Saturday, July 04, 2015

Proposal: Never send an admin to do another admin’s job.

Passes 6-0. Enacted 21:49 by Tantusar. (Which is more accurate than the 7:49 I posted earlier. #Australia)

Adminned at 04 Jul 2015 22:03:13 UTC

In rule 2.3 “Convoys”, replace

If the Position of a Convoy is an unoccupied Zone, the Driver of that Convoy may change its Position to the next Zone on its Route, by posting a comment to this effect.

If the Position of a Convoy is a Zone occupied by a Tribe, that Tribe may change the Convoy’s Position to the next Zone on its Route, by posting a comment to this effect.

with

If a Convoy is in a position, and its Driver’s Effective Strength in the next Zone on that Convoy’s Route exceeds the Effective Strength of the Tribe occupying that Zone (or if there is no such Tribe), then the Driver of that Convoy may Change its Position to that Zone by posting a comment to this effect on the post which initially described that Convoy.

To rule 2.3 “Convoys”, add a subrule called “Support” with the following text:

Each tribe has a Strength value, which defaults to 1. Tribes have an Effective Strength for each Zone, which defaults to their Strength.

Each Tribe has a Support value, tracked in the GNDT, which is “-” by default. As a daily action, a Tribe may change its Support value to be one of “-” or the name of a Tribe.

A Tribe’s Effective Strength for a given zone is increased by 1 for every other Tribe adjacent to that Zone which supports that same Tribe.

This is Iepnw III’s proposal in a post that is neither illegal nor broken or self-killed. Vote on this instead of the illegal post and the one prior to that.

Comments

redtara: they/them

04-07-2015 07:39:36 UTC

for (I’ve unidled and quorum remains at 4. See why we need my fix???)

Tantusar: he/they

04-07-2015 07:39:57 UTC

Actually probably should have used “monkey” instead of “admin” but ah, well.

Josh: Observer he/they

04-07-2015 07:51:38 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

04-07-2015 08:26:15 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

04-07-2015 08:35:27 UTC

Although I did like the small mechanic of requiring other Tribes to move your Convoy through their territory - that you couldn’t complete your route without their explicit approval, giving them a chance to renege on whatever deal they’d made with you. With Convoys of “I plot a route, I post all the comments, the end”, even your Supporters wouldn’t have time to change their minds.

Darknight: he/him

04-07-2015 10:08:35 UTC

for

Brendan: he/him

04-07-2015 14:20:38 UTC

What does “every other Tribe adjacent to that Zone” mean? A Zone controlled by that Tribe, or a Convoy from that Tribe? What about Tribes IN that Zone?

for

redtara: they/them

04-07-2015 16:21:18 UTC

Brendan: It was intended to be the former—Zones controlled by the Tribe. Maybe we can fix that.

As written, Tribes in the zone can’t support a convoy moving into their own zone. (They also can’t support themselves for defensive purposes, but that’s probably less controversial.)