[s-d] Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Prop: Elections

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 1, 2004, at 5.50 PM, Jeremy Cook wrote:

> I also don't like p1892. I think my job would be easier if elections 
> for
> Ministers were automatic every nweek, and I were always the one to call
> them and choose a selection method.

I don't like anything that happens automatically like that. If events 
only happen when somebody says that they happen, then we no longer have 
any need for recognizers, etc. If the elections started every nweek and 
you got to choose the selection method, then we'd be in trouble if you 
were sick or otherwise absent at the beginning of an nweek - we'd know 
that an election had been called, but we wouldn't know what sort of 
votes to cast. The only ways I can see to solve this problem are either 
to stop the clock when this happens (I hate doing that, too) or to 
prevent the election from happening until somebody says it happens. If 
you're the only one who can call them, then we're still in trouble if 
you get sick, because we'd need to wait for you to come back and call 
the election.

Perhaps a better way would be to allow you to call and choose a method, 
but if you don't within a few days, it falls to a Duty that anyone can 
invoke (with them counting the votes, etc.)?

In general, I'd like to rebuild the game in such a way that any single 
player could disappear for any length of time, and the game would be 
able to continue normally. At the moment that's not true: if anyone but 
me leaves, the game can go on just fine because I'll be require to take 
over for em, but I'm not allowed to go on vacation because the ruleset, 
the cardlist, and the proposal bank are all tied to me.

That's why I'd like Ministers generating XML and sending it around, not 
because I couldn't write wiki macros to put things directly into the 
database from forms, but because I'd like it if the game could go on 
even if I run out of free time.

Speaking of which, I'll be out of town all day tomorrow and most of 
sunday. I'll be back on Monday with the Ballot, hopefully.

--
Wonko

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