Any rule messiness regarding auctions is to be blamed on me. :)
On 10/18/2018 5:06 PM, Reuben Staley wrote:
I submit the following two proposals: ----- title: Auction cleanup ai: 1 author: Trigon coauthors: [ Comment: I noticed that there are an entire eight rules defining auctions and I thought that was a bit excessive. Oh, we also missed a few sentences about contracts initiating auctions so this removes them. This contains no functional changes but it makes the rules defining auctions less cumbersome. ] Amend rule 2545 'Auctions' to read: An Auction is a way for entities to give away items in exchange for a currency. Any rule CAN permit or require Auctions to be initiated. Each Auction has one or more lots of items. A lot is a non-empty list of items to be transferred to a single recipient. Each Auction has an Auctioneer. All rules permitting Auctions to be initiated should specify an entity to be Auctioneer. If no Auctioneer is specified, the default Auctioneer is Agora. Each Auction has an Announcer. Only persons can be Announcers. If the Auctioneer of an Auction is a player, then that player is also the Announcer of that Auction. Otherwise, the rule defining an Auction CAN define the Announcer for that Auction. Amend the last paragraph of rule 2549 'Auction Initiation' by replacing 'coins' with 'Agora's official currency'. Amend the last paragraph of rule 2551 'Auction End' by removing the final sentence. Repeal rule 2546 'Lots' Repeal rule 2547 'The Auctioneer' Repeal rule 2548 'The Auction Announcer' ----- title: Free Auctions ai: 1 author: Trigon coauthors: [ Comment: Not sure how I actually feel about this being enacted but proposals are cheap so I might as well. ] Create a new power-1 rule entitled 'Free Auctions' with the text: A player who is not the auctioneer of an existing Auction specified by this rule CAN, by announcement, initiate an auction with emself as the auctioneer The lots, minimum bid, and currency of the Auction shall be set by said player.
