The first mover can commit by just waiting 20 minutes, after which there’s a time interval equal to the period between when the first and second movers took their turns, during which the second mover can undo but the first mover can’t.
Oh. Good point. Maybe it would be interesting to do a version where you can’t retract a counter nuke after the original nuke’s 20 minutes.
Either way, I think the 20 minute rule is important for even talking about precommitting. Without it, people can chat and make contracts all they want, only for someone completely uninvolved in the conversation to suddenly post a nuke comment.
Another way to run this would be to have a period of time before launches are possible for people to negotiate, and then to not allow retracting nukes after that point. And I think next time I would make it so that the total of no-nukes would be greater than the total if only one side nuked, though I did like this time that people had the option of a creative solution that “nuked” a side but lead to higher EV for both parties than not nuking.
You also need to only permit people who took part in the negotiations to launch nukes. Otherwise newcomers could just nuke without anyone having a chance to establish a precommittment to retaliate against them.
The first mover can commit by just waiting 20 minutes, after which there’s a time interval equal to the period between when the first and second movers took their turns, during which the second mover can undo but the first mover can’t.
Oh. Good point. Maybe it would be interesting to do a version where you can’t retract a counter nuke after the original nuke’s 20 minutes.
Either way, I think the 20 minute rule is important for even talking about precommitting. Without it, people can chat and make contracts all they want, only for someone completely uninvolved in the conversation to suddenly post a nuke comment.
Another way to run this would be to have a period of time before launches are possible for people to negotiate, and then to not allow retracting nukes after that point. And I think next time I would make it so that the total of no-nukes would be greater than the total if only one side nuked, though I did like this time that people had the option of a creative solution that “nuked” a side but lead to higher EV for both parties than not nuking.
You also need to only permit people who took part in the negotiations to launch nukes. Otherwise newcomers could just nuke without anyone having a chance to establish a precommittment to retaliate against them.