[s-b] Proposal: Speedier Actions

["Geoffrey Spear" <geoffspear@xxxxxxxxx>]

I submit the following proposal, entitled "Speedier Actions", intended
to allow certain slow actions to be done more quickly if it would be
fair to do so (and in accordance with the general will of the
players).  The first part addresses Emergencies specifically where a
consensus can develop on how to best resolve the Emergency that
shouldn't require a full 9 days of Pause, and the second would allow
any action that can be performed without objections to instead be
performed as soon as a majority of the Active Players approve the
action, assuming no Player, active or not, objects.  This has the
potential to allow non-controversial actions that would otherwise take
2 ndays to be done as soon as a substantial portion of the Players has
had a chance to review it.

{{
In the rule entitled "In Case of Emergency" or in Rule 0 if this is
ambiguous, add a paragraph after the last paragraph with the following
text:
{{{
At any time during a state of emergency the Emergency Coordinator can,
with 2 support and without objection, make any change to the game
state or the Rules.  [[That is, if there's a unanimous consensus among
the PEPs as to how to resolve an Emergency or on required changes to
the Emergency procedures, the EC can make those changes in the 2 days
required to wait for a single player to object rather than a fill 9
days of Pause).]]
}}}


Create a new rule entitled "Unanimous Consent" with the following text:
{{{
If the rules allow a Player to perform a game action with X support
and without Y objections, for any values of X and Y, he may, at his
option, instead perform that action after obtaining Unanimous Consent
to perform that action.  This rule defers to any rule that allows and
action and explicitly forbids the use of Unanimous Consent.

A Player obtains Unanimous Consent for an action by announcing in a
Public Forum the action he intends to take and the fact that he's
seeking Unanimous Consent.  The action takes place when a simple
majority of the Active Players have announced their support for the
Action in the Public Forum if and only if no Player has announced an
objection to the action in the meantime.  If any Player does object to
the action in this interval, the action does not take place,
regardless of the threshhold of objections that would have been
required to stop the action had it been attempted without Unanimous
Consent.  The Player attempting the action may not perform the same
action by Unanimous Consent in the same nweek, although he may perform
the action with X support and without Y objections through a new
announcement.
}}}

}}

--Wooble
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