Aren’t there a number of idle nomicers in Diplomacy? Snisbo, VotableCatter, bais, etc? This risks spilling the strategies of multiple countries in Diplomacy unless I’m missing something.

Ugh. Yes. I suppose I can get by with not talking to them for two days. Next adjudication is still a while off.

With a Wildcard Emperor, I think this is too likely to produce a biased result – the Emperor could easily go Adversary to produce a result that had nothing to do with the gameplay, or Dungeonmaster to actively discriminate against the players doing well.

Snibo was recently in discussion in the server so would that have counted?

but I’d be willing to vote on an equivalent proposal where Josh either names and justifies his choice in advance, or lays out all the factors he’s considering and how they’d be weighted, without revealing the winner’s actual name until after the vote.

I think I’d be adverse to creating a situation where the outcome could be contested but I can say that I would genuinely try to fairly reflect who I thought was the merit best player of the dynasty. That would take in, although not exclusively: use of proposals and votes to secure self-interested positions, a subjective assessment of tactical choices made in action performance, and any apparent substantive progress made towards either pooling or scamming around conventional play. I do think I know who wins on those measures but I haven’t completed the exercise.

As Kevan said in my CFJ, any victory proposal should also probably remove DoV lockouts on the winner – otherwise you might give someone victory that they can’t legally declare.

My comment on your CfJ remains my position on this, regardless of who it applies to - the DoV lockout exists, it is a rule, we have had the opportunity to repeal it and haven’t taken it, and as Emperor I don’t see a good reason to try to circumvent it.

Not long to go now, though, in any case.

I’m not keen on ending it like this, and there’s too much risk of it messing up an unrelated game.

Withdrawn

to give Josh a chance to revise this

CoV, had forgotten about the arrows.

Only the revise votes cast at the time of the proposer arrow-withdrawing count towards a revise-withdraw, so the CoVs to revise are moot. I had just woken up so I just missed it was already withdrawn.