Without a Bid reset, this would allow each player to remove as much of their influence as they like before the Proposal enacts, which is particularly beneficial for Kevan.

Before which proposal enacts, ayesdeeef?

This Proposal preventing multiple Bids.

Because there is currently an active Dean appointment and no limits on Bidding.

There are several other easy ways to dump unwanted Influence, such as switching Loyalty and buying Benefices.

Apart from the general rule that it’s bad to be an outlier in Nomic, I’m not sure where you’ve gotten the idea that a high Influence is a bad thing. (Being a Papabile has no defined effect.)

Those other “easy” ways are at least not entirely limitless in the way that Bids are.

Being a Papabile prevents you from choosing Superbia under the Ruleset and prevents you from choosing Luxuria under Thrawn’s proposed Family Ties. Given that so far, being a Papabile is trending towards being a bad thing, it is fair to assume that it will only get worse as the Dynasty progresses.

  I think the point of bidding is that you can attempt to outbid your opponents. If a Cardinal is willing to spend all of his influence electing a certain person to an office, he should do so.

Hmm, I did wonder if that’s why they were called “Bids”, but the fact they had to be made as a sequence of separate comments made it seem unintentional.