401 or 402 characters; the rule number kills it.

Is it? I used https://wordcounter.net/character-count and got 398.

It is, once the automatically added rule number from a new rule is included in the count.

Don’t reckon the numbers count as they only appear in the table of contents; if they do then the title needs to be counted twice (once for the rule, and again for the contents every).

Depends on the reader’s “Auto-number headings” setting, https://wiki.blognomic.com/index.php?title=Special:Preferences under “Appearance”!

However, the underlying wiki markup requires a number of = signs equal to the length of the section number, and that doesn’t vary by user.

I’m also not sure that I’d agree that wikimedia markup counts as added characters, but would accept an amendment to clarify.

For me, the table of contents itself doesn’t count as part of the ruleset in general, and certainly doesn’t count as part of the dynastic ruleset specifically.

If someone does propose an amendment to clarify, I’d suggest also adding a link to a publicly-available tool to do the counting, such as the one I mentioned in my previous comment, so that we can all agree on the same result.

Until then, since there doesn’t seem to be unanimous agreement on whether or not my Proposal would cause an excess of characters, I’m going to proceed as if it doesn’t, unless a CfJ blocks or reverts it.

this can only be used once ever in the whole dynasty

even then, I’d vote against: being told “oh your wins gone now lmao” isn’t very fun

*even if it was fixed

I fixed the “once” issue. As for the rest, that’s a fair point. Let’s see how people vote.

per my complaints

if we want to provide people with the opportunity to reset, we could just flip on reinitialisation

per Lendunistus.

This has the additional problem that it’s effectively secret, meaning that even if someone was in the lead but lost one of their agendas, there’s the very real risk that they’re going to be hit by a bunch more reassignments afterwards to just take them out of the game completely.

It would be too risky to take someone’s word for it that they’ve been reassigned.