by Memery » Mon Oct 09, 2017 3:45 pm
Clarifying once again: I never said that BOTH of the tiebreak candidates should be added to the council in the same meeting!
I explained it poorly so I will try again:
Susan and Mike both receive 2 endorsements and 3 votes each, resulting in a tie break. OH NO!
Each player does !hoursplayed. Susan has 20 hours and Mike has 749.
Mike wins the tie break in this instance, but wait! Because Susan is such a great candidate, it is very obvious that she will simply be elected in the following meeting.
My point being: Tie-Break doesn't really mean anything, it only prevents someone being elected for 1 meeting and therefore, in my opinion, is a mute point.
Of course this raises the issue of the tiebreak filling up the last space in the council, so I suppose something does have to be done.
Having the tiebreak situation is annoying, because it is very hard to distinguish between 2 perfectly appropriate candidates. A branch of the !hoursplayed tie break could simply be: How many council meetings have the players attended/ taken part in over the last 5 meetings? I feel like if attendance is formally recorded weekly then this will settle almost every tie, and if that is equal, go to !hoursplayed as it is a simple and un-bias way of deciding, in my opinion.
Having said that, I hope my example shows that most of the time a tie-break scenario wont really cause much, if any, of an issue, my point is sort of all over the place I realise, so I dunno, take from it whatever you fancy....
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