Monday, March 31, 2014

Communicant Breakthrough

I hear creaking, I hear music, I hear… a voice. I am now the Communicant.

Sunday, March 30, 2014

Proposal: Material Emancipation Grid

Reaches quorum and passes 5-0. -RaichuKFM

Adminned at 31 Mar 2014 08:33:02 UTC

Replace “they lose all Bodily Items they are Holding” with “they lose all Items they are Holding” in the rule “Crash Site”.

In the rule “Hold Items”, replace “Each Infected’s currently Held Items will be kept track of using the GNDT.” with “Each Infected’s currently Held Items are kept track of using the GNDT. “

Cranking up the power of the reset button, and fixing an odd future tense.

Friday, March 28, 2014

Proposal: Egg Roll

Times out 3 votes to 3. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 30 Mar 2014 10:58:00 UTC

Enact a new subrule of “The Chambers” called “Hatchery”:

An Infected in the Hatchery may gain an Egg, at any time.

Occupants:

Proposal: Teleportation

Times out and passes 4-2. -RaichuKFM

Adminned at 30 Mar 2014 08:30:13 UTC

When this Proposal enacts, any Infected whose EVC included a name of a Chamber ceases to be an Occupant of any other Chambers and become an Occupant of that Chamber. If an EVC contains the names of several Chambers, it instead does nothing.

The following text does nothing: “Dig Infected Crust Mantle Mob Distress Burrow Tunnel Stick Rock Diamond”.

Why not?

Also, I should not be roaming right now; I voted FOR on two Hive Proposals, and Rodney attacked me at some point when he was currently in the Evil AI Room. I’m going to put myself back in that room and give myself back a limb unless someone has a reason why I shouldn’t have been in there.

While Away the Hours

The Alien’s last vote was at 3:19am on the 22nd; more than 120 hours ago. The brains of the Alien and the Communicant both atrophy.

Where Seldom is Heard

Josh and Murphy idle out after over a week of inactivity each. Quorum drops to 5.

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Proposal: Hunk of Burning Lava

Reached quorum 5 votes to 4. Enacted by Kevan. RaichuKFM, The Alien, Benzene and Justice each lose a limb.

Adminned at 28 Mar 2014 04:14:00 UTC

Enact a new subrule of “The Chambers” called “Lava Vent”:-

Whenever one or more Infecteds enter the Lava Vent, a Lava Flow occurs if there has not already been a Lava Flow that day. When a Lava Flow occurs, every Infected who is Roaming loses 1 Limb (to a minimum of zero).

Occupants:

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Proposal: Hi Ho

Reached quorum 7 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 27 Mar 2014 06:09:17 UTC

In the rule “The Chambers”, replace “When a Hive Proposal enacts, every Infected whose vote for the Proposal was FOR becomes an Occupant of that Chamber, and ceases to occupy any Chamber they were occupying previously.” with:-

If an EVC on a Hive Proposal includes the word “Dig” it is a Dig Vote, otherwise it is not. The Alien’s Vote is always a Dig Vote. When a Hive Proposal adds or modifies a Chamber rule, every Infected whose vote for the Proposal was FOR and also a Dig Vote becomes an Occupant of that Chamber, and ceases to occupy any Chamber they were occupying previously. If a Hive Proposal enacts with no Dig Votes which are also FOR votes, its proposed change to the ruleset does not occur.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Proposal: Rule of Claw

Timed out 4 votes to 1. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 27 Mar 2014 05:53:20 UTC

Enact a new rule, “Conflict”:-

Each Infected has a number of Attacks, defaulting to one. If an Infected has both a greater Size and more Attacks than a specific Infected (the “Beta”) who they share a Chamber with, they may reduce any one of the Beta’s Phenotypes by 1 and change the Beta to be Roaming.

Create a new subrule to “Hold Items” entitled “Claw”:

Item Name: Claw
Bulk: 0
Grip: 1
Method for acquiring: An Infected may increase their Mutation by 1 to gain a Claw.
Effect: Each Claw provides +1 Attack. Claws are Bodily Items.

In the rule “Hold Items”, replace “can discard an Item at any time” with “can discard a non-Bodily Item at any time”, and replace “may randomly select an Item held by that Infected” with “may randomly select a non-Bodily Item held by that Infected”.

In the rule “Crash Site”, after “set to zero, 4, 4 and 4 respectively” add “and they lose all Bodily Items they are Holding”.

Monday, March 24, 2014

Proposal: The ‘three times’ rule.

Self-killed. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 26 Mar 2014 06:01:34 UTC

Add a new keyword to the Glossary:

Extra Vote

Sometimes a rule may give an Infected one or more Extra Votes on a Votable Matter. To cast an Extra Vote, that Infected uses additional identical voting icons in their EVC: one additional icon to the first for every Extra Vote used. For each Extra Vote cast, that vote counts one additional time for the resolution of the Votable Matter.

Extra Votes cannot be cast on Core Proposals, Calls for Judgment, or Declarations of Victory.

Change “may use two identical voting icons when voting on a Hive Proposal; if they do, their vote on that proposal counts twice.” in the “Shovel” rule to “has one Extra Vote on Hive Proposals.”
Change “may use two identical voting icons when voting on an Invention Proposal; if they do, their vote on that proposal counts twice.” in the “Toolbox” rule to “has one Extra Vote on Invention Proposals.”
Change “may use two identical voting icons when voting on a Dynastic Proposal that is neither a Hive nor an Invention Proposal; if they do, their vote counts twice.” in the “Evil AI Interface Room” rule to “has one Extra Vote on Dynastic Proposals that are neither a Hive nor an Invention Proposal”

This isn’t the first time we have weird voting rules, and it probably isn’t the last. Also, I think there’d be lots of additional weirdness involving having two extra votes on the same proposal in the old style (does it count as three (addition), or four votes (multiplication, i.e. twice twice)?) It’s interfering with a proposal I’d like to make, so let’s codify this for now and for future generations.

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Proposal: It Followed Me Home

Timed out 4 votes to 2. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 26 Mar 2014 06:01:17 UTC

Create a new subrule to “Hold Items” entitled “Hatchling”:

Item Name: Hatchling
Bulk: 2
Grip: 0
Method for acquiring: An Infected may remove an Egg from their Possession to gain a Hatchling; upon doing so, all other Eggs and Hatchlings held by that Infected are removed from play.
Effect: If an Infected is holding a Hatchling, they may - prior to taking any game action defined by the dynastic rules - consider any one of their Phenotypes to be increased by 2 for the duration of that action.

Infect me Please

I’d like to be infected.

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Proposal: Word Salad

Self-killed. Adminned by Rodney.

Adminned at 23 Mar 2014 11:22:05 UTC

Enact a new Rule “Word Salad”, containing the following:

All Infecteds shall burrow into the planet for the good of The Alien. Its will is law. Glory to the Alien. Down with the Survivor. Obey the Communicant. Mob on command and heed its distress.

Just in case Brain Drain passes while I’m not looking. This is not really spam, because it has the Distress Call in it. The next one will have the Mobbing Call.

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Proposal: Brain Drain

Times out and passes 2-1. Admineed by Rodney.

Adminned at 23 Mar 2014 11:20:34 UTC

To the rule “Communication”, add:-

If the Communicant has been the Communicant for all of the previous 120 hours, and if the Alien has cast no votes FOR or AGAINST in that time, and if the Alien’s Brain has not been Atrophied in that time, then any Infected may Atrophy the Alien’s brain by making a blog post announcing such an event, and reducing the Brain of both the Communicant and the Alien by 1.

Proposal: Restless Eggs

Times out and passes 4-0. Adminned by Rodney.

Adminned at 23 Mar 2014 11:19:39 UTC

In the rule “Egg”, replace “If the Alien is not Roaming and has fewer than three Eggs, any Infected may have the Alien gain an Egg.” with:-

If the Alien is Roaming, any Infected may have the Alien gain an Egg, unless the Alien would be Burdened after having done so.

To the last paragraph of the rule “The Chambers”, add:-

When a Hive Proposal which the Alien voted AGAINST enacts, the Alien becomes Roaming if it wasn’t already.

Maybe more interesting if the Alien grows Eggs while Roaming, but Infected can only offload them in Chambers. Adding a Mechanic to return the Alien to Roaming outside the Chambers.

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Proposal: I can’t let you do that, Dave.

Reached quorum 5 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 21 Mar 2014 03:27:52 UTC

Add a new subrule to “the Chambers”, named “Evil AI Interface Room” with the following text:

An Infected at the Evil AI Interface Room with a Brain of six or more may use two identical voting icons when voting on a Dynastic Proposal that is neither a Hive nor an Invention Proposal; if they do, their vote counts twice.

Occupants:

 

All hail the Great and Glorious Alien! Now we shall spread the spores even into sillicon!

Also, we can use our brains for something now.

(I think this Dynasty is becoming the weird-voting rules dynasty, which I think is just great.)

Proposal: Now it’s a little harder to teleport

Timed out 3 votes to 1. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 21 Mar 2014 02:37:29 UTC

In the rule “Diamond” replace

“Bulk: 0
Grip: 0”

with

“Bulk: .2
Grip: .2”

In the rule “Teleportation Ring” replace

“If an Infected is Holding a Teleportation Ring, as a Daily Action they may attempt to Teleport by rolling DICE3. If the result is less than or equal to the number of Diamonds they are Holding, the Infected may become an Occupant of any Chamber or become Roaming, and then ceases to be an Occupant of any Chamber they were occupying previously. If the result is greater than the number of Diamonds they are Holding, they cease to become an Occupant of any Chamber and are Roaming.”

with

“If an Infected is Holding a Teleportation Ring, as a Daily Action they may attempt to Teleport by rolling DICE3 and discarding up to 3 Diamonds. If the result is less than or equal to the number of Diamonds they discarded, the Infected may become an Occupant of any Chamber or become Roaming, and then ceases to be an Occupant of any Chamber they were occupying previously. If the result is greater than the number of Diamonds they discarded, they cease to become an Occupant of any Chamber and are Roaming.”

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Proposal: Early and Often

Times out, reaches Quorum, and passes 5-0. Adminned by Rodney.

Adminned at 17 Mar 2014 14:06:02 UTC

In the rule “Shovel” replace “their votes FOR Hive Proposals count twice” with “that Infected may use two identical voting icons when voting on a Hive Proposal; if they do, their vote on that proposal counts twice”.

In the rule “Tool Box” replace “their votes FOR Invention Proposals count twice” with “that Infected may use two identical voting icons when voting on an Invention Proposal; if they do, their vote on that proposal counts twice”.

Making it clear which votes should be counted twice.

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Proposal: Diamonds are an Infected’s Best Friend

Times out and passes 4-0. As this is not an invention proposal, no one’s votes count more. Adminned by Rodney.

Adminned at 17 Mar 2014 14:01:24 UTC

Add a subrule to “Hold Items” entitled “Diamond”

Item Name: Diamond
Bulk: 0
Grip: 0
Method for Acquiring: If an infected is Holding a Tool Box and a Rock, they may discard the Rock to roll DICE4. If the result is 1, they gain a Diamond.
Effect: None.

In the rule “Teleportation Ring” replace

“If an Infected is Holding a Teleportation Ring, as a Daily Action they may attempt to Teleport by rolling DICE3. If the result is 1, the Infected may become an Occupant of any Chamber, and then ceases to be an Occupant of any Chamber they were occupying previously. If the result is 2 or 3, they cease to become an Occupant of any Chamber and are Roaming.”

with

“If an Infected is Holding a Teleportation Ring, as a Daily Action they may attempt to Teleport by rolling DICE3. If the result is less than or equal to the number of Diamonds they are Holding, the Infected may become an Occupant of any Chamber or become Roaming, and then ceases to be an Occupant of any Chamber they were occupying previously. If the result is greater than the number of Diamonds they are Holding, they cease to become an Occupant of any Chamber and are Roaming.”

Proposal: Savings and Clone

Reached quorum 9 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 15 Mar 2014 01:52:24 UTC

Enact a new subrule of “The Chambers” called “Crash Site”:

An Infected at the Crash Site may activate the genetic backup system in the ship’s still-functioning medical bay: upon doing so, that Infected’s Mutation, Size, Brain and Limbs are set to zero, 4, 4 and 4 respectively.

Occupants:

I suspect all dynasties either need adjustable starting stats or a reset button; suggesting the latter. This might make us less cagey about mutating.

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Proposal: You can win now

Self-killed. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 14 Mar 2014 03:42:07 UTC

Add a subrule to “The Chambers” entitled “Victory Room”

If an Infected is the sole Occupant of the Victory Room, they may declare victory.

An infected may not Teleport into the Victory Room.

Roaming Too Far

Dorieke and Josh idle out after eight and seven days of inactivity respectively. Quorum drops to 5.

Proposal: Cave Paint

Reached quorum 6 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 14 Mar 2014 03:41:14 UTC

In Rule 2.6 (The Chambers), replace “If a Proposal adds a single subrule to this rule, and makes no other changes to the ruleset, then it is known as a Hive Proposal.” with:-

If a Proposal creates or modifies a single subrule of this rule, and makes no other changes to the ruleset, then it is known as a Hive Proposal.

Allowing Hive proposals to send a digging team back to an old Chamber if they intend to make an (even superficial) change to it.

Proposal: Proposal Resolutions

Self-killed. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 13 Mar 2014 16:23:30 UTC

Add to the end of the rule “Resolution of Proposals”

An Admin may not selectively resolve proposals. If they resolve a proposal, they must resolve all proposals that can be resolved at that time.

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Proposal: While Stocks Last

Timed out 4 votes to 1. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 13 Mar 2014 07:41:15 UTC

Every Infected whose vote for this Proposal was FOR becomes an Occupant of the Supply Room (unless they were already an Occupant of it, or unless their EVC included the phrase “after you”).

Monday, March 10, 2014

Proposal: Bling Bling

Timed out 4 votes to 2, with 2 Toolboxes. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 13 Mar 2014 07:41:22 UTC

Add a subrule to “Hold Items” entitled “Teleportation Ring”

Item Name: Teleportation Ring
Bulk: 0
Grip: 0
Method for acquiring: If an Infected is an Occupant of the Supply Room and is not currently Holding a Teleportation Ring, they may gain a Teleportation Ring at any time.
Effect: If an Infected is Holding a Teleportation Ring, as a Daily Action they may attempt to Teleport by rolling DICE3. If the result is 1, the Infected may become an Occupant of any Chamber, and then ceases to be an Occupant of any Chamber they were occupying previously. If the result is 2 or 3, they cease to become an Occupant of any Chamber and are Roaming.

Proposal: They grow up so fast…

Times out and fails 3-4. Adminned by Rodney.

Adminned at 12 Mar 2014 17:10:31 UTC

If the proposal entitled “Go to Work on an Egg” is enacted, Create a new rule entitled “Hatchlings”

A Hatchling is an Infected controlled by another Infected. The controlling Infected is known as the Hatchling’s Parent. When a Hatchling is created, it is given a name by it’s Parent. The name must contain the Parent’s own name. The Parent then sets the Phenotypes of the Hatchling to values within one point of their own values. The Mutation of the Hatchling is set to the Parent’s Mutation score plus one. Each Hatchling has their own row in the GNDT.

If an Infected is Holding an Egg, as a Daily Action they may attempt to Hatch the Egg by rolling DICE4. If the result is 1, the Egg Hatches and ceases to exist. If the Egg Hatches, a new Hatchling is created whose Parent is the Infected who was Holding the Egg.

If an Infected’s race is Bacteria, Flagellate, Paramecium, Blob, or Big Blob, as a Daily Action they may attempt to Multiply by rolling DICE4. If the result is 1, they succeed and a new Hatchling is created whose Parent is the Infected who Multiplied.

All creations of new Hatchlings must be announced by the Parent of the Hatchling in a blog post whose title contains the word “Hatchling”. The post must include the Hatchling’s Phenotypes, Mutation, and name.

A Parent may cast their Hatchling’s vote for them on a proposal by making a comment on that proposal with exactly one voting icon, surrounded by arrows, and the name of exactly one of their Hatchlings. This comment does not count as a vote by the Parent. The voting icon which appears between the arrows is considered to be the Hatchling’s vote on that proposal.

A Hatchling may not submit proposals. A Parent is considered victorious if their Hatchling meets the conditions for victory. If a Hatchling is also a Parent, their Parent becomes the Parent of the Hatchling’s Hatchling.

In all other ways, a Hatchling acts as a normal Infected whose actions are carried out by it’s Parent.

Proposal: Go to Work on an Egg

Reaches quorum 8 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 11 Mar 2014 05:06:32 UTC

Create a new subrule to “Hold Items” entitled “Egg”

Item Name: Egg
Bulk: 1
Grip: 2
Method for acquiring: If the Alien is not Roaming and has fewer than three Eggs, any Infected may have the Alien gain an Egg. If an Infected Occupies the same Chamber as the Alien, and the Alien has an Egg, that Infected may move 1 Egg from the Alien to themselves.
Effect: None.

Proposal: Your Brain On Spores

Reached quorum 7 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 11 Mar 2014 04:59:01 UTC

In the rule “Communication”, replace “Whenever an Infected’s Mutation becomes becomes higher than that of any other Infected, that Infected becomes the new Communicant.” with:-

If an Infected has more Brain than any other Infected (other than the Alien), then that Infected may make a blog post whose title includes the word “Communicant” and which announces this occurrence. Upon doing so, they become the new Communicant and must update this rule to reflect this.

Making Communicant changes more obvious, specifying who does the Ruleset update, tying it to Brain (which you have to choose to specialise in) rather than Mutation (which always goes up whenever you make any specialisation) and ignoring the Alien (who is currently blocking anyone new from becoming Communicant).

Sunday, March 09, 2014

Going Idle

Quorum is unaffected.

Friday, March 07, 2014

Proposal: Now it’s a little harder to pick up rocks

Times out 3 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 10 Mar 2014 02:36:02 UTC

Create a new subrule to “Hold Items” entitled “Shovel”

Item Name: Shovel
Bulk: 1
Grip: 2
Method for acquiring: If an Infected is an Occupant of the Supply Room, and is not currently Holding a Shovel, they may gain a Shovel at any time.
Effect: While an Infected is Holding a Shovel, their votes FOR Hive Proposals count twice.

Create a new subrule to “Hold Items” entitled “Tool Box”

Item Name: Tool Box
Bulk: 2
Grip: 1
Method for acquiring: If an Infected is an Occupant of the Supply Room, and is not currently Holding a Tool Box, they may gain a Tool Box at any time.
Effect: While an Infected is Holding a Tool Box, their votes FOR Invention Proposals count twice.

In the rule “Rock” replace “At any time, an Infected can gain a Rock.” with “If an Infected is Roaming, they may gain a Rock at any time.”
To the end of the rule “Hold Items” add

If a Proposal adds one or more subrules to this rule, and makes no other changes to the ruleset, then it is known as an Invention Proposal.

Proposal: It’s not A room, it’s THE Room.

Timed out 3 votes FOR to 1 AGAINST, with the Alien abstaining. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 10 Mar 2014 02:33:53 UTC

Add a subrule to “The Chambers” entitled “Supply Room”

An Infected may not Mature while they are an Occupant of the Supply Room.

Occupants:

 

Thursday, March 06, 2014

I Am Justice

Consider this my request to join the game.

*Breathes in a lung-full of alien spores.*
Got to try everything at least once, right?

Proposal: Shut Up and Keep Digging

Reaches quorum and passes 7-0. -RaichuKFM

Adminned at 07 Mar 2014 11:20:22 UTC

Enact a new rule, “The Chambers”:-

The Alien is psychically encouraging the construction of a number of mysterious Chambers, listed as subrules to this rule. An Infected may either occupy a single Chamber, or be Roaming; by default each Infected is Roaming. Infected who occupy a Chamber are tracked in a list at the end of that Chamber’s rule, as “Occupants: [list of occupants]”.

If a Proposal adds a single subrule to this rule, and makes no other changes to the ruleset, then it is known as a Hive Proposal. When a Hive Proposal enacts, every Infected whose vote for the Proposal was FOR becomes an Occupant of that Chamber, and ceases to occupy any Chamber they were occupying previously.

Trying a slightly odd location mechanic; you occupy the last room that you helped to build.

Proposal: Get a Grip

Reaches quorum and passes 7-0. -RaichuKFM

Adminned at 07 Mar 2014 11:15:58 UTC

In the rule “Hold Items”, replace “Each Item requires a certain number of Limbs to Hold, and each Limb can only contribute to Holding one Item. If an Infected does not have enough free Limbs to Hold a new Item, they cannot gain the new Item.” with:-

Each Item has a Bulk and a Grip rating.

Replace “required number of Limbs to Hold each Item” with “Bulk and Grip of each Item”.

Replace “If an Infected loses Limbs such that they no longer have enough Limbs to Hold all of their Items, they shall discard Items until they can Hold all of the remaining ones.” with:-

If the total Bulk of all Items held by an Infected exceeds their Size, and/or if the total Grip of all Items held by an Infected exceeds their Limbs, that Infected is considered to be Burdened. An Infected may not acquire an Item if they would be Burdened after having acquired it. If an Infected is Burdened, any Infected may randomly select an Item held by that Infected: that Item is discarded.

In the rule “Rock”, replace “Number of Limbs required to Hold: 1” with:

Bulk: 1
Grip: 1

Filling in a little vagueness on “free limbs” and what happens if a Rock-carrier has their arms chewed off while they’re asleep, and adding a second axis to the nature of items.

Wednesday, March 05, 2014

Proposal: You can pick up rocks

Reaches quorum and passes 7-0. -RaichuKFM

Adminned at 07 Mar 2014 11:10:58 UTC

Change the rule “Hold Items” to read as follows

There exist a set of Items which can be Held by Infecteds. Each Item requires a certain number of Limbs to Hold, and each Limb can only contribute to Holding one Item. If an Infected does not have enough free Limbs to Hold a new Item, they cannot gain the new Item. Only Items listed as subrules to this rule can be Held. The required number of Limbs to Hold each Item and the method for acquiring each Item will be listed in their subrule. Unless otherwise stated, an Infected can discard an Item at any time.

If an Infected loses Limbs such that they no longer have enough Limbs to Hold all of their Items, they shall discard Items until they can Hold all of the remaining ones.

Each Infected’s currently Held Items will be kept track of using the GNDT.

Add a subrule to the “Hold Items” rule entitled “Rock”

Item Name: Rock

Number of Limbs required to Hold: 1

Method for acquiring: At any time, an Infected can gain a Rock

Effect: None

 

 

Proposal: Comedy of Errors

Reached quorum 6 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 07 Mar 2014 05:56:40 UTC

If the Rule “Communication” exists, replace the phrase “followed by an arrow” with “followed by an arrow

Proposal: Communication Failure

Reached quorum 7 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan. Rodney becomes the Communicant.

Adminned at 07 Mar 2014 05:56:16 UTC

Enact a new Rule “Communication” containing the following:

One Infected may be the Communicant, their identity being tracked in the next sentence. The current Communicant is: nobody.

The Communicant may cast the Alien’s vote for them on a proposal by making a comment on that proposal with exactly six voting icons in a row, followed by an arrow - this comment does not count as a vote by the Communicant. The voting icon which appears most frequently in the row is considered to be the Alien’s vote on that proposal, and must correspond to the Alien’s Opinion on that proposal.

The Alien has a Distress Call and a Mobbing Call, both of which are English words tracked privately by the Communicant, and initially undefined. If the Calls are undefined, the Communicant may choose new words for them. When an Infected ceases to be the Communicant, both Calls become undefined.

If a Proposal contains a Mobbing Call and no Distress Call, the Alien’s Opinion of the proposal is that it should vote FOR. If a Proposal contains a Distress Call and no Mobbing Call, the Alien’s Opinion of the proposal is that it should vote AGAINST. If neither of these is the case, the Alien’s Opinion is that it should vote DEFERENTIAL.

Whenever an Infected’s Mutation becomes becomes higher than that of any other Infected, that Infected becomes the new Communicant.

When this Proposal passes, set the Communicant to be a random Infected.

Proposal: Blobs and Big Blobs

Reached quorum 6 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 07 Mar 2014 05:51:14 UTC

If the proposal entitled “Feeling Better” does not pass, ignore this proposal.

Create a new rule entitled “Races”

Each Infected has a trait known as Race that depends on their Limb and Size Phenotypes.

If an Infected has 0 Limbs and a Size of 0, their Race is Bacteria.
If an Infected has 0 Limbs and a Size of 1-5, their Race is Blob.
If an Infected has 0 Limbs and a Size of 6 or more, their Race is Big Blob.
If an Infected has 1-5 Limbs and a Size of 0, their Race is Flagellate.
If an Infected has 1-5 Limbs and a Size of 1-5, their Race is Human.
If an Infected has 1-5 Limbs and a Size of 6 or more, their Race is Monster.
If an Infected has 6 or more Limbs and a Size of 0, their Race is Paramecium.
If an Infected has 6 or more Limbs and a Size of 1-5, their Race is Insect.
If an Infected has 6 or more Limbs and a Size of 6 or more, their Race is Alien.

Add the following to the end of the rule entitled “Mutation”

The numerical scores of all Phenotypes and Mutation must be non-negative integers.

Proposal: Okay, maybe work together a little bit

Illegal third proposal.

Adminned at 05 Mar 2014 11:52:44 UTC

Create the following rule, named “Gangs”:

An Infected may attempt to form a gang with one or more other Infecteds and/or the Alien.

He does so by posting a Proposal titled “Creating the ... gang” (gang name on the ...) in which he states which Infected/Infecteds and/or The Alien he wants to gang up with and what the gang will be named. If all those listed in the proposal vote FOR, the gang is formed. If one or more Infecteds listed in the Proposal vote anything that isn’t FOR or don’t vote at all within 48 hours, the proposal will fail. Votes from non-listed Infecteds or the Alien (unless he is listed) don’t do anything in Gang-forming Proposals.

Whenever an Infected who is a member of a gang enters another gang, he automatically leaves his previous gang. Whenever a gang has 1 or fewer members, it is disbanded. An Infected may choose to leave a gang at any time without consulting his fellow gang-members. An Infected may attempt to join an existing gang by posting a Proposal expressing his wish to join, if all existing gang-members vote FOR the proposal passes and he joins the gang.

There will be a column in the GNDT tracking what gang an Infected belongs to.

If the “Feeling Better” Proposal passes, add the following to the “Gangs” rule:

If the combined Size, Brain and Limbs of any Infected within a gang is higher than that of any other Infected in the gang, he becomes the Leader of the gang.

If the “Let’s not work together” Proposal passes, add the following to the “Gangs” rule:

A Gang-member may not Attack, Trick or Steal from a fellow Gang-member.

When an Infected within a gang is Attacked, Tricked or Stolen from by another Infected, the numerical value in the dice roll for his Size, Brains or Limbs will be that of all gang members combined.

Proposal: The Alien’s BFF

Can’t reach quorum with five votes against. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 06 Mar 2014 02:42:17 UTC

If the proposal titled “What’s that, Skippy?” doesn’t pass, ignore this proposal.

Add the following to the rule about the Communicant:

Whenever an Infected’s Mutation becomes becomes higher than that of any other Infected, that Infected becomes the new Communicant.

Proposal: Let’s not work together

Can’t reach quorum with five votes against. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 06 Mar 2014 02:40:43 UTC

If the “Feeling Better” proposal doesn’t pass, ignore this proposal.

Add the following to the “Mutation” rule:

The Alien also has numerical scores for Mutation, Size, Brain and Limbs, tracked in the GNDT and defaulting to 100, 100, 100 and 100.


Add the following rule, “Attacking, Tricking and Stealing”:

At any time, an Infected may attack another Infected. He does so by rolling DICEA DICEB, where A is the Size of the attacking Infected and B is the Size of the attacked Infected. If DICEA>DICEB, the attacking Infected wins. If DICEA<DICEB, the attacking Infected loses. The winner’s Size increases by 1, the loser’s Size decreases by 1.

At any time, an Infected may attempt to trick another Infected. He does so by rolling DICEA DICEB, where A is the Brain of the attacking Infected and B is the Brain of the attacked Infected. If DICEA>DICEB, the tricking Infected wins. If DICEA<DICEB, the tricking Infected loses.

“At any time, an Infected may attempt to steal from another Infected. He does so by rolling DICEA DICEB, where A is the Limbs of the attacking Infected and B is the Limbs of the attacked Infected. If DICEA>DICEB, the stealing Infected wins. If DICEA<DICEB, the stealing Infected loses. If the stealing Infected wins, he may take one item from the losing Infected. If the stealing Infected loses, his Limbs decreases by 1.”

If the “Hold Please” proposal doesn’t pass, exclude the part between “...”.

 

I couldn’t think of someting interesting to happen when you successfully trick another infected, so i’ll leave that up to you guys mmkay?

Wednesday, March 05, 2014

Proposal: Please Hold

Reaches quorum and passes 8-0. -RaichuKFM

Adminned at 05 Mar 2014 12:49:14 UTC

Create a new rule entitled “Hold Items”

There exist a set of Items which can be Held by Infecteds. Each Item requires a certain number of Limbs to Hold, and each Limb can only contribute to Holding one Item. If an Infected does not have enough free Limbs to Hold a new Item, they cannot gain the new Item. Only Items found on the Hold Items wiki page can be held. The required number of Limbs to Hold each Item will be listed on the wiki page.

If an Infected loses Limbs such that they no longer have enough Limbs to Hold all of their Items, they shall immediately discard Items until they can Hold all of them remaining ones.

Each Infected’s currently Held Items will be kept track of using the GNDT.

Proposal: Alien attack!

Each day, there shall be a chance for the Alien to Attack and Infected. The Alien Attacks if rolling a DICE 5 results in a 2 or 1. The Alien will then Attack a random Infected, with all Infecteds equally probable.

The Attacked Infected then incurs the following changes: their Mutation increases by 2 and their Limbs decrease by 1.

Proposal: What’s That, Skippy?

Reaches quorum and passes 7-0-1. But it, uh, doesn’t actually create a rule, which means that its second event doesn’t trigger immediately and does nothing. -RaichuKFM

Adminned at 05 Mar 2014 12:46:12 UTC

One Infected may be the Communicant, their identity being tracked in the next sentence. The current Communicant is: nobody.

The Communicant may cast the Alien’s vote for them on a proposal by making a comment on that proposal with exactly six voting icons in a row, followed by an arrow - this comment does not count as a vote by the Communicant. The voting icon which appears most frequently in the row is considered to be the Alien’s vote on that proposal, and must correspond to the Alien’s Opinion on that proposal.

The Alien has a Distress Call and a Mobbing Call, both of which are English words tracked privately by the Communicant, and initially undefined. If the Calls are undefined, the Communicant may choose new words for them. When an Infected ceases to be the Communicant, both Calls become undefined.

If a Proposal contains a Mobbing Call and no Distress Call, the Alien’s Opinion of the proposal is that it should vote FOR. If a Proposal contains a Distress Call and no Mobbing Call, the Alien’s Opinion of the proposal is that it should vote AGAINST. If neither of these is the case, the Alien’s Opinion is that it should vote DEFERENTIAL.

Upon enactment of this rule, make a random Infected (other than the Alien) the Communicant.

Proposal: Feeling Better

Reaches quorum and passes 8-0. -RaichuKFM

Adminned at 05 Mar 2014 12:37:41 UTC

Add a new rule, “Mutation”:-

Each Infected has numerical scores for Mutation, Size, Brain and Limbs, tracked in the GNDT and defaulting to zero, 4, 4 and 4 respectively. Size, Brain and Limbs are known as Phenotypes.

At any time, an Infected whose Mutation is less than 10 may increase their Mutation by 1 in order to Mature. When an Infected Matures, they must decrease one of their Phenotypes by 1 and then increase one of their Phenotypes (which may be the same one) by 2.

If one Infected has a lower Mutation than every other Infected, he or she is known as the Survivor.

Set the Alien’s GNDT values to a Mutation of 10, Size 10, Brain 6 and Limbs 6.

I, for one, wish to unidle!

As the subject says.

SPACESHIP!

Ascension Address: Brave New World

This post is in the Ascension Address category to alert anyone who’s following the RSS feed that a new Dynasty has started. It is the First Dynasty of The Alien (who is an NPC, in case you were wondering).

By the way, I’ve kept the plural of Infected as ‘Infecteds’ for now, just to ensure that nothing gets mucked up by the change and to simplify any further edits.

Tuesday, March 04, 2014

Is this how I join?

I would like to become a Survivor.

Proposal: On ‘The Kevan Gambit’

Times out and passes 3-2. -RaichuKFM

Adminned at 05 Mar 2014 12:36:08 UTC

Add the following to the end of rule 1.2.1, Idle Survivors:

Admins who are unidling themselves should, in their first EVC following each unidling, highlight their changed idle status and any changes to quorum to have come about as a result of it.

Proposal: I for one hail our new fungus overlords.

This is the way the Dynasty ends. Not with a bang, but a quorum of FOR votes (passes at 6-0). -Purplebeard

Adminned at 03 Mar 2014 23:54:32 UTC

If the Proposal titled “DNR” passed, this Proposal does nothing.

Set all Survivors vitalities to Infected, even if they have anti-spore masks. Then, after Rule 2.10 takes effect, change all instances of “Survivor” to “Infected” and “Captain” to “Overlord”.

As per my comment earlier, if we’re going to put a halt to the dynasty, we may as well do it in an interesting way.

Ins and outs

I unidle, Sacchan and Skju idle. Quorum remains 4.

Proposal: DNR

Self-killed. -Purplebeard

Adminned at 03 Mar 2014 23:52:02 UTC

Repeal all Dynastic Rules and start a new Metadynasty with no Captain. Change the keywords ‘Survivor’ and ‘Captain’ to ‘Player’ and ‘Emperor’, respectively, throughout the Ruleset.

I hate to post two of these in the same Dynasty (or at all), but this is getting ridiculous. There have been no new proposals for six days, there are barely any game actions being taken (and the ones that are are not exactly of the interesting, interactive type) and everyone who shouldn’t already be idle is due to become so tomorrow. I really don’t see the point in waiting the time it’ll take for either death through starvation or victory through power accrual to occur if no one is interested in developing/completing the game mechanics or affecting the outcome.