Proposal: Overwatch
Reached quorum 7 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 15 Apr 2025 12:39:08 UTC
Add a subrule to “Shadow Ruleset” called “Stopwatches”:-
Each Guard has a Stopwatch, being a piece of flavour text (tracked privately by the Concierge) which is either blank or the name of a proposal. A Guard may set their Stopwatch as a virtual action. If a Guard has a Stopwatch set which names a pending proposal, then the Concierge may not perform the Patrol Assessment action.
If a Guard includes a comment on a dynastic proposal consisting of the single word “PIVOTAL”, then that proposal is a Pivotal one. A Pivotal Proposal may not be enacted by Agents (or idle Agents) who are not the Concierge. The Concierge should not enact a Pivotal Proposal if there are unresolved virtual actions.
Under the proposed Shadow Ruleset system, if we’re in the Setting Patrols phase and there are consecutive proposals of “Guards Move Faster” and “Burglars Move Faster” in the queue, the Guards will very much want the Phase to change after the first enacts, but before the second does.
Rather than have that depend on the timing of when the last Guard submits a Route and when I’m able to process it, this allows any Guard to delay in advance the earliest queue point at which I’m able to perform the phase-change action, and to publicly put the later proposal on hold so that it can’t be enacted before I have a chance to change the phase.
but I’m in favour of the suggestion of core proposals getting a free pass.
JonathanDark: he/him
Shouldn’t the Stopwatch only affect a dynastic proposal and not any proposal? I guess it doesn’t matter that much, but if the idea is prevent timing issues with resolving proposals, then non-dynastic proposals shouldn’t matter.