Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Zefram
Roger Hicks wrote: Except where modified by other rules, the entities qualified to be assigned as judge of a judicial case are those who share the highest Quality value. Bad idea. Quality records are likely to get out of synch with reality, as for example happened to OscarMeyr's posture two days

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Roger Hicks
On Nov 29, 2007 10:19 AM, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roger Hicks wrote: Except where modified by other rules, the entities qualified to be assigned as judge of a judicial case are those who share the highest Quality value. Bad idea. Quality records are likely to get out of synch with

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Zefram
Roger Hicks wrote: What if we revised the assignment provision to read The CotC SHALL NOT knowingly assign an unqualified judge to a case. This would prevent assignments of unqualified judges from being later found invalid. I think that's basically what you'll have to do, but don't overload the

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Roger Hicks
On Nov 29, 2007 10:59 AM, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roger Hicks wrote: What if we revised the assignment provision to read The CotC SHALL NOT knowingly assign an unqualified judge to a case. This would prevent assignments of unqualified judges from being later found invalid. I think

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Ian Kelly
On Nov 29, 2007 11:12 AM, Roger Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my estimation that deters from one of the strengths of this system. All Players (or all possible judicial panels) are qualified judges, even those who are second-class or not presently interested in judging. Will they ever be

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Zefram
Roger Hicks wrote: In my estimation that deters from one of the strengths of this system. All Players (or all possible judicial panels) are qualified judges, even those who are second-class or not presently interested in judging. My suggestion retains that aspect of your proposal. It would make

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: On Nov 29, 2007 11:12 AM, Roger Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my estimation that deters from one of the strengths of this system. All Players (or all possible judicial panels) are qualified judges, even those who are second-class or not presently interested in judging. Will

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Roger Hicks
On Nov 29, 2007 1:05 PM, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Partnerships should never be qualified to judge, period. Inactive players are unlikely to actually judge a case mistakenly assigned to them. It may be worthwhile to let the assignment stand if the player is first-class and

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Ian Kelly
On Nov 29, 2007 1:05 PM, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least if the player actually does judge, despite their previous expression of disinterest in doing so. This could equally apply to accidental assignment of inactive players. Due to the nature of inactivity, I think it's less

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Ian Kelly
On Nov 29, 2007 1:19 PM, Roger Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: { The Quality of an entity which is composed of one or more persons is the average of the quality of each of those persons. Whenever an entity composed of one or more persons would have its quality reduced, that reduction is spread

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Roger Hicks
On Nov 29, 2007 1:27 PM, Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 29, 2007 1:19 PM, Roger Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: { The Quality of an entity which is composed of one or more persons is the average of the quality of each of those persons. Whenever an entity composed of one or more

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Ian Kelly
On Nov 29, 2007 1:31 PM, Roger Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quality for all natural persons can be defaulted to 0 with only active players eligible to be assigned as judges. This would allow partnerships containing aliens to judge (albeit less often than if they were players). What happens

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Roger Hicks
On Nov 29, 2007 11:39 AM, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roger Hicks wrote: In my estimation that deters from one of the strengths of this system. All Players (or all possible judicial panels) are qualified judges, even those who are second-class or not presently interested in judging. My

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Ian Kelly
On Nov 29, 2007 1:39 PM, Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens in this case when the partnership's quality is reduced? Is the alien's quality reduced like any other member's, or is the reduction spread over only the player members? Actually, I guess it clearly needs to be over only

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Roger Hicks
Latest Revision: Proto-Proposal: Quality Judge Assignment { Replace the last three paragraphs of R1868 with: {{ Except where modified by other rules, the entities qualified to be assigned as judge of a judicial case are active players. Being unqualified to be assigned as a judge does not

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Zefram
Roger Hicks wrote: Except where modified by other rules, the entities qualified to be assigned as judge of a judicial case are active players. Should be ... are the active players.. The CotC SHALL NOT knowingly assign a judge to a case who does not share the highest Quality value for

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: something like ... whose Quality for that case is not within 5 of the highest Quality for that case among those eligible to be judge. ... whose Quality for that case is at least 5 less than the Quality of another eligible judge. Eagerness is an integer index with a value from

DIS: Quality Judge Assignment

2007-11-28 Thread Roger Hicks
Proto-Proposal: Quality Judge Assignment { Amend R1868 by replacing the fourth paragraph with: {{ Except where modified by other rules, the entities qualified to be assigned as judge of a judicial case are those who share the highest Quality value. Being unqualified to be assigned as a judge does

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment

2007-11-28 Thread Ian Kelly
On Nov 28, 2007 10:39 AM, Roger Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amend R1868 by replacing the fourth paragraph with: {{ Except where modified by other rules, the entities qualified to be assigned as judge of a judicial case are those who share the highest Quality value. Being unqualified to be

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment

2007-11-28 Thread Roger Hicks
On Nov 28, 2007 10:58 AM, Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 28, 2007 10:39 AM, Roger Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When the CotC assigns a Player as a judge of a judicial case, that Player's Quality is reduced by 3, except as described in the next paragraph. If this would cause

DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-28 Thread Roger Hicks
Proto-Proposal: Quality Judge Assignment { Amend R1868 by replacing the fourth paragraph with: {{ Except where modified by other rules, the entities qualified to be assigned as judge of a judicial case are those who share the highest Quality value. Being unqualified to be assigned as a judge does

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment

2007-11-28 Thread Ed Murphy
BobTHJ wrote: Proto-Proposal: Quality Judge Assignment I suspect that this would be a PITA to add to the CotC DB. Would it be a big deal if it failed to reflect this stuff?

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment

2007-11-28 Thread Roger Hicks
On Nov 28, 2007 11:31 AM, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BobTHJ wrote: Proto-Proposal: Quality Judge Assignment I suspect that this would be a PITA to add to the CotC DB. Would it be a big deal if it failed to reflect this stuff? I think as long as it was included in the regular CotC