Friday, August 02, 2019

Proposal: The Admiral’s First Watch

Reaches quorum, 7-0. Enacted by pokes.

Adminned at 03 Aug 2019 14:50:07 UTC

Change “A Watch is a period of time, beginning when the Admiral posts a Chart Update, and ending 48 hours later.”
to

A Watch is a period of time, beginning when the Admiral makes a blog post announcing a Chart Update, and ending 48 hours later.

Replace the last three paragraphs of the rule, “The Watch”, with the following:

After a Watch has ended, or if no Watch has ever begun in this dynasty, the Admiral may perform the following steps, which should be done in order:
* Remove all Shots marked on the Chart.
* Apply to the Chart all (legal) Orders received from Captains during the latest Watch.
* Update the GNDT to reflect if any Vessels have suffered Damage, changed orientation, been created, or treasure found, et cetera.
* Record the Chart’s new state, clearly and in full, in the wiki page [[Admiral’s Log]]. This is called a Chart Update, and should displace any previous Chart Updates and Hotfixes.
* Create a blog post announcing the Chart Update, which begins a new Watch.

If, during the new Watch, the Admiral feels the above steps resulted in incorrect representation of the dynastic gamestate, they may and should correct the Chart and GNDT, and record the Chart’s corrected state in the [[Admiral’s Log]], but marked separately from the Chart Update as a Hotfix. (This will not affect the start time of the Watch.) The Admiral should immediately describe any such corrections in a comment on the Chart Update announcement post.

 

Enacting admin, add a link to the Admiral’s Log in the blog sidebar, if you please.

Also, this Proposal was written using card’s earlier Proposal as part of the base. Thanks, card!

Comments

card:

02-08-2019 05:04:40 UTC

Ohh I see how we could’ve fixed it so that it could’ve been an atomic action before: the chart could have been defined as a representation of the gamestate, and not actually gamestate, so that it behaves in relation to the rules like the ruleset or GNDT, and then any mistakes would be handwaved away since it’s only a “representation” and not actually gamestate. Anyway that’s just food for the future that might become relevant in a later dynasty.

I don’t believe I’ve written a proposal about this particular rule; are you talking about a comment I left on one maybe?

looks good enough to me for

TyGuy6:

02-08-2019 06:06:57 UTC

Oh, right, it was pokes I copied, from https://blognomic.com/archive/atomic_submarine. I shot it down hard for making an Atomic Action, but the list of steps was a good idea, otherwise. Thanks, pokes!

Not sure I follow the logic on that one, regarding AAs. Reserving right to audit!

Kevan: he/him

02-08-2019 08:08:07 UTC

imperial

Farsight:

02-08-2019 11:19:37 UTC

Might be worth changing the word “orientation” to “facing” just for consistency, but other than that…  for

derrick: he/him

02-08-2019 19:47:50 UTC

imperial

Thunder: he/him

02-08-2019 21:45:51 UTC

for

pokes:

03-08-2019 14:47:17 UTC

for