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Draft 2: Simple contests
[Let's go for the simple, and see if the objection mechanism pretty
much avoids scams. It depends on sportsmanship a bit in using the
objection mechanism].
Amend Rule 2136 (Contests) to read:
A member of an existing public contract may make the contract
into a Contest without 3 objections. Any player may make a
contest cease to be a contest without 3 objections. Players
SHOULD decide on whether a contract deserves to be a contest
based on its fairness or interest to players as a whole.
The total number of points a Contest MAY award in a given week
is equal to 5 times the cardinality of the union of the bases
of its members, calculated at the beginning of that week.
Points CAN be awarded by a contest member to other members by
public announcement, provided that no individual in the awarding
member's basis has made any other such award for any contest in
the same week. Awards MUST be made as explicitly described
in the contract.
[Contestmasters are implied in the above, but not absolutely
necessary. Still, the weekly limits are both per-contest and
per-individual across contests. Two members are still needed.
A game can start]
Create the following rule, "Public Contracts":
A member of a contract may identify the contract as a public
contract by publishing its text with a notice of intent
from the contract be a public contract. The notice of
intent MUST consist of one or more of:
(a) a clause in the contract identifying it as public;
(b) a notice indicating unanimous consent of members
that the contract be public;
(c) a notice published without objection of its members,
that the contract be public.
If the text of a potential contract is published by a person
with a clear indication that the contract will be public when
it forms, then it becomes public immediately upon becoming
a contract.
Amend Rule 1742 (Contracts) by deleting the text:
A public contract is a contract that identifies itself as such.
Any other contract is private.
[Isolate points into their own rule]
Create a Rule entitled "Points" with the following text:
Points are a class of fixed assets. Ownership of points is
restricted to players.
Points are a currency. The number of points owned by a player
is eir score.
The Scorekeepor is a high-priority office, and the recordkeepor
of points.
A player with 100 or more points may win the game by announcing
this fact. Upon such an announcement, each player's score is
set to zero.
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