Tyler on Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:40:20 -0700 (MST)


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Re: [s-d] [s-b] Proposal: Failsafe


Another problem is, a player could still become Supreme Emperor, as long as
he allowed people to stop his actions by submitting an Objection within one
second. Not so failsafe after all.

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:04 AM, ais523 <ais523@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 10:39 -0400, Jamie Dallaire wrote:
> > I submit the following Proposal, entitled "Failsafe":
> > {
> > Create a new Rule with Power = 1, which reads:
> > {{
> > If any Player ever becomes able to single-handedly Repeal or modify this
> > Rule in any way, with Game Actions posed by other Players having no
> > possibility of preventing this Repeal or modification, every Player's
> Mental
> > Status is automatically set to Paranoid.
> > }}
> > }
> >
> This is possibly a really bad idea. If there's a scam in the ruleset
> that nobody knows about, it would force us all to Paranoid; but we might
> not know that. It could turn out that we'd all been Paranoid for weeks,
> and nobody had noticed, causing what would effectively be another Clock
> Crisis.
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