There’s no such thing as a [Special Cases] tag. In fact, this might need [Appendix] instead, since the ruleset (wrongly) insists that “Section Three contains the appendix”.

I’ll keep the Special Cases tag. but I have added Appendix.

  this whole tag thing confuses me

CoV.

On the grounds that it could make recovering from an unpleasant dynasty harder, if you have to attract players without being able to fix bad rules.

[Semiel] For context, Dormancy is a reproposal of a mechanic we tried out last year (I guess it got repealed during an ascension?), and which I think worked okay. It triggered a couple of times and we got new or returning players within a few days each time, kickstarting the game. In most cases you’re only going to need one new player to get the game up again.

There can be a bit of a death spiral in quiet dynasties, where a rational player who thinks they have a decent lead will react to that silence by maintaining it (voting slowly and not proposing new mechanics), in the hope that even more players will get bored and drift away, leaving them the victory. And even if you aren’t in the lead, if you can get the game down to two or three players, you can probably get away with a yawning “let’s just end it, random player wins” proposal.

Dormancy prevents a quiet game from being in anybody’s interest.

Also take note that this only prevents Dynastic actions and proposals from being submitted. You could still CfJ if the rules were really that broken.

Although this instance of the wording is different from the previous one since blognomic doesn’t go into hiatus; any proposals left would be passed/failed according to the core rules.

[Darknight] its to prevent accidental core rule edits and the like, but since a new section was added it became a little broken.

OK, CoV, per Kevan and card. I’ll leave it there since I don’t really have the nomic experience to feel confident either way.