Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Proposal: Acquital (1482/11/25)

2-1. Timed out.—Chronos

Adminned at 21 Jul 2006 07:44:30 UTC

Enact a local rule Acquital (1482/11/25):

Whenever a Traveller’s TL becomes 1482/11/25, that Traveller is acquited of all eir previous Chronocrimes, if any, ceasing to be guilty of them.

If Proposal: Not So Fast has passed, the Acquital local rule shall have this text instead:

Whenever a Traveller’s travels to 1482/11/25, that Traveller is acquited of all eir previous Chronocrimes, and may change eir Company’s from “Renegade” to “Freelance” upon changing eir TL to 1482/11/25.

Notice this is local to (1482/11/25)

posted by ChronosPhaenon at 19 Jul 2006 14:35:00 UTC Comments (8)

Comments

Bucky:

19-07-2006 14:50:05 UTC

for (1448/12/25)

ChronosPhaenon:

19-07-2006 15:00:20 UTC

Bucky, you’re out of range. With a Influence of 32 you only reach 1480/12/25.

Thelonious:

19-07-2006 15:05:38 UTC

This sounds like a good proposal to me.  If it looks like it’s going to fail I’ll try to get within range to vote FOR.  However, at the moment it looks like it’ll probably pass.

Bucky:

19-07-2006 15:14:00 UTC

CP, I’m in the PRC.  I was well in range.

Hix:

19-07-2006 16:04:31 UTC

against (713/5/11)
This will just cause confusion with the line “A member of the Renegade Company may not change their own Company status.”  (It’s not spelled out anywhere, but “may not” trumps “may” in conflicts that don’t specify how to resolve the conflict)

I thought part of the point of being a Renegade is that it is others’ judgements of you that make you a Renegade.  You can’t shed Renegade status on your own.

ChronosPhaenon:

19-07-2006 17:48:00 UTC

Ok, I forgot about PRC

ChronosPhaenon:

19-07-2006 19:48:15 UTC

Hix, the may/may not distinction was unnoficial last time I checked.

And there also an unnoficial stance were broader rules (may never) are overidden by stricter ones (may when something happens), as is the case here.

Hix:

19-07-2006 20:22:12 UTC

Even if that is the case, the current example is not a representative of a stricter rule overriding a broader rule.  A Traveller’s TL becoming equal to a certain value (the condition for the “may”) is neither more nor less specific than a Traveller’s being in the Renegade Company (the condition for the “may not”).