Re: [s-d] Re: [auto] Wonko submits p321

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 1, 2006, at 9:41 PM, Peter Cooper Jr. wrote:

> Wonko has submitted a new Motion, p321.:
> > Motion 321/0: Guardians
> [...]
>
> I like the idea; I just have some nitpicky nits to pick. They're
> pretty much all minor details.
>
> > === Definition ===
> > Guardianships are Game Objects that confer power upon the players
> > holding them. Each Guardianship may be held by up to one player (the
> > Guardian of that Guardianship), but is initially unowned and can only
> > be claimed in a manner explicitly stated by the rules.
>
> It seems redundant and unneeded to say that only the rules can make a
> Guardianship be claimed. You can only do anything that a Game Object
> lets you. And, if we wanted to make claiming one, say, an activated
> ability on a particular Guardianship, then this might prevent that
> from working.

Hmmm. I wasn't trying to force it to happen via the rules, but to make 
sure that you could only claim a Guardianship if some *explicitly* 
permitted it. This is on the grounds that I expect most of them to be 
spectacularly powerful positions, and I don't want someone to get one 
by any means unless those means are specifically designed for this.

> [...]
> > === Becoming a Guardian ===
> > A player may only get a Guardianship if a proposal passes giving it to
> > em; this causes the previous Guardian (if any) to lose possession of
> > it.
>
> Why limit it to proposals? I'd just not specify a means in the rules,
> and we can confer it via proposal if needed. And if we really need to,
> we can confer it via tweak or something else instead.

Again, this is because I'd like to make Guardianships really powerful 
without worrying about people claiming them by scams. I don't trust 
tweaks as much as I do proposals because they don't actually require an 
active affirmation by the majority to pass.

> > === Ceasing to be a Guardian ===
> > Any player may cease to hold a Guardianship as a Game Action. Any
> > player may Expel a Guardian; if a majority of all players Expel a
> > Guardian within a single 2-nday period, then that Guardian immediately
> > ceases to hold that Guardianship.
> > }}
>
> I'd word the first part as "Guardships have {{0: Cease holding
> this.}}" or something like that, keeping with my making everything
> into objects with abilities. But that's just me, and this works just
> fine.
>
> But I'd suggest a paragraph break between the way to leave voluntarily
> and Expelling, just to make the difference clearer. Also, you may want
> to exclude Vatted or Under-a-rock players from your majority
> requirement.

Good point. Fix forthcoming.

--
Wonko

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