On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:36 AM, Charles Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > A person can publish a Declaration of Victory by announcement, > explaining the Victory Condition they believe they have met and > how they met it. If a Victory Case is initiated regarding a > Declaration of Victory, no Declarations of Victory for that win > can be announced after that point. Otherwise, the person is > deemed to have won the game of Agora as described in the > Declaration of Victory one week after eir Declaration of Victory > is published. The Declaration of Victory's claim that the > specified player won in the specified way becomes self-ratifying > at this point. The Herald SHALL award the winner the Patent > Title Champion as soon as possible afterwards.
This is a mess: it's unclear whether the claim self-ratifies immediately after it is made self-ratifying or just misses the deadline, for example; but there is no use in self-ratifying something that doesn't affect the gamestate (at least if you subscribe to my view that the gamestate does not include history, such as whether someone won), and in any case the ratified statement (the person won as described) seems to conflict with the previous statement (the person won one week later). What benefit does this offer versus victory cases?
