Proposal: The Bare Minimum Revisited
Timed out 1 vote to 1 with 2 unresolved DEFs. Failed by Kevan.
Adminned at 02 Sep 2023 14:35:08 UTC
In the rule “The Conclave”, after the text “An Abandoned District may not make any response other than a null response.” add the following text:
If a District responds with anything other than a null response, it must allocate a sufficient quantity of resources in that response to result in a Score of at least 2, or if it is not possible to do so, a Score greater than 0 and as close to 2 as possible. If a District cannot respond with a null response and cannot allocate any combination of resources to result in a Score greater than 0, it must respond with an allocation of 10 People, or if it has less than 10 People, all of its People.
This somewhat mitigates the issue Josh pointed out with a District dragging out the Plenary Sessions with very low bids by establishing a minimum bid.
There’s also a hack where a District does not have the resources to get a Score other than 0, so technically they could allocate 1 People or 1 Energy for a Score of 0 and it wouldn’t be a null response, resulting in a “dying” District that keeps hanging on for a very long time. A penalty of 10 People in this case will ensure that a District that has little chance of winning will be removed fairly soon.
I’ll probably be impacted by this, but I’d rather not drag this out too long.
Josh: he/they