Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Rejected #27 Smithy to Votech

I propose a bill that will allow the Smithy to go to technical school where they can learn new skills.

For each item the Smithy wants to learn to make they have have to pay class fees of 2 QI'yaH.

It is up to the Smithy what classes they take and what skills they learn. However they can only learn how to make 1 new item per class. The Smithy works with metal so the items they make must be metallic in nature, Ex: no parachutes or Tupperware.

The Smithy can proclaim what class they are taking and then start selling the item the same week. It is up to the Smithy what an item will sell for and of course all proceeds of a sale go to the Smithy.

4 comments:

Master of the small and pointless said...

Yes - What a great idea! At least one member of the realm should be ed-u-ma-cated.

rbbergstrom said...

No.

If they were allowed to take one class per week, I'd say yes. But I have no desire to keep tabs on a theoretically infinite number of items, increasing by leaps and bounds daily, as we lack the adminstrative infrastructure to keep on top of it.

And, as written, it would be infinite. We currently have no rules preventing negative QI'yaH balances. A fact which makes me happy. Though I'd be just as happy to have positive QI'yaH.

Also the bill doesn't provide a structure for how to purchase these items. Are we to assume it's the same methods as for swords?

It also doesn't specify a means for the Smithy to declare their new items. In theory, they could state it as a comment to a weeks-old-post so as to hide the fact that they were learning how to make russian tanks and stingray missiles.

I'd like it clearly spelled out that they can take one class per week, by means of a separate post, clearly labeled.

Address those issues in a new bill, and I'll happily double-yes it. But without such stipulations, I feel I must happily "no" it instead.

digital_sextant said...

No, because I didn't have time to read this bill before the POLLS CLOSING SOON announcement. Boo!

Plus, what the Baron said.

rbbergstrom said...

This was posted well after the polls had closed

The concept behind this bill had merit. I would like to encourage you to rework it, and try again.