Nothing wrong with the theme, but I don’t like it.

I like it.

Explicit FOR vote with Victory Now.

Early victory conditions shape the game better as long as they aren’t achievable until later.

not a huge fan of the theme either.

Amnistar: I have an idea that could be thematic; let’s make a dynasty based around the idea of actually improving the core rules. Then the founding father can be someone that has done the best improvements. If someone makes a followup proposal along those lines, I will back this theme.

I like arthexis’s idea. The problem I see is that it may be a solution in search of a problem. Many times we only see limitations or scams in the core rules after they’ve been exploited; would a dynasty dedicated to finding those in advance actually get enough done to justify it?

IMO, it wouldn’t.  But would a core ruleset without any possible scams be a good one, in any case?

I am not so interested in removing scams, I am more in favor of making the core rules more fun, something that makes play a better experience.

We could work with this.

per Arth.
And early victory conditions can lead to early victories.

Early victory conditions make for quick dynasties.

Victory Eventually

I was opposed when I was thinking it was about American history, but now I think it’s about outer space and the future. Until the rules say otherwise, I’m sticking with that.

Great theme, less keen on the early victory condition (particularly when it only requires half of quorum to be in favour).

Kevan, it requires half of voters, not half of FOR voters.

Victory now

[Amnistar] That’s potentially as low as half of quorum, and it could be even lower than that, if this proposal times out. The oldest proposal is currently timing out with 26 votes; if the same happened here, only 13 players would have to CoV to include the EVC phrase. I don’t want to endorse the possibility of a victory condition that might only be supported by 13 players (and opposed or ignored by 35).

Kevan, that same logic could be used to explain just a victory condition passing period. If only 26 players vote for it we can get a victory condition with only 13 players in favor.

Sure, and we’d deserve that. And I would vote against a proposal that added a rule saying “Amnistar may propose the following victory condition, but only the first 26 votes count”.

S/K in favor of the slightly more meta theme.