Sunday, July 09, 2023

Proposal: Out in the light

Reaches quorum with 7-0 and is enacted -SingularByte

Adminned at 09 Jul 2023 21:47:31 UTC

In rule 2.1, replace ” If there are fewer than five Machinists who have either voted on a proposal or taken a dynastic action in the preceding 4 days”
with

If there are fewer than five Machinists who have either voted on a proposal or publicly taken a dynastic action in the preceding 4 days

I’m sad I missed the last dynasty because by the time I noticed how interesting it was looking, it would’ve been too late to jump in. However, this one also looks good so I figure I’ll jump in with an obvious rules fix: some dynastic actions can potentially only be known to the Machinist and the Grand Machine, so we can and should exclude them from consideration for Omertas. Net character change of 9.

Comments

Kevan: he/him

09-07-2023 09:39:18 UTC

Tangentially, should we even count “voted on a proposal” here?

The issue last dynasty was that the game went down to a 2-vs-1 endgame but didn’t trip into Dormancy because although Raven1207 wasn’t playing the dynastic game, they were still regularly casting votes.

SingularByte: he/him

09-07-2023 09:44:29 UTC

I’d say we probably should, on the basis that you might end up with quiet points where few people need to take a dynastic action that week. You wouldn’t want the rug pulled out from under everyone by setting it to Omerta if a few people have no actions they can take.

Josh: he/they

09-07-2023 09:46:49 UTC

Yeah, if we exclude “voted on a proposal” then the game immediately trips into Omerta as there are no dynastic actions to perform yet.

Kevan: he/him

09-07-2023 10:47:07 UTC

If we don’t, though, Omerta won’t work in a situation where we’d want it to, where three people are competing and one or two are just watching and voting. I guess we can come back to this later in the dynasty, though.

Kevan: he/him

09-07-2023 13:48:29 UTC

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Lulu: she/her

09-07-2023 13:52:23 UTC

for

Bucky:

09-07-2023 15:07:12 UTC

for

JonathanDark: he/him

09-07-2023 16:16:05 UTC

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Maldor: he/him

09-07-2023 18:00:54 UTC

Do we currently have a of exiting Omerta or is that something that gets invoked and stays until the end?

SingularByte: he/him

09-07-2023 18:12:55 UTC

Currently I imagine you’d have to propose and/or cfj your way out of it. There’s nothing in the rules so far about exiting it.

Josh: he/they

09-07-2023 19:30:56 UTC

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lemon: she/her

09-07-2023 20:07:11 UTC

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