Parties
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1. The name of this contract is the Vote Market.
2. The Broker is responsible for maintaining the Vote Market.
Initially the Broker is BobTHJ.
2. Vote Points (VP) are a currency used in the Vote Market. A party
CAN NOT take an action that would cause the VP of any party to be
reduced below zero. The Broker is the recordkeeper of VP.
3. At any time a party CAN post a Sell Ticket by announcement. A Sell
Ticket must include:
- A description of an action that the party is able to take.
- A cost in VP
If it becomes impossible for the party to perform the specified
action, the Sell Ticket expires and ceases to exist.
4. Any party other than its poster CAN fill an existing Sell
Ticket by announcement. When e
does so, a number of VP equal to that Sell Ticket's specified cost is
transferred to the party who posted the Sell Ticket.The party who posted
the Sell Ticket is then obligated to take the action described in the
Sell Ticket as soon as possible. However, if for any reason during the
48 hours following the filling of a Sell Ticket it becomes impossible
for the party who posted the Sell Ticket to perform the specified
action then e is released from such obligation. When a Sell Ticket is
filled, it expires and ceases to exist.
5. At any time a party CAN post a Buy Ticket by announcement. A Buy
Ticket must include:
- A description of an action
- A cost in one or more currencies (typically VP), which may be
conditional or variable as long as it can be determined with certainty
when that ticket is filled
- Optionally, a set of target parties. If not specified, this defaults
to the set of all parties to the Vote Market agreement. Only parties
designated as targets may fill a ticket.
A Buy Ticket expires and ceases to exist if it becomes impossible for
any party to perform the specified action.
6. Any party other than its poster CAN fill an existing Buy
Ticket by announcement. When e
does so a number of VP equal to that Buy Ticket's specified cost is
transferred to the filling party. The filling party is then obligated
to take the
action specified by the Buy Ticket as soon as possible. A Buy Ticket
that has been filled
expires and ceases to exist unless otherwise specified by its poster.
7. Any player may join the Vote Market by announcement. Upon a
first-class player joining
the Vote Market, 50 VP are created in the possession of that player.
8. Any party with 50 or more VP may cease to be bound by the Vote
Market agreement by announcement. Upon such an announcement all VP
held by that player are destroyed. A party MAY NOT cease to be party
to this agreement by any other means. Regardless of the above, no
party may cease to be bound by this
agreement if that party has an unfulfilled obligation imposed upon
them by this agreement.
9. Any party may amend this contract without three objections. Any
party may act on behalf of this contract without three objections.
10. The Grace Period is a number of days determined by a person's status
within the contract Airstrip One and is determined as follows:
Marine - 45 days
Pilot - 75 days
Captain - 90 days
Other or undetermined - 60 days
When the average VP of a first-class party is less than 50 over the
course of the most recent period of days equal to their Grace Period
they are Indebted. An Indebted active player MUST for each distribution
of proposals vote SELL (2VP) on at least half of those proposals.
A Slave is an Indebted party who is either inactive or not a player at
the time of their becoming Indebted, or else becomes inactive or not a
player while Indebted. Registering or ceasing to be inactive does not
cause a party to cease to be a Slave, but ceasing to be Indebted does.
Any non-Indebted party may act on behalf of a Slave to register,
become active, and/or cast a vote of SELL (2VP) on an Agoran decision.
Any party may cease to be a Slave by announcement.
11. For the purposes of Buy and Sell Tickets, if the specified action
is to vote in a certain manner on an Agoran decision, a party only
fills eir obligation to take the specified action if eir valid
votes at the end of that decision's voting period are in the
manner described in the ticket. In particular, the number of such
votes shall equal eir voting limit on that decision, unless both
parties agree on a lower limit no later than the time the ticket
is filled.
12. As it's cost a Buy or Sell Ticket may specify the word "AUCTION". At
any time, a target party may place a bid on a Ticket with a cost of
AUCTION by announcement. Such a bid should specify an amount of
currency (or currencies). At any time the poster of a Ticket with a
cost of AUCTION may accept any bid on that Ticket which has not been
retracted. The currency (or currencies) specified in that bid become
the Cost of the Ticket, and the party who placed that bid becomes the
filler of that ticket.
13. A Sell Ticket to vote in a certain manner on an Agoran decision
also constitutes conditionally voting to endorse the filler a
number of times equal to one's voting limit on that decision (or
as otherwise directed by the filler), or PRESENT (or as otherwise
specified by the poster) if the ticket is not filled. SELL(X - Y)
is shorthand for such a Sell Ticket, with a cost of X and a vote
of Y if the ticket is not filled; SELL(X) is shorthand for
SELL(X - PRESENT).
