Monday, September 26, 2016

Proposal: Border Fatigue

Timed out 5 votes to 1. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 28 Sep 2016 13:04:40 UTC

In “Gerrymander”, after “When a Councillor Gerrymanders, they choose one block of Auld Anchorage and change its Constituency to any other Constituency.”, add:-

If the Constituency being changed from is represented by a Councillor other than the Councillor taking the action, then the block now supports no Party.

In the rule “Auld Anchorage”, replace “Each Block supports one of four Parties” with:-

Each Block may support one of four Parties

Adding a voter apathy cost to taking another Councillor’s ground (which can be avoided by arranging for the other Councillor to give you the block instead).

posted by Kevan at 26 Sep 2016 12:58:00 UTC Comments (10)

Comments

Josh: he/they

26-09-2016 14:43:26 UTC

against Doesn’t seem to make much thematic sense.

Kevan: he/him

26-09-2016 15:00:15 UTC

I was just looking around for a small extra cost to attach to this, and this seemed an easy one. I think it makes a bit of sense - the inhabitants of the block see their boundary being changed aggressively against the wishes of their incumbent Councillor, and so are initially lukewarm to the new Councillor.

Viv:

26-09-2016 17:04:48 UTC

I see.  for

Viv:

26-09-2016 17:09:57 UTC

Hang on. Shouldn’t that then only happen if the Block was supporting the Councillor’s chosen party at the time of takeover?
Thematically speaking.

Kevan: he/him

26-09-2016 17:34:25 UTC

I think residential grumpiness would also make sense where an Up Councillor was grabbing a Strange hipster district purely to make their Constituency Diverse. Taking a rival’s block is always going to be a “the strength or bonuses of my constituency are more important than yours” situation.

Brendan: he/him

26-09-2016 18:41:38 UTC

for

Aname:

26-09-2016 21:31:26 UTC

for

Matt:

27-09-2016 03:36:50 UTC

for Looking forward for a way to re-assign a party to a block.

Kevan: he/him

27-09-2016 08:29:46 UTC

[Matt] Campaigning already does that.

Brendan: he/him

27-09-2016 15:26:39 UTC

There’s an edge-case argument to be made that “Campaigning” only supports changing a Block to “any OTHER party” and that a Block of no Party might not qualify for that condition… but I don’t think that would make it past a CfJ.