[s-b] Will's Meta Refresh Proposal Proposal

["William P. Berard" <william.berard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Let's sum up the situation: (please feel free to comment or correct me 
after any of those points)

The present emergency occured because of a quantuum dissolution of the 
gamestate, which happened because of the creation of doomsday devices, 
due to a loophole in device creation regulation.

On top of this, coincidence or deep political plot (It's only called 
paranoia if you can't prove it), the situation emerged in the middle of 
a debate on playership and factionship of certain entities, with deep 
implications that I cannot grasp having joined the game last week only.

It seems to me that it is widely agreed amongst Players (either through 
the discussion forum, what has been said on IRC tonight, or from the 
various refresh proposals) that the bare minimum to get out of the 
emergency is to fix the device loophole, and, while we are at it, to 
sort out, the playerhood problem, either in a temporary (remove 
playership/factionship) or permanent (remove playership/factionship, 
and change rules regarding their attribution) .

One could argue that the playership/factionship issue was not the 
primary trigger of this emergency, and could be solved in a normal 
fashion through legislation. But I can understand that we want to kill 
several birds with the same stone.

I have seen, in the refresh proposals, various player attempting 
different tactics at tackling those problems, while trying to preserve 
the integrity of the game. Some (0x44's original proposal, AaronC) went 
for the bare minimum, another tried closing the device loophole by 
instauring a variant of the monopoly rule (Codae), which if it were to 
pass would certainly change the game, and BobTHJ went as far as 
proposing deep changes in the gameplay in order, not only to close 
those loopholes, but also to insure a minimal risk of such a situation 
arising again in the future.

I think the downside of refresh proposal is that they come in a All or 
nothing package. Which, in my opinion, is a real shame, because I see 
lots of very good Ideas there, and I think ithey deserve to be 
discussed and voted properly, individually, with points awarded to 
their creators.

So here is my idea, it might be a bit lateral, thinking-wise, but here 
it goes.

we are in, according to Rule 0 in an emergency situation, which means 
it will be at least 9 nDays before we go back to normal. we are in for 
a loong, loong one, and I suspect I am not the only player who would 
like to see things moving.

As such, I propose a meta proposal : conceptually, the idea is to pass 
the barest minimum refresh proposal to get us back into a _safe_ 
gamestate. then, give us time to re-submit all those good ideas from 
the various refresh proposals, and voting on them, getting us back into 
a _stable_ gamestate (that is, with the underlying problems that lead 
to the current situation fixed.)

Before you read, let me point out to people who have submitted a 
refresh proposal, or intend to do so, that my goal is not to "win" the 
refresh proposal over yours. my goal is to give you a framework so you 
could submit the ideas contained in your refresh proposal as individual 
proposals, so we can get the best of all of them, and you can get 
points for them. I think it's a win-win situation for everyone 
involved.

I am thinking along the lines of brutal, but efficient

{{
Create a new Rule, called "Emergency UberRule A" stating that

{
As soon as the pause End, and until the proposal repealing this rule is 
passed :
	
-The only permitted Game Action is to submit a Proposal, or Revise it.

-No entity may become a player or a faction [[This is already enforced 
by the first rule, but let's make it clear]

-In the unlikely event that a completely new External Force would 
express the whish to join the game as a Player, we will explain the 
situation to him and ask him politely to wait.

-The AFO ceases to be a player (if it is one).

-The AFO ceases to be a Faction (if it is one).

-Agora ceases to be a player or a faction (if it is one).

-Dice Master ceases to be a player (if it is one).

-All Devices and Blueprints are destroyed, Except the one named "The 
Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch"
[[Those devices could not have been used anyways, because ofthe first 
rule. Obviously the remaining existng device cannot be used]

-All Players having submitted a Refresh Proposal are invited to submit 
their constitutive sub-proposals, as individual, regular proposals, 
with easy-to-refer-to titles [[I suggest, if you are a player named 
JohnDoe, naming your proposals JohnDoe-1, John-Doe-2, or for better 
reference, JohnDoe-Devices-1 if the proposal is about Devices]]

-Those proposals need to state clearly conflicts and dependancies.

-The Players who have not submitted a Refresh Proposal during the 
Emergency are encouraged to submit any proposal they see fit, bearing 
in mind that the goal is to reach a stable gamestate. [[a bit of fair 
play, but do not shy off big structural changes]]

-All Proposal that were pending at the time the Emergency started are 
made Pending, but Players are invited to retract proposals that are not 
relevant anymore, or that target issues being addressed by the new 
proposals.

-The clock is set to nday4 [[This should leave us enough time to come 
up with proposalsand revise them before nday9]]

-The vote will proceed normally, with the exception that, when the 
points are counted, Players whose proposal has failed because an 
alternative proposal has been adopted will not lose points. [[The idea 
here is to not punish people for coming up with ideas, however, for 
brand new proposals with no competiting proposal, failure will be 
sanctioned as usuall]]

-A player called "The Nomic" is created.
-"The Nomic" submits the following proposal :
  {repeal Emergency UberRule A}
-the Player called "The Nomic" ceases to exist

}

This is just a first draft, really, any input is welcome for subsequent 
revisions, I'm not quite sure in particular of the idea of 
not-punishing players. I do not want players to lose points just 
because their good idea was not favoured, I'd like a non-judgemental 
brainsotrming, but on the other hand, I am not quite sure I can rely on 
Fair Play and hope people do not abuse this rule to proposal-spam.

There is also the delicate issue of ministries, the only one we need 
filled is the Ministry of Change, and we need someone who has time to 
update the wiki, and can do it efficiently, and fast. I am thinking of 
having an informal discussion/vote in the discussion list, and then, if 
anyone is willing to assume this position for 9 ndays, assign it to him 
in the UberRule...

Ideally, now, that is very ideally, this is meant to be an soft 
emergency state. I would like to consult the Emergency coordinator and 
my fellow players to know whether it would be sensible to argue that, 
since the UberRule effects a very similar state of emergency (regarding 
game action) as the one we currently operate under, it could be 
considered to do an emergency vote on this meta-proposal, so, if it 
were to be accepted, we could start moving into the "soft emergency" 
enforced by the UberRule, and start fixing the ruleset, as soon as 
possible.

Will

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