Alright, I’m back, can I be unidled please?

To Rule 2.8 entitled “Royal Armies” add:

A Commoner who scavenges in a County liberated by them may gain 150% of the usual Svavenging Amount for every Resource.
If a Commoner moves to a County which has been liberated by another Commoner, they have to transfer 30 Coal to the Commoner, who liberated that County. If they are not able to translate 30 coal, the movement is not possible.

Digibomber hasn’t commented in over a week, and goes idle. Quorum drops to 7.

As a subrule of Rule 2.2 (Inventions), add a new Rule called “Chinese Stone Crusher”:-

Cost: 4 Iron, 1 Wood     Power Requirement: 4
Whenever the owner of a Chinese Stone Crusher dismantles an Invention that does not contain a Chinese Stone Crusher, they gain nine tenths of the Invention’s Composition (rounded down), in place of the usual half.

The title says it all, really.

If the Proposal titled “Where liberty is, there is my county!” failed, this Proposal does nothing.

In Rule 2.8 titled “Royal Armies” replace “it is illegal to attempt to liberate a County if there has already been an attempt to liberate that County or if a County has been liberated by another Commoner in the last 60 minutes.” with

it is illegal to attempt to liberate a County if there has already been an attempt to liberate that County or if another Commoner has tried to Liberate a County in the last 60 minutes. After such an attempt a Commoner may move to another County (as specified by other rules).

Add a new rule “Retort” as a subrule to rule “Inventions”:

Cost: 8 Iron, 2 Quicksilver
Power Requirement: 10
This cast iron cylinder can be used for the distillation of chemical materials or the decomposition of wood into charcoal. A Commoner who owns an invention with a Retort may spend 1 Wood to gain 7 Coal.

In Rule 2.8 titled “Royal Armies”, replace “As a weekly action, a Commoner can attempt to Liberate the County in which he is located” with

A Commoner can attempt to Liberate the County in which he is located

In this Rule replace “it is illegal to attempt to liberate a County if there has already been an attempt to liberate that County.” with

it is illegal to attempt to liberate a County if there has already been an attempt to liberate that County or if a County has been liberated by another Commoner in the last 60 minutes.

The player “Put” hasn’t commented since March the 9th, and goes idle. Quorum is unchanged.

Create a new subrule “Kitten Repair and Recharge Kit” to rule 2.2 “Inventions”:

Cost: 1 Cog, 1 Iron         Power Requirement: 20
A Commoner who owns an Invention with a Kitten Repair and Recharge Kit may gain 30 extra Coal whenever he Scavenges.

Rename the “Magical Transducer” rule to “Diamond Lens” and reword it to:-

Cost: 3 Gems     Power Requirement: 15
The Power Requirement of an Invention with a Diamond Lens is reduced by 5 for every Gem in its Composition.

Lithophagist has requested a wiki account via pm. Could one of the wiki admins sort that out?

On a related note, I wouldn’t mind being wiki-adminified so I could help out with this stuff myself.

On a completely unrelated note, looking at the blog’s member list, dozens of what appear to be spam accounts have been created over the past few months. They haven’t made posts or comments yet, though. Should we be worried?

In Rule 2.4, replace “A Commoner with a Walking Fortress may only Scavenge once every ten days. Whenever they may Scavenge, however, they may elect to instead take 2 Resources from each of the four Commoners to have Scavenged immediately preceding them, while also gaining their usual stipend of coal.” with:-

Whenever a Commoner with a Walking Fortress may Scavenge, they may elect to instead take 2 units of Resources from each of up to four Commoners located in the same County as them, while also gaining their usual stipend of coal.

I know this seems crazy. Mabye it is. If I had thought about this longer, mabye I would not have done so. But I am upset. Really upset. So crazy actions are caused.

Yesterday night, lots of my friends (and even Commoners, whom I don‘t like really because of economy issues) and I tried to steal back the Resources from the Mad Prince, he has once stolen from us. I have even made debts to invent a new Armor. We calculated we need to be 8 Commoners or more to crush down the Guards. And we thought we were 8 Commoners.

We were not.

One Commoner decided last minute to stay at home. I do not want to blame Lordcooper here, so I will not tell you his name ;) Instead, I am peeved at the Mad Prince. think we should hold together and fight against him and his armies. I will definitely raid this week. I hope other Commoners will help me.

But there are other things to do. Lots of armies are hidden in England’s Counties. I cannot know where they are. In Counties, where no army is hidden, we should attempt to liberate the people living there. This is the only way (for now) to fight back! I will show you that it is possible. I know there is an army in Dorset, so I went to Sommerset.

I am Liberating Sommerset.

If I am luckier than yesterday night, you should be free. I do not want you to pay me much Resources for this attempt. Just feel free and live free. Liberty is the most important right we (should) have. Of course, I am not that selfless. I take revenge. The Prince will wonder about this.

Sincerely yours,

Sir Keba.

In Rule 2.2.19 titled “Armor”, replace “A Commoner, who owns an Invention with this Part, counts as two Commoners for the purpose of Rule 2.5 (Raiding).” with

A Commoner, who owns an Invention with this Part, counts as two Commoners for the purpose of Rule 2.5 (Raiding), except in the phrase “then this instead causes the Income of each Raider to decrease by 10. “.

The Commoners who raided this week were Anonyman, Darth Cliche, Josh, Keba (x2 due to Armour), Roujo, Purplebeard, and Tecslicer. That’s 8 Commoners; unfortunately, 9 were needed for the Raid to succeed. It looks like somebody betrayed your little group…

As a result, I feel confident in using the same number of guards to guard my shipment of rare teas in expensive mahogany cases, each encrusted with rare gems, that I need to feed my pet mechanical duck (she gets so depressed when she isn’t hopped up on top-quality caffeine)... The Royal Treasury is now set to 200 Wood, 200 Caffeine, 50 Gems, with the same Guard Level (8, meaning 9 Commoners are necessary for the raid to succeed) as before.

Alright then. I have been instructed to make a post detailing that I have arrived to play blognomic. And here it is.

Not enough time to read all the rules before they change. Could someone idle me.

Bucky and Oze go idle. Quorum drops to 8.

If the Proposal “The Hitchhiker’s Guide” passed, reword Rule 2.7.1 to the following, if not, create a new subrule titled “The Hitchhiker’s Guide” to Rule 2.7, which reads:

As a Weekly Action a Commoner may “hitchhike”: If they are occupying a County, which is a start point or a intermediary County of a Trade Route, known as the “Hitchhiking Route”, they may change their County to the next County of the Hitchhiking Route, in exchange for 2 of the Hitchhikiking Route’s Resources, if this is a noncoal Resource, or else in exchange for 10 Coal.

As a subrule of Rule 2.2 (Inventions), add a new Rule called “Intake Valve”:-

Cost: 2 Iron, 1 Wood     Power Requirement: 2
If an Invention has an Intake Valve, any of its parts which require the Spending of Coal to activate an effect have that Coal cost reduced by one quarter (rounding down the new value).

Add a new subrule titled “Magical Transducer” to Rule 2.2 (Inventions):

Cost: 7 Gems Power Requirement: -10
This Part has no effect beyond its negative Power Requirement.

Create a new dynastic rule, “Royal Armies”:

There are nine Royal Armies, each of which is located in a County (tracked privately by the Mad Prince); their locations are fixed. One is located in Dorset; the locations of the other eight are chosen randomly by the Mad Prince, with the restriction that no two can be located in the same County.

As a weekly action, a Commoner can attempt to Liberate the County in which he is located, by either making a Story Post stating that he is Liberating that county, or by commenting on such a Story Post stating that he is Liberating that county; however, it is illegal to attempt to liberate a County if there has already been an attempt to liberate that County. If a Commoner attempts to liberate a County which does not contain a Royal Army, the Mad Prince can and shall (as soon as is reasonable) once increase his Income by 10. If a Commoner attempts to liberate a County that does contain a Royal Army, the Mad Prince can and shall (as soon as is resonable) once decrease his Income by 50.

Create a new subrule “Royalty Proximity Sweeper” to rule 2.2 “Inventions”:

Cost: 5 Iron, 5 Wood, and 2 Gems     Power Requirement: 2
A Commoner who owns an invention with this Part can, at will, spend 5 Coal, 1 Gem, and 3 Quicksilver, with a GNDT comment of “Detecting Royalty (county)” (with county replaced by the County in which they are currently located). As soon as is reasonable after the Mad Prince notices, then he must do one of the following: if there is a Royal Army in the County in question, destroy every Invention containing a Royalty Proximity Detector owned by that commoner (which has the same effect as if the Commoner who owns it had dismantled it); otherwise, privately inform the Commoner of how many Royal Armies are situated in Counties neighbouring the County in question.

Add a new subrule titled “The Hitchhiker’s Guide” to Rule 2.7 titled “Trade Routes”, which reads:

As a Weekly Action a Commoner may “hitchhike”: If they are occupying a County, which is a start point or a intermediary County of a Travel Route, known as the “Hitchhiking Route”, they may change their County to the next County of the Hitchhiking Route, in exchange for 2 of the Hitchhikiking Route’s Resources, if this is a noncoal Resource, or else in exchange for 10 Coal.

As a subrule of Rule 2.2 (Inventions), add a new Rule called “Modular Plugboard”:-

Cost: 2 Iron, 2 Wood, 2 Quicksilver     Power Requirement: 2
The Power Requirement of an Invention with a Modular Plugboard is - rather than its usual value - instead equal to the total Power Requirements of its Parts, plus five times the number of different Resources involved in its Composition.

Just a note: the Trade Routes for this week are now up on the wiki. I probably won’t change them every week; to avoid bias, it’s best to decide when to change such things in advance, so I’m adopting a policy of deciding at random (with a 50:50 chance) whether to change the routes or not in any particular week.

A summary of the routes for this week (see the wiki Trade Routes page for full info, and a rundown of what resources you’ll gain from which counties):

• Iron: Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire
• Wood: Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall
• Quicksilver: Kent, Surrey, Hampshire
• Caffeine: Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, County Durham, Cumberland
• Cogs: Warwickshire, Northamptonshire
• Gems: Suffolk, Essex, Middlesex
• Coal: Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire

Could an admin link the wiki page to the sidebar, incidentally?

If the rule “You can run, but you can’t hide” exists, reword it to:-

[[Image:England traditional counties.png|300px|thumb]]

Each Commoner is located in a County (tracked in the GNDT, and defaulting to Dorset), an entry from the list below. Each county is numbered and marked on the map to the right. If two counties have a border line running between them (and do not just meet at a corner), they are considered to be neighbouring.

Bedfordshire Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cornwall Cumberland Derbyshire Devon Dorset County Durham Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huntingdonshire Kent Lancashire Leicestershire

Lincolnshire Middlesex Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Rutland Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Warwickshire Westmorland Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire

The first line of the above rule is wiki markup for this image. Upon enactment of this rule, if the image has been replaced or altered since its initial upload, it shall be reverted to the version that was initially uploaded to that URL.

Pteriforever65536 and Yabbaguy haven’t commented in over a week, and go idle. Dbdougla also idles as requested. Quorum drops to 9.

Edit the “Thermometer” Part to read:-

Cost: 1 Wood, 2 Quicksilver, 1 Gem     Power Requirement: 5
Monitoring the temperature of a machine can help to improve its operating efficiency. Whenever a Commoner who owns a Thermometer and has a negative Income would increase his Coal by his Income as part of a Scavenging action, he instead increases it by his Income plus ten.

dbdougla intends to idle until further notice.