On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > But you have to consider the fact that the scam involves absolutely > destroying Agora. coppro would have to deregister every active player, and, > if e wanted to, could very easily establish a dictatorship and completely > make everything stop, interrupting the game for several weeks while e makes > emself promotor, distributes a proposal to give emself a dictatorship, and > then awards emself a win. We might as well just give em the win now, unless > you don't think e's willing to go through all that.
So you mean, the way to play is to succumb to thuggish threats from corrupt officials? Not my style, personally. I might vote for a win if the proposal also removed em from office and gave em (say) 10-20 Rests, which would be a simulation of the consequences for pulling it off. Otherwise, I'm just treating this as I would any other win-by-proposal attempt. I have no problem with that! If coppro wants to bribe or beg eir way to a win-via-proposal, fine. But I'm not accepting that it's cloaked in magic-goodness-of-deserving-a-victory-gold-star-for-being-nice as a way of earning my vote (and aesthetically, the fact that e's cloaking a win-by- proposal as a win-by-junta makes the price of bribes for me personally higher). -G.