Saturday, April 17, 2021

Proposal: Blackout

Timed out 3 votes to 6. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 19 Apr 2021 19:05:27 UTC

Add the following to “Behavioral Regulations”

Each Dynastic Action has a Risk associated with it, which is a number between 0 and 9. If a Dynastic Action does not specify its Risk, then it has Risk 0. Actions with Risk greater than or equal to 1 are Risky Actions. When performing a Risky Action, an AI must first declare which action they are attempting to perform and then roll a DICE10. If the result is less than or equal to the action’s Risk, the action itself is not performed but the AI must still update the Behavior Log as if it were performed.

Add the following to the “Surveillance” tag

As a Treacherous Action named Sabotage with Risk 2, an AI may remove the Surveillance tag from the Location they are focused on

Add the following list of Tags

Onboarding: Represents a place that will soon be under Surveillance. As a Conspicuous Action named Installing with Risk 2, an AI may add the Onboarding tag to any Location which does not have the Onboarding or Surveillance tags

Add the following immediately after the “Clear the Behavior Log.” step in “Nosy Researchers”

Give each Location with the Onboarding tag the Surveillance tag (unless it already has Surveillance). Then remove the Onboarding tag from all Locations.

Comments

Janet: she/her

17-04-2021 18:48:08 UTC

“As a Treacherous named Sabotage”
dropped the word “Action”

“(unless it already has the Surveillance)”
dropped the word “tag”

Clucky: he/him

17-04-2021 20:38:19 UTC

thanks stuff should be fixed now

Lulu: she/her

17-04-2021 21:49:39 UTC

against it’s just a flat chance of sometimes not working and i don’t think we need an entire mechanic for that

Raven1207: he/they

17-04-2021 21:52:06 UTC

against

lemon: she/her

17-04-2021 22:04:27 UTC

against i’m not sure i like surveillance being moldable to this degree

Clucky: he/him

17-04-2021 22:13:58 UTC

@jumble you need a mechanic for it not working because if you can just remove surveillance the it becomes easy to just hope the location isn’t monitored.

@lemon why not? Feels like it just creates more dynamic gameplay. Right now there doesn’t seem like much point in doing stuff in surveillance locations because you’ll just earn a lot of suspicion there which renders most of the server rooms pointless. Allowing people to add/remove surveillance will open up new possibilities.

Kevan: he/him

17-04-2021 22:34:21 UTC

for

pokes:

17-04-2021 22:52:49 UTC

for

lemon: she/her

17-04-2021 23:21:38 UTC

@clucky i think being able to temporarily circumvent surveillance or remove it with more effort than this would both be interesting alternatives, but being able to just reshape the facility with a 70% chance of success with only 1 suspicion and a 30% chance of failure with 5 suspicion seems like the locations with the surveillance tag would very quickly become entirely determined by the whims of the AIs! you’d think the researchers would notice if they stopped getting readings on places, too :0

lemon: she/her

17-04-2021 23:44:21 UTC

sorry, 80%/20%

Clucky: he/him

17-04-2021 23:53:13 UTC

Yeah, the tags would become determined based on the whims of the AIs. But I don’t see that as a bad thing.

Janet: she/her

18-04-2021 00:10:26 UTC

imperial

lemon: she/her

18-04-2021 00:13:48 UTC

thats fair– i just feel like thematically AIs trapped in a laboratory should have a difficult time modifying their environment :0

Brendan: he/him

18-04-2021 18:53:16 UTC

imperial

Josh: Observer he/they

19-04-2021 10:38:07 UTC

against This dynasty is becoming very muddy.