Call for Judgment: Phantom Jockey Syndrome
Reached quorum, 7-0. Josh
Adminned at 05 Dec 2020 09:25:59 UTC
Pilot Raven1207 has pulled off a series of remarkable manoeuveurs. First, they set themselves to jockeying without selecting a shell for themselves (which is legal, thanks to an errant “may”); they then gave themselves a shell and took experience for it, which is only ambiguously legal.
It would be legal if they destructed their first phantom Shell (which they would be able to do as its energy would be zero), but it doesn’t look like they did; their wiki edits don’t reference it and they didn’t give themselves XP for having lost a shell. Without having detonated their shell and become Demobbed, adopting a new Shell is illegal, as one can only start piloting a shell when one is not already Jockeying.
Seems kinda silly to CfJ this, as a lot of these problems are already patched by pending proposals. The impact here is minimal: we either strip Raven of their shell, as that was the part that was done illegally, or retrosctively assume that they detonated before taking it up. I’m inclined towards the latter as it cuts down on admin; they’re just going to do it themselves anyway.
So: consider this edit to have included Raven detonating their old shell; ensure that gamestate tracking reflects the additional 1 Experience they would have gotten for detonating said shell; and uphold Raven’s edits to the gamestate to the time of that edit.
Kevan: he/him
Would add that when this was pointed out on Slack, Raven said “Oh did I trigger something wrong?” and when the lack of Demob was pointed out said “Oh”, which would support the idea that they didn’t choose to Demob themselves.
On a pure legal reading they should still have a Mark I Shell and a Power/Attack/Defence of 0/0/0, and zero Experience, and we’d be still waiting for them to resolve “A Jockeying Pilot with a destroyed Shell must set their status to Demobbed and blank their Archetype, Power, Attack and Defence.”
But I don’t begrudge assuming that they’ve done that and giving them 2 Experience, if that’s how the Poindexter wants to go forward.