I favor this, but you will have to wait until Sunday to assign it to me.

On 11/27/2017 10:29 PM, Owen Jacobson wrote:
> I AP-CFJ on the statement:
>
> In the message quoted in full below, Corona performed exactly and only the 
> following actions:
>
> * Withdrew all eir Shinies from the ACU.
> * Advised all politicians e had the most influence with.
> * Deposited all eir Shinies with the ACU.
>
> Caller’s evidence:
>
> Exhibit 1 consists of Corona’s message, quoted below.
>
> Exhibit 2: CFJ 1215 (https://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/cases/?1215):
>
>> I note that Caller's analogy to the stockbroker also supports this
>> interpretation--while "if and only if we have not already bought shares
>> of this stock in the last day or two, we want to buy X number of shares"
>> would be accepted by the stockbroker, this is only because the
>> stockbroker is generally responsible for knowing whether or not the
>> trader has bought shares recently.  A statement such as "if and only
>> if t is standing, we want to buy X number of shares" would be
>> rejected by the stockbroker.
> It is no officer’s responsibility to know all of the parts of the game state 
> needed to resolve apparently-conditional actions such as
>
>> --Else, if eir Party is PLA, I spend a number of Shinies equal to the
>> minimum Favor I'd need to Advise em on gaining Favor with PLA, then I
>> pay the minimum Favor I'd need to advise em to Influence em.
> and the information is not readily discoverable without effort equivalent to 
> compiling those officers’ reports.
>
> -o
>
>> On Nov 26, 2017, at 6:58 PM, Corona <liliumalbum.ag...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The following 5 paragraphs apply to all actions taken in this message,
>> other text to the contrary notwithstanding:
>>
>> All "if" words used in this message mean "if and only if".
>>
>> Whenever I mention a Post in the context of gaining Influence with it,
>> advising it or other actions that may be performed only on Politicians
>> (and not Posts), I mean the Politician who holds that Post instead.
>>
>> Similarly, if I mention an Echelon in that context, I mean all
>> Politicians in that Echelon.
>>
>> Whenever I gain Influence with a Politician, I attempt to advise em
>> immediately afterwards.
>>
>> If I am already Advising a Politician, I shall not spend any favors to
>> gain Influence with em.
>>
>> -----
>>
>> I destroy all Bills in my possession, so that ACU transfers me the
>> appropriate amount of shinies.
>>
>>
>> For each Politician, the maximum Favor I'm willing to pay to Influence
>> em is defined as follows:
>>
>> -Upper Echelon Politicians & Host: 15 Favors each
>>
>> -Loner, Drunk, Mystery, Wild One, Hat Rack:  If I am advising the
>> Enforcer, 18 Favors each. Else, 12 Favors each.
>>
>> -Schmoozer, Decorator: 6 Favors each
>>
>> -Row-reduced Echelon: 1 Favor each
>>
>> Also, for each Politician, the minimum Favor I'd need to Advise em is
>> defined as the lowest number of Favors that I can pay to gain
>> Influence with that Politician such that I can Advise the Politician
>> successfully afterwards.
>>
>> Then, for each Politician, in this order:
>>
>> Mad Cap'n Tom, Xi Kingpin, Mad "Max" Robespierre, Joseph "Stealin'"
>> McCarthy, Politician McPoliticianface, Pinocchio, Aristotle, Mickey
>> Joker, Malcolm Turncoat, Nick P. Ronald, John Johnson, The Drunk
>> Clinton, Nikolai Shootemdedsky, Bob, Natasha Nogoodnik, Weird Al, Rob
>> Boss, Cookie Monster, Screaming Lord Sutch, Boris Eatstumuch
>>
>> I perform the following:
>>
>> -If the minimum Favor I'd need to Advise that Politician is higher
>> than the maximum Favor I'm willing to pay to Influence em, I do
>> nothing.
>>
>> -Else:
>>
>> --If I have have enough Favor with eir Party to pay the minimum Favor
>> I'd need to Advise em, I pay the minimum Favor I'd need to advise em
>> to Influence em.
>>
>> --Else, if eir Party is PLA, I spend a number of Shinies equal to the
>> minimum Favor I'd need to Advise em on gaining Favor with PLA, then I
>> pay the minimum Favor I'd need to advise em to Influence em.
>>
>> --Else, multiply the minimum Favor I'd need to Advise that Politician
>> by 3; if it is still lower than the maximum Favor I'm willing to pay
>> to Influence em, spend a number of NPR equal to triple the minimum
>> Favor I'd need to Advise em on gaining Favor with eir Party, then I
>> pay the minimum Favor I'd need to advise em to Influence em.
>>
>>
>> -----
>>
>> For good measure: I Advise all politicians with whom I have more
>> Influence than all other players.
>>
>> I transfer all my Shinies to ACU, causing 10 times as many Bills to be
>> created in my possession

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Publius Scribonius Scholasticus


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