Re: [s-d] [s-b] Proposals

["Geoffrey Spear" <geoffspear@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 25, 2008 10:19 AM, Jamie Dallaire <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Jan 25, 2008 8:13 AM, 0x44 <bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Roger Hicks wrote:
> > > Instant Vacations
> > > {
> > > Amend rule 4e46 to read:
> > > {{
> > > A Player may, as a Game Action, assign a vacant Ministry to himself,
> > > unless he has previously held that Ministry this nweek.
> > > }}
> > > }
> > >
> > > This is to prevent ministers from re-setting the retainers of their
> > > ministries back to 50 by vacating and then re-taking a ministry.
> > >
> > If a Minister were to do that, they wouldn't be paid for their service
> > that nweek. It seems a fair trade-off to me.
>
>
> Unless that minister pulled that switch on nday 1 before the clock were
> turned on.
>
> I think the proposal is great as it is, as something along the lines of
> resetting retainer to what it was before ministry was vacated might just be
> confusing and awkward.
>
> The change I'd like to see is to have anyone prevented from re-taking a
> ministry that they vacated this nweek, rather than a ministry that they held
> this nweek. That way, If I held the MoX and were usurped, and this were
> followed by the usurper vacating, I would be able to take it back.

What if a player who previously vacated a ministry during the same
nweek was allowed to take it again, but needed to pay a penalty to do
so or could do so with some amount of support?  This would allow for
short-term good-faith vacating of Ministries but still disallow
vacating simply to reset the Retainer.



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Geoffrey Spear
http://www.geoffreyspear.com/
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