On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Alex Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 12:08 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote:
>> (And you'd need to include both the Rubberstamper and the wielder of the
>> veto in the 3). It's actually been a long time since we've had a proposal
>> that people on both sides have used the various procedural tricks to
>> make the process interesting in a gameplay sense. Maybe we should try
>> Takeover Proposals again. -G.
>
> What about a sort of proposal that can't be made democratic, but can't
> do anything but award wins? That would let people mess around with all
> the ordinary-proposal tricks without making things too hairy.
Just awarding wins I think means it just becomes a boring bribe exercise.
Let's make it worth more. What I want to bring back (and haven't gotten
around to) brings up today's Herald's History Corner:
>From FLR 2005-April:
Rule 1950/9 (Power=2)
Voting Power [excerpt]
(b) An entity's Voting Power on a Democratic Proposal is as
follows:
(1) A Player:
(i) that Player's Voting Potential if that Player
has Sente.
(ii) one otherwise.
Rule 2078/0 (Power=2)
Takeover Proposals
Initiative is a stuck player switch, tracked by the Assessor,
with values Gote and Sente.
A Takeover Proposal is a proposal meeting these requirements:
(a) It is labelled as a Takeover Proposal.
(b) No Takeover Proposal has been submitted earlier in the
same month.
(c) It specifies a set of players (hereafter the Corporate
Raiders) that is no larger than P/2 or smaller than P/3,
where P is the number of active noisy players at the time
of submission.
Rules to the Contrary nonwithstanding, a Takeover Proposal is
both Democratic and Sane.
At the beginning of a Takeover Proposal's voting period, all
players have their initiative flipped to Gote. At the end of a
Takeover Proposal's voting period, all players have their
initiative flipped as follows:
(a) Adopted: All Corporate Raiders gain Sente.
(b) Rejected: All other players gain Sente.
(c) Failed quorum: No one gains Sente.
-G.
