Proposal: [Core] Anyone Can Help With The Chores
Quorum Reached. Passes 4-0—Clucky
Adminned at 28 Jul 2024 03:16:51 UTC
In the Core rule “Victory and Ascension”, replace the text starting with “start a new dynasty by completing the following Atomic Action:” and ending with “using the terms defined on the wiki page Imperial Styles.” with the following text:
make an Ascension Address by posting an entry in the “Ascension Address” category. The Ascension Address should specify the Elder Judge’s chosen theme for the new Dynasty, and it may optionally specifiy one or more of the following:
* New dynasty-specific terms as outline in the rule “Synonyms”
* A number of dynastic rules to keep (if none are specifed then the entire Dynastic Ruleset is repealed)
* Any number of Building Blocks rules to remove or insert, as per the instructions in the Building Blocks section
* The name of the gamestate tracking page referred to in the rule “Ruleset and Gamestate” to a different page that does not exist and does not start with the word “Ruleset”
* The Elder Judge’s Imperial Style, which if specified is a set of nonbinding guidelines that the Elder Judge is encouraged to follow, using the terms defined on the wiki page Imperial Styles.If it has not been done since the most recent posting of an Ascension Address, the Elder Judge or any Fishing Contestant may perform a Dynastic Reset, which is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Update the Ruleset to reflect any changed terms as outlined in the most recent Ascension Address.
* Repeal any dynastic rules which were not listed to be kept in the most recent Ascension Address.
* Update the gamestate tracking page referred to in the rule “Ruleset and Gamestate” with the name specified in the most recent Ascension Address, if any.
* Make any specified or automatic changes to the Building Blocks section of the ruleset as described in the most recent Ascension Address.
* Update the Building Blocks page to reflect any changes to the terms outlined in the rule Synonyms.
In the Core rule “Dynasties”, replace “before an Ascension Address has been posted” with “before a Dynastic Reset has been performed”.
Consider the atomic action Dynastic Reset to have been performed since the most recent Ascension Address.
This change allows the new Emperor to simply post the AA, and then either they or any player can then perform the work of cleaning up for the new dynasty.
but we might also need to allow for emperors to make quick addendums if they realise they forgot something, maybe within the normal 4 hour edit window. I think I’ve seen it happen a few times.
Kevan: he/him
We’d want the Interregnum to end when the Reset happened, not when the address was posted. In practice there’s not much at stake in the gap there (whoever won the previous dynasty can win the new one while all the old rules are still up - except they’re probably the Emperor, so can’t) but it would be strange that we could carry on playing the previous dynasty’s mechanics for a while until someone hit the Reset.
And given that this edit leaves the Emperor’s atomic action as:
* Post an Ascension Address blog entry
* Then optionally specify Building Blocks
* Then optionally edit the tracking rule
* Then optionally specify Imperial Style
it’d be neater to roll the two specifyings (where even the current ruleset doesn’t say where to specify them) into the “and it may optionally specify” of the blog post, also ask the Emperor to optionally specify a gamestate tracking title in their post, and have the tracking rule update (if the Emperor specified one) become part of the Reset.