quick revise withdrawn by Chiiika.
Adminned at 11 Jul 2025 08:59:42 UTC
In “No Private Communications”; amend “A mentor and mentee may still privately converse with each other, but should keep their conversations away from discussing specific gameplay strategy. This rule’s restrictions on communication do not apply during an Interregnum. The restrictions in this rule on communication in non-blognomic-related media shall not be construed as to cause those media to be gamestate. ” into
A mentor and mentee may still privately converse with each other, but the mentor and the mentee should not pursue strategies that is based on the private information of the other party.
In “No Private Communications”, add a new subrule with the following text:
This rule’s restrictions on communication do not apply during an Interregnum, even if this rule is active.
i want to experiment with this form of the proposal first; open to amending later on.
in essence; i don’t believe that it is a good idea that mentors are blocked from talking about nomic strategies when NPC is active; especially when the whole idea of mentorships is to guide new players into nomic. does that create situations where the mentor may know some secret identities of the mentee; or can conspire something in the dark? yes; but when the whole rule is based on good sportsmanship (in the sense that if i were to really conspire and then later say ‘nuh-uh’; there’s not really much that is stopping me apart from the sense of being a good player w/in the community) i think it is better to give the leeway when there is a new player involved.
and; i’m really confused by the second part of this; until i read the proposal back then.
edit 1: reinstated the Interregnum loophole; i was parsing it as the limits of this applies only to mentor-mentee communicaion. i still don’t see the merit of arbitrarily construing the ruleset’s scope to be infinite (hypothetically; if there is a rule “Chiiika must work for 24 hours”; there is zero chance i work 24 hours.)
Adding subrules to building blocks is cognitively squishy. What happens to that subrule (which is unnamed in this proposals) at the end of the dynasty? Will future emperors be able to switch on the rule without the subrule, or, worse yet, the subrule without the rule, leading to a whole pile of weird potential interactions? I would prefer that the text was just folded into the body of the rule it’s referring to.
Trapdoorspyder: he/him