The following proto-proposal is named {Contractual Offices} with
Adoption Index 3 (text in square brackets is annotations and not part of
the actual proposal):
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Create the following 2-power rule named {Contractual Offices}:
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A contract may define an office. Such an office is called a
contractual office, is imposed and has interest index 0. The
defining contract sets all other parameters of the office. A
contractual office may have its officer selected by any means set
out within the contract. All obligations under a contractual
office, including ones defined by rules, are obligations under the
contract defined by the office, and thus cannot be imposed on
non-parties.
}}
Amend rule 1006, Offices, by replacing the first paragraph with the
following:
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An office is a role defined as such by the rules, or by a contract
as permitted by the rules. Each office is either vacant (default)
or filled (held) by exactly one player. An officer is the holder
of an office, who may be referred to by the name of that office.
}}
Amend rule 2227, Interest Index of Offices, by replacing {an office}
with {a non-contractual office}.
[This is not strictly necessary due to relative power of rules, but adds
clarity]
Amend rule 2160, Deputisation, by adding another bullet, reading as follows:
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(e) If the office is a contractual office, e is a party to the
contract defining it.
}}
Amend rule 2136, Contests, by replacing the first sentence with:
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Contestmaster is a public contract switch, tracked by the
Scorekeepor, with values 'none' (default), all first-class
players, and all contractual offices.
}},
by replacing bullet c) in the first list with:
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c) Doing so would flip the contestmaster of a contract to a
player who has not explicitly consented to be contestmaster of
that contest, or to an office whose holder has not explicitly
consented to be contestmaster of that contest. (If a player
intends to flip the contestmaster of a contract to emself or
to an office e holds, this is considered explicit consent to
be contestmaster of that contract.)
}},
by replacing the second-to-last paragraph with:
{{
Notwithstanding the rest of this rule, it is IMPOSSIBLE to flip
the contestmaster of a contract to a player who is not party to
that contract or to an office defined by that contract; and if a
contract's contestmaster ceases to be party to that contract or an
office defined by that contract, that contract's contestmaster is
flipped to 'none'.
}},
and by adding a new paragraph directly before the last one, with the
following text:
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If a contest's contestmaster is an office, it is IMPOSSIBLE to
cause a player to fill that office unless e has explictly
consented to be contestmaster of that contest. This rule takes
precedence over any other rule which would fill an office or
provide a mechanism therefor.
}}
}}}
This proposal provides the primary effect of allowing players to
deputise for certain contractual obligations, which should hopefully
prevent departing players from causing good contracts from stagnating.
