DIS: Re: OFF: [Arbitor] CFJ 3616 assigned to Telnaior

[Madeline]

I'm probably not the best choice for this CFJ, given I have somewhat of 
a stake in it. I'll judge it if you're sure, but...

On 2017-12-09 10:52, Kerim Aydin wrote:


On Mon, 27 Nov 2017, Owen Jacobson wrote:
I AP-CFJ on the statement:

In the message quoted in full below, Corona performed exactly and only the 
following actions:

* Withdrew all eir Shinies from the ACU.
* Advised all politicians e had the most influence with.
* Deposited all eir Shinies with the ACU.
This is CFJ 3616.  I assign it to Telnaior.


Caller’s evidence:

Exhibit 1 consists of Corona’s message, quoted below.

Exhibit 2: CFJ 1215 (https://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/cases/?1215):

I note that Caller's analogy to the stockbroker also supports this
interpretation--while "if and only if we have not already bought shares
of this stock in the last day or two, we want to buy X number of shares"
would be accepted by the stockbroker, this is only because the
stockbroker is generally responsible for knowing whether or not the
trader has bought shares recently.  A statement such as "if and only
if t is standing, we want to buy X number of shares" would be
rejected by the stockbroker.
It is no officer’s responsibility to know all of the parts of the game state 
needed to resolve apparently-conditional actions such as

--Else, if eir Party is PLA, I spend a number of Shinies equal to the
minimum Favor I'd need to Advise em on gaining Favor with PLA, then I
pay the minimum Favor I'd need to advise em to Influence em.
and the information is not readily discoverable without effort equivalent to 
compiling those officers’ reports.

-o

On Nov 26, 2017, at 6:58 PM, Corona <liliumalbum.ag...@gmail.com> wrote:

The following 5 paragraphs apply to all actions taken in this message,
other text to the contrary notwithstanding:

All "if" words used in this message mean "if and only if".

Whenever I mention a Post in the context of gaining Influence with it,
advising it or other actions that may be performed only on Politicians
(and not Posts), I mean the Politician who holds that Post instead.

Similarly, if I mention an Echelon in that context, I mean all
Politicians in that Echelon.

Whenever I gain Influence with a Politician, I attempt to advise em
immediately afterwards.

If I am already Advising a Politician, I shall not spend any favors to
gain Influence with em.

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I destroy all Bills in my possession, so that ACU transfers me the
appropriate amount of shinies.


For each Politician, the maximum Favor I'm willing to pay to Influence
em is defined as follows:

-Upper Echelon Politicians & Host: 15 Favors each

-Loner, Drunk, Mystery, Wild One, Hat Rack:  If I am advising the
Enforcer, 18 Favors each. Else, 12 Favors each.

-Schmoozer, Decorator: 6 Favors each

-Row-reduced Echelon: 1 Favor each

Also, for each Politician, the minimum Favor I'd need to Advise em is
defined as the lowest number of Favors that I can pay to gain
Influence with that Politician such that I can Advise the Politician
successfully afterwards.

Then, for each Politician, in this order:

Mad Cap'n Tom, Xi Kingpin, Mad "Max" Robespierre, Joseph "Stealin'"
McCarthy, Politician McPoliticianface, Pinocchio, Aristotle, Mickey
Joker, Malcolm Turncoat, Nick P. Ronald, John Johnson, The Drunk
Clinton, Nikolai Shootemdedsky, Bob, Natasha Nogoodnik, Weird Al, Rob
Boss, Cookie Monster, Screaming Lord Sutch, Boris Eatstumuch

I perform the following:

-If the minimum Favor I'd need to Advise that Politician is higher
than the maximum Favor I'm willing to pay to Influence em, I do
nothing.

-Else:

--If I have have enough Favor with eir Party to pay the minimum Favor
I'd need to Advise em, I pay the minimum Favor I'd need to advise em
to Influence em.

--Else, if eir Party is PLA, I spend a number of Shinies equal to the
minimum Favor I'd need to Advise em on gaining Favor with PLA, then I
pay the minimum Favor I'd need to advise em to Influence em.

--Else, multiply the minimum Favor I'd need to Advise that Politician
by 3; if it is still lower than the maximum Favor I'm willing to pay
to Influence em, spend a number of NPR equal to triple the minimum
Favor I'd need to Advise em on gaining Favor with eir Party, then I
pay the minimum Favor I'd need to advise em to Influence em.


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For good measure: I Advise all politicians with whom I have more
Influence than all other players.

I transfer all my Shinies to ACU, causing 10 times as many Bills to be
created in my possession