Amendment: Renaming and Fairness Pledge

[Ginger_Ale]

Team Representatives please vote in this poll for your team after gathering input from your team. All votes by non-team representatives will be disregarded. The admins will cast a tiebreaking vote.

Do you agree to the following amendments to the rules:

Old 2.4:

2.4 - Misleading through Renaming

Description: No team or individual is permitted to rename a unit or city with the intent of misleading or confusing opponents.

Definition: Cities can be renamed to names of tech or sums of gold or anything else in an effort to not trade what that opponent agreed to. Units can be renamed to other units and appear to be something else entirely.

Purpose: To prevent the misleading or confusion of another team through malicious use of in-game features.

Verdict: Using this 'feature' or any other feature or exploit that allows misleading or confusing another team is a violation of this rule.

Punishment Level: Once – Red (5-Expulsion and forfeiture of double what was not legally traded)

New 2.4:

2.4 - Renaming Units and Cities

Description: Teams are permitted to rename their units and cities as they please.

Definition: Cities can be renamed to names of tech or sums of gold or anything else in an effort to not trade what that opponent agreed to. Units can be renamed to other units and appear to be something else entirely. For this reason, we encourage teams to formally write out their trade proposals and submit it to the admins to prevent this from happening.

Old 4.3:

4.3 - Fairness Pledge

Every team must agree to the fairness pledge before the game starts:

“I pledge to compete fairly and within the rules of the game. I pledge to adhere not only to the written rules, but also to the unwritten, spirit of the rules. I understand that failure to live up to this pledge may result in penalties for me and my team.”

New 4.3:

4.3 - Fairness Pledge

Every team must agree to the fairness pledge before the game starts:

“I pledge to compete fairly and within the rules of the game. I pledge to not tamper with the game itself, to not unfairly gain access to secret information from other teams, and to follow these rules to the best of my ability. I understand that failure to live up to this pledge may result in penalties for me and my team.”

Please vote yes/no. There should only be 4 votes cast, one for each team.

 

[Provolution]

Ginger Ale, can you please post this at our forum as a public poll, yes/no, with the same layout please. I want to do this democratically and transparent as always.

 

[ybbor]

whats the time limit?

 

[DaveShack]

The doughnuts may take up to 2 days to respond. We ran out of oil so cannot cook anything up faster than that.

 

[Ginger_Ale]

There is no time limit, but try to have it done within 72 hours.

 

[Provolution]

Ginger, can you please post the same poll in our private forum, same layout ?

Ideally public poll.

 

[Ginger_Ale]

I did not miss your request Provo, just replied to ybbor's question first. Poll is up.

 

[Provolution]

Thank you sir All good.

 

[ybbor]

Team MIA votes against these amendments

however, while no poll was taken of the amendments separately, and hence this comment is not binding, the team seems to be in favor of the new 4.3 amendment, but strongly opposed to 2.4

 

[Whomp]

K.I.S.S votes a emphatic "No"on proposal 2.4.

However, since we are a bunch of idiots we hired expensive attorneys to disseminate the information on Rule 4.3. Our attorneys have advised us that our idiotic view consists of a different kind of "spirit of the game"

. But we like the word.

So we would like "spirit of the game" regardless of it's meaning to be added back into 4.3 and would vote "YES".
Without "spirit of the game" in 4.3 our answer is"NO".

As the great Shaman Sid Meier would say "eliminate the unfun elements of the game in order to keep it fun".

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Sorry Whomp, please clarify.

As per the current poll and it's quesiton, do you vote yes or no? All the team needs to do is say "Team X votes yes/no".

If a team would like to make these seperate / bring up new amendments, please do so yourself after this poll.

 

[Whomp]

The way the current amendment is written our answer is "NO" to Rule 4.3.

 

[DaveShack]

Team Doughnut's internal poll was tied Y/N, which means we would have abstained had there been an option. Instead we must vote no since the proposal did not have a majority.

I echo the suggestion to divide these two provisions into separate polls.

 

[Provolution]

I agree , two separate polls

 

[RegentMan]

The poll has been separated. UN reps: please re-vote there via posting.

Renaming Amendment

Fairness Pledge Amendment