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Emergency Proposal 024 - Ars Gratia Artis [other]

The Game State Document for Game 8 shall follow this example:

+----------+----------------+-------------+---------------+-------------------+
| GAME: 32 | TIME: Mon 0600 | CIRCLE: <-> | BRIDGES: down | KNIP: out         |
+----------+----------------+-------------+---------------+-------------------+
| WILD: Chalfont & Latimer, Kings Cross, Ealing Broadway                      |
+=============================================================================+
| Mile End              | BkBuBuReSiBk | Amersham              | BrBkBkSiReRe |
| Epping                | BrBkRe       | Ealing Broadway       | Bk           |
+=============================================================================+
| Name          |LV| Bk Bu Br Go Re Si | Other information                    |
+---------------+--+-------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Rushton       | 8|  4  0  5  1  3  1 |                                      |
| Brooke-Taylor | 4|  3  2  4  2  4  1 | In Spoon                             |
| Drone         | 6|  1  2  2  0  1  1 |                                      |
| Garden        |10|  7  1  4  0  6  3 | Drone Keeper                         |
+---------------+--+-------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Rushton       | Zone 1 Pass, Hats (ACV)                                     |
| Brooke-Taylor | Railcard, Chocolate Bar, Hats (TV)                          |
| Garden        | Zones 1-3 Pass, Railcard, Hats (AOTV)                       |
+---------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+

{Comment:

I've ben considering the perennial GSD format question and have come up with
the above which is more compact, and I hope more user-friendly. If this EP
passes and this format works out for Game 8, I'll propose to include it
formally in the ruleset (with all the necessary tinkerings that will be
required), if not, we'll have to go with the status quo until someone comes up
with something better...

Note the addition of the game number in the header info, and the removal of
home stations, as has been discussed; basically, I've tried to remove as much
extraneous information as possible (most of it is self-explanatory anyway);
Home stations could easily be mentioned in the 'Other information' section if
people think that is necessary.}

{
  Judge's Comment:

  The fickle finger of Fate selected your dear Speaker as the Judge for
  this one, so I've Judged immediately and shall comment on it here.

  Basically; yes, an applaudable effort to trim extraneous space and
  make the top of the GSD a nicer place, but I'm really not happy with
  any of the proposed alternative solutions to keeping track of Home
  Stations, and the "Other Information" box seems rather too superfluous
  (at least for the examples chosen, and I can think of no others); Spoon
  is easy enough to keep track of normally, being something a Player is
  likely to remember, and Drone Keeping was (in, I grant you, a Proposal
  dave wasn't around for) altered slightly so that the Keeper gets a
  Drone Stick to signify eir position.

  Sorry to be such a squib, but since this is an Eprop I should really
  Judge it black-and-whitely. Would have been nicer to get this discussed
  on the mailing list first, really.
}

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                        Raised by dave, 08/07/98
             Kevan has been selected to Judge this Proposal
                          Kevan Judges AGAINST
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