NOMIC: GAME THREAD

I vote nay as I am too lazy to review stuff.

Sure.

...there is no editing grace period is there? I only changed "At the end of every player's turn..." to "Following the end...". Just to make it clear the the new turn starts right after the previous one ended.

It's unclear from the wording whose turn comes next after each person's turn finishes. Let's say me and Meustrus are taking our turns, and Meustrus's turn ends. I assume Shinan goes next? Then Shinan's turn ends, and my turn is still going... does TangledLion go next, or does Meustrus go next, or both, or do we flip a coin? They're both alphabetically after a player currently taking a turn.

I would recommend redesigning this to have two totally separate cycles of turns. Each time a turn ends, the next player alphabetically after the player whose turn just ended takes a turn. If the turn cycles move at different speeds, then yes, this could potentially result in someone getting two turns at once. However, it's much simpler to keep track of.

I like the idea, it will definitely increase the speed of the game, and add some crazy possibilities. Nomic is supposed to be a clusterfuck, after all.

The idea behind expanding the number of turns happening at once: If Shinan and TangledLion are currently taking their turns, after one of their turns is over, Trihan begins a turn. If Shinan finished first, then when either TangledLion or Trihan finishes, DrOctopus gets a turn. But if TangledLion finished first, then when either player finishes then DrOctopus AND TangledLion both begin new turns. And we have three turns going on at once.

So if the finishers were TangledLion, then Shinan, you've got TangledLion, Trihan, and DrOctopus going all at once. No matter who finishes, only LockeZ will start a new turn because Trihan and DrOctopus are already taking a turn.

But if the finishers were TangledLion, then Trihan, you've got Shinan, TangledLion, and DrOctopus going all at once. The next time someone finishes a turn, Trihan and LockeZ will both start new turns.

It's also possible for two turns to end simultaneously since I could easily cast the final vote for everyone's proposal at the same time. If the current turn is TangledLion, Trihan, and DrOctopus, and I do that...well then only LockeZ starts a turn and we're back to normal aren't we?

So here are some intended side effects:

1. Players are incentivized to take their turns quickly, because if TangledLion finishes his turn before Shinan does, he gets an extra turn soon.
2. If players take too long, we may end up with more players taking turns at once.
3. Whose turn it is becomes more confusing and frantic.
4. We might potentially end up with all players taking a turn simultaneously. Not very likely, but it would be hilarious if it actually happened.
5. If we all decide we're tired of having multiple turns at once, then as long as nobody votes for one open proposal but not the other it is possible to practically repeal this rule without a rule change.

That... will result in two turns starting after every turn. We'll have one turn at first, then two, then three, then four, then finally all five of us will be having a turn at once. This isn't unlikely at all - it's guaranteed to happen at most eight turns from now, and from then on we'll simply alternate between four and five players taking a turn at once.

Also, it wouldn't incentivize people to take their turns fast. It would, in fact, incentivize some people to intentionally stall, to try to control whose turn happens next. Nor would your side-effect of people being able to effectively cancel out this rule by just not voting on someone's proposal work out, because there's a time limit on voting (and also several other reasons).

This leaves way too much unspoken and unclear. I would rather the turn order not be something we actually have to argue about after every turn, as that will take a lot of extra time. It will also result in Trihan being the judge way too often, probably 100% of the time in fact, since we'll never be able to agree on any other method of deciding who the "preceeding" player refers to.

Speeding up the game and giving people the potential ability to get two turns fairly close together seems useful and interesting enough without all this other hogwash.

The hell do you define a "round"?