Moratorium, Pimp Daddy, don't all four of those players have some title or other? At least, they are CEOs by default are they not?
Auction my Suffrage 1 week
"Let us say that you are right and there are two worlds. How much, then, is this 'other world' worth to you? What do you have there that you do not have here? Money? Power? Something worth causing the prince so much pain for?'"
"Well, I..."
"What? Nothing? You would make the prince suffer over... nothing?"
By a vote of 3-0, the panel has determined that the rule DOES in fact apply when quoting another player and using their name. Therefore:
Empking has suffered a Grade 3 offsense (500
$$$
fine, Player may not submit proposals for 2 weeks.) for not referring to yabbaguy as "High Riser" in post 314. Empking has a balance of 0
$$$
. Therefore, his corporation is dissolved. He may start a new corporation if he wishes by sending me a PM to the Nomic account with a new name. All deposits are lost per Rule 12. Empking may resume making proposals on May 18, 2009 1:43p.m. CDT.
Rhinox has suffered a Grade 3 offsense (500
$$$
fine, Player may not submit proposals for 2 weeks.) for not referring to yabbaguy as "High Riser" in post 320. 500
$$$
has been transferred from Rhinox's account to yabbaguy's account. Empking may resume making proposals on May 18, 2009 2:05p.m. CDT
The panel also ruled by a vote of 2-1 that you are not required to "nest" your titles (e.g. animorpherv1 is known as Moratorium's boss not Moratorium (Pimp Daddy)'s boss.
Also, there has been another infraction. Moratorium has suffered four Grade 3 offsenses (500 $$$ fine, Player may not submit proposals for 2 weeks.) for not referring to Drench, xelada, Perpetuum, and ortolan as their titles in post 322. 500
$$$
each has been transferred from Moratorium's account to Drench, xelada, and Perpetuum. This bankrupts Moratorium's corporation and thus dissolves his corporation. He may submit a new corporation name if he wishes via PM to the Nomic account. Moratorium may resume making proposals on May 18, 2009 3:32p.m. CDT
"Let us say that you are right and there are two worlds. How much, then, is this 'other world' worth to you? What do you have there that you do not have here? Money? Power? Something worth causing the prince so much pain for?'"
"Well, I..."
"What? Nothing? You would make the prince suffer over... nothing?"
Wow... this is sure going to be LOTS of fun when nobody can submit any proposals...
by the way, shouldn't rulings on whether quoting without using titles is an offense be something that is grandfathered in? In real life, if the speed limit of a road today drops from 55 to 35, they wouldn't go back and give tickets to everyone who went 55 on the road yesterday.
So consider this an official protest of my grade three offense
If you believe the penalty for not using someone's title is too harsh, vote Yes on P74, to change it to a simple Grade 1 offense.
And if someone wants to put a proposal in to override the current penalties preventing new proposals from certain people, I wouldn't complain to that either.
To be honest, the only reason I submitted that "you must use a person's title" rule was to show how the violations mechanic could be used. I really didn't think it would suddenly become the CENTRAL GAME CHANGING MECHANIC.
More proposals please.
We still need a win condition.
We still need to know what the grid is for.
We still need tasks.
We still need commodities to sell.
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.