On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Roger Hicks wrote: > 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?
My suggestion would just be to apply a Rest directly without invoking all of NoVs and courts etc. By the way, I thought through all these options carefully when I wrote the Cards proposal - it was the single hardest thing to resolve in the writing - but came to the different preferred option based on experience from cards last time. But here's an idea. To divorce it from the suggestion of criminality altogether, you could make the marker a "bad" card that would be created in hoarders' hands [the following needs cleaning]: Millstone: A player holding a millstone CANNOT transfer a card, or play a card other than the Millstone. Holding a Millstone is a losing condition. Millstones CANNOT be transferred or destroyed by its holder without being played. The only way to play a millstone is to play while destroying N other cards in one's hand where N is the amount by which the number of Basic cards in the player's hand (not counting any millstones) is greater than the hand limit. (If 0 or less, no cards need be so destroyed). ASAP after the beginning of time T, the [particular officer -- Accountor?] shall create a Millstone in the hand of each player who had a number of cards at time T greater than the hand limit. -G.
