On Mon, 1 May 2017, Owen Jacobson wrote: > On Apr 30, 2017, at 5:03 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus > <p.scribonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > I hereby request TWO consent to deputize for the Herald and award > > Murphy the patent title, Dean-Continous of Agora, for being the > > current player with the earliest registration date. > > I support this intention, if it is valid. > > I’m not sure it is, though: the rules only allow the Herald, not a random > player > who might one day be the Herald, to take the intended action. I’m not 100% > clear > on whether a player who cannot perform an action can effectively state an > intention > to perform that action in the hopes that they will be able to perform it > later.
In general, it's possible to announce intent to do something (and gather support/run out the objection clock) before you are in the position to do it. However, there may be nit-picky details from this clause: > a) A person (the initiator) announced intent to perform the > action, unambiguously and clearly specifying the action and > method(s) (including the value of N and/or T for each > method), at most fourteen days earlier. "Unambigiously and clearly" is a strong standard for specification and extends to method, so you might be required to specify exactly what will give you the power; e.g. "I intend, after becoming Herald, to..."
