Gidil, I’m afraid that would be a bit to tough on me - plus, it doesn’t really matter, as the deadline for sending in Directions is always the same.

This may be an inconvenient time of day for the Net. It’s also technically nigh-impossible, unless we interpret it as “reasonably close to two hours”.

I will PM your GNDT password to you in a moment.

I try to win most dynasties I play, but I almost never play to win. I play to experiment with interesting mechanics. I’ll often consider ending a dynasty early even if I don’t win simply because its interesting. The altar was interesting. Your duplicate mob was not.

Also what are you saying is a predictable outcome? The fact that at the end game people dislike that some people have an advantage? There is literally no way I could’ve prevented that. The fact that I have four councilmen is irrelevent to my dislike of this proposal. Or was I supposed to forsee that people would get sad over the fact that they didn’t have enough councilmen and add a proposal to balance them earlier?

Point remains, I see no difference between this proposal and a “Remove all of Josh’s power” proposal. Sure both favor the majority, but neither are fair and neither are interesting.

Is the cost of overturning advantage Koen’s through conventional play reasonable? Was the effort he expended to gain that advantage proportionate to the size of the advantage is question? Do the other players of the nomic have a chance to win if this is not in some way amended? If not, then why wouldn’t we do so? You’re being very naive here, Clucky; this is a very predictable outcome that you could have prevented, but in your hubris and greed you opted not to.

I was the one who proposed a new way to kill off more councilmen and you voted against it =) (At least I think you were against the Altar… archives are being slow to low so I can’t actually check…)

I fully agree that this is nomic, and trying to convince people to change the rules in your favor is well within the spirit of the game, but to call Koen’s advantage “unfair” is silliness. You could’ve gotten councilmen early on if you wanted too…

Also Clucky - “I’d support something that let you kill off more councilmen” - I did - you voted against it! I have tried to make councilmen a more responsive resource and you have blocked it, greedily trying to make them even more powerful. This kind of proposal is the logical outcome to such play. I’m afraid Kevan is right - this is a nomic, and you have to be aware that if you persist in defending your excessive and unfair advantage too strong you will end up losing it.

I remember during coppro’s Taxicab Dynasty (when I first joined Blognomic), most Players were in favour of not changing the Highway Route, “because it wouldn’t be fair to the Players who understood what they were worth earlier”.
For the first few Cycles, no one tried to Influence the Council. I spent all my Resources getting the most Councilmen, and at the end of the game you want to suddenly change the Councilmen bonus to around 3 or 4 Power? You could as well not bother and just propose to reset all my Resources. Besides, I don’t think I have “too obvious a stockpile” - I only have 1 more Councilman than Clucky, and the Mob is an easy way to take Councilmen away. For whatever reasons nobody has yet used it against me.

Lastly, the total amount of Power is currently 106, which makes having the most Councilmen worth 13 Power only. With the Mine providing 5 Power a Cycle and probably 5 Cycles left, and given that I have so few Resources, I don’t think I am the clear leader you’re talking about.

That the angry mob will come for the player who builds up too obvious a stockpile is just the built-in Nomic drawback for building up a stockpile, and it shouldn’t be forgotten.