Thursday, July 19, 2007

Proposal: No forcing your offices on me!osh

Passed. Josh

Adminned at 21 Jul 2007 03:34:19 UTC

In the third paragraph of rule “Escrow”, replace the sentence

If the conditions come to pass as specified in the post, the recipient gains the Products so placed, and may immediately add them in the GNDT.

with

If the recipient has made a comment to the post including the FOR voting icon, and the conditions come to pass as specified in the post, then the recipient gains the Products so placed, and may immediately add them in the GNDT;  it does not matter whether the comment including the FOR voting icon was made before, after, or simultaneously with the conditions coming to pass.

.

Add the sentence

Once products have been taken back in this way, the post’s recipient may no longer gain the Products as described earlier in this rule.

to the end of the third paragraph of rule “Escrow”.

The Government may, at any time within 72 hours of this Proposal’s Enactment, modify the GNDT values of any Corporation they believe to have been a victim or benefactor of any unfair exploitations of Rules which, because of this Proposal’s Enactment, would no longer be judged legal—including, but not necessarily limited to:  forcing products upon a Corporation in an attempt to cause that Corporation’s production to be set to zero, or claiming Products from an escrow that has been withdrawn.  If the Government chooses to so modify GNDT values, they should do so only in an attempt to compensate any victims of the unfair exploitations, or nullify the advantage gained by a benefactor of the unfair exploitations.

Comments

ChronosPhaenon:

19-07-2007 03:45:30 UTC

imperial

Brendan: he/him

19-07-2007 12:36:43 UTC

Hmm, there’s already a precedent that suggests that this isn’t really a loophole.  It’s not a bad addition, though.  for

Hix:

19-07-2007 14:09:24 UTC

I assume the actual reason that your example precedent didn’t work is simply because the title of the post is incorrect.  As for the arguments made in comments to that post…

It’s a trivial matter to phrase an Escrow condition that will unavoidably “come to pass”, which sidesteps one of the objections.  And I think Clucky correctly answered the other raised objection:  The products are immediately gained when escrow conditions are met; the Gamestate changes even if no one updates the GNDT entries to reflect the change.

The second part of this proposal is fixing an entirely different loophole, and definitely needs to be implemented ASAP.

Bucky:

19-07-2007 17:50:34 UTC

for

Night:

19-07-2007 18:04:47 UTC

for

Chivalrybean:

20-07-2007 06:15:11 UTC

for

Josh: he/they

20-07-2007 11:20:52 UTC

for

Kevan: City he/him

20-07-2007 14:34:35 UTC

for

Clucky: he/him

21-07-2007 03:48:57 UTC

for