Thursday, December 21, 2017

Proposal: Orphanage

Reached quorum 4 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 23 Dec 2017 14:12:06 UTC

Add to the special case rules the following rule with the name “Orphan Variables”, and set it to Active:

An Orphan Variable is a gamestate variable which, if it weren’t for this rule, wouldn’t be tracked on neither a wiki page nor the GNDT. A Orphanage wiki page exists, which tracks Orphan Variables, and when an Orphan Variable’s value is changed, its is recommended to be performed along a blog post which states that it has been changed.

Safety net for those times when we write rules poorly. Mechanic is Kevan’s original idea.

posted by Madrid at 21 Dec 2017 20:25:00 UTC Comments (3)

Comments

Diabecko:

21-12-2017 20:43:56 UTC

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Kevan: he/him

21-12-2017 22:12:12 UTC

for Would we ever realistically want to switch this off, though?

Even when we want to explore cases that this doesn’t catch (like privately-tracked Imperial secrets), it’d still be good to have a clause saving us from genuinely accidentally floating gamestate. It seems like widening it to “wouldn’t be tracked anywhere else” would be okay here.

ATMunn: he/him

22-12-2017 14:19:01 UTC

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