Term 3 Judiciary

[Furiey]

If you schedule your session at your convenience and then don't turn up, sorry but you've missed your session. There is plenty of flexibilty to allow DPs to swap the order in which they play in advance. OK, sometimes things happen, our PC dies, our internet connection is lost, and then it is unfortunate. But this was meant to be a quick game, if someone doesn't turn up we need to move on and get the next session scheduled. The DP that didn't show for their turn can wait until next time.

 

[Gerikes]

If the DP for a session does not show up, or is unable to continue, a substitute DP can be chosen for that session. This substitute is chosen from the President, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Defense and the Minister of Trade and Technology, in that order.

There is no rule that states that the DP that misses or must leave the turnchat gets to host the next turnchat, or does in fact get any reimbursement of any kind. Rather, by default it should be treated as if they conducted the turn session as planned. Anything contrary would be a special case, and there are no special cases as such listed. Instead, the next logical step would be to continue on down the DP pool line.

Unofficially, I suppose that if a DP who misses their session comes back after the fact and provides a reasonable explanation for their absence, they could try to get all the pool participants to move down one spot. This would in effect put the player at the top of the pool legally, under the CoL:

Members of the DP pool may exchange places as they desire, so long as all citizens involved agree.

 

[Furiey]

Much better put Gerikes, I really shouldn't post at 5 AM after an all night civving session.

 

[Bootstoots]

As a notice, I'm going to be gone from a little after this point today to the evening of the 25th, or about two and a half days. I may be able to check in later tonight, but probably won't have internet access from then until my return. I don't think this is a long enough absence to appoint a pro-tem justice, so I decided against it. Feel free to make citizen comments on JR 14 and the other justices are welcome to rule on it when they see fit, but if anything new is filed, I probably won't be able to get to it until the evening of the 25th.

 

[Black_Hole]

Ruling on JR 14
If a designated player does not show up at a scheduled game session, that session still counts as his/her session.

This is because article H.2 of the CoL states that Designated Players are chosen by pool, and DPs decide on game sessions.

 

[Black_Hole]

We need rulings on this before the next TC

 

[Bootstoots]

I've been standing by for mhcarver and will send him a PM.

 

[mhcarver]

Our constitution is clear on this matter, DP's do decide on their own sessions, the fact that they didn't show up doesn't mean that their sessions can be rescheduled

so if a player misses his/her scheduled TC, that does count as his/her session

on a side not I would like to apologize to my colleagues, the first quarter ends at my school tommorow so I have been taking tests and writing papers like crazy, I guarantee this won't happen again.

 

[Bootstoots]

Designated Players have the right to set their own game play session times, as has been noted before. Though our ruleset is not explicit that they lose their session for failing to show up, it is a logical conclusion. I think it is fairly clear that, if somebody does fail to show up to their own game play session, they are not entitled to another session (unless the DP list cycles back to them, of course).

 

[Bootstoots]

Whoops, just realized that I ruled and forgot to close this one out.

Judicial Ruling - DG7JR14
The Judiciary ruled, in a 3-0 decision, that any turnplayer who forget to play his turn and has his session played by another player according to CoL L.1forfeits his turn to play the save.