Zefram wrote:
Ed Murphy wrote:Each player has a State with one or more Districts, a Base, and a Constituency.These names are quite opaque as to the significance of the parameters, and the relationships that the names evoke don't match the behaviour of the concepts.
"State" and "Districts" go along directly with the House/Senate analogy. I'm open to suggestions on the other terms.
Is it to be impossible to have zero Districts (EVLOP)? Your version of R2126 still allows VVLOP (Constituency) to go down to zero.
Hmm, it probably should have a minimum of one.
Each first-class player's Base is five. Any other player's Base is zero. A player's Base CANNOT be modified.Is the change from four deliberate?
Yes. Law of Fives and all.
When a player registers,Would be better to say "When a player is registered,", in case we ever have a player registered by someone other than emself. Same goes for deregistration, generally: we have often (such as in the current R2126) had rules assuming that registration and deregistration are always voluntary.
Unnecessary generality. First come up with a method for non-reflexive registration that we might actually want to use.
The Assessor's report includes each player's Constituency and number of Districts.There's no real need for the assessor to report VVLOP (Constituency) as well as EVLOP. VVLOP can only differ from EVLOP by events during the present week.
I would include it (along with a history of recent events) whether it was required or not.
Sheqels ($) are a measure of each player's ability to gerrymander the redistricting process.I'd prefer not to use the dollar sign for this, especially since it's not currency.
But it could be. The two-for-one trading concept suggests asymmetric exchange rates.
When a player registers or deregisters, e loses all eir $.There's the assumption of voluntary deregistration. I think it would be better to define that VCs (sheqels) CANNOT be possessed by non-players. That's in my "tighten definition of VCs" proposal; you're welcome to incorporate the fixes from there.
Point; exile is vanishingly rare, but a number of players have been deregistered due to absence. On a separate note, what about adding the ability for players to will their VCs (sheqels) to other players upon eir deregistration?
The adoption index of a proposal is an integral multiple of 0.1, with a default and minimum value of 1.0. A proposal is initially a House proposal if its adoption index is less than 2.0, a Senate proposal otherwise.You dropped the bit about the submitter setting the AI. It would be bad to lose the ability to make AI>1 proposals.
Will fix in the next draft.
