DIS: Economy Proto

2013-04-27 Thread Charles Walker
[tl;dr: simple liquid currency with office salaries, case fees and proposal fees. A small reward just for voting. Bidding to distribute the top N proposals (other than those with low fees). Offices propose their Salary during elections. The return of Caste, but no GP. ] The rationale behind some

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Ambassador-at-Large] News from Foreign Nations

2013-04-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 27 Apr 2013, Max Schutz wrote: hilariously enough i saw both of those things on reddit On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Jonathan Rouillard jonathan.rouill...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, and I had to defend Agora on that matter when OmNomNomic's Inquisitor started to

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Ambassador-at-Large] News from Foreign Nations

2013-04-27 Thread Jonathan Rouillard
Yeah, I'll add that to my arguments. The way I explained it, the goal wasn't to destroy BlogNomic or otherwise mess it up, but rather to play a Dynasty with Agora as Emperor. That's what I got from the invasion, and I thought it would have been a cool experiment. Being a player of both, I would

Re: DIS: Economy Proto

2013-04-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 27 Apr 2013, Charles Walker wrote: [tl;dr: simple liquid currency with office salaries, case fees and proposal fees. A small reward just for voting. Bidding to distribute the top N proposals (other than those with low fees). Offices propose their Salary during elections. The return

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Ambassador-at-Large] News from Foreign Nations

2013-04-27 Thread Elliott Hird
So how long do we wait for them to get comfortable with us before we invade again?

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Ambassador-at-Large] News from Foreign Nations

2013-04-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 27 Apr 2013, Jonathan Rouillard wrote: Since that's the feeling I got from the other invaders - a very Nomic-like let's do this and see what happens I'll bet that's what Alaric said on his way to Rome...

Re: DIS: Economy Proto

2013-04-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 27 Apr 2013, Kerim Aydin wrote: Append to Rule 2162 (Switches) the following: A natural switch is a switch with possible values of the non-negative integers and a default value of 0. V. nice new definition, can be used for lots of things. Followup: How about

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Ambassador-at-Large] News from Foreign Nations

2013-04-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 27 Apr 2013, Elliott Hird wrote: So how long do we wait for them to get comfortable with us before we invade again? We're right behind you.

Re: DIS: Economy Proto

2013-04-27 Thread Ed Murphy
G. wrote: worthwhile). This is also broken as written- by default, all players can destroy their own dollars, but this would forbid those officers from doing so (destroying their own). Is there an advantage to this ability? I like the idea of a proposed salary. Think the mechanics are a

Re: DIS: Economy Proto

2013-04-27 Thread Charles Walker
On 27 Apr 2013, at 18:23, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: On Sat, 27 Apr 2013, Charles Walker wrote: I welcome suggestions for a better name for the currency. I called mine Yaks, for Yet Another Kurrency System. Officer was the Yak Herder. I kinda like it, but not super-fussed

Re: DIS: Economy Proto

2013-04-27 Thread Tanner Swett
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Charles Walker charles.w.wal...@gmail.com wrote: Agoran Dollars (or Dollars, and with currency symbol '#') Well, with that symbol, clearly they should be called Pounds. —Machiavælli

Re: DIS: Economy Proto

2013-04-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 27 Apr 2013, Ed Murphy wrote: I like the idea of a proposed salary. Think the mechanics are a little off. With the if any, what happens if there isn't any? What's the default - 0? I'd suggest setting a base default here (10?) If there isn't any, then presumably it stays

DIS: Economy Proto

2013-04-27 Thread Charles Walker
On 27 Apr 2013, at 19:45, Tanner Swett swe...@mail.gvsu.edujavascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'swe...@mail.gvsu.edu'); wrote: On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Charles Walker charles.w.wal...@gmail.com javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'charles.w.wal...@gmail.com'); wrote: Agoran Dollars (or Dollars, and

Re: DIS: Economy Proto

2013-04-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 27 Apr 2013, Charles Walker wrote: The Treasuror CAN destroy Dollars by announcement, but SHALL NOT do so except as explicitly required by the Rules; violating this is the Class 7 Crime of Administrative Error. Do you mean to forbid players from destroying

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] Docket

2013-04-27 Thread Jonathan Rouillard
It might be because of Rule 2378, Court Protector. Since the AaL seems to be the backup CotC, maybe you wanted to tag him in your reports. ~ Roujo On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Ed Murphy emurph...@socal.rr.com wrote: Roujo wrote: On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Ed Murphy

Re: DIS: Economy Proto

2013-04-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 27 Apr 2013, Kerim Aydin wrote: On Sat, 27 Apr 2013, Charles Walker wrote: Looking at your Yak proposal, I see that your equivalent of Tax destroys a certain proportion of currency above a certain limit. Perhaps 50% of Yaks above 100 works best with the numbers I've used?

DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting Report

2013-04-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 27 Apr 2013, Ed Murphy wrote: Assessor's Voting Report Is this a Voting Report when it doesn't contain players' VVLOPs?

DIS: Re: BUS: Enforcement

2013-04-27 Thread omd
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Charles Walker charles.w.wal...@gmail.com wrote: I submit the following proposal: { Enforcement Enact a Rule entitled The Prosecutor with the following text: The Prosecutor is an office. As soon as possible after a player breaks the Rules, the