On Mon, 2017-09-04 at 15:05 -0700, Aris Merchant wrote: > I'm currently working on that unified contracts/orgs/agencies > implementation I was talking about. I want non-player persons to be > able to join contracts, which necessitates some penalty for breaches. > This would also incidentally also fix that thing where G. couldn't be > punished for publishing a false report because e wasn't a player. To > understand what is meant by "persons who play the game" see CFJ 1709. > Of course, most existing punishments are meaningless for non-players, > so I had to come up with something. This proposal adds a new card, > called a Black Card, which, upon activation, prevents the bad sport > from registering or taking any game actions for 30 days.
You need to be very very careful with this sort of mechanic, because if there's any way to award such a card via scam, it can lead to one player locking out all the others and gaining a dictatorship over time (it'd just take four days in this case; attempt to Ratify Without Objection a blatantly false statement that gives you an advantage, and use Black Cards to lock everyone else out of objecting). I'd rather the mechanic were designed in such a way that even if scammed, other players could still overcome the restrictions it imposes somehow. -- ais523
