Saturday, September 23, 2023

Proposal: Private Eyes

Timed out 1-3 with 1 DEF. Failed by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 25 Sep 2023 21:26:36 UTC

Add a new subrule to “Meddling” called “Private Security”. Give it the following text:

A Punter may contribute up to 20 Readies to an upcoming Sporting Event’s Security, provided that this amount does not exceed the amount of Readies they have, by privately notifying the Bookie of their intent to do so.

If at least one Ready has been contributed to a Sporting Event’s Security, and any Meddlings were planned for that Sporting Event, the Results Post for that Event shall mention that tampering was detected and Bookie shall privately notify each Punter who contributed a Ready of the target of a secretly randomly chosen Meddling planned on that Event.

If the number of total Readies that have been contributed to a Sporting Event’s Security equal or exceed ten times the number of planned Meddlings (including duplicates of the same Meddling planned by different Punters), and at least one such Meddling is planned, those Meddlings are all ineffective and the Results Post for that Event shall mention how many Meddlings were prevented. Whenever Meddlings are prevented this way, each Punter who contributed to the Sporting Event’s Security and did not plan one of those Meddlings loses Readies equal to their contribution. If the Sporting Event occurs and no Meddlings are prevented, each Punter who contributed to the Sporting Event’s Security loses a single Ready.

Comments

JonathanDark: he/him

24-09-2023 05:46:48 UTC

Didn’t Meddling cost Readies at one point? I thought it was 10 Readies.

I ask because I think this contest between Meddling and Security should be played with Readies, and a Punter shouldn’t get either for cheap or free. I’m thinking that the more a Punter contributes to a Meddling, the more has to be contributed in total to Security to reveal that Meddling.

Since Meddling right now appears to be free,  for but I’ll likely propose a change to the overall system if this looks like it’s going to pass.

Bucky:

24-09-2023 07:05:28 UTC

Making Meddling free was the main point of “Meddling Quids”.

Kevan: City he/him

24-09-2023 10:06:47 UTC

This all seems a bit no-win-no-fee, if you only have to pay for Security after it finds something, and don’t if it doesn’t.

against

Josh: he/they

24-09-2023 10:25:17 UTC

imperial

JonathanDark: he/him

24-09-2023 17:35:45 UTC

If that’s the case, then CoV against because free Meddling vs paid-for Security means an imbalance that doesn’t make much sense to me.

Bucky:

24-09-2023 23:56:18 UTC

It’s less of an imbalance than the current free meddling vs. impossibly expensive Security.

Lulu: she/her

25-09-2023 13:57:23 UTC

against