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BobTHJ — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 05:52:43 GMT

BobTHJ: Industry and Structures

{{Proposed rule}}

Proposed By: [[User:BobTHJ|BobTHJ]] 01:52, 1 June 2007 (EDT)

A Canton Leader may spend Industry Points to build structures in their Canton. All available structures that can be built shall be listed on the [[Available Structures]] wiki page.

Each Structure has the following attributes:
*Type - a name for this type of structure
*Cost - The number of Industry Points required to build this Structure
*Effect - A summary of changes that this structure has on its owner Canton while its status is Operating
*Maintenance - The amount of Industry Points required to maintain this Structure
*Status - One of the following values: "Operating", "Unstaffed", or "Abandon".

A Canton Leader can build a Structure in their Canton by Game Announcement. To do so, they must reduce the Industry Points for their Canton by the Cost of the chosen structure. A Structure can not be built if its cost would cause it's owner Canton to have a negative number of Industry Points.

A Structure remains in a Canton until it is destroyed, regardless of which player leads that Canton.

On the sixteenth day of each month, for each Canton, the Scorekeeper shall take the following steps for each Structure in that Canton whose Status is not "Abandon", examining Structures in order from oldest to newest:
# Set the status of the Structure to "Operating"
# If the Canton's Industry Point total is greater than the Structure's Maintenance cost, reduce the Canton's Industry Point total by that Structure's Maintenance cost, then skip all remaining steps.
# The Canton Leader's Popularity is reduced by 3.
# The Structure's status is set to "Unstaffed"

A Canton Leader may set the Status of any Structure in their Canton to "Abandon" by Game Announcement. A Canton Leader may set the Status of any Abandon Structure in their Canton to "Unstaffed" by Game Announcement, and by paying a number of Industry Points equal to half that Structure's Cost.

Hosting Options

Chuck — Thu, 31 May 2007 05:52:38 GMT

Chuck:

Running a nomic entirely on a wiki is pretty technically demanding, and right now we're running into some pretty nasty limits of the current software: a venerable MediaWiki 1.5, a version that lacks even the basic parser functions that are standard to wikipedia. Getting things like random numbers requires some pretty novel tricks (which I'll admit was pretty creative, but it's not exactly a pool you can sample from quickly). Furthermore, it runs on a shared wikifarm, making writing custom extensions a non-starter.

I'm willing to host Nomicapolis on nomic.info -- here's the vital stats:

* Hosted on slicehost.com, which is run by a couple geeks who don't know the meaning of "oversell".
* Xen VPS on an AMD Opteron 64 box: 256M ram, 10GB storage, 100GB bandwidth (not hard-capped, a slashdotting won't take it out)
* Debian Sid x86_64. Software-wise, anything's possible. PHP5, MediaWiki 1.10, Postgres, all installed. I have root, and I'm not afraid to use it.

I'll grant that editthis.info is a known quantity, and that a new host is unknown territory, but slicehost seems to be managed pretty well, and well, Dreamhost is not without its own problems. Administratively, I'd be willing to provide shell accounts for other admins in order to get database dumps and maintain the server, so even if I got hit by a bus, data won't get lost.

[[User:Chuck|chuck]] 01:52, 31 May 2007 (EDT)
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Chuck — Wed, 30 May 2007 15:02:33 GMT

Chuck: failed

{{Failed proposal}}
In a conflict between a mutable and an immutable rule, the immutable rule takes precedence and the mutable rule shall be entirely void. For the purposes of this rule a proposal to transmute an immutable rule does not "conflict" with that immutable rule.

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Wooble — Thu, 24 May 2007 17:28:58 GMT

Wooble: fix formatting of list

{{Proposed amendment|381}}

Proposed by: [[User:Wooble|Wooble]] 13:28, 24 May 2007 (EDT)

At any time, a player may make a "Canton Ranking" Game Announcement. This announcement should contain a list of the Cantons in ranked order. Any Canton Ranking Game Announcement supersedes any previous Canton Ranking Game Announcement made by the same Player, and shall remain in effect until that Player makes a new Canton Ranking Game Announcement. Canton Ranking Game Announcements made after 12:01 AM Eastern Time on the first day of a month but before Leader assignments have been made for the month shall go into effect after Leader assignments have been made and before non-Leader Players are assigned Canton residency for the month.

At the beginning of each month, the Scorekeeper shall assign Leaders to Cantons as follows:

1. Any Active Player who is the only Player to rank a Canton first in his or her rankings shall be that Canton's leader.

2. If two or more players rank a given Canton first in their rankings, the players' Popularity shall be compared. For the purposes of this comparison, the incumbent Leader of the Canton shall receive a bonus of 10 popularity, plus an additional bonus of 20 popularity if the Canton is in a Dynasty and another bonus of 20 popularity for each other Dynasty that has declared war on the Canton. The Player with the highest popularity who has ranked the Canton first shall become Leader. If two or more players are tied for the same popularity, then the Player who has been continuously Active for the longest period of time shall become the Leader.

3. The rankings of Players, if any, who are still not Canton Leaders shall be compared according to the above 2 procedures after removing previously assigned Cantons from their rankings. This continues until each Canton has a Leader or until every Player leads a Canton.

A Player may only be leader of one (1) Canton at a time. Choosing a new Canton will forfeit leadership in previous Cantons. If two players are tied for the same popularity, then the Player listed first on the Census shall have first choice of Canton.

Leadership of Cantons shall be retroactive to 12:01 AM on the first day of each month regardless of when the Scorekeeper announces the rankings.

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BobTHJ — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:40:42 GMT

BobTHJ: change to mutable

{{Current mutable rule}}

Proposed By [[User:BobTHJ|BobTHJ]] 10:40, 23 May 2007 (EDT)

The state of affairs that constitutes winning may not be altered from achieving n points to any other state of affairs. The magnitude of n and the means of earning points may be changed, and rules that establish a winner when play cannot continue may be enacted and (while they are mutable) be amended or repealed.

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BobTHJ — Wed, 23 May 2007 06:16:17 GMT

BobTHJ: change to failed

{{Failed proposal}}

Proposed By [[User:BobTHJ|BobTHJ]] 02:16, 23 May 2007 (EDT)

Each proposed rule-change shall be given a number for reference. The numbers shall begin with 301, and each rule-change proposed in the proper way shall receive the next successive integer, whether or not the proposal is adopted.

If a rule is repealed and reenacted, it receives the number of the proposal to reenact it. If a rule is amended or transmuted, it receives the number of the proposal to amend or transmute it. If an amendment is amended or repealed, the entire rule of which it is a part receives the number of the proposal to amend or repeal the amendment.

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BobTHJ — Tue, 22 May 2007 15:28:19 GMT

BobTHJ: make mutable rule

{{Current mutable rule}}

Proposed By: [[User:BobTHJ|BobTHJ]] 11:28, 22 May 2007 (EDT)

A rule-change is any of the following: (1) the enactment, repeal, or amendment of a mutable rule; (2) the enactment, repeal, or amendment of an amendment of a mutable rule; or (3) the transmutation of an immutable rule into a mutable rule or vice versa.

(Note: This definition implies that, at least initially, all new rules are mutable; immutable rules, as long as they are immutable, may not be amended or repealed; mutable rules, as long as they are mutable, may be amended or repealed; any rule of any status may be transmuted; no rule is absolutely immune to change.)

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BobTHJ — Fri, 18 May 2007 15:17:57 GMT

BobTHJ: made mutable

{{Current mutable rule}}

Proposed by [[User:BobTHJ|BobTHJ]] 11:17, 18 May 2007 (EDT)

At any time, the leader of a Canton may set an Industry Index (an integer between 0 and 10, inclusive) for their Canton by posting it to the Public Announcements page. Unless otherwise specified, the default Industry Index for any Canton is 3. Canton Leaders may change the Industry Index for their Canton at any time. The Industry Index is a measure of how hard the citizens of that Canton are directed to work.

On the 10th day of each month the Scorekeeper shall deduct Popularity from each Canton Leader equal to RANDOM:DIS times the Industry Index for that Canton minus 10 (New Popularity = Old Pop - ((RANDOM:DIS * Ind Index) - 10)). This represents how content the citizens of each Canton are with their leadership.

On the 15th day of each month, the Scorekeeper shall set the Industry Points of each Canton as follows (unspent Industry Points from the previous month are lost):
Industry Points = Industry Index * (Adult Pop + (Middle-aged pop / 2) + (Young Adult pop / 3)) * [random number]
(The above figures represent the population for that Canton only)
In the above calculation, replace [random number] with the following:
* North Canton - RANDOM: GOOG
* South Canton - RANDOM: AMZN
* East Canton - RANDOM: YHOO
* West Canton - RANDOM: EBAY
* Central Canton - RANDOM: CSCO
The Industry Point total should be rounded down to the nearest integer. Industry Points represent the labor power of the citizens of each Canton.

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Wooble — Sat, 12 May 2007 03:20:23 GMT

Wooble: change to immutable

{{Current immutable rule}}
Proposed by: [[User:Wooble|Wooble]] 23:20, 11 May 2007 (EDT)

All players must always abide by all the rules then in effect, in the form in which they are then in effect. This rule takes precedence over all other rules.

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BobTHJ — Fri, 11 May 2007 19:09:42 GMT

Wooble: rvv

{{Current mutable rule}}

Proposed by [[User:BobTHJ|BobTHJ]] 15:09, 11 May 2007 (EDT)

On the first day of each month, immigrants arrive in a canton of Nomicapolis looking for homes. After the Scorekeeper updates Population totals, the number RANDOM: MCD is determined and the Scorekeeper takes action based on its value:

0-1: The Scorekeeper adds 10 to the population of each age group of the North Canton
2-3: The Scorekeeper adds 10 to the population of each age group of the South Canton
4-5: The Scorekeeper adds 10 to the population of each age group of the East Canton
6-7: The Scorekeeper adds 10 to the population of each age group of the West Canton
8-9: The Scorekeeper adds 10 to the population of each age group of the Central Canton

The Scorekeeper shall keep a record on the Public Announcements page of which Canton received immigrants for each month since this proposal was passed.

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Wooble — Fri, 11 May 2007 15:26:49 GMT

Wooble: rvv

{{Current mutable rule}}

Proposed by [[User:Wooble|Wooble]] 11:26, 11 May 2007 (EDT)

On the second day of each month, a Dynasty which has declared war on another dynasty shall lose citizens equal to (0.5% * RANDOM: AAPL) * (Young Adult + Adult population), for each Dynasty they have declared war on. 75% of those citizens lost shall be Young Adults and 25% shall be Adults.

In addition, any Dynasty which has had war declared upon it by another Dynasty shall lose (0.5% * RANDOM: MSFT) of its total population, taken evenly from each age group.

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Tucana25 — Thu, 10 May 2007 03:33:13 GMT

Wooble: change to repealed and linkify

{{Repealed rule}}

Proposed by --[[User:Tucana25|Tucana25]] 23:33, 9 May 2007 (EDT)

Rules [[328]] and [[363]] shall be repealed.