With this post, the game of Steemfield officially begins! The opening proposal round for rule changes is now open. Please see the rules below if you are new or are still wanting to join. After the two day proposal window is up, the official proposal will be posted for everyone to vote. Enjoy the game!
Meta Rules will stay the same throughout the game. Game Rules can be altered through proposals.
Steemfield Meta Rules:
The controller of the totem (Me) is not a player.
The controller of the totem must behave according to the rules established by the players and those established by the beginning of the game.
The person controlling the totem can dissolve the totem at any time thus ending the game.
The person may relinquish control of the totem to another person. The rules apply to the updated statuses of both people.
A rule change will occur once per round, each round is a minimum of three days (72 hours). A rule change is defined as the addition, subtraction, or replacement of a single rule.
Rule changes are voted upon within proposals that the totem publishes. Every player can vote in favor of the proposal, against the proposal, or simply not vote.
The totem will publish the result of the vote after each round as well as the current rule set.
The proposal period will start immediately after a results post. The voting period will start immediately after a proposal post.
Players can only vote once per voting period and propose one proposal per proposal period.
The game cannot start without 3 or more players in the game.
Steemfield Base Rules:
Participation
In order to become a player in the game, any user must delegate any amount of Steem Power to the totem.
Any player is free to leave the game at any time by removing their delegation from the totem.
Voting and Proposals
Only players can vote on rule changes.
The maximum amount of effective delegated power is 1 Steem Power.
The proposal for a rule change only passes if the total sum of voting weight in favor exceeds the voting weight against.
The voting weight of a player is the square of the effective delegated power.
Players with less accepted proposals will have their proposals selected over players with more accepted proposals.
A player's proposal will then be accepted by the amount of effective delegated power. If this is still tied, then the player who has been in the game the longest shall be granted preference.
The proposal period is 48 hours.
The voting period for a proposal is 24 hours.
Totem Behavior
The totem account cannot perform any operations outside of those specified in the meta rules and the rules.
The totem account may accept rewards from comments and posts.
The totem account is the final judge on rule interpretation and resolving conflicts in rule contradictions and conflicts. These resolutions will published be in the next results post.
The totem account may comment as they please, but can only post proposals and results.
Gameplay
Each player will be rewarded with 1 LAND at the end of each round. This will be given from the oldest player to the newest player until LAND runs out.
The totem account will keep track of the LAND of each player and publish these in the results post.
There will be a total of 100 LAND total given away by the totem account.
The cap on total LAND is 100.
Any player to get 51 LAND wins the game.
Any player can gift any LAND they possess to any other player.
If the totem decides a player is not following the rules, they will be denied receiving 1 LAND at the end of the round.
Rewards Allocation
The totem account must set all comments and posts to 50% SP / 50% SBD.
The winner of the game shall receive all liquid currency the totem has accumulated as a result of the game when they win.
Implementation Details
Proposals
Proposals will be made by commenting (no posting) on the results post using the following format. All relevant content must be contained with line separators (three or more dashes) as well as the curly brackets with the proposal and type inside separated with a colon. You should also include the effected rule (by section & number OR by quoting the rule) if the proposal is a replacement or subtraction. Remember there are rule change types: ADDITION, SUBTRACTION, REPLACEMENT. All discussion and reasoning should occur outside the line separators.
Format
{PROPOSAL:TYPE}
TYPE, AFFECTED RULES IF APPLICABLE
EXPLANATION OF RULE
Example
{PROPOSAL:REPLACEMENT}
Replacement: Gameplay, Rule 4
The cap on total land is 500.
I think that the cap on land is too low and given the number of players in the game, individuals will struggle to get to even double digit LAND.
Voting
Voting is rather straight forward. You simply comment below a proposal either YES or NO within curly brackets. You may then add anything else to that comment that you desire. Note that voting more than once (or proposing for that matter) may result in punishment by the totem (see rule changes above).
Example
{YES}
Because the cap on LAND is too low and I really want some more LAND.
