Thursday, August 11, 2016

Call for Judgment: Not So Fast, Nelson

Reached quorum 7 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 11 Aug 2016 18:14:46 UTC

In the rule “Ships”, replace “As an Inclusive action, if a Hunter’s ship’s name is “Unnamed” they may set it to any alphanumeric string 20 characters or less.” with:-

As an Inclusive action, if a Hunter’s ship’s name is “Unnamed” then they may set its name to any string of two or more capital letters which appears in the “Prefix” column of a table at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ship_prefix&oldid=732570722, followed by a space, followed by any single single-word adjective which is listed as a synonym, antonym or related word at http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brave.

Rename all Ships which aren’t called “Unnamed” to “Unnamed”. If any Declarations of Victory are pending that depend upon the name of a Ship, fail them.

We just enacted arbitrary text gamestate injection again - there’s now a shaky but not entirely dismissable DoV to be had on the grounds of “my ship is named the Victory, I have achieved ownership of it, I have ‘achieved victory’”. I’m fixing this rather than chancing it.

posted by Kevan at 11 Aug 2016 16:45:00 UTC Comments (9)

Comments

Larrytheturtle:

11-08-2016 16:49:16 UTC

for I would say that while shaky it would probably hold up, good catch.

RaichuKFM: she/her

11-08-2016 16:50:43 UTC

for Whoops.

That’s a nice list of words, right there.

Aname:

11-08-2016 16:55:39 UTC

for I’m not sure if there’s a possible injection that would work, but better fix it.

There is still a possibility of injecting an arbitrary string of capital letters (though that requires vandalising Wikipedia). It seems to me like it’s not too dangerous, should we be worried about it at all?

Kevan: he/him

11-08-2016 16:57:56 UTC

I’m deliberately linking to a specific version of that Wikipedia page, rather than the current one.

qwertyu63:

11-08-2016 17:26:45 UTC

for

Clucky: he/him

11-08-2016 17:45:27 UTC

I don’t see how owning a ship named “victory” means you have “achieved victory”. Could add a clause to clarify that it doesn’t if you really want, but it’s less fun if you can’t give your ship any name.  against

Clucky: he/him

11-08-2016 17:47:33 UTC

actually I’ll for for now, just to be safe. but think we should change this to something better

Aft3rwards:

11-08-2016 18:09:11 UTC

for I agree with Clucky though, I wanted to call mine the SS Misery :(

Kevan: he/him

11-08-2016 18:14:00 UTC

We can always change our ship names directly by proposal. Or throw in some extra thesaurus pages to choose from.