Tuesday, April 07, 2020

Proposal: [Special Case] [Appendix] Busy Work, But Be More Good Like

Popular and enacted 9-0.—Tantusar

Adminned at 09 Apr 2020 08:10:01 UTC

Rewrite the introduction of Special Case so it reads:

Special Case Rules can be Active or Inactive. If the title of a Special Case Rule includes “[X]”, where X is either Active or Inactive, then its status is X. Otherwise, its status is its Default Status.

Special Case Rules have a Default Status, which can be Active or Inactive. If the title of a Special Case Rule includes an asterisk, (*) its Default Status is Inactive, otherwise, its Default Status is Active.

When a new Dynasty is started, the Ascension Address may list any number of existing Special Case Rules to be set to a status other than their respective Default Status. All other Special Case Rules are set to their respective Default Status.

The text of a Special Case Rule that is Inactive is flavour text.

Add a bullet point to “Names”:

When referring to a Rule, the name used in reference to a specific Rule may be simplified by not including braces, any text between a pair of opening and closing braces, and, in the case of Special Case Rules, any asterisks, as long as such a reference would be unambiguous.

Is this better? God, I hope so. I just want it to work.

Comments

TyGuy6:

07-04-2020 16:09:03 UTC

Currently “The text of Special Case Rules that are inactive shall be interpreted, for the purpose of play, to mean nothing.”

How is flavour text better than meaning nothing?

I guess the asterisk=defaults to inactive is kind of cool.

Tantusar: he/they

07-04-2020 16:10:32 UTC

as far as i’m aware there is mechanically no difference, i saw an opportunity to use less words and took it

Kevan: he/him

07-04-2020 16:15:06 UTC

Good point, I don’t know why we didn’t unify that when flavour text came in.

for Asterisks is a clever solution.

naught:

07-04-2020 16:19:18 UTC

for

Tantusar: he/they

07-04-2020 16:27:35 UTC

even less urgent exercise for the reader: move the tags rule out of votable matters and expand its scope

Josh: Observer he/they

07-04-2020 17:16:46 UTC

for

Clucky: he/him

08-04-2020 15:12:35 UTC

for

Lulu: she/her

08-04-2020 17:49:28 UTC

for

Darknight: he/him

08-04-2020 19:24:54 UTC

for

pencilgame: he/him

08-04-2020 21:37:47 UTC

for

Brendan: he/him

09-04-2020 00:50:38 UTC

for