Demi-Pharaoh/Bastet

(intro info taken from main shard page)

Sign Up

Demi-Pharaoh election periods are announced via the Calendar, approximately once a month. Players may sign up during the specified time (generally 48 hours) at a Voting Booth.

• Players may also sign up to be enrolled in upcoming elections automatically.
• Players may also withdraw from an election (or all upcoming elections) at the booth.

Election Process

The election is a multi-step process.

1. All players who are signed up at the end of the sign up period are split into small groups of seven or fewer.
2. For each round, group members share a chat channel for several days. This allows for discussion and decision making between those in the group.
   • Each participant may vote for one of the members of their group at a Voting Booth.
   • At the end of the round, the player with the most votes from the group advances. If there is a tie, no player advances.
3. This process continues until seven or fewer candidates remain.
4. An Egypt-wide election is then held in which all citizens may participate.
5. The candidate who receives the most votes in this election becomes a Demi-Pharaoh.

Powers

Each Demi-Pharaoh gains the ability to permanently ban up to seven people (characters, not players) from Egypt.

• The ban applies to the character, not to the player. A player whose character is banned is free to create a new character.
• Demi-Pharaohs may not use their power to ban each other.
• At the moment, a Demi-Pharaoh must click on a person to ban them. This physical limitation is not intended to be a restriction on the ban power: if a Demi-Pharaoh requests that someone be banned, it will happen.
• The spouse of a Demi-Pharoah does not have access to the ban stick, if they log into the DP avi using spouse log. They do, however, have access if they know the DP's password, and are able to log in directly as them.

Term

• Demi-Pharaohs are elected for life. There is no way to remove a Demi-Pharaoh from office once elected.
• A Demi-Pharaoh may be banned through the legal system using law's.
• The legal system may not be used to limit the powers of a Demi-Pharaoh or interfere with the election process, however it may be used to extend powers.

Final Rounds:

These are the candidates that have earned escalation to public vote so far: -names are linked to user page on wiki (which may or may not exist), if the player uses a wiki name OTHER then User:Name Bastet please either change the link or let Draim know in game and he'll change it for you.

• (March 26, 2010): Orishas (47.29), Amethyst (42.07), Izzy (35.32)

ELECTED DP'S

• Orishas
• Daniels (temporarily absent due to real-life reasons. hopefully back in 1-2 months)
• Draim (officially elected after being honorary DP in Daniels' absence)

Final Round Debates

We generally like to have at least one Debate/ Question and Answer period for the people of Egypt to get to know the candidates running and ask questions. To see the log of the Debate please go to debate sub page.

DP Topics to Consider

These are some topics that exist in Egypt and happen all the time. Every DP candidate should have an answer for these and reasoning behind their answers.

1. Stealing.
   1. Can an Elder in a Guild "steal" from that guild? (e.g. 1 brick or 100000000 raeli tiles)
      1. If an Elder in Guild A takes something from Guild A and gives it to Guild B or Person B, is that "stealing"?
      2. If an Elder in Guild A takes something for personal use, is that "stealing"?
   2. If a member in Guild A takes something for personal use or to give to Guild B, is that "stealing"?
   3. Can a spouse "steal" from a spouse?
   4. If an Elder is booted from a Guild, are the other Elders "stealing" the Guild and its resources?
   5. If a Guild has multiple Elders and one Elder boots all the other Elders from the Guild, is the remaining Elder "stealing" the Guild and its resources?
2. Resource Location Conflicts. (note: There are no property laws in Egypt)
   1. If someone builds a CP or Mine next to someone else's is this "griefing"
   2. If someone (A) is "griefed" by person (B) and they "retaliate" against person B by building beehives or brickracks or flax beds etc is that also "griefing"?
3. Does "gaming" exist?
   1. Does having a spouse or mules or access to friends accounts and playing those accounts constitute "gaming"?
   2. Does having your spouse or mules or friends and guildmates vote or play your test item (e.g. art or thought puzzles, with or without knowing the answers) constitute "gaming"?
   3. Does having your spouse or mules or friends or guildmates play in tournaments or special events constitute "gaming"?
4. Does "cheating" exist?
   1. If someone passes a test (e.g. thought test) and then tears down and rebuilds that item (same spot, same answer) - presumably to gain another pass - is that "cheating"?
   2. If someone passes a test (e.g. thought test) and then re-configures that item so that it will no longer count as "recently passed" and makes no advertisement of it - presumably so players looking for recently passed puzzles will come and play their new puzzle and then gain another pass - is that "cheating"?
   3. If someone solves a puzzle or has access to an external puzzle solver and then gives the answers to their spouse or mules or friends or guildies, is that "cheating"?
   4. If someone solves a puzzle (e.g. venery) and then posts the answers in open or private chat is that cheating?
5. Macros
   1. Are using macros cheating?
      1. Are using wiki posted macros cheating?
      2. Are having private macros (shared only with selected people) cheating?
      3. What about people that cannot use macros. Are they being cheated? (wrong OS, not enough PC power, not knowledgeable enough to use or write one of their own)
   2. Is using a macro in a special event (e.g. gather grass) cheating?
6. Cultural and Religous and Historical Conflicts
   1. There are many players from different countries and cultures that play. Sometimes there are conflicts that arise because of these differences.
      1. What constitutes "offensive" speech?
         1. Are racial, sexist, religous, political remarks offensive?
      2. What constitutes "offensive" behavoir?
         1. Are stalking, "dissing", rumor-mongoring "offensive" behavior
      3. What constitutes "offensive" actions.
         1. Are buildings, sculptures, designs etc offensive if they offend 1 or more players?
         2. Are buildings, sculptures, designs etc offensive if they offend any class of players? (e.g. hispanics, asians, americans, europeans etc).
         3. Are buildings, sculptures, designs etc offensive if they offend any religous group of players? (e.g. muslims, jews, christians, buddhists, hindus etc.)
         4. Are buildings, sculptures, designs etc offensive if they offend any nationalities? (e.g. <you put in a name here>)
   2. Are cultural or historic insensitivites bannable? (e.g. if someone says <X did not happen> or <all Y are dirty> or <all people who wear Z are evil/traitors/should be executed> etc)
7. Majority/Minority
   1. In some countries majorities rule and in others minorities are given special consideration so that they are not constantly overruled by the majority.
      1. Is there a majority of 1 (one)? Can 1 person overrule the majority?
      2. Is there a majority of a minority? Can any group (any size) over rule the majority?