Not sure I follow the first bullet point here - it’s for cases where there are more FOR/AGA votes than DEF votes? Why would we want the Emperor’s DEF to switch off at that point?

For what it’s worth, past dynasties have used eg. “If the Doctor has voted DEFERENTIAL on a proposal, that vote is instead considered to be valid and either FOR (if more players have voted FOR the proposal than have voted AGAINST it) or AGAINST (in all other cases).” - which I think cascades out correctly if the proposal has a mix of FOR, AGA and DEF.

We can probably remove the second point. If non-Emperor people don’t care enough to vote at that point, might as let the proposer do what they want and just get a new dynasty sooner.

{Kevan} my mistake, I meant if the number of DEFs exceeds half of the votes and have changed that accordingly.

{Cuddlebeam} I’d rather err on the side of caution

Shrug, good enough I guess.

Afraid I still don’t understand the need for the first bullet point here. If a proposal has 3 FOR, 1 AGA and 4 DEF, why wouldn’t we want the Emperor’s DEF vote to convert that into 8 FOR, 1 AGA? Having the Emperor DEF ignored just means it’d time out at 3-1, to the same end.

(This should probably also enter the ruleset Inactive, as it would interact a little weirdly with the Captain deferential proposed by A Broad Bright Coin.)