Monday, March 04, 2013

Holding Pattern

In the rule “Resources”, remove the sentence “A Captain can only have as many resources as their ship has Hold.” and add the following after the first paragraph:

A Captain may discard any number of Resources at any time. If a Captain has more Resources than the Hold value of their ship, then they should discard excess until it matches their Hold value. If they do not do so before the next time they take an action defined by a Dynastic Rule, then any Captain may discard any of their excess on their behalf until they have at most as many Resources as Hold.

posted by scshunt at 04 Mar 2013 18:53:28 UTC Comments (3)

Comments

quirck: he/him

04-03-2013 19:44:18 UTC

Not a proposal

I’d like to not check whether a Captain has taken a dynastic action or not, just “If a Captain has more Resources than the Hold value of their ship, then any Captain may discard any of their excess on their behalf until they have at most as many Resources as Hold.”

If someone is going to perform an action that would excess their hold, they may as well first discard resources they need and then perform the action; or merge performing an action and discarding into one GNDT commit, so that noone has a chance to intervene.

scshunt:

04-03-2013 21:42:46 UTC

I don’t want to make it possible for a player to do something which knocks someone else over (say, battle damage reducing hold) and then choosing which resources are lost.

Spitemaster:

05-03-2013 22:55:18 UTC

Okay, one issue I see with this: they could perform a bunch of actions in a row, using the resources which they didn’t have the space to keep.