Proposal: Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Are Abandoned
Reached quorum 4 votes to 0 with 1 unresolved IMP DEF. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 29 Aug 2023 17:29:00 UTC
In the rule “The Conclave”, replace the text “If a Conclave is under way and it can be demonstrated that no District is capable of receiving any further Anointments” with this text:
If a Conclave is ongoing and there is no District that can make a non-null response to any of the Agenda Items defined by the ruleset
In the same rule, after the text “A District may make a null response.”, add the following text:
An Abandoned District may not make any response other than a null response.
I know that we already have the text “An Abandoned District cannot achieve victory while it remains Abandoned.”, but that doesn’t stop an Abandoned District from receiving Anointments. If we get to a point where everyone else is tapped out, we reach an impasse where the Abandoned District has the most Anointments, cannot achieve victory, and no other District can achieve victory either.
I think it’s best to say that an Abandoned District has effectively dropped out of the Conclave, since they can’t achieve victory anyway.
Josh: he/they
The first amendment retains an existing loophole by which a player who is not winning can stun-lock the game by posting null responses indefinitely despite having the resources to bid, presumably to extract wincon - probably too late to do anything about this now, though.