Cool, here's the draft of the contract for the contest. This is probably riddled with holes as this is the first time I've written something legal for Agora. Let me know if anything needs to be changed. CONTRACT - Rumble 1. At any time, the contestmaster MAY announce a new game of Rumble provided that there are no games of Rumble currently going on. In this announcement, the contestmaster SHOULD announce a number of powers for each contestant to submit and a number of powers for the contestmaster to submit. [On the mailing list, sometimes we do games where each player submits one power and the mod submits powers equal to the number of players. This allows for the contestmaster to choose between classic two per person and the mod choosing half.] 2. Upon an announcement of the start of the game, each contestant SHALL, in a timely fashion, submit to the contestmaster a number of powers equal to the anounced number in the start of game announcement. The contestmaster SHALL reject any power if the same power has already been submitted to em this game. 3. Once every contestant has submitted powers to the contestmaster, the contestmaster SHALL create a number of powers equal to the number e announced in the start of game announcement, and announce the full list of powers. 4. The stamina of a contestant is an integer. It is set to 100 whenever the contestmaster announces the list of powers for the first time in the game. If a contestant's stamina ever drops below 1, e is dead and loses the current game. [Another thing we've been trying on the list is splitting stamina and energy as to make it clear whether or not a gain of energy is a temporary gain of energy or a permanent gain of energy. Just here to help prevent confusion.] 5. Upon announcement of the powers, each contestant SHALL, in a timely fashion, send the contestmaster a bid on any number of powers. The total of all of a contestant's bids MAY NOT be more than 100. When the contestmaster recieves all of the bids, e SHALL announce all the bids. For each power, whoever bids the highest recieves the power and loses stamina equal to eir bid for the power. If more than one player bids the highest for a power, each player who bid the highest receives a copy of it and loses stamina equalto eir bid for the power. If no player bids on a power, the power is discarded. The highest bid on a power is referred to as that power's power strength. 6. Each contestant MAY, in a timely fashion, choose to discard a power. Discarded powers are removed from the game. Once all contestants have chosen whether or not to discard any of eir powers, the contestmaster SHALL announce the beginning of a new round. 7. The energy of a player is an integer. It is set to that player's stamina whenever the contestmaster announces the beginning of a new round. 8. Whenever the contestmaster announces the beginning of a new round, all contestants SHALL, in a timely fashion, send to the contestmaster a list of actions e wants to perform and the amount of energy e wishes to allocate to each action. This list may contain Attacks against other contestants, Defense for emself, or other actions as specified by powers. Energy spent on Attacks, Defense and powers that require you to Spend energy is subtracted from that contestant's energy. Energy burnt on power that require you to Burn energy is subtract from that player's energy and eir stamina. If a contestant doesn't submit a list of actions and their allocations, e is assumed to be Defending with half eir energy, rounded down. A contestant MAY NOT allocate more energy on all of eir actions than e has. 9. When the contestmaster has received all of the lists of actions, e SHALL announce them in a timely fashion. Each contestant loses stamina equal to the allocations of all other contestant's Attacks against em minus eir Defense, with a minimum of 0. Then, the contestmaster SHALL announce a new round. 10. Whenever a contestant Attacks another contestant on a round in which the attacked player's stamina falls below 1, the attacking player gains 2 points, to be awarded when the contestmaster posts the list of actions of all players. 11. If at any time there is only one contestant with a postive stamina, the game ends and the contestmaster SHALL award em points, in a timely fashion, equal to the number of contestants when the game started times 2. 12. Any player CAN end the current game without objection from a contestant. 13. Any player CAN join this contest by announcement if there is no game currently going on. 14. Any player CAN leave this contest by announcement. 15. The contestmaster CAN amend this contract without two objections from contestants. 16. If Rumble is a contest, any member CAN replace the contestmasteras permitted by the rules, with the contestmaster's consent. 17. This contract is a public contract by the rules of Agora.
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