Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Proposal: Good riddance, Puck

Adminned at 22 May 2009 21:12:03 UTC

Part 1:

If there exists a rule entitled “Social Structure”, then add a subrule to it with the following text:

Grudges.
There is a GNDT column called “Grudge” whose legal values are the names of all non-Host Contestants. A Contestant is said to have a Grudge against any one or more Contestants named in eir Grudge column. A Contestant may not simultaneously have a Grudge against, and Support, a particular other Contestant: if any change in Gamestate required or permitted by the Ruleset would, but for this sentence, cause a Contestant to simultaneously have a Grudge against, and Support, a particular other Contestant, then the Grudge will exist and the Support will revert to its default value).

Part 2:

Change the sentence in the rule “Social Structure” that presently reads:

A Contestant’s Support defaults to the Contestant immediately below them in the GNDT, skipping the Host, with the bottom Contestant defaulting to the top Contestant.

so that it reads:

A Contestant’s Support defaults to the Contestant immediately below them in the GNDT, skipping the Host and any Contestant whom the Contestant has a Grudge against, with the bottom Contestant defaulting to the top Contestant.

Deliberately omitting the mechanics of how one can acquire or lose a Grudge. This can be fleshed out later.

Fails with 10 :against: and 5 :for:

Comments

Kevan:

05-20-2009 20:28:59 UTC

This sounds a little too similar to the existing “Vote” statistic (although “Grudge” is a much better name for it).

spikebrennan:

05-20-2009 20:35:00 UTC

Perhaps there can be an amendment such that you can only Vote for someone that you have a Grudge against (but you can simultaneously have a Grudge against several other Contestants).

Oh, I didn’t read it as being against multiple contestants (“whose legal values are the names of all non-Host Contestants” suggested otherwise). I guess that’s okay, so long as we keep it to the right-hand edge of the GNDT to stop it offsetting the columns too much.