BlogNomic: The Ninth Dynasty of ais523

I am unclear as to why we’re panicing about changes to the core ruleset. It’s held up rather well over the years.

This dynasty is one in which tinkering with the core rules seems like an interesting option. In that case, safeguards will help to promote a more interesting style of play. (Scamming over at Agora is fun precisely because of all the safeguards that are there to try to stop people doing it; as a result, it’s mostly socially acceptable to scam if you can find a way to get around all of them.)

For the Suberian nostalgia.

Why? Never needed this, and I don’t see we are in a special circumstance where we have messed so much with core rules that wee need to protect ourselves from that.

, since I intend to do a few core rule tweaks during this dynasty.

as arthexis.

Bucky: if they’re good tweaks, will they not get a 2/3 majority?  This doesn’t make revisions impossible.

I see many problems…

Getting 2/3 will likely never be “impossible”, since changes of vote are commonplace.

I doubt very much whether a pending proposal (as referred to in the second sentence of the proposed rule) will ever alter (present tense, as used in the first sentence of the proposed rule) a Core Rule.  So the second sentence will pretty much never actually have an effect.

I have my reasons for believing that the first sentence of the proposed rule ought not work as you probably intended, but for the sake of making another point, I will suppose that it does prevent certain proposals from becoming Enacted.  In that case, what happens when the oldest pending proposal has 60% FOR votes?  The new rule says it cannot be “passed”, but neither the new rule nor the core rules allow it to be failed.

We have always interpreted the voting rule, for the purposes of quorum, to assume that players that have expressed an opinion will continue to express that opinion.  if the language has been tightened up, so be it, but that’s what this says and I’m sticking to it.

Currently 7-6 FOR

I urge everybody to consider the second scenario exposed by Hix: clearly this can cause a player to get stuck in the queue for ever under some circumstances.

CoV per arth and Hix.

Fine.  I’m not sure why this is neccessary anyway

(S-K)