Rule 5E18

From B Nomic

Rule 5E18: Joining and Leaving (Essential)

There exists a ministry known as the Ministry of Society. The Minister of Society, also known as the Registrar, is responsible for maintaining a Public Display of the current Players and their Rule-defined attributes, as well as a Public Display of the current Public and Discussion Fora.

A Player is an Outsider who consents to be governed by the rules, fulfills all requirements for continued playerhood specified by the rules, and has become a Player in a manner specified by the rules that were in effect at the time e became a Player.

Any Human External Force who is not already a Player and who has not been a player in the current or previous nweek can become a Player by posting a message to a Public Forum containing a request to become a Player and a uniquely identifying name that e wishes to be known by.

Any Player can change their name to any string not already the name of another Game Object as a Game Action.

A Player may cease to be a Player by Forfeiting the game; this must be done in a Public Forum unless there are no working public fora, in which case he may notify the Player he most recently knew was Registrar privately instead.

No restrictions may be placed on when a player may forfeit; any player may forfeit the game at any time (regardless of any timekeeping device used in the game).

In its request to become a player, an External Force may name a group of current players that were responsible for its desire to join the game. A recruitment bonus of 60 mackerel shall be evenly divided between the players so named when the External Force becomes a Player, with any fractional mackerel being destroyed.