The Fourth Dynasty of Purplebeard
April 22th - May 17th 2011
Contents
Ascension Address
People, people, calm down. The doors won’t open till nine, you’ll have all the time in the world to push each other and shout to your heart’s content then. I know you’re all excited to be part of this new initiative, Blognomia’s first stock market, and I’m sure that everyone involved will make a lot of money here, and that our actions will in no way lead any careers, companies or lives into ruin. Probably.
All dynastic rules are declared obsolete. Sheep becomes Investor. Chairsheep becomes Market.
Players
The following players were active at the end of this dynasty.
ais523, Bucky*, Crumb, Darknight*, Darth Cliche*, Ely, Galtori, Ienpw III*, Josh*, Oze*, Purplebeard*, Rodlen*, Roujo, spikebrennan, Subrincinator, Travis, William, Winner, Yoda*
Final Ruleset
Posts of Interest
Proposals
- Essentials 1 (created Currency)
- The Suits (created Corporations)
- Markets (established basic stock market mechanics)
- Business Plans Take II (created "Business Plans" (a way for Corporations to generate Worth)
- Bankruptcy (passed, but was written in machine language that some players found difficult to parse)
- I'm Out (permitted Investors to create startup Corporations, which became important due to the eventual victory condition)
- Power to the People (with Power) (the first proposal permitting "Shareholder Meetings" to actually pass, after several abortive attempts by spikebrennan)
- Frank Sinatra (permitted shareholder meetings to elect a Chairman of the Board, and to declare dividends and liquidate)
- Any Colour so long as it is... blue (permitted a Corporation's business plan to be changed by Shareholder Meeting, under some circumstances. This mechanic became somewhat controversial)
- The Urge to Merge (permitted mergers between corporations. None ended up happening.)
- And they hang your portrait in the headquarters lobby (created a Victory Condition: one had to have at least 1000 Credits, and be Chairman of the Board of more than half of the Corporations in existence)
- I can win any time I want, but let’s do it by proposal rather than spamming (ais523's proto-DoV proposal which pointed out a method to scam the then-existing ruleset to acquire enormous amounts of Currency, and then create numerous controlled Corporations. The method turned out to be flawed.)
- I have achieved economic dominance! (Yoda's DoV, which passed 10-6 after 92 comments were made on the post)
Ascension
ais523 perpetrated a scam in which a post which was both a Shareholder Meeting and a Proposal allowed Business Plans to be changed arbitrarily (as although changes not by proposal, such as most Shareholder Meeting changes, needed approval, making the post a proposal as well got around the issue). There was some debate as to whether the scam was legal or not, but a majority of players accepted it. However, ais523 failed to use the resulting unlimited supply of Credits to win the game (due to not noticing corporation construction was merely a weekly action), although he and a group of other players did manage to gain control of several startup Corporations as a result. Yoda repeated the same scam (most players could not afford to) and used his existing holdings, along with some help from Galtori and Travis and the change from one week to the next, to gain control of even more Corporations and declare victory. The resulting DoV was rather controversial, with people voting AGAINST for a range of reasons (some people didn't think the scam worked in principle, whereas some thought it did but that some of the actions Yoda took were carried out improperly and where thus invalid, and it didn't help that Yoda had become Chairman of one of the corporations so long ago that it had since scrolled off the page), and the DoV went from initially almost 100% FOR to almost equally FOR and AGAINST. However, it remained more FOR than AGAINST, and eventually passed.
