Ban TheMeringovian. Delete all blog entries by TheMeringovian.

I do need to make another post for this, right?  Blockade = 11 now.

All ye who would Scout a Golden Route: Be warned. They cost two more.

Shun the nonbeliever.  Shun.

So, yeah, I’ll be going to London tuesday, which means today is my last chance to request to be idled.
I request to be idled.

In case I have the opportunity to unidle before the end of the dynasty, my Cash is 0 and my list of Routes is HiAi*Do*Go*Ro*Ai*Re$*Du*Ai!Ja*Ja*Hi!Ai*Ai*Ja*Hi!Ta!

Merry Christmas and happy new year to you!

The game goes into hiatus at midnight tonight, and stays in hiatus until midnight on the 27th, per rule 1.9.

Happy holidays to those celebrating!

Remove all instances of “non-Blocked” from the subrule describing Tailgate Routes.

Create a new subrule to the rule Routes. Name it “Casino” and give it the text:

A Casino Route has a Scouting Cost of 7. When a Driver Drives a Casino Route, they earn 4 Cash, and every other Driver gets a 2-Cash Bonus. Immediately after a Driver has Requested Assignment, they must change every of their 2-Cash Bonuses for 2 Cash. 2-Cash Bonuses are tracked in the GNDT by adding “(+N)”, where N is the number of 2-Cash Bonuses, doubled, after the list of Routes of the affected Driver.

Append the Tags CASH and TEAMWORK to the rule “Casino” as an explicitly labeled list.

Add a new subrule to the rule “Routes”.  Call it “Blockade” and give it the following text:

A Blockade Route has a scouting cost of 9.  When a Driver Drives a Blockade Route, they gain 2 Cash and may make a Blockade Post, a blog post a title of “[Blockade]:X” where X is the name of a Route.  Between when a Driver creates a Blockade Post under this rule and the next time another Driver Scouts the named Route, the named Route’s Scouting Cost is increased by 2 for the purpose of the rule “Scouting”, except when the author of that Blockade Post Scouts. 

Tags: AGGRESSIVE

It seems I screwed up my attempts to Drive yesterday, accidentally entering the wrong set of routes in the GNDT. I’m assuming nothing since was legal (even my Assignment Request, because it was based on the wrong number of routes), as they each updated the GNDT to an impossible state, and thus weren’t legal actions per rule 3.2. Also per rule 3.2, I’m correcting the GNDT to comply with the gamestate, by changing it back to the state it was in immediately before I performed the illegal action; I have one twice-weekly and four quad-dailies left for this week/day at this point. Just making a note here in the blog post as it might be hard to follow otherwise.

(It crosses my mind that it’d be a plausible scam to do this sort of thing deliberately to gain an advantage and play from there, hoping nobody notices, and being able to retcon without penalty if you were caught; although I think it’d be very unfair play to do that sort of thing deliberately, and this was purely an accident. I was wondering how that fourth Downtown Route got into my pool…)

With the release of Star Wars: The Old Republic tomorrow, my gaming time will be otherwise occupied, so I think it’s time to idle until I get bored of it.

Tata!

Remove all instances of “non-Blocked” from the subrule describing Tailgate Routes.

Add a new dynastic rule titled “Coup d’Bucky” as follows

The Driver known as Bucky may, as a weekly action, (provided he is not the Dispatcher) achieve victory.

Create a new subrule to the rule “Routes”. Name it “Sherwood” and give it the text:

A Sherwood Route has a Scouting Cost of 5. When a Driver Drives a Sherwood Route, they gain 1 Cash and may chose two other Drivers, thereafter known as “the Rich” and “the Poor”. They may then transfer any amount of Cash from the Rich to the Poor, as long as the Rich has more Cash than the Poor before and after the transfer.

Append the Tags AGGRESSIVE and TEAMWORK to the rule “Casino” as an explicitly labeled list.

Create a new subrule to the rule “Routes”, name it “Casino”, and give it the text:

A Casino Route has a Scouting Cost of 7. When a Driver Drives a Casino Route, they earn 4 Cash, and every other Driver earns 2 Cash.

Append the Tags CASH and TEAMWORK to the rule “Casino” in an explicitly labeled list.

If the ruleset contains the text

When a Driver drives an Active Golden Route, if they have at least four other Golden Routes in their pool, they achieve victory.

change it to

If a driver has driven at least five golden routes since he last requested assignment he achieves victory. Golden Routes become blocked instead of inactive when driven.

Add a new subrule to the rule “Routes”.  Call it “Upgrade” and give it the following text:

An Upgrade Route has a scouting cost of 8.  When a Driver drives an Upgrade Route, they may remove one of their other Active routes from their Route List and add an Inactive Route to the same spot in their Route List.  The added Route’s Scouting Cost cannot be more than 2 plus the removed Route’s Scouting Cost.  Highway Routes and Dump Routes cannot be removed this way.

In the rule entitled “Scrubbing”, change the text

Scouting Cost of 8

to

Scouting Cost of 7

Hey fellow Drivers,

I don’t think lowering the cost was enough.
Random scouting is too uncertain to be worth it, anyway.
Since that option was added to the ruleset, we didn’t took time to improve the mechanics.
Here is my idea: when a Driver goes for random scouting, that Driver may chose a set of N Routes, and roll DICEN to get one of these N Routes. When N is one, that’s regular Scouting; if N is more than one, the cost should be the average scouting cost in that set of routes.

What do you guys think?

In the rule “Golden”, change the text

If a driver has driven at least five golden routes since he last requested assignment he achieves victory. Golden Routes become blocked instead of inactive when driven.

to

When a Driver drives an Active Golden Route, if they have at least four other Golden Routes in their pool, they achieve victory.

In the rule “Scouting”, replace the text:

A Driver may spend X cash, where X is the greatest of: the number of Routes that driver has in their list, the number of Routes described in subrules to “Routes” and 5.

with:

A Driver may spend 7 Cash.

In the rule “Scouting”, replace the text:

A Driver may spend X cash, where X is the greatest of: the number of Routes that driver has in their list, the number of Routes described in subrules to “Routes” and 5.

with:

A Driver may spend X, divided by two, Cash, where X is the greatest of: the number of Routes that Driver has in their list, the number of Routes described in subrules to “Routes”, and 10.

Add a new subrule to the rule “Routes”.  Call it “Upgrade” and give it the following text:

An Upgrade Route has a scouting cost of 5.  When a Driver drives an Upgrade Route, they may remove one of their other Active routes from their Route List and add an Inactive Route to the same spot in their Route List.  The added Route’s Scouting Cost cannot be more than 2 plus the removed Route’s Scouting Cost.  Highway Routes and Dump Routes cannot be removed this way.

In the rule “Golden”, change the text

If a driver has driven at least five golden routes since he last requested assignment he achieves victory. Golden Routes become blocked instead of inactive when driven.

to

When a Driver drives an Active Golden Route, if they have at least four other Golden Routes in their pool, they achieve victory.

In the rule “Jam”, replace the text

When a Driver Drives a Jam Route, that Driver earns 2 Cash. Immediately after Driving a Jam Route, the traffic jam spreads

with:

When a Driver Drives a Jam Route, that Driver earns 2 Cash, and the traffic jam spreads

In the Rule “Routes”, replace “makes it Inactive.” with “makes it Inactive if it was Active.”.

Create a new subrule to the rule “Routes”. Give it the title “Dump” and give it the text:

A Dump Route has a Scouting Cost of 0, but when a Driver Scouts for a Dump Route, that Driver earns 5 Cash. A Drive cannot Scout for a Dump Route if they already have one in their pool. A Dump Route cannot be removed by a Scrubbing Route or turned into a Jam Route.

Create a new subrule to the rule “Routes”. Give it the title “Dump” and give it the text:

A Dump Route has a Scouting Cost of 0, but when a Driver Scouts for a Dump Route, that Driver earns 5 Cash. A Drive cannot Scout for a Dump Route if they already have one in their pool. A Dump Route cannot be removed by a Scrubbing Route or turned into a Jam Route.

In rule 2.3, change

Twice per day, but not more than twice in any 12-hour period,

to

Four times per day, but not more than four times in any 12-hour period,

and

As a weekly action, a Driver may Request Assignment.

to

Twice per week, but nor more than once in any 24-hour period, a Driver may Request Assignment.

Create a new subrule to the rule “Routes”. Name it “Dump” and give it the text:

A Dump Route has a Scouting Cost of 0, but when a Driver Scouts for a Dump Route, that Driver earns 5 Cash. A Dump Route cannot be removed by a Scrubbing Route or turned into a Jam Route, unless it has the punctuation ‘&’. At any time a Driver can spend 6 Cash to add the punctuation ‘&’ to a Dump Route in their pool.

Add a new subrule to “Routes” called “Village” with the following text

A Village Route has a scouting cost of 10. When a Driver Drives a Village Route, they make the first two inactive routes in their pool become active. Village Routes become Blocked instead of Inactive when Driven.

Add a new subroule to the rule “Routes”.  Call it “Overtime” and give it the following text:

An Overtime Route has a Scouting Cost of 9.  When a Driver Drives an Overtime route, if they have already driven an Overtime route since they last Requested Assignment, they gain 1 Cash.  Otherwise, they mark it as Blocked and then Drive every non-Blocked Route in their pool in their current order. (This does not let them Avoid Routes and does not count against how many times they can Drive in any given period.)  If a Route Driven during this effect adds or unblocks Routes in their pool, they do not Drive those Routes, although removing a Route or making it Blocked will prevent it from being Driven.

Add a new subrule to the rule “Routes”.  Call it “Burglary” and give it the following text:

A Burglary Route has a scouting cost of 8.  When a Driver Drives a Burglary Route, they transfer 1 Cash to themselves from each of up to 2 other Drivers.
Tags: AGGRESSIVE

Add a new subrule to the rule “Routes”.  Call it “Construction” and give it the following text:

A Construction Route has a Scouting Cost of 3.  When a Driver Drives a Construction Route, they gain 1 Cash, and may chose a set of Inactive Routes that satisfies the criterion that no Route in that set belongs to the same Driver as any other Route in that set.  Each Route in the chosen set becomes Blocked.
Tags: AGGRESSIVE

Dude, you are about to become idle. If you don’t want that, please make a post or comment.

Add a new subrule to the rule “Routes”.  Call it “Burglary” and give it the following text:

A Burglary Route has a scouting cost of 8.  When a Driver Drives a Burglary Route, they transfer 1 Cash to themselves from each of up to 2 other Drivers.
Tags: AGGRESSIVE

Add a new subrule to the rule “Routes”.  Call it “Construction” and give it the following text:

A Construction Route has a Scouting Cost of 3.  When a Driver Drives a Construction Route, they gain 1 Cash, and may mark any number of Inactive Routes belonging to different Drivers as Blocked.
Tags: AGGRESSIVE

because more routes can’t hurt. Also we need some high powered routes if this game is ever gonna end

Bridge
A Bridge Route has a Scouting Cost of 15. When a Driver Drives a Bridge route, all scouting costs for that driver are reduced by one until the Driver next requests assignment. Scouting costs may not be made lower than 1 in this manner.

Lookout
A Lookout Route has a Scouting Cost of 8. When a Driver Drives a lookout route they mark it as blocked. Then activate the next three non-blocked routes in their pool. They then pick one of those three routes (provided one exists) and drive it, pick a second of the three routes (provided a second exists) and ignore it, and remove the third one (provided a third exists) from their pool (in that order).

Lotto
A Lotto Route has a Scouting Cost of 10. When a Driver Drives a lotto route they must roll a DICE10. If the result is a 10, they earn 10 cash and remove the lotto route from their pool.

In the rule “Routes”, change

This moves the Route to the bottom of the list, makes it Inactive, and, if that Route was Active and the Driver did not Avoid it, causes them to get the effects, if any, described in the subrule corresponding to that Route.

to

This moves the Route to the bottom of the list and makes it Inactive. Subrules of this rule may specify events that happen upon Driving a route, but those effects do not happen unless the route was Active before it was driven.

Change the values of GNDT-tracked gamestate to the values they would have if non-Active routes had never had any effect when Driven, and the effects of each Route had only happened once on each occasion it was Driven while Active.

In the rule “Highway”, replace the text “A Highway Route has a Scouting Cost of 5” with “A Highway Route has a Scouting Cost of 12”.

To every Highway Route in every Driver’s pool, give the punctuation ‘?’.

In the rule “Highway”, replace the text “When a Driver Drives a Highway Route, that Driver earns 1 Cash and may make one of the first three Inactive Routes in their pool become Active.” with:

When a Driver Drives a Highway Route, if that Route doesn’t have the punctuation ‘?’, that Driver earns 1 Cash and may make one of the first three Inactive Routes in their pool become Active. Highway Routes with the punctuation ‘?’ don’t have any effect when Driven.

Create a new subrule to the rule “Highway”. Name it “Too cheap” and give it the text:

At any time between XXXX, 00:00:00 UTC and YYYY, 00:00:00 UTC, any Driver who has a Highway Route marked with ‘?’ in their pool may replace that Route by any Route which Scouting Cost is 6 or lower, other than a Highway Route. The resulting Route is respectively Active, Inactive or Blocked if the Highway Route was Active, Inactive or Blocked.

At any time after YYYY, 00:00:00 UTC, if a Driver has in their pool a Highway Route marked with a ‘?’, any Admin may remove that Route from that Driver’s pool.

At any time after YYYY, 00:00:00 UTC, if no Driver has in their pool a Highway Route marked with a ‘?’, any Admin may remove the text “if that Route doesn’t have the punctuation ‘?’, ” and the text ” Highway Routes with the punctuation ‘?’ don’t have any effect when Driven.” from the rule “Highway”, and repeal the subrule “Too cheap”. If an Admin does so he must announce it by making a post making the change clear.

In the subrule “Too cheap” of the rule “Highway”, replace all occurrences of “XXXX” by the date x at which this Proposal was enacted, in a day/month/year format.
In the subrule “Too cheap” of the rule “Highway”, replace all occurrences of “YYYY” by the date y in a day/month/year format, so that there are exactly seven days between x, 00:00:00 UTC and y, 00:00:00 UTC.

Change the text of “Highway” to

  A Highway Route has a Scouting Cost of 4 plus 2 for each Highway Route in that Driver’s Route Pool

If the proposal “Disarming the Dynasty-Killer” passed, this proposal does nothing.

In the rule “Highway”, change the text:

A Highway Route has a Scouting Cost of 5.

to

A Highway Route has a Scouting Cost of 5 if the driver scouting it had 2 or fewer Highway routes before scouting, and 12 otherwise.

Create a new subrule to the rule “Routes”. Title “Roundabout”, placing it with respect to the alphabetical order by name of the subrules, and give it the following text:

A Roundabout Route has a Scouting Cost of 5. When a Driver Drives a Roundabout Route, that Driver earns 1 Cash, and may move one of their Routes to the top of the list.

Change the text of “Highway” to

A Highway Route has a Scouting Cost of 5.
A Highway Route has a Scouting Cost of 5 if the driver scouting it had 1 or fewer Highway routes before scouting, and 12 otherwise.

If the proposal http://blognomic.com/archive/disarming_the_dynasty-killer/ fails to pass, and any Driver has more than 3 Highway Routes, remove any they have after the first 3 in their Route List.

If the proposal “Undominate it” passed, this proposal does nothing.

In the rule “Highway”, change the text:

A Highway Route has a Scouting Cost of 5.

to

A Highway Route has a Scouting Cost of 5 if the driver scouting it had 2 or fewer Highway routes before scouting, and 12 otherwise.

If any Driver has more than 3 Highway Routes, remove any they have after the first 3 in their Route List.

Amend the rule “Jam” so that it reads:

A Jam Route has a Scouting Cost of 4. When a Driver Drives a Jam Route, that Driver earns 2 Cash and, if that Route had the punctuation #, they removes that punctuation. Immediately after Driving a Jam Route, the traffic jam spreads - the Driver must add the punctuation # to the first Route in their pool. Routes with the punctuation # are considered Jam Routes.

In the rule “Highway”, change the text:

A Highway Route has a Scouting Cost of 5.

to

A Highway Route has a Scouting Cost of 5 if the driver scouting it had 2 or fewer Highway routes before scouting, and 12 otherwise.

If any Driver has more than 3 Highway Routes, remove any they have after the first 3 in their Route List.  If they have not Requested Assignment since buying a Highway Route, they gain 5 Cash for each Highway Route removed in this way.

Add the following subrules to the list of routes

Posh
A Posh route has a scouting cost of 15. When a driver drives an Posh Route, that driver earns 4 Cash.

Tags: CASH

Limo
A Limo route has a scouting cost of 20. When a driver drives an Limo Route, that driver earns 5 Cash.

Tags: CASH

Investment
An Investment route has a scouting cost of 10. When a driver drives an Investment route, they first check and see if there is another driver who has an Investment route marked with a $. If such a driver exists, they remove that mark and increase that drivers cash by 3. Then, if there are no Investment routes marked with a $ the driver marks the investment route they just drove with an $

Tags: TEAMWORK