Friday, July 07, 2017

Proposal: [Core] Snapshot Victory

Self-killed. Failed by pokes.

Adminned at 08 Jul 2017 19:27:11 UTC

Amend “Every Explorer may cast Votes on that DoV to indicate agreement or disagreement with the proposition that the poster has achieved victory in the current Dynasty.” to

Every Explorer may cast Votes on that DoV to indicate agreement or disagreement with the proposition that the poster has achieved victory at the moment that the DoV was posted, in the current Dynasty,.

It’s entirely possible to change the gamestate during Hiatus (Idling/unidling/CFJs/etc), and such an ability has been attempted to be used as a defense against DoVs before. However, it can be also taken that a DoV should be used to validate a victory at the moment of posting it, regardless of changes during Hiatus.

I believe it would be good to reach an agreement on whether its one or the other.

Comments

Kevan: he/him

08-07-2017 08:04:20 UTC

Seems fine with “achieved” already being past tense. We’ve had (I think) dynasties where someone met the victory criterion for a few minutes, but then lost it again - but it was still correct to say that they “had achieved victory”.

against

Madrid:

08-07-2017 08:18:24 UTC

Oh. I didn’t realize that.

So, it’s not longer ambiguous (I just read up on Present Perfect tense lol. “The present perfect tense is used to describe something that happened in the past, but the exact time it happened is not important.”), and this Proposal was to fix ambiguity, so against