Would it be more elegant to state that no Gamestate changes can be made until the pending DoV is resolved?  The idea being that casting a vote (I.e. Posting a comment containing a voting icon) does not change the gamestate in and of itself since the gamestate change resulting threfrom only happens once the proposal is resolved.

Would it be more elegant to state that no Gamestate changes can be made until the pending DoV is resolved?  The idea being that casting a vote (I.e. Posting a comment containing a voting icon) does not change the gamestate in and of itself since the gamestate change resulting threfrom only happens once the proposal is resolved.

No, a player’s vote is itself gamestate - it’s “information which the Ruleset regulates the alteration of”. (You alter your vote by posting a comment with a vote icon.)

[Trivial]

For what it’s worth. Hiatus doesn’t do much if we remove the voting restriction.

One big concern: It’s been traditional for newly elected Emperors to veto a whole raft of newly-irrelevant proposals, but at the end of Hiatus they could all get enacted, endowing a race condtion.  There may also be concerns with the AA, though I think that’s less of a thing. 

Consider a proposal “X wins this dynasty”, which is pending during Hiatus.  If it has a Quorum of FOR votes and times out during hiatus (And is oldest pending, say), then it’s enactment or veto depends on who gets there first.  Under the old system the new emperor almost always had a little while to deal with such things.

CoV Per Excalabur.

I’d were there a trustworthy emperor, but seeing as there is none and this is a core rule change, I must vote .

@Excalabur: If voting is allowed during Hiatus, then we can also allow actions from Rule 1.8 during Hiatus.  Then the new Leader can veto stuff between the DoV passing and the Ascension Address.

Eh, CoV

Passing 10-5. 1 Trivial.

That a quorum of voters would support both Player A’s DoV and a simultaneous “Player B wins” proposal seems a bit unlikely. (And the problem would still exist if “Player B wins” reached quorum but Player A got their DoV in before anyone could enact it.)

We could get around this by allowing non-Emperor players to cast a vote of VETO without it meaning anything (so that “Proposals the Leader has voted to VETO are considered vetoed.” would kick in as soon as the DoV resolved, and prevent pending pseudo-vetoed proposals from being enacted).

@Qwaz: Allowing voting during Hiatus isn’t really a problem, especially as proposals can’t pass then. The big reason to Hiatus is to prevent gameplay actions during a DoV.