Re: DIS: Back-Awarding of Silver Quills

[Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion]

On 5/28/2020 9:42 AM, Nch via agora-discussion wrote:
> 
> If I accidentally moved a knight wrong and neither of us noticed until a move 
> or two later, I broke the rules. But did I cheat? I don't think so. That's 
> the distinction I'm trying to draw.
> 

One of the issues is that we don't really do "equity" (we tried once, it
was complicated and interesting but I don't think it really worked).

By which I mean, if you discover the wrong knight (and it's not a
tournament), you can discuss with the other player: what's fairer and more
equitable:  leave it where it is?  Put it where it should be?  Go back two
moves?  Start over?  That would also depend on whether the misplacement
led to the loss of a Queen, how important it was to the following moves, etc.

We don't really do that "adjust gamestate to make up for the violation" so
we have to reduce to a common currency and just discourage by applying a
game penalty.  And as soon as it's "currency" it becomes transactional (as
R. Lee's comments show).

In fact, the first draft of the card system was meant to purposefully get
away from transactional punishment.  A Green Card was meant to be a flag
and caution: "yes, you did break a rule and shouldn't have, but it didn't
really affect the game so Green".  Making it a social contract that "you
really should have done that - doing that makes it less fun for all of us"
rather than "if you profited from this you can pay off the blot and not
worry".

-G.