The PBA, RBoA, and both Vote Markets are dead, which has made the economy a lot less interesting. This is a draft for a replacement, which allows regular banking, trade offers, and vote selling. Rates are manually set by the President (me) without two objections, and would be updated on a regular basis. To prevent scams, you are only allowed to deposit about 10 assets per week before you start getting less and less cash; withdrawals are not affected. Comments and suggestions are welcome, and I will most likely create the contract proper in a few days.
=============================================================================== I. IBA This is the Industrial Bank & Agora. The currency of the IBA is zorkmids (zm); the recordkeepor of zorkmids is the President. Any person CAN join this contract by announcement. Any party to this contract CAN leave it by announcement. The President of the IBA is comex. II. Banking Every asset has a Rate in zorkmids, intially zero. The President's report includes a Rate List containing all nonzero Rates. III. Withdrawal A person CAN withdraw an asset in the IBA's possession if e has at least its Rate in zorkmids; those zorkmids are destroyed in eir possession and the IBA transfers the asset to em. IV. Deposits A person CAN deposit an asset by transferring it to the IBA; e then gains the Effective Rate in zorkmids. The Effective Rate for a deposit is its Rate, multiplied by a value depending on the number of previous deposits made in the same week with the same Executor, and rounded to the nearest integer: prev rate 1-6 1.00 7-9 0.80 10 0.73 11 0.62 12 0.50 13 0.38 14 0.26 15 0.18 16 0.12 17 0.08 18 0.05 19 0.03 20 0.02 21- 0.01 V. Offers An Offer is an entity with three fields: Selling: (a nonempty list of assets and/or actions) For cost: (a nonempty list of assets and/or actions) Repeats: (a nonnegative integer, or infinity; default 1) A person CAN create an Offer by announcement, thus becoming its offerer. A person CAN destroy an Offer for which e is the offerer by announcement. A person (the offeree) CAN fill an Offer by announcement if and only if: - the offerer has the assets in the 'Selling' field (if any), and CAN perform the actions in that field (if any), and - the offeree has the assets in the 'For cost' field (if any), and CAN perform the actions in that field (if any). When an Offer is filled, - the IBA acts on behalf of the offerer to transfer the assets in the 'Selling' field to the offeree, and to take the actions in the 'Selling' field, and - the IBA acts on behalf of the offeree to transfer the assets in the 'For cost' field to the offerer, and to take the actions in the 'For cost' field, and - the Offer's 'Repeats' field is decreased by one. An Offer with zero Repeats is automatically destroyed. To intend to sell X for Y is to create an Offer with X as 'Selling' and Y as 'For cost'; to intend to buy X for Y is to create an Offer with X as 'For cost' and Y as 'Selling'; to intend to sell A*X for Y each is to create an Offer with X as 'Selling', Y as 'For cost', and A as 'Repeats'; etc. Examples: - I intend to sell a WRV for 8 zm. - I intend to sell 4 G# Credits for 2 zm each. - I intend buy a Land for 3 zm. - I intend to sell a WRV for a Land. VI. Voting as Action & ISELL When a Offer is filled that specifies voting on a certain Agoran decision in the 'Selling' or 'For cost' field, the offeree or offerer, respectively, retracts all eir votes on that decision and votes as specified by the other party a number of times equal to eir voting limit on the decision, and SHALL NOT retract those votes. Voting ISELL(X) on a decision is equivalent to intending to sell one's vote on that decision for X. Voting ISELL(X - Y) on a decision is equivalent to intending to sell one's vote on that decision for X, and then voting Y. Examples: - ISELL(8 zm) - ISELL(8 zm - AGAINST*8) Note: Please do not cast a vote like ISELL(8 zm - AGAINST)*8, as this won't do what you think. VII. Motions A motion is an entity which acts identically to an Agoran decision, except that the requirement that the voting period last at least seven days is waived, and, by default, the eligible voters are the parties to this contract, each eligible voter's voting limit is one, and the voting period lasts 72 hours. Any party CAN initiate a Motion to Amend, specifying a set of amendments to this contract. For this motion, the adoption index is 2. If the option selected on a Motion to Amend is ADOPTED, this contract is amended as specified. VIII. Changing the Rates A Rate List is a list of assets and associated Rates. To effect a Rate List is to set the Rate of each asset in the list to the specified value. The President CAN effect a Rate List without two objections in 48 hours. Any party CAN initiate a Motion to Effect, specifying a Rate List. For this motion, the adoption index is 1. If the option selected on a Motion to Effect is ADOPTED, the specified Rate List is effected. IX. Rates are Self-Ratifying One week after the publication of a Rate List purporting to be part of the President's report, the Rate List is effected unless, less than a week after its publication, any person publicly - challenged the Rate List's veracity, or - purported to effect a different Rate List. X. The IBA is a Partnership Parties to this contract SHALL collectively ensure it fulfills its legal obligations. If the Sentiment of this contract is ever not Legalistic, any person CAN flip it to Legalistic by announcement. XI. Presidential Restriction The President, when performing actions allowed to em by virtue of the office, SHALL act in good faith, considering the best interests of this contract and the game. ===============================================================================
