Proposal: A Moment Frozen In Time
Self-killed. Josh
Adminned at 09 Jul 2021 19:21:22 UTC
Create a new dynastic rule, “Dynastic Delay”:
When a proposal modifies the dynastic part of the ruleset, the “Ruleset” wiki page is updated immediately to apply the effects, but the dynastic part of the ruleset is not modified immediately; rather, the specified updates to the dynastic ruleset are applied at the next time the Crypt Settles or a Declaration of Victory is enacted. This overrides the normal method of enacting a proposal.
The dynastic part of the ruleset is therefore not tracked on the current version of the wiki page “Ruleset”, but rather via the history of the wiki’s “Ruleset” page, checking to see what it said at the most recent point in time at which the Crypt Settled, a Declaration of Victory was enacted, or this rule was created. The current version of the page “Ruleset” tracks the updates to dynastic rules that will be applied in the future, in addition to tracking the core, special case and appendix rules.
Admins may, at any time, update the blognomic.org blog sidebar to contain a link to the current (rather than future) dynastic ruleset (e.g. via use of the wiki’s “permalink” feature), and should do so whenever the link is missing or out of date.
There hasn’t been an Expedition since Monday, and the reason is that people have been waiting for proposals to enact before spending their Puissance (a delay that has become much longer recently because many proposals have timed out despite having become Popular hours earlier). This is leading to the game moving very slowly (as different people were waiting for different proposals and they haven’t been enacted in batches like they usually are). In order to fix this, make it so that there’s never any benefit to waiting. Sadly, this looks a little more complex than it actually is, in order to avoid orphan variables (or in this case, orphaned pending ruleset updates).
Note that only changes by proposal are delayed; if something breaks, we can use a CFJ to fix things (although I’m hoping that won’t be necessary). In case you’re wondering, it is possible to change the history of a wiki page via CFJ (although I’m definitely hoping *that* won’t be necessary!).
Probably this should become a Special Case rule in the future – lots of dynasties would benefit from it – but it’s hard to track the equivalent of Entering the Crypt / the Crypt Settling between dynasties.
Clucky: he/him
was fine most of the dynasty. there was no run yesterday because there was some outstanding CfJs that needed to get resolved, meaning it was just today that someone did an action that delayed things. and i’m not actually sure that was done as a result of waiting for a proposal to pass so I’m not sure if this would help.