Proposal: Black Stars
Antiquorum, 1-9. Josh
Adminned at 13 Jul 2011 23:19:36 UTC
Add a new rule entitled ‘Forfeits’
Each Gladiator has a number of Black Stars, tracked in the GNDT. New Gladiators start with 0 Black Stars.
If any Gladiator breaks the rules, or a Quorum agrees in a Call For Judgement that he has performed any action which is illegal under the Ruleset which is in force at the time of the action taking place, then they shall receive one Black Star for each rule they have broken.
Recently we’ve been having the problem with people doing illegal actions, and actions having to be reverted. The problem with all of this is that reversion is messy, and wrecks stuff when a reversion makes another’s subsequent action(s) illegal. Now obviously the admins need to revert illegal actions, if, by doing something illegal, gladiators gain some advantage, but my thought is that there is no disincentive for players not to do something illegal, since they just get their moves reverted. Therefore I propose some sort of forfeit for players who do break the rules. The nature and weight of these forfeits can be decided in later rules.
ais523: Custodian
You almost certainly want “attempted to perform an illegal action” there. Actually performing illegal actions is impossible, because it’s against the rules, and it’s the rules that determine what is and isn’t possible with respect to gamestate.