[spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Prop: Leveling The Playing Field(s)

["Orc In A Spacesuit" <orcinaspacesuit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "David E. Smith" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> {{ __Leveling The Playing Field(s)__
>
> Reset the elevation of all Grid squares to zero.
>
> Remove Iain from the Roster.
>
> }}
>
> [[ The former is a more literal leveling, obviously. The latter is, well, 
> because Iain hasn't actually been around in most of a year, and IMO 
> Glotmorf has had an unfair advantage ever since. ]]

Back when I was proposing the changes to the Societies rule, we eventually 
got down to only one real sticking point:  whether or not societies could 
force actions upon their members.  Such as voting.
There were two reasons for this:  First, Glotmorf said that he and Iain had 
some sort of deal such that Glotmorf would preserve Iain's place in the 
game.  And the way to do that was for Glotmorf, through M-Tek, to force him 
to vote.  I'm okay with Iain staying; if he wants to stay, I say let him.  
That's where the Lurking prop came from; I don't recall if the version that 
passed included making Iain Lurking, but that was the reason behind it.  Let 
someone who's going away for an extended period and being able to come back 
later.  The second reason to allow societies to force action was that there 
might be something that players might want to do automatically for the 
society, such as dues; that's where Automation Scripts came from.  Just set 
it to pay your society every so often, and boom, its done.

With that said, does anyone have any other reason to allow societies to 
force actions, as it the current interpertation allows them to (unless they 
at some later date say "no, I didn't do that", and undo doing that forced 
action and leave the society at a past point in time, hence Screwing With 
Time), and going with the "If they don't do this, then the society boots 
them out, and maybe takes some other actions" way of doing things?

Orc in a Spacesuit

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