Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Proposal: The Quality Theory of That Manatee

Fewer than a quorum of players not voting against, failed 1-7 by Kevan.

Adminned at 28 Jan 2015 18:01:26 UTC

If the Proposal titled “The Quantity Theory of Insanity” has passed, reword the text it added to the Ruleset as follows; otherwise, in the rule “Emotions”, add new text before the paragraph beginning “If a single Emotion” as follows:

“Increasing” an Emotion means replacing it with the Emotion immediately higher than it within the same Nature; “decreasing” an Emotion means replacing it with the Emotion immediately lower than it within the same Nature.

An Android may, as a Daily Action, remove all Emotions from themself other than “Disabled” or “Injured.”

Add the following paragraph to the rule “Drugs”:

A Crewmember may, as a Weekly Action, Drug themself. To do so, they send a private message to the Ship’s Computer containing exactly one phrase of the form “Drugging myself to feel YYY” where YYY is an Emotion other than Disabled or Injured, and would be an increase or decrease to an Emotion that Crewmember already has. The Ship’s Computer shall, within 24 hours of reading the message, make a blog post announcing that the Target has been Drugged, at which point the Target gains the named Emotion and loses all other Emotions with the same Nature.

Provides a mechanism to get to the highest/lowest Emotion ranks while still making it a little tricky (and giving us plausible deniability about sneaking off to get high in the med unit). And I liked the flavor of revealed Androids going stone-cold and emotionless.

Comments

Josh: Observer he/they

27-01-2015 21:28:48 UTC

imperial

Sylphrena:

27-01-2015 21:46:06 UTC

imperial

Kevan: he/him

27-01-2015 23:08:50 UTC

against Seems like a lot of paperwork for a small effect, and with an average dynastic duration of a month, a weekly action tends to “four times per game”.

Darknight: he/him

27-01-2015 23:37:37 UTC

against

ais523:

28-01-2015 00:44:34 UTC

against although I’m fine with weeklies in month-long dynasties.

Bucky:

28-01-2015 03:06:50 UTC

against

_Fox_:

28-01-2015 04:53:41 UTC

imperial