Thursday, April 28, 2016

Proposal: Oh, to be young again

Times out 1-2. Failed by Brendan.

Adminned at 30 Apr 2016 20:22:29 UTC

If the following text appears in the rule “Construction”

An Effect applies only to an Imagineer who has at least one instance of that Building in a Zone they operate. An Effect may specify a constant variance to the gamestate for that Imagineer, or may specify additional actions to be carried out once by that Imagineer when processing a Business Day (multiple instances of a given Building may change the magnitude of an Effect, but do not allow the Imagineer to take such actions more than once per Business Day).

then after it append

If multiple effects take place at the same step of processing a business day, they are applied in alphabetical order by building name.

Otherwise, append the following to the rule “Construction”

An Effect applies only to an Imagineer who has at least one instance of that Building in a Zone they operate. An Effect may specify a constant variance to the gamestate for that Imagineer, or may specify additional actions to be carried out once by that Imagineer when processing a Business Day (multiple instances of a given Building may change the magnitude of an Effect, but do not allow the Imagineer to take such actions more than once per Business Day). If multiple effects take place at the same step of processing a business day, they are applied in alphabetical order by building name.

In either case, add a subrule called “Fountain of Youth” to the rule “Construction” and give it the following text:

Cost: 2000
Size: 1
Effect: After the Local Accounting step but before the File Records step, the processing Imagineer may change the first senior visitor for that Business Day (if one exists) to a child.

Did somebody say Queue Manipulation?

Comments

Brendan: he/him

28-04-2016 20:21:43 UTC

Note: so this affects the visitor queue for ALL players, not just the one who built the fountain?

Clucky: he/him

28-04-2016 21:01:18 UTC

note: doesn’t the “An Effect applies only to an Imagineer who has at least one instance of that Building in a Zone they operate” cover that?

IceFromHell:

28-04-2016 21:25:17 UTC

Note: then it affects the visitor queue for all players that built a Fountain?

Clucky: he/him

29-04-2016 02:40:47 UTC

note: yes, that was the intention

Kevan: he/him

29-04-2016 10:17:06 UTC

against I’m not sure it meets that intention, if it’s actually saying to “change” a Visitor, where a Visitor is defined as a letter on a wiki page.

Clucky: he/him

29-04-2016 15:59:47 UTC

“Visitors come in four market segments: Child, Teen, Adult and Senior. These may be written in shorthand as c, t, A and S respectively.”

aren’t the both?

Brendan: he/him

29-04-2016 17:57:28 UTC

against On balance, this is still difficult to follow. I’m writing up an alternative proposal for queue manipulation. I like the first patch though.