On 9/4/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Proto-Proposal:  Re-enact perpetuity
> (AI = 2, II = 1, please)
>
> Amend Rule 2154 (Replacing Officers) by replacing the paragraph
> containing "If no attempt to achieve Agoran Consent" with this text:
>
>        Stability is an office switch, tracked by the IADoP, with
>        values Temporal (default) and Perpetual.  Any player CAN flip
>        an office's stability with support.  A Perpetual office becomes
>        Temporal when its holder leaves office.

Too easy to flip back and forth.  Why not without two objections?

>        If no attempt to achieve Agoran Consent for changing the holder
>        of a Temporal office is announced in a given quarter, then the
>        IADoP shall make at least one such attempt to change the
>        officeholder in the following quarter, and make the change if
>        consent is achieved.  This requirement is waived if another
>        player changes the officeholder in this way during the following
>        quarter.

When during the quarter is the office's stability checked for this purpose?

Those comments aside, I would support bringing back perpetuity.  It
seemed foolish to me to repeal it in the first place.

-root

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