Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Call for Judgment: Allocation shenanigans

Quorum of AGAINST votes
Failed by Hix

Adminned at 10 Jul 2007 09:20:22 UTC

At 17:46 yesterday, Chronos—one of my Subsidiaries—destroyed one of their own Factories, rendering my Production overallocated.  They then proceeded to Advance Time, and used the Government’s privilege of adjusting overallocated Production values (since my 10% of their Production was now smaller) to cause me to build 52 Factories, where I had intended to build 0.

It’s a good scam, but it’s clearly against the spirit of the rule, which was intended to keep people from overproducing, not to give the person Advancing Time total arbitrary control over anyone who misses a point.  (Said scam also makes the 10% rule completely pointless, as any Subsidiary can just pull the same scam if their Parent bothers to allocate their cut.)

If this Call passes, revert my GNDT stats to pre-Time-Advancement levels, and change “adjust” to “reduce” in the paragraphs beginning “The Government may Advance Time” and “If over 48 hours have passed” in the rule “Production.”

Comments

Clucky: he/him

10-07-2007 11:27:33 UTC

against I like the change, because its currently a flawed system that makes it impossible to use Subsidiaries—but I feel the move at the time was perfectly legit.

Zephyr:

10-07-2007 13:07:40 UTC

against Very nice scam indeed, and perfectly legal. You may say “against the spirit” but its perfectly legal. >.<

Bucky:

10-07-2007 13:25:21 UTC

against

Hix:

10-07-2007 13:59:04 UTC

against Absolutely legal, and not at all based on an obscure interpretation of any rule.

I don’t know why some of you are saying the 10% rule is pointless….  (Hint!)

Denis Brandao:

10-07-2007 14:30:41 UTC

against A bastard move indead, but Legal.

Kevan: he/him

10-07-2007 14:37:53 UTC

against Yeah. I’d vote in favour of a fix and a refund, though.

Hix:

10-07-2007 15:39:14 UTC

A refund?  It’s their own fault for not realizing that it was possible.

**shudders at own use of plural pronoun to represent singular unspecified gender**

ChronosPhaenon:

10-07-2007 16:14:43 UTC

against I don’t see the 10% clause as pointless. Only the unauthorized use of a Corp’s resources. See my move as a Poison Pill, if you want.