Proposal: Database Reboot
Timed out 5 votes to 1. Enacted by Kevan, interpreting “the list” to mean the one referenced by the previous line, and the one that wouldn’t be wrecked.
Adminned at 17 Aug 2020 15:16:49 UTC
Remove the bullet point beginning “Submit a description of the Discovery to the Computer.” from the rule “Making New Distinct Discoveries”.
Replace “Those discovered so far are:-” with “Those discovered so far (listed as “Name [Classification, Dispersal] Description”) are:-”
Reformat the list in “Animals, Vegetables and Minerals” to a bulleted list of “* Name [Classification, Dispersal] Description”.
In Location, after “A name, which is randomly selected from the EFF Wordlist (re-rolling if the result is currently in use in the name of another Location) followed by the location’s Topology”, add:-
. This name is flavour text.
A simpler computer security update to patch the exploit introduced by Pathfinder Josh, and to reclarify that Location Names are flavour text (as who knows what surprises the EFF list holds). Also reformatting the list as a list, as I assume the aesthetic redesign was mostly to enable the scam.
Discovery descriptions will remain Pending for now.
So Kevan has not completely resolved my reservation, which it turns out is based on a misconception: when this proposal says ‘Reformat the list in “Animals, Vegetables and Minerals”’ it runs into the problem that there are two lists in the rule “Animals, Vegetables and Minerals”, one of which would arguably be made neater with this, the other of which (the list of characteristics a Discovery should have) would be wrecked.
Josh: Observer he/they
I’m puzzled about the list format piece. What vulnerability exists in it as written, and what difference does your proposed format make?
My instinct says that if we can’t trust descriptions then we should probably eliminate them, or at least shuffle them off to some non-ruleset part of the gamestate.