On 3/14/23 12:24, juan via agora-discussion wrote:
Just checking the rules, and I can't find any mention of gifting during birthdays. Also, I just noticed the Herald is obliged to acknowledge birthdays. Has that always been so? Seems unncessary.
So this is a bit of (recent) historical cruft. When we had coins, R2585 authorized each player to grant the birthday person coins by announcement. That was replaced with R2657's birthday score increase, which itself started as something the Herald does (and is now something the recipient does).
Having the Herald responsible for recognizing birthdays is because people are historically bad at keeping track of even eir own, and so it's nice to centralize the responsibility, especially when that would lead to everyone gifting coins.
Clearly the situation has changed enough that R2585's title (Birthday Gifts) doesn't make sense anymore, but we just never retitled it.
-- nix Prime Minister, Herald, Collector
