Proposal: Eternal Truths
7-1. Reached quorum, enacted by Excalabur.
Adminned at 25 Oct 2005 11:59:51 UTC
Add a rule named Eternal Rules:-
A rule may transcend the ability of even the gods to change. Such a rule must labelled an Eternal rule in the ruleset.
An Eternal rule may not be repealed or amended by proposal during this dynasty. If an Eternal rule is altered by other means, as part of that alteration every variable in the gamestate over which that Eternal rule has some control is reset to its default starting value, or cleared if it has no starting value defined.
If a Proposal affects a part of the gamestate or ruleset which is also governed by an Eternal rule that Proposal fails unless it gets unanimous FOR votes.
In the last dynasty we saw how easy it was for other players to gang up on a winning player. It seems that every time someone wins in Blognomic it is by surprise, before the other players can organize and react. What would happen if we froze parts of the game and lived with the consequences? Obviously we have to be careful to lock down only rules that we want to be the solid bedrock of this dynasty.
This is a very bad idea. What will happen if someone stuck a loophole in a Eturnal Rule?
Then the game breaks, no biggie.
Angry Grasshopper: Idle
I’m game for un-amendable Rules, but that implies that some rules ought to be amendable, at least moreso than they are now, don’t you think?
Perhaps we can make some rule that allows Quintessence to be spend to modify the rules in some minor way. Rules sandbox, anyone?
>>as part of that alteration every variable in the gamestate over which that Eternal rule has some control is reset to its default starting value, or cleared if it has no starting value defined.
What does this mean?