Thursday, March 25, 2021

Proposal: The Masters

Fewer than a quorum not voting against. Failed 3 votes to 5 with 1 unresolved DEF. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 26 Mar 2021 13:46:25 UTC

If Proposal: Lacuna has more FOR votes than AGAINST votes then it is Popular and must be enacted immediately.

Add a new rule to the ruleset, called Exhibition Matches:

As a weekly action, a Player may issue an Exhibition Challenge to another Player with a higher Magistrelli than themselves by making a story post whose title is “Story Post Challenge: X”, where x is the name of the Player to be challenged.

When such an Exhibition Challenge is issued, the challenged player and the Dealer have 24 hours to respond. A response is a comment containing a FOR voting icon to the Exhibition Challenge post.
* If neither the challengee nor the Dealer respond then the Challenge is deemed to have been lost in the mail and the Exhibition Challenge is cancelled, and the challenge post ceases to be an official post with no further effect.
* If the Dealer responds but the challengee does not then the challengee has chickened out, and five pegs are transferred from the challengee to the challenger.
* If the challengee responds but the Dealer does not then the challenger and challengee have an additional 24 hours agree to either agree to either:
** Suspend the match (in which case the Exhibition Challenge is cancelled, and the challenge post ceases to be an official post with no further effect), which will be the default outcome if no agreement is made;
** Resume the challenge, if the Dealer responds during the additional 24 hours; or
** Identify and agree a willing interim Dealer, who must set up the match and, when it is finished, close it as if they were the Dealer using the rules set out in the rule Tournament Rules of Giolitti. The Exhibition Match then goes ahead.
* If both the Dealer and the challengee respond then the game goes ahead.

When an Exhibition Game goes ahead, it is set up as detailed in the rule Tournament Rules of Giolitti, with the following exceptions:
* The Readiness of the Players is neither checked nor altered;
* The stakes of the game start at 3 and players may not post a Sfida.

Comments

Kevan: he/him

25-03-2021 10:38:23 UTC

A good idea, but this has the same problem that 4D Chess had, in that the Giolitti rules can’t currently handle multiple concurrent games.

Shortcut solution for now would be to say that when selecting random games, if any Exhibition Games are queued up, they get selected first instead.

Josh: Observer he/they

25-03-2021 10:40:29 UTC

I mean I think we might need to make concurrent games possible at some point, that might be the bigger issue.

Josh: Observer he/they

25-03-2021 10:46:30 UTC

Lil backwards daisy-chain there.

Kevan: he/him

25-03-2021 11:01:53 UTC

Oh, definitely, I just didn’t want to ask you to write such a thing in full before the edit window closed. And that’s a neat way to do that.

pokes:

25-03-2021 15:39:17 UTC

against for obvious selfish reasons.

Kevan: he/him

25-03-2021 17:08:40 UTC

imperial

pokes:

25-03-2021 18:10:07 UTC

Well now that you’re in the lead it’s not for selfish reasons, but still I vote no only because I love sfida so much that I’d hate to see it go, especially in what might become the only games that really matter.

Josh: Observer he/they

25-03-2021 18:13:59 UTC

I’d be up for an amendment to this that made Masters game higher stakes - keep sfidas but multiply the range by three, say…

Brendan: he/him

25-03-2021 18:35:56 UTC

for

Clucky: he/him

26-03-2021 02:09:28 UTC

against i prefer my proposal method where you’ve gotta win your way up to getting to challenge the masters.

Darknight: he/him

26-03-2021 05:13:05 UTC

imperial

Bucky:

26-03-2021 06:06:38 UTC

against

Kevan: he/him

26-03-2021 09:53:43 UTC

(Note that this proposal can’t yet be failed, as Darknight’s DEF no longer resolves, under the new version of Imperial Deferentials.)

Lulu: she/her

26-03-2021 11:56:35 UTC

against

lemon: she/her

26-03-2021 13:13:04 UTC

for