On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 17:20 +0200, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote:
> Since it's a republic, I toyed with the idea of making every vote open
> to all the people - the entire con - and let the players ('Senators'
> or 'Politicians') gather supporters who just come and vote (only works
> if it's a fairly long game). Upside is that we could encourage making
> rules that in some manner affect the actual con, or at least the
> election LARP, since everyone that wants can have a say. Downside is
> that someone might do a boring "end the game, I win" proposal and just
> bring a lot of friends to get it voted through.
>
> Thoughts?
Some sort of mutability-index based solution. For instance, the original
Suber ruleset had two sorts of rules (mutable and immutable); mutable
rules needed unanimous consent on one proposal to pass, whereas
immutable rules needed unanimous consent on two proposals to pass (and
players took turns to submit proposals). In your situation, you could
have some sort of double-chamber situation where you needed support both
from the politicians, and from the populace in general, to enact a
proposal; that would limit most abuses. (In such a case, you should also
need proposals to admit new players to the game; many nomics have that
rule, and they almost invariably pass except during invasions, or if the
existing players think the new players are joining for ulterior motives
(/me apologises to BobTHJ on behalf of the rest of the PNP...).)
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ais523
