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PodNomic is a game of Nomic played though the medium of an ongoing Podcast.
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The PodNomic ruleset has now been migrated to https://nomic.club/wiki/index.php/PodNomic:Ruleset
 
 
= Core Rules =
 
== Ruleset and Gamestate ==
 
This is the '''Ruleset''' for PodNomic; all players shall obey it. The Gamestate is defined as any information which the Ruleset regulates the alteration of.
 
 
 
The ruleset consists of three sections: the core rules, which govern the game as a persistent whole, the schedule, which governs the timing of events in the game, and the mutable rules, which cover specific rules of gameplay. In general, the core rules and the schedule are considered to be more persistent and harder to amend, while the mutable rules are intended to be more transactional.
 
 
 
The Ruleset and Gamestate can only be altered in manners specified by the Ruleset.
 
 
 
If the Ruleset does not properly reflect all legal changes that have been made to it, any player may update it to do so.
 
 
 
===Core rule amendments===
 
Any votable matter that would change the core rules can be enacted if more than 66% of the players have voted FOR it. This rule supersedes the provision for enactment set out in the rule Resolution, but is superseded by the schedule rule Schedule Protection.
 
 
 
==Players==
 
The game has two roles: players and listeners. Listeners are people who have listened to or are otherwise aware of PodNomic, but who are not Players. Any Listener may become a Player by announcing their intent to do so in the #new-player channel of the PodNomic discord server. When doing so, players should include an audio clip in which their name is said out loud. If a player wishes to become an listener, or vice-versa, they may do so after making an announcement in the same channel to that effect. If a player has undertaken no game actions for at least 7 days, any player may make them an listener. After someone has been made an listener, they cannot become a player again until five days have passed.
 
 
 
When an listener becomes a player, if they had been a player in the same round, their personal gamestate retains the last legally endowed values it had, if they are still valid. Otherwise (including if a value is invalid, does not exist, or the player has not been a player during this game), the player is given the default value for new players, if such a value exists.
 
 
 
== The Host==
 
At any time, the game has one player who is the Host. The Host is responsible for producing and publishing the Podcast according to the schedule set out in the schedule rules.
 
 
 
== Official Entries and Votable Matters ==
 
An official entry is any communication whose content or format is determined by the ruleset. A Votable Matter is an official entry which players may cast Votes on, which must seek to make changes to the ruleset or gamestate.
 
 
 
Votable Matters are made by submitting them privately to the Host through the PodNomic Discord server. A Votable Matter must be submitted with the following elements: a title, an audio clip in which the text of the Votable Matter is read aloud, and an accurate plain-text transcript of the text that was read aloud in the audio clip.
 
 
 
Votable Matters have statuses, as follows. A Votable Matter may have only one status; when it gains a status it looses the one it previously had. A non-Votable Matter cannot have any of these statuses.
 
* When a Votable Matter is submitted, until the next Production Cutoff as defined in the schedule rules, the Votable Matter is a Draft. During this time it may be freely edited or amended, so long as the audio clip and the text transcript consistently reflect the same text.
 
* Between the first Production Cutoff after it was posted and the publishing of the next episode of the Podcast, a Votable Matter is a Bill and cannot be edited or voted upon.
 
* After a Votable Matter has been broadcast as part of an episode of the Podcast, and until the subsequent Production Cutoff, it is a Proposal, and may not be edited but may be voted upon.
 
* Between the first Production Cutoff to take place after it became a Proposal and the publishing of the next episode of the Podcast, a Votable Matter is an Act and it cannot be edited or voted upon.
 
* After a Votable Matter has had its vote tallies read on an episode of the Podcast it ceases to be a Votable Matter and may be neither edited nor reacted to (beyond marking it as resolved, as per the rule Resolution).
 
 
 
When a votable matter becomes a Proposal, which is to say, after it has been broadcast on an episode of the Podcast, the Host should upload its audio and transcript to the votable-matters channel of the Podnomic discord.
 
 
 
==Votes==
 
When a Votable Matter is a Proposal, each player may cast one vote on it by submitting a response privately to the Host through the PodNomic Discord server, indicating FOR or AGAINST.
 
 
 
When a player casts a vote AGAINST their own Proposal, this renders the Proposal '''Withdrawn'''. Withdrawing a Proposal cannot be reversed; once cast, such a vote cannot be changed.
 
 
 
The Host's vote on each proposal should be informed by the feedback (if any) received from Listeners since the last episode.
 
 
 
===Resolution===
 
Votable Matters are resolved on the episode of the Podcast immediately following the episode of the Podcast in which they were initially broadcast, by means of the Host reading aloud their title, the final votes cast on that Votable Matter, and confirming the outcome. Any player may then enacted the resolution by marking them as resolved (using the :resolved: react) and updating the ruleset or gamestate as directed. Votable matters must be resolved based on the following criteria:
 
 
 
A votable matter can be enacted if it has more votes FOR than AGAINST. (Proposals which have been Withdrawn can never be enacted.)
 
 
 
A votable matter can be failed if it cannot otherwise be enacted.
 
 
 
Proposals must be resolved in chronological order, from oldest to newest.
 
 
 
This rule is superseded where appropriate by the rules Core Rule Amendments and Schedule Protection.
 
 
 
==Licencing and Attribution==
 
All audio recorded for use in PodNomic, including episodes of the podcast and the audio recordings of votable matters, are shared under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International creative commons licence.
 
 
 
=Schedule Rules=
 
==Schedule Protection==
 
The Schedule Rules govern the production schedule for the Podcast and define the practical steps that must be taken to fulfil the requirements of the ruleset. Players may not attempt to alter the Schedule Rules in ways that would have the effect of making the Podcast impossible or unduly onerous to produce; players are required to vote AGAINST any Votable Matter whose impact would be to either alter the Schedule Rules in ways that would be contrary to the physical or mental wellbeing of the Host, or which would undermine of weaken the provision of this rule. This rule takes precedence over all other rules in the ruleset.
 
 
 
The Schedule Rules may not be amended without the Host's assent. Any Votable Matter that would amend the Schedule Rules, or which would have the effect of amending the Schedule Rules, may not be enacted unless the Host has voted FOR it. The Host may freely revert any game action that they feel has increased the burden upon them to the point at which it makes the commitment to continue being the Host unmanageable.
 
 
 
==Production Schedule==
 
Throughout the rules, the term 'Podcast' refers to PodNomic. An episode of the Podcast is a single instance of that Podcast. Each episode must have a number, which increases consecutively episode by episode, and a date upon which it is to be released.
 
 
 
Episodes of the Podcast must be produced such that they are released at noon UTC on the Tuesday and Friday of each week.
 
 
 
Each Episode of the Podcast has a Production Cutoff. The Production Cutoff of an episode is noon UTC one day before its release (i.e. Monday and Thursday each week).
 
 
 
==Podcast Content==
 
The title of each episode in its RSS feed should be "Episode X: Y Z", where X is the episode number, Y is an adjective of the Host's choice from any Bill, and Z is a noun of the Host's choice from a different Bill.
 
 
 
The PodNomic background music shall play through the entirety of each episode of the podcast, except for during the reading of each proposal's text. The Host shall, during each episode of the podcast, name the title and artist of the background music, and the licence that it is used under.
 
 
 
Each episode of the Podcast must begin with the following script:
 
 
 
"Hello and welcome to this edition of PodNomic, a game of nomic played through the medium of an ongoing Podcast. This is episode x, for broadcast on y"
 
 
 
- where x is the episode number and y is the date.
 
 
 
Each episode of the Podcast must broadcast the audio clip of each Bill, in the order in which they were posted. Each Bill should be announced with its title and the name of its author.
 
 
 
Each episode of the podcast should list all Acts, in the order in which they were initially posted, with their titles, the names of their authors, a tally of the votes cast upon them, and whether they were enacted or failed.
 
 
 
Each episode of the podcast must include the host saying the phrase 'this episode of PodNomic is brought to you by' and then listing a business, ideally fictional, that the host sees fit to claim that the episode is sponsored by, and then make up a slogan for that business. If it's a real business, it should still be a fictional slogan.
 
 
 
Each episode of the podcast should give thanks to a list of the names of all players who have a score above zero, in decreasing order of that score. Ties are broken alphabetically, and the scores themselves are not stated.
 
 
 
Each episode of the Podcast should include the most recent new News Item from each PodNomic correspondent.
 
 
 
Tuesdays Episodes must include the Host saying the phrase "And for now it's the Scammer's time, which celebrates the proud work of scammers in Nomics." and a readout of the text in braces in the Scam Immemorial.
 
 
 
Each episode of the Podcast should end with the following script:
 
 
 
"That’s it for this episode of PodNomic. I’ve been your host, [name of host]. See you next time."
 
 
 
Beyond these restrictions, the Host is free to order the content of each episode of the Podcast as they see fit.
 
 
 
Each episode of the podcast should include the URL of a page where listeners can find out more about the game.
 
 
 
==Segments==
 
A segment is defined as an audio clip, which may be no more than two minutes in length, that has been recorded by a player, optionally with additional input from other players or listeners. Segments may be uploaded to the #segments channel of the PodNomic discord.
 
 
 
A player may record and upload a segment at any time. A fresh segment is any Segment that has not been played on the Podcast before. Players may react to fresh segments with any emoji they choose. Players may delete their own fresh segments from the channel; if they do, then that segment ceases to be fresh.
 
 
 
The Host should include up to two segments in each episode, selecting those fresh segments to have been responded to with the most emoji reactions, breaking ties randomly.
 
 
 
===All The News===
 
At any time, any other online nomic may have up to one PodNomic correspondent, who does not need to be a player of PodNomic. This person should be named in the ruleset of the nomic they are representing. Whenever the identity of a nomic's PodNomic correspondent changes, any member of that nomic should notify the Host. At any time, a PodNomic correspondent may record an audio file of themselves reading a News Item for PodNomic and send it to the Host. A News Item is new if it has never been broadcast on an episode before.
 
 
 
=Mutable Rules=
 
==Background Music==
 
The PodNomic background music is Airport Lounge by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC-Attribution licence.
 
 
 
Between an episode's production cutoff and release, the Host should visit https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/full_list.php and select a random page of the results, then select a random track from that page, then update the previous paragraph to include the title, artist and licence of the selected track.
 
 
 
==Random Choices==
 
Whenever the rules require a random choice to be made, it shall be made using the distribution specified (or a uniform distribution if not specified). The choice can be made by any method such that the distribution is reasonably close to the required distribution and that the final choice is not trivially predictable in advance. The method used should be public and verifiable.
 
 
 
==Discussion==
 
Players are encouraged to, but not required to, include within a votable matter discussion of changes within the votable matter. This discussion is encouraged to be extemporaneous, or with notes, but not read from prepared text.
 
 
 
==Production Aliases==
 
An episode that is slated to be published Tuesday is a Tuesday Episode.
 
An episode that is slated to be published Friday is a Friday Episode.
 
 
 
Any Person may submit a scam performed in any internet Nomic with the [Scam Immemorial] tag.
 
The Host may change the above text in braces to a New item with the [Scam Immemorial] tag. An [Scam Immemorial] item is New if it hasn't been included in the above braces before.
 
 
 
==Definitions==
 
The word “should” indicates that something is encouraged, but not strictly required, by the rules.
 
 
 
==Fallibility==
 
The Host shall endeavour to the best of their capability to produce each episode in accordance with the rules set out in the ruleset. However, any sound file published by the Host purporting to be an episode is considered to be a valid episode, provided that it was produced in good faith.
 
 
 
Any statements made in a valid episode are considered to be definitive, provided that they are not challenged within 14 days after publication.
 
 
 
==Score==
 
Each player has a score, which is tracked privately by the Host and starts at zero.
 
 
 
If a player is the author of a votable matter that's enacted then they gain one Score; if a player is the author of a Segment that is broadcast on an episode of the Podcast then they gain three Score.
 
 
 
The scores of all players are reset to zero following he broadcast of the first episode of each month.
 

Latest revision as of 11:47, 20 March 2022

The PodNomic ruleset has now been migrated to https://nomic.club/wiki/index.php/PodNomic:Ruleset