On 9/7/24 13:15, Mischief via agora-discussion wrote: > Create a rule titled "Jockeying for Status" with power 2 reading: > > At all times a Power Grab is in exactly one of the following > categories: pending, fulfilled, terminated.
This should be a secured untracked switch. > In the first two Eastman weeks of each month, a player may make a > Power Grab by making a commitment to an unambiguous, > unconditional description of zero or more Stamps, specifying both > their types and quantities. When e does so, that Power Grab > becomes pending. However, e may not do so if e already has a > pending or fulfilled Power Grab. "CAN make" and "e CANNOT do so". > > In the first two Eastman weeks of each month, a player may cause > a specified pending Power Grab e made to become terminated (syn. > "terminate" that Power Grab) by announcement. "CAN cause" > A pending Power Grab becomes fulfilled if, before the end of the > third Eastman week of the month in which it was made, the player > who made it: 1) reveals the commitment e made when making the > Power Grab; and 2) pays a fee equal to all the Stamps specified > in the Power Grab's revealed Plaintext; however, if a Power Grab > specifies zero Stamps this fee is automatically considered paid. "A player CAN, by paying the fee specified in the plaintext of the same, fulfill a specified pending power grab e made this month, provided e has previously revealed the plaintext." This makes the plaintext being revealed a precondition for the action, rather than part of the method itself, so that Rule 2579 can handle the method properly. This also uses the existing handling for empty fees. Also, "The creation and fulfillment of power grabs is secured." > Create a rule titled "Power Grabs" with power 2 reading: This title seems weird when the other rule actually describes what power grabs are? > > The Influence of a type of Stamp equals the rational number > 3/(N+2), where N is the total quantity of that Stamp specified in > all fulfilled Power Grabs. The Influence of a fulfilled Power > Grab is the sum of its constituent Stamps. "sum of that of its constituent stamps" > For clarity, if a > Power Grab includes a particular type of Stamp T times, then > collectively the contribution of those Stamps to the Power Grab's > Influence is T times the Influence of a single such Stamp. I really think this is unnecessary. > The stronger of two fulfilled Power Grabs is the one with greater > Influence, with ties broken randomly by the Collector. Randomly... when? What happens if the Collector fails to do so? Agora can't really do platonic random values. > > The Collector's monthly report consists of pending and fulfilled > Power Grabs. For fulfilled Power Grabs, eir report also includes > their Influence, and they SHOULD be listed in descending order of > strength. Why include encouragement on the format of the report? I don't think we do that anywhere else. > At the end of each month, the following occur in order (where P > is the number of fulfilled Power Grabs and floor(x) denotes the > greatest integer less than or equal to x): > > 1. Set the Station of all players to Commoner Please avoid the imperative here. "The station of all players is set to commoner." > 5. Set the Station of any player who has a pending Power Grab > to Buffoon Same here. > Amend rule 2632 (Complexity) by replacing: > > For each office a player holds, eir voting strength is increased > by the complexity of the office for referenda on ordinary > proposals, up to a maximum increase of 3 by this method. > > with: > > The ADoP CAN, and in the first Eastman week of each month SHALL, > Issue Payroll by, for each office, listing all players (if any) > who held that office for a continuous period of at least 14 days > in the previous Agoran month. When e does so, each player is > granted a number of eir Stamps equal to: "stamps of eir own type" "CAN, once per month, by announcement". Also, this kind of reads as if it's a separate action to issue payroll for each office. "by listing all offices and all players (if any) who held each office". Also, "voluntary office"? > > a) one if e was Active at the beginning of the month, zero > otherwise; plus > > b) the total Complexity of all offices e is listed for when > the ADoP Issued Payroll (zero if e is not listed for any > office) "Complexity" is nowhere else specially capitalized. "Active" is specially capitalized only in its definition (but not in any other usage). > Amend rule 2681 (Acting on Commitment) by replacing: > > Where the rules define an action that a person CAN perform "by > commitment" to a particular kind of document, that person performs > that action by performing it by announcement while, in the same > message, also publishing a what is purportedly a Fingerprint for a > document of that kind. > > with: > > A person CAN make a commitment to a particular kind of document > by publishing a statement that purports to be a Fingerprint for a > document of that kind. If the statement is in fact such a > Fingerprint, the person CAN then reveal the commitment by > publishing the Plaintext corresponding to that Fingerprint. > Needs "clearly indicating which fingerprint the plaintext relates to" or similar. Also, this is a general stylistic thing... could I convince you to not use the Fancy Capitalization (e.g. Issue Payroll, Plaintext, Fingerprint)? I've been trying to push back on this for a bit in general. Anyway, that's my first pass of copy-editing. I'll think about the mechanics some more, and probably do another pass later (or on a future draft). -- Janet Cobb Assessor, Rulekeepor
