Saturday, October 16, 2021

Call for Judgment: Power Struggle

Popular on timeout 6-0. redtara

Adminned at 18 Oct 2021 15:57:40 UTC

In Electricity, replace “No more than 20 floors may be Powered at any time. If at any time a citizen causes more than 20 floors to be Powered, they must randomly select enough Powered floors to become Unpowered until only 15 floors remain Powered.” with:

No more than 20 floors should be Powered at any time; If at any time a citizen causes more than 20 floors to be Powered, they must randomly select enough Powered floors to become Unpowered until only 15 floors remain Powered.

Since “no more than 20 floors may be powered,” people are saying that proposals which would power more than 20 floors have no effect on powering/unpowering floors. Despite my misuse of the word “may,” the intention was clearly to allow it, but require that enough floors to be unpowered to bring us back below the maximum of 20. Otherwise the second sentence never applies, despite having an obvious function.

posted by Zack at 16 Oct 2021 13:17:00 UTC Comments (8)

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Zack: he/him

16-10-2021 13:49:43 UTC

To be clear, all this changes is the “may” to a “should”.

Brendan: he/him

16-10-2021 14:00:37 UTC

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redtara: they/them

16-10-2021 14:23:40 UTC

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Kevan: he/him

16-10-2021 15:14:33 UTC

Has there been disagreement on how the current rule would be interpreted?

If not, changing the effective outcome of the Deceptively Simple proposal after two players have already voted on it isn’t ideal.

TyGuy6:

16-10-2021 16:29:55 UTC

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Brendan: he/him

16-10-2021 16:36:53 UTC

For what it’s worth, Kevan, I posted that proposal with this interpretation in mind.

Kevan: he/him

16-10-2021 16:41:57 UTC

Sure, but the issue was pointed out before voting began. But looking again Zack is taking a different reading, so there is disagreement.

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Josh: Observer he/they

17-10-2021 16:37:21 UTC

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