Delete subsection E of r16. [[It contradicts 16.A and A is preferable]]

=============== Poly-Go ===============

Proposal 1883/1 (Standard Proposal)
Author: Zarpint
Submitted : nweek 66, nday 3

Add the following sentence to the end of r1639.F:

"When the subgame ends, the game is scored as in subsection G."

Reset the Go game. Clear the board of stones. Break all alliances. Set
all Players' Go Scores to 0.


=============== Roster Ministry ===============

Proposal 1884 (Standard Proposal)
Author: Zarpint
Submitted : nweek 66, nday 3

Add the following {{{^^^}}}-delimited subsection to r625.D:

{{{^^^}}}
D.5. The Ministry of the Roster

The Ministry of the Roster is a Ministry. The duty of the Minister of 
the Roster is to maintain the Roster, a display easily accessible to 
all Players showing necessary information unavailable elsewhere. The 
Roster must include the names and attributes of all Players.
{{{^^^}}}

Make the Player known as Zarpint the Incomplete the Minister of the 
Roster. [[unless anyone else wants it]]

=============== Ministerial Payment ===============

Proposal 1885 (Standard Proposal)
Author: Zarpint
Submitted : nweek 66, nday 3

Add the following &&&-delimited section to r625:

&&&
E. Ministerial Payment
At the end of each nweek, each Minister who has held eir Ministry for 
that entire nweek and performed all Duties required shall receive 20 
points.
&&&

=============== Renumbering CFIs ===============

Proposal 1886 (Standard Proposal)
Author: BeeDee
Submitted : nweek 66, nday 3

Replace section I of rule 126 with:

I. Definition
If players disagree about the legality of an action or the 
interpretation or application of a rule or set of rules, any player may 
submit a Call for Inquiry to decide the issue. A Call for Inquiry may 
also be referred to as a CFI or CFJ. CFIs are revisable objects, but 
may only be modified as explictly permitted by the rules. However, CFIs 
are numbered seperately from other revisable objects, with each new CFI 
receiving a serial number one higher than the last serial number 
assigned to a CFI, or 1 if no CFI had previously been submitted since 
CFIs began
numbered seperately.
}}

=============== Loose Ends ===============

Proposal 1887/1 (Standard Proposal)
Author: Norinel
Submitted : nweek 66, nday 3

Strike all instances of {{ and one charm}} from r19.

Repeal r22. [[Post-Win Reset]]

Change the last sentence of r25 to {{Any passage or failure bonuses for
proposals made by the Admin have no effect.}}

Strike {{ and one Style}} from the sixth paragraph of r23/7.

Repeal r395/4. [[Respect Props]]

Change the third stanza of r437.A.4 to:
{{If this seems like quite an Onus,
Or it seems too monotonous,
This form's got a nifty Bonus:
Ten score points is the norm!}}

Strike {{ and one Charm}} from the last sentence of the first paragraph
of r437.A.5 [[Which is listed as C.5 in the ruleset, presumably a
typo.]]

Strike {{ and one point of Charm}} from the last sentence of r437.C

Strike the last paragraph of r1673. [[Underwriting]]

Strike paragraphs 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, and 12 of 1856.C, if r1856 still
exists. [[List of Export Goods of B Nomic, specifically the ones that
whose definition __Still feelin' fine__ removed.]]

Repeal r1871. [[Vote Nullification]]

Destroy all cards with the name {{SMACK}}. Each player who lost any
cards as a result of the previous action draws one card for each card e
lost in this manner. Remove the definition of __SMACK__ from the
cardlist.


=============== Devaluing the Economy ===============

Proposal 1888 (Standard Proposal)
Author: Phil
Submitted : nweek 66, nday 6

Replace the second paragraph of r21.A.2. with the following:

"There exists an entity known as the Basin. The Basin may create or 
destroy Tildex, but only as specified by the Rules. When the rules 
dictate that a player shall receive Tildex without specifying a source, 
the Basin creates them and gives them to the Player. When the rules 
dictate that a player loses or has Tildex taken from em without a 
destination, the Basin takes them and destroys them."

Replace the third paragraph of r21.A.2. with the following:

"10000~ may be referred to as a Myriad. X Myriads may be referred to 
with the notation of XG or GX, where X is a real number."

Delete the fourth paragraph of r21.A.2. [[The existence of a public 
display for Tildex is already implied by r625.D.4.]]

Add the following to r625:

"E. Paychecks

E.1. At the end of an nweek in which a player was Minister of a 
Ministry for the entire nweek, that player receives ~10.

E.2. If a player is elected to a ministry, the following rule is 
immediately created, replacing all instances of $PLAYER with the name 
of the player:


{{

__$PLAYER on Probation__

Until this rule is repealed, $PLAYER receivees no tildex from occupying 
a ministry. This rule is automatically repealed on the first day of the 
nweek following the nweek in which it was created. [[Basically, until a 
player comes off probation, they don't get a paycheck. However, we're 
slightly nicer than the real world ((slightly)) and therefore it only 
lasts until the beginning of the next nweek. ((This also prevents 
someone from jumping into a ministry, receiving a paycheck, and jumping 
back out all in one nweek. Now if you occupy it for less than a week, 
no tildex for you.))]]

}}"


=============== Actions speak louder ===============

Proposal 1889 (Standard Proposal)
Author: Wonko
Submitted : nweek 66, nday 7

Create two new rules:

{{

__Game Actions__

A Game Action is defined as any activity specified by the rules to be a 
Game Action. Any Outsider may take any Game Action at any time unless 
the rules say otherwise. To do this, e must specify to a Public Forum 
that e is taking that action. E must also specify any targets necessary 
for that action [[for example, you must specify a proposal in order to 
vote against a proposal]]. E may list multiple actions that e wishes to 
take, in which case e takes them in the order e lists them. E may also 
state that e performs an action multiple times, in which case e 
performs the action that many times (if legal, of course) sequentially. 
The Rules also have the power to cause an Outsider to take Game Actions 
whether e posts or not.

An Outsider does not take a game action if e states that e does 
something conditionally [[As in, if my score is higher 20, I do X]] or 
if the number of times the action is repeated is infinite or cannot be 
determined [[so "I do X until my score hits 100" is legal only if you 
can show that your score will hit 100 and that it is possible to figure 
out how many times you do X before it happens]].

Game Actions occur upon reaching the appropriate fora, in the order 
they arrived, unless a rule states otherwise. A Game Action that is 
caused by a Rule instead of by a Forum Post takes place at the time 
specified by the rule.

A text to the effect that "any player may do X" should be interpreted 
to mean that X is a Game Action; but such a declaration implies that 
only players may take the Game Action X (unless another declaration 
permits other Outsiders to as well).

}}

{{

__Submission__

The rules may state that it is legal for Outsiders to Submit certain 
document types as a Game Action. To Submit a Game Document, an Outsider 
must provide a full description of the Document in the Public Forum 
message where they take the Action of Submitting.

}}

=============== But Only if You Can Speak ===============

Proposal 1890 (Standard Proposal)
Author: Wonko
Submitted : nweek 66, nday 7

Replace the text of rule 16 [[Fora]] with:

{{

__Fora__

A Forum is a means by which Outsiders can communicate. Fora may be 
Private or Public; all Fora are Private until a rule makes them 
otherwise.

An Outsider using a Forum is considered to be "in" that Forum at the 
time of its use. Actions may only be taken in appropriate public fora, 
but if taken in private fora by mistake, they may be recognized by the 
entity responsible for recognizing it at eir discretion.

If there are no Public Fora, then a majority vote of all Off Leave 
players shall be sufficient to designate any forum as Public.

The FCC may designate a Public Forum to be only valid for certain 
specific game actions. Said designation, however, cannot leave any 
valid game actions with no Public Forum in which they can be taken.

}}

Add a new subsection to section D of rule 625 [[Ministries]]:

{{

__The Ministry of Communications__

The Ministry of Communications is a Ministry; its Minister may be 
called the Fair Communications Commissioner, or the FCC. The FCC is 
responsible for maintaining a Public Display of all existing Public 
Fora. E is also empowered to designate new Public Fora; when e does so, 
e must notify all players of the new Forum, either by posting to a 
previously existing public forum, or by sending a message to every 
player.

}}

--
Wonko

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