Proposal: Radio silence
Reaches quorum and passes 6-1 ~ southpointingchariot
Adminned at 05 May 2012 16:18:57 UTC
Add a new sentence to the paragraph starting with “Then, players Restock” in rule 2.5 “Cycle Resolution”:
If a Player did not send any valid Direction this Cycle, their amount of Credits is either doubled, or increased by the number of currently Powered Institutions, not counting the Public, whichever would make it lower.
If a majority of the EVC on this Proposal contains the text “FORMULATION B IS BETTER”, substitute for that sentence:
If a Player did not send any valid Direction this Cycle, they earn in Credits the minimum of their current amount of Credits and the number of currently Powered Institutions (not counting the Public).
The two sentences are supposed to be equivalent, except for the (hugely bad faith-requiring) flaw “if x and y are equal, then neither x nor y is lower” in the first formulation.
Basically not submitting Directions would be equivalent to submitting the Direction “send 1 Credit to every Powered Institutions, if I have enough Credits” (with the exception of the Public because you wouldn’t want to win it with 1 Credit). And with the inconvenient that you can’t actually Influence any Institution this way. And maybe there’s an issue with the Bank, too.
EDIT: Made it a Proposal within 15 minutes.
Josh: Observer he/they