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Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Proposal: Wow, Now That is An Amusing Exploit

Modify the Rule 25 -- Corruption to read:

If a Proposal specifies Gamestate changes that act specifically on any Lord based on how they voted on a Proposal, it contains a Kickback.

When voting on a Proposal containing a Kickback, a Lord may expose it by including the word "kickback" in the comments with their vote, if their vote is not FOR. If the Lord later votes again on the same proposal, their vote is counted as an exposure if and only if the later vote is not a FOR and contains the word "kickback".

When the Votes are tallied, if the number of Lords exposing the Kickback outnumber those that don't, the Proposal's author and any Lords who did not expose the Kickback become involved in a Scandal.

No exposing of kickbacks may take place after the proposing Lord has cast an AGAINST vote on his own proposal (i.e. a self-kill) or after the Prime Minister has VETOed the proposal.


Two exploits here. The first is more serious -- nominate one dummy with low Confidence/EV total (preferably one). Dummy proposes "All Lords who vote for this proposal gain 3 Electoral Votes." All Lords in your Party vote "FOR. kickback", immunizing them against the pain of the kickback but preserving their ability to get the EV if it passes (note that the NDP could pass this proposal today, if we wanted to, likely leading to an NDP win).

The second is just obnoxious. Say a kickback proposal has 5 Lords voting yes on it, without exposure. An admin could vote NO (kick), YES (kick), NO (kick) 100 times -- thus, the number of votes exposing would be 100. End with FOR, adopt the proposal, and slam Scandals all over the place.

Oh, take note, I now make kickback determined by # of Lords voting rather than EV totals. This might have been the intent of the original proposal -- in any event, its more fair.



16-0. Reached Quorum (6). Enacted by Chronos