[s-b] Nweek 68 Ballot

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The following measures are on the ballot for nweek 68:

 Proposal 1899/0: Technological Go (Zarpint)
 Proposal 1900/0: Python Enterprises (Zarpint)
 Proposal 1901/0: Card balancing act (Zarpint)
 Proposal 1902/0: Reworking Cards (Wonko)
 Proposal 1903/0: Let em do eir job! (Wonko)
 Proposal 1904/0: A Minister of Proposals (Wonko)
 Proposal 1905/0: A Minister Of Cards (Wonko)

It is nweek 68, nday 8; voting will close at midnight UTC of August 31.

Votes should be submitted through the web form at

< http://www.nomic.net/~wonko/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/VoteOnProps >


The Proposals in Plaintext format
These can be viewed at
< http://www.nomic.net/~wonko/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/ViewProposals > (html)
and
< http://www.nomic.net/~wonko/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/ViewPropsAsText > (text)

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Proposal 1899/0: Technological Go
A Standard Proposal by Zarpint
Last modified on nweek 68, nday 1

Add the following to the end of r1854:

{{
Masonry is a Technology that costs 250 research points. An entity
possessing Masonry may attempt to play one Political Go stone without
Moving each nweek. The attempt succeeds with a probability of 1/4.

Mining is a Technology that costs 500 research points. An entity
possessing Mining may attempt to remove one Political Go stone each 
nweek.
The attempt succeeds with a probability of 1/4.

Theft is a Technology that costs 1000 research points. An entity
possessing Theft may attempt to steal one Political Go stone each nweek.
The attempt succeeds with a probability of 1/4. If the attempt succeeds,
the stone now belongs to the player who attempted to steal it.

Diplomacy is a Technology that costs 500 research points. An
entity possessing Diplomacy may attempt once each nweek to form or break
an Alliance with another Player without Moving. The attempt succeeds
with probability 1/4.
}}

Give r1854 Chutzpah 2. [[So it takes precedence over the Go rule.]]

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Proposal 1900/0: Python Enterprises
A Standard Proposal by Zarpint
Last modified on nweek 68, nday 1

There exists the Program List. This is a list of descriptions of
programs or scripts that Players have requested. An entry on the
list is called a Coil.

Each Coil has the following attributes:

Description, a precise description of the requested script, including
the language the Patron would like the script in.

Patron, the Player who posted the Coil.

Bonus, the goodies that the first player to Wind the Coil receives.


Any player may post a Coil to the Program List by making a statement to
that effect in a Public Forum, provided that Winding the Coil is not
trivial. [[This is a judgement call that may need to be decided by a 
Call
for Judgement.]] Unless the Patron specifies otherwise, the Bonus is 10
points. The Bonus must consist of a nonnegative number of Points and a
nonnegative number of Tildex and the number of Points added to the
number of Tildex may not exceed 50.

The Patron of a Coil may modify or delete the Coil by posting a
statement to that effect in a Public Forum.

Any player may Wind any Coil on the list by posting a script to a Public
Forum or privately sending a script to the Patron. If, in the sole
judgement of the Patron, the script fits the Description, the Player who
Wound the Coil receives 10 points, and the Coil is removed from the
Program List.

It is the responsibility of the Minister of the Roster to maintain the
Program List.
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Proposal 1901/0: Card balancing act
A Standard Proposal by Zarpint
Last modified on nweek 68, nday 1

Add 3 copies of "Tournament Russian Roulette" to the deck.
Add 3 copies of "Poik" to the deck.
Destroy all copies of "Syn", "Ack", "Petty Theft", and "Your Spoo Has
Too Much Fleem".
Add 3 copies each of "Syn", "Ack", "Petty Theft", and "Your Spoo Has
Too Much Fleem" to the deck.

Give each Player who lost cards from this proposal as many cards from
the deck as e lost. Players do not receive points from Investment for
this.

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Proposal 1902/0: Reworking Cards
A Standard Proposal by Wonko
Last modified on nweek 68, nday 5

[[Create some new Cards]]

Create the following card definitions:
{{
__Hamhandedness__

Image: A man breaking a piece of a model ship he is assembling.
Body: Choose a player. That player discards a card and gains the
attribute "Hand Job Master", and all other players lose it.
}}

{{
__Smooth Hands__

Image: A man juggling a wide variety of assorted objects.
Body: If no player holds the attribute "Hand Job Master", then you gain
that attribute.
}}

{{
__Master Handiwork__

Image: A man balanced on one foot simultaneously folding four origami
cranes, two in each hand.
Body: Draw a card. You gain the attribute "Hand Job Master", and all
other players lose it.
}}

{{
__Luggage Mixup__

Image: Two people grabbing identical suitcases from an airport baggage 
claim.
Body: Choose a player other than yourself. Trade hands with that player.
}}

{{
__Rotary Exchange__

Image: A Queen of Diamonds entering an airport terminal as a Jack of
Clubs emerges from a nearby one, wearing a beret.
Body: Choose a card in your hand and a card in another player's hand.
Swap those cards.
}}

{{
__Cash In__

Image: A woman cashing an enormous pile of chips in a casino.
Body: Discard any number of cards from your hand. Gain 5 points for
each card discarded this way.
}}

{{
__Stock Crash__

Image: A stock chart, labeled "B Nomic" at the top. A jagged line is on 
the chart; it plummets downwards towards the end of the page.
Body: All players discard all cards named Cash In, Jackpot!,
CashMaster, or Investment.
}}

{{
__Six Card Hand__

Image: Six facedown cards on a mahogany table. The backs of the cards 
have large B's on them, in blue.
Body: Choose an integer X between one and five inclusive. Discard all
but X cards from your hand, then draw 6-X cards.
}}

{{
__Capitalist__

Image: An enormous pile of bags of money, all with dollar signs on them.
Body: If you have Cash In, Jackpot!, and Investment in your hand,
discard all copies of them and gain 300 points.
}}

{{
__Guru__

Image: A computer terminal in the typical 
green-text-on-black-background style. The keyboard is somewhat dingy; 
two hands, whose owner is outside the frame, are typing so fast that 
the fingers are blurred.
Body: If you have Syn, Ack, Nak, and EOT in your hand, discard all 
copies of them and gain 300 points. For the purposes of this, a copy of 
Syn/Ack counts as either a Syn or an Ack, but not both (you must 
discard all Syn/Acks as well).
}}

{{
__Card Shark__

Image: Two white gloved hands flipping cards from one to the other. The 
cards are making a loop in midair.
Body: If you have Six Card Hand, Your Spoo Has Too Much Fleem, Rotary 
Exchange, and Luggage Mixup in your hand, discard all copies of them 
and gain 300 points.
}}

{{
__Handyman__

Image: A six-armed man, three on each side. On the left side he juggles 
three knives and a chainsaw with one hand, builds a model ship with 
another, and folds origami cranes with a third. On the right side, his 
upper hand forms a fist, his middle hand is open palm down, and his 
lower hand makes a sideways peace sign.
Body: If you have Smooth Hands, Hamhandedness, Master Handicraft, and 
RPS in your hand, discard all copies of them and gain 300 points.
}}

[[Adjust card totals]]

For each number:card name pair below, put that number of that card in
the deck:
4: Six Card Hand
2: Capitalist
2: Guru
2: Handyman
2: Card Shark
2: Stock Crash
5: Cash In
8: Rotary Exchange
4: Luggage Mixup
7: Hamhandedness
5: Smooth Hands
3: Master Handicraft
2: Tournament Russion Roulette
5: Poik

Destroy 5 copies of Your Spoo Has Too Much Fleem, 8 copies of Petty 
Theft, and three copies of Jackpot!. These should be copies that are 
currently in The Deck; if the deck does not have enough copies, then 
the extra copies to be destroyed are chosen at random from players' 
hands.

[[Nuke some cards]]

Remove the definition of "Looting the Corpse", if it exists. [[I wasn't 
sure if Glotmorf's prop meant to destroy the definition or just all 
copies]]

Destroy the card definition of Grab Bag, and all copies of the card.
[[It's complicated and not very useful for anyone]].

[[Amenities]]

For each card destroyed by this proposal, if that card was in a
player's hand, deal to that player a random card from the deck.
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Proposal 1903/0: Let em do eir job!
A Standard Proposal by Wonko
Last modified on nweek 68, nday 5

[[
Under r1583/2, it is illegal for anyone to perform a duty if they did 
it within the past two nweeks. The new 'Election Duty' is performed by 
calling an election on all free ministries; this will be needed again 
at the beginning of the next nweek.
 Calling elections on all free ministries also is a duty of the Kurt 
Godel, however, and it seems to me that r1583/2.C effectively prohibits 
Kurt Godel from fulfilling eir duties: since calling elections on all 
ministries would fulfill the Election Duty, and Kurt Godel did the 
Election Duty at the beginning of this nweek, e is not allowed to call 
elections at the beginning of next nweek.
 Since I plan to propose at least one new ministry soon, this is 
problematic, so ]]

Remove section C
from rule fifteen-eighty-three.
Reletter the rest.
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Proposal 1904/0: A Minister of Proposals
A Standard Proposal by Wonko
Last modified on nweek 68, nday 7

Add a new subsection to section D of r625 [[Ministries]]:
{{
__The Ministry of Change__

The Ministry of Change is a Ministry; its Minister may be referred to 
as the Chairman. The Chairman is responsible for the following things:
 * E must maintain a public display of all current proposals.
 * E must publish the Ballot each nweek.
 * E must count the vote results on the Ballot each nweek.
 * E must publish a list of which proposals passed, failed, were 
shelved, etc. each nweek, along with the points earned/lost by the 
proponents of said proposals.

}}

[[
Note that this is mostly a cushy government job, as my proposal 
software does most of the work already. The Chairman would only have to 
occasionally copy text from a wiki page to the mailing list, and would 
have to take into account things that aren't dealt with by my scripts 
(for example, Haiku bonus points, etc.)
]]
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Proposal 1905/0: A Minister Of Cards
A Standard Proposal by Wonko
Last modified on nweek 68, nday 7

Add a new subsection to section D of r625 [[Ministries]]:
{{
__The Ministry of Cards__

The Ministry of Change is a Ministry; its Minister may be referred to 
as the Dealer. The Dealer is responsible for maintaining one or more 
Public Displays containing the following information:
 * The names, images, and full texts of all extant cards
 * The locations of all copies of every card (i.e., whose hand are they 
in, or are they in the deck, or in some sort of 'in play' state, etc.)

}}

[[
This is *not* a cushy government job. I have very few scripts helping 
me with this, and pretty much everything besides drawing cards I do 
directly through MySQL. To take on this job, you must be willing to 
track all of this yourself, with no help from me - I'll provide the 
current state of the deck and of people's hands as of when you take on 
the Ministry, and I can send you the deal_card.php and 
transfer_card.php scripts, but beyond that you're on your own.
]]
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Wonko
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      -Churchill

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