[Bnomic-private] Proposal: WBE

[Glotmorf]

On 9/16/02 at 6:53 PM Wonko wrote:

>[[ It's like vSOI, except spiffier. Wow, I should make that the company
>motto. It's another company which will produce things, except with some of
>the realism which Orc was complaining was absent from vSOI - it has a
>limited supply of resources, and employees are expected to work for the
>company, gathering Grid Objects to donate to the Raw Material supply.]]
>
>
>{{
>__Wealthy Bastard goes Public__
>
>Create the following Rule:
>{{
>__Wealthy Bastard Enterprises__ {*(WBE),1*}
>There exists a Society called Weathy Bastard Enterprises, or WBE.
>
>WBE has a Resource Pool of BNS.
>
>Any player may give BNS in eir possession to WBE by declaring that they do
>so in a public Forum.
>
>WBE has a number associated with it called its Raw Materials.
>
>There exist passable SO's called Wealthy Bastard Service Garages.
>A player who is on a Service Garage or in a square consecutive to a=
 Service
>Garage may give Carryable Objects in eir possession to WBE. When this
>happens, the object is destroyed, and the Raw Materials increases by a
>certain amount.
>
>Only the following types of Grid Objects may be given to WBE, and they
>increase the Raw Materials by the amount following them:
>Beer Cans           10
>Balls of Wax        10
>Towels              10
>Piles of Kindling   15
>Big Sticks          20
>Athames             20
>Small Lumps         30
>Sledge-O-Matics     40
>Shields             50
>Large Lumps         70
>
>One member of WBE is said to be the Wealthy Bastard, or Boss. All other
>members may be refferred to as Employees. At the beginning of each nweek,
>55
>BNS is transferred from WBE to the Boss of WBE, and 11 BNS is transferred
>from WBE to each Employee of WBE. The Wealthy Bastard may change either of
>these two salaries by declaring so in a public forum.
>
>Non-employee players may join WBE if they request to join, and the Boss
>declares that they may join.
>
>The Boss may oust any employee from WBE at will.
>
>If at any time WBE has no Boss, the employee who has been an employee the
>longest becomes the Boss.
>
>The Ministry of WBE is a Ministry. The Ministry of WBE may only be held by
>the Boss of WBE. The Minister of WBE is responsible for keeping track of
>WBE's finances, salaries, and raw materials.
>
>}}
>
>Insert in rule 301 the following section, labeled E.5:
>{{
>__WBE Research Outposts__
>
>There exist passable SO's called WBE Research Outposts. Initially, there
>are
>WBE Research Outposts at (2,1), (7,10), (19,5), (18,18) and (8,14).
>[[I'm not sure what to do with these yet, but I'm working on it.]]
>}}
>
>Add to the list in the rule entitled 'Service Malls' the text:
>"1 Wealthy Bastard Service Garage"
>
>Make Wonko the Boss of WBE.
>}}

I'd like to see this fleshed out more first.  Otherwise it's a do-nothing,=
 except that it gives Wonko a society and a second Ministry. (Which is=
 against the rules at the moment anyway, isn't it?)

						Glotmorf