Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Proposal: Security

Reached quorum, 8-0. Enacted by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 16 Jan 2025 06:03:23 UTC

Enact a new rule, called The Vault {I}, with the following text:

Dynastic Rules are either Immutable or Mutable, signified by either an {I} or an {M} in their title.

Mutable rules may not permit or confer Victory upon a Participant; any Mutable rule that makes a statement that directly awards Victory to a Participant instead does not, and may be repealed by any Participant.

Mutable rules may not permit the direct amendment or modification of the Dynastic gamestate through any means other than the definition of Heist Actions.

An Immutable rule may not be amended through the application of a Heist Action.

Where a Mutable rule and an Immutable rule contradict one another, the Immutable rule takes precedence.

Enact a new Building Block, called Dynastic Safeguard, with the following text:

No dynastic action in this dynasty may alter any non-dynastic rule in any way. Any dynastic action that would directly amend the text of this rule is illegal and may not be undertaken. This rule must be repealed upon Ascension.

For any Dynastic Rules with the titles Coregency, Teams and Targets, and Timing, add an {I} to the end of its title.

Amend the text of the Glossary entry in the Appendix rule ‘Keywords’ for Dynastic Action to read: “An action that is defined only in the Dynastic rules”

Comments

ais523: Mastermind

15-01-2025 18:04:08 UTC

There appears to be a formatting error in this post (an unclosed italics tag).

ais523: Mastermind

15-01-2025 18:06:12 UTC

Ah, I think I know what happened – you wrote an I in square brackets and it is being misinterpreted as an italics tag.

Perhaps it would be best to use a different notation instead (maybe (M) versus (I)) to prevent the same issue happening in other players’ posts.

ais523: Mastermind

15-01-2025 18:11:34 UTC

Another thought, to prevent potential unintended core rules breakage: could you amend “dynastic action” in the Glossary from “An action that is defined in the Dynastic rules.” to “An action that is defined only in the Dynastic rules.” as part of this? Arguably, because a dynastic rule defines how voting works in a Coregency, voting is a dynastic action this dynasty, and I’d prefer not to think about the implications of that.

Josh: Mastermind he/they

15-01-2025 18:13:11 UTC

Done.

ais523: Mastermind

15-01-2025 18:17:39 UTC

It needs to be, e.g. “glossary entry in the appendix rule ‘Keywords’” otherwise it won’t cause the change due to the proposal not having appropriate tags (the rule is not called “Glossary”).

Josh: Mastermind he/they

15-01-2025 18:22:40 UTC

God, will the Tags rule ever not be the bane of my life

JonathanDark: he/him

15-01-2025 18:25:15 UTC

Ah, Mutable and Immutable, back to Nomic origins!

JonathanDark: he/him

15-01-2025 18:26:42 UTC

Is “Enact a new Building Block” sufficient to have it copied back to the wiki page of the same name? Or is that not intended?

Josh: Mastermind he/they

15-01-2025 18:31:20 UTC

It is not intended - I just want it to sit there so it is protected by Fair Play and is safely outside of the scope of dynastic rules.

ais523: Mastermind

15-01-2025 22:02:14 UTC

for

Habanero:

15-01-2025 22:29:22 UTC

for

SingularByte: he/him

15-01-2025 22:42:25 UTC

for

JonathanDark: he/him

15-01-2025 23:12:07 UTC

for

Raven1207: he/they

15-01-2025 23:23:43 UTC

for

Brendan: he/him

16-01-2025 02:49:46 UTC

for

Janet: she/her

16-01-2025 03:18:23 UTC

for