On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 00:53, Kerim Aydin<ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Roger Hicks wrote: >> Each player has a non-negative integer value Hand Limit (default 15). >> The Hand Limit of each player is tracked by the Registrar. If a >> player's Hand Limit would ever be set below 3, it is instead set to 3. >> >> Owning more cards than your Hand Limit at the start of any week is the >> Class 1 crime of Hoarding. > > No. Are you saying that I have to beware that any particular deal might > come, say, on a Friday or Saturday and make me a criminal for getting > my earned cards and no time to respond? > > I think the principle of combining multiple basic hand limits into > a single hand limit works fine (with cards that raise it up and down, > good card addition) but Hoarding isn't the right enforcement. > I disagree. If you are worried about extra deals just prior to week's end it is a simple matter to play out a few cards in advance so you're not flirting with your Hand Limit. However, I am open to another option if someone can find a better one. Here's the possible options as I see them:
1. Destroy extras - The current system. If you have too many cards the extras are randomly destroyed. This requires a lot of extra work on the Dealors part, and also makes it difficult for players to 'store up' cards for certain purposes. 2. Prevent draws - Players don't earn draws when their hand is full. This gets messy when it becomes difficult to determine who owns which cards, and since cards have 4 different recordkeepers it may be a frequent problem. 3. Criminalize card hoarding - What I proposed above. Certainly not perfect, but much better than the other two above options in my opinion. 4. Some other penalty for card hoarding - I gave some thought to the idea of exceeding your hand limit being a Losing Condition. However, I don't know if this would have much effect since typically a player would store up a bunch of cards and then play them all (or most) to somehow gain a win, thus avoiding the losing condition. Perhaps it might work if the Losing Condition were extended for a week after your hand size was reduced below your limit? Would your opinion of this proposal change if criminal penalty for exceeding your hand limit were changed to a monthly offense (instead of weekly), perhaps with an increased penalty? BobTHJ
