This isn't a change, but it's auxiliary information people may find helpful.
When the judge says that the maximum sentence for a crime is "300 minutes or 1500 coins," that means that in each of your two chances to recommend a sentence, you can ask for up to half of one of those. So in the first sentencing room, you could choose up to 150 minutes, or up to 750 coins. In the second sentencing room, you have the exact same choices.
If you pick maximum time in both, you've recommended 300 minutes and 0 coins. If you pick maximum fine, your total vote is 1500 coins and no jail time. You can also pick a combination of the two, for example 75 coins and 120 minutes, by recommending coins in the first room and time in the second (or the other way around).
The sentence imposed is the average of all the jurors' recommendations, with time and coins averaged separately. If there were only two jurors, one asking for 100 minutes and 100 coins and the other for 0 minutes and 50 coins, the sentence will be 50 minutes and 75 coins. Fines that the convicted person can't afford to pay add to their jail time on top of this, as do penalties for fines still owed from past convictions.
You can't vote for banishment. It's based on the jail time. The designer of court has said, "Basically, the judge figures that if you vote for a long jail time, it means you don't want to see this person around. If you vote for a REALLY long jail time, he figures you REALLY don't want to see this person around."
Compiled and edited by Pamela Greene <pamg@alumni.rice.edu>. Additions, corrections, and suggestions for this file are welcomed!