On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 09:31:27PM -0500, Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > On 2/3/21 9:30 PM, Falsifian via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 09:13:43PM -0500, Jason Cobb via agora-discussion > > wrote: > >> On 2/3/21 9:04 PM, Falsifian via agora-discussion wrote: > >>> Any player (the withdrawer) CAN act on behalf of the Holder to transfer > >>> Victory Cards and/or Victory Points to the withdrawer with value up to > >>> the withdrawer's Decipoints balance; when the withdrawer does this, > >>> that value in Decipoints in eir possession is destroyed. > >> > >> Doesn't this allow a person in the lead to form a cabal with a person > >> who holds decipoints and force a win? > >> > >> -- > >> Jason Cobb > >> > >> Assessor, Rulekeepor, Stonemason > > Anyone who holds Decipoints can cash them out if they want to. > > Depositing is in no way a promise that you won't cash out later to win. > > So, sure, if Alice has 20 VPs and Bob has 200 Decipoints, Bob can cash > > out and give them to Alice and Alice will have 40 VPs. Is that what > > you're describing? > > > > The point of this contract is just that Alice and Bob (and any other > > conspirators) need 20 more VPs than the *combined* balance of the > > contract parties. This should be much more difficult than the basic > > standard of having 20 more VPs than whoever has independently > > accumulated them. > > > > I guess you can think of it as a place to park your VPs while you don't > > have enough to win. > > > > Alright, that makes sense. > > -- > Jason Cobb
Revision: I think I'll delete the No Stranding section. If someone's the only party e can do whatever he wants with the contract anyway. (And the prescribed Settle the Contract mechanism doesn't work if someone owns an awkward number of Decipoints.) -- Falsifian
