Proposal: Know the Odds
Found unpopular with 1-5 and fails -SingularByte
Adminned at 01 Apr 2025 05:51:10 UTC
After the first paragraph of “Announcements of Attainment”, add a new paragraph:
When the game enters Lacuna, the Equity of each Nomicer is set to the value specified for that Nomicer’s Equity on the public Equity tracker. If a Nomicer believes that any of those values are incorrect, a Call for Judgement should be called to correct its value (and Calls for Judgement for this purpose can legally be made even if there is no dispute as to what the correct value is).
It’s quite probable that there are mistakes on the Equity tracker, or will be in the future – there have already been at least three incidents that cause them to be uncertain (SingularByte Laddering the flavor text field, the “is Milling legal?” discussion, and the mess-up with midnight last night). This is a problem because Roll Off requires the probabilities to be exactly correct – so if you use incorrect probabilities, e.g. because the tracker is wrong, the win isn’t actually awarded – and thus if the winner of the roll isn’t confident that the correct probabilities were used (and it seems hard to be confident of that), they can’t legally post a DoV and thus we will need a CFJ to fix the matter (or possibly the dynasty will fail to end correctly if the winner posts the DoV regardless).
Instead, let’s save time by doing an auto-“uphold” of the tracker as Lacuna is entered. That will give us 48 hours to do any corrections, which is enough time to pass a CFJ, and should hopefully ensure that the roll-off is uncontroversial.
Josh: Imperator he/they