Thursday, October 06, 2016

Call for Judgment: Charm Offensive

Timed out 3 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 08 Oct 2016 10:13:02 UTC

In “Party Lines”, replace “Each Councillor is part of one of the four Parties, and this is tracked in the GNDT.” with:

Each Councillor may be part of one of the four Parties, and this is tracked in the GNDT.

Then set every Councillor’s Party to nothing. Then set Josh and Kevan’s Party to “Down”, Matt’s Party to “Strange” and Viv’s Party to “Up”. Consider all game actions taken so far based on Councillors’ Party values to have been taken as if every Councillor had always been able to be part of no Party.

The phrasing “Each Councillor is part of one of the four Parties” means that every Councillor has to belong to one of the four Parties at all times, and that “no party” isn’t a legal Party status.

The glossary says that “If a game variable has no defined starting value, then that starting value is [...] the alphabetically earliest legal text string it may take”, so we are all (and always have been) part of the Charm Party.

posted by Kevan at 06 Oct 2016 09:34:00 UTC Comments (2)

Comments

Matt:

06-10-2016 15:35:19 UTC

for This is a good retroactive fix but it might be better to explicitly specify a default instead of having to resort to the Glossary for newly joining Councillors.

Brendan: he/him

06-10-2016 18:42:59 UTC

for