Tuesday, April 06, 2021

Proposal: Locked Out

Timed out. Passes 4-1 with 1 def—Clucky

Adminned at 08 Apr 2021 18:01:37 UTC

In “The Crown Match” replace

When the second Player to reach 30 or more Magistrelli does so, the Dealer will immediately set every Player’s Readiness to “No”, and then set the Readiness of the first and second Players to reach 30 or more Magistrelli to “Yes”.

If two or more Players each have a Magistrelli score of at least 30, Players may no longer change their own Readiness, the first and second Players who reached 30 or more Magistrelli are the Contenders, and all other players are Spectators and may not become Contenders. The Contenders may not participate in Games other than the Crown Match. Spectators may at any time spend six of their own pegs to give a Contender a single peg as long as neither the Spectator nor the Contender is in an Active Game.

with

When the second Player to reach 30 or more Magistrelli does so, the game enters Finale. The dealer will immediately set every Player’s Readiness to “No”, players may not change their Readiness for the remainder of the dynasty, and no new games may be started unless covered by this rule. 

The first and second Players who reached 30 or more Magistrelli are the Contenders, and all other players are Spectators and may not become Contenders. Spectators may at any time spend six of their own pegs to give a Contender a single peg as long as the Spectator is not a participant in an Active Game.

Cleaning up the wording a bit. Let contenders still play out their old matches, otherwise they would just have to time out and everyone could bet on their opponent and get free pegs. Allow people to give pegs to contenders even if the contender is still in a match, so there you’re not stuck trying to hit the perfect window. Make it clear that the Dealer can’t start a non-crown match between the contenders. Prevent any sort of “idle while readiness is yes, then come back and your readiness is still yes so you can still play games” shenanigans.

Comments

Josh: Observer he/they

06-04-2021 22:04:19 UTC

When the second Player to reach 30 or more Magistrelli does so, the game enters Finale. The dealer will immediately set every Player’s Readiness to “No”, players may not change their Readiness for the remainder of the dynasty, and no new games may be started unless covered by this rule.

The ole subordinate clauses scam, eh

(As in: the second sentence in that paragraph needs to be dependent on the first.)

Oh, edit window; sorry.  against

lemon: she/her

06-04-2021 22:25:08 UTC

against

Clucky: he/him

06-04-2021 22:57:59 UTC

is it really a scam? Like sure we should clarify that that only happens once the game enters finale, but its not like anyone benefits from trying to claim that clause always applies.

pokes:

07-04-2021 00:01:43 UTC

for I don’t buy Josh’s complaint. A plain reading would attach the second sentence to the first

Josh: Observer he/they

07-04-2021 09:50:05 UTC

I think we could trivially find a hundred examples from BlogNomic’s recent past to suggest that that is not consistently the case.

Clucky: he/him

07-04-2021 15:18:17 UTC

sure but normally there is a point to those scams. here there is none and if for some reason Kevan does it anyways before you can get a fix through stopping him from doing so, a CfJ can fix it.

Josh: Observer he/they

07-04-2021 15:22:12 UTC

Fair enough.

I withdraw that objection, then for

Brendan: he/him

07-04-2021 23:36:16 UTC

imperial

Kevan: he/him

08-04-2021 17:46:55 UTC

imperial