Proposal : Budget Around

[ Hefty tidying-up of budgets - proposing that they become officially tracked by the GNDT alone and simply default to specific values for unrepresented Planets, and that we refer to the active budget and budget preferences as "Universal Budget" and "Planetary Budgets", for ease of thinking and reference. ]

In Rule 18, replace "preferences in spending, listed in the planet's description" with "preferences in spending, a Planetary Budget, listed in the GNDT", and "no two Planets can have identical preferences" with "no two Represented Planets can have identical Planetary Budgets".

If "Change is good, but it'll cost ya'" passed, delete the sentence beginning "Once a planet", and add the following paragraph to Rule 18:-

A Representative may update their own Planet's Planetary Budget in the GNDT, at any time. This costs 10 Mega-Credits.

Also add to Rule 18:-

Unrepresented Planets default to a Planetary Budget of 10/30/30/30.

In Rule 17, replace "budget plan" with "Universal Budget Plan", "budget spending priorities" with "Universal Budget priorities", "budget preference" with "Planetary Budget" and "current budget figure" with "Universal Budget".

And finally, swap Rules 17 and 18 around in the ruleset, since the former uses terminology which isn't defined until the latter.

Enacted by Mat Dec. 3, 19:33