BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

If the UNSG voted FOR this proposal, set the special case rule “Dynastic Distance” to active.

Remove Money from the list of assets, and from all EMs’ assets. After that list, add:

Each EM has an amount of Capital, tracked in the GNDT. A “Money” is a synonym for “100 Capital”. At any time, an EM may exchange 100 Capital for an Asset of their choice.

Set each EM’s Capital to the number of Money assets they had before enacting this proposal, times 100.

Replace all instances of “Money Asset” with “Money”.

Repeal the “Benefits” rule.

Replace “At any time, an EM can declare a Revolution and lose 1 of their Assets to change all of their Assets to Money.” with “At any time, an EM can declare a Revolution to remove all their Assets and increase their Capital by 70 times the number of Assets they had.”

Add, as a second bullet point, in the list of steps for Advancing the Year:

* Increasing each EM’s Capital by their IO.

In “The Traitor”, replace “may secretly randomly select an EM” with:-

may secretly randomly select an EM (other than the UNSG)

If the Traitor is the UNSG, they stop being the Traitor. The UNSG is encouraged to roll DICE5 in the GNDT either way.

Create a new rule called “Reform” with:

As an Annual Action, an EM can spend 1 Money to do a Reform, and increase or lower their IO by 10, down to a minimum of 10 and up to a maximum of 40.

The Year has been Advanced. Natural disasters finally begin to take their toll, turning the focus of quarrelling world powers inward toward their suffering cities and towns.

Change “Supremacy” to read:

If, for 72 consecutive hours, an EM has been at least two of the three Leads simultaneously, (among Blogium Lead, Nomium Lead and Icium Lead,) they have achieved victory.

Thunder idles out after 8 days of inactivity; quorum remains 4.

A traitor has been chosen. The choice was made after idling Thunder.

In “Power and Assets”, replace “Once per dynasty, an EM with a Seat at the UN and no Assets can give themselves three Money Assets.” with:-

An EM who has been an EM in this dynasty for less than 48 hours, who has a Seat at the UN and who has no Assets can Claim International Aid, if they have not already Claimed International Aid in the previous 48 hours: this gives them four Money Assets.

If 3Balance took the “three Money Assets” action while this proposal was pending, give them 1 Money (if it is possible to do so) and add “The EM named 3Balance may not Claim International Aid.” after the sentence edited above.

For each EM other than 3Balance who took the “three Money Assets” action while this proposal was pending, remove all of that EM’s Assets.

Amend:

Once per dynasty, an EM with a Seat at the UN and no Assets can give themselves three Money Assets.

to:

Once per dynasty, an EM with a Seat at the UN and no Assets can Claim Funding and gain four Money Assets.

From hereon, consider all EMs who have performed in the past the action described in the first blockquote to have also Claimed Funding already.

Hello Blognomic. I wish to become a player.

Create a rule, “The Red Roost”:

An EM with 4 or more Assets may spend a Money to shuttle supplies to and develop new technologies for life on Mars. Each Money spent this way, up to a maximum of five, increases the total number of Assets that EM can have by one. This increase is tracked in the GNDT under “MP”, defaults to 0, and can be referred to as “Mars Power” or “MP”.

The Year is advanced. In 2153, climate researchers were stunned to find the average temperature well over 7 million degrees, but it was only that one of the readings had accidentally been taken next to the stove. The largest tropical storm in recorded history forms near Africa, threatening TyGuy6, but dissipates before demolishing a large portion of the country.

Set the Special Case rule “The Traitor” to active.

In it, replace “The Traitor’s identity in the current dynasty is tracked privately by the UNSG.” with:-

The Traitor’s identity in the current dynasty is tracked privately by the UNSG, and the UNSG should not share this information with EMs other than the Traitor.

Add a new rule called “The Big Race” with:

An EM, 72 hours after this rule was added to the Ruleset, can declare that The Big Race Begins, by making a blog post with “The Big Race Begins” as its title.

After 168 hours of that post, an EM can declare that The Big Race Ends, by making a blog post with “The Big Race Ends” as its title. At that moment, the EM(s) with the most Super Cars are the Race Winner(s), and the The Big Race Ends post must also clearly indicate which EM(s) become the Race Winner(s).

A Race Winner can gain any non-negative integer amount of Merit Assets (up to 5) as an Annual Action.

Add to the list of Assets the following:

- Merit:
- Race Funding: Increase MGTA by 30 when you acquire this. You can spend an Annual Action to turn this into a Super Car. When you do this, the MGTA also increases by 30.
- Super Car: You can only gain this via Race Funding’s Annual Action. If you haven’t, you lose this Asset (but congratulations).

If “Tiff and only if” has passed, add 1 Money to Cuddlebeam.

If I understand what happened: the interaction of

An EM may take an Annual Action if they have not taken any Annual Actions or Leap Actions since the Year was most recently Advanced.

and (among other Annual Actions)

This action is Propaganda, and is an Annual Action.

was concerning enough to TyGuy6 to write up the Finity CfJ, and then was used by Kevan to Propaganda many times in one year, the reasoning being that “an EM may X, if Y” doesn’t imply that not-Y means that an EM may not X.

I disagree with this interpretation because (cribbing off my Finity comments):
* I interpret “The Ruleset and Gamestate can only be altered in manners specified by the Ruleset.” as meaning that actions are not allowed by default, which does mean that not-Y means that an EM may not X.
* “an EM may X, if Y” would be meaningless otherwise. Grice’s maxim of quantity applies here; usual usage is that not-Y implies may-not-X, because why write it if it didn’t imply it?

If we did want to read everything as being very literal, Propaganda may not even be an action that can be taken at all. Nothing says you may do it, just that it’s an effect of having Influence- but how does one activate the effect? Down the road of trying to rigorously interpret English lies madness.

Set the Year to 2153, the MGTA to 333, and all GNDT values to those before Kevan’s 26/10 11:19 change. Then, advance the year.

For each Oil Rig asset held by an EM, replace it with Money.

Remove the “Oil Rig” asset from the rule “Power and Assets”.

Set the MGTA to 333.

So, because of all of my drilling, the MGTA has been multiplied by 1.1^153, which is 2153182.43942, which should mean that the MGTA is well, well above 4000.

Amend “The safety phrase is here: hot dog.” to “The safety phrase is here: Cuddlebeam killed us all”

If the Call for Judgement “Finity” has not been resolved, remove the word “other” from it.

Add a rule called “Natural Equilibrium”:

If at any time the MGTA becomes zero, all EMs have achieved Victory.

Create a rule called “Atmospheric Processing”:

At any time, an EM may spend a Money Asset to help develop the UN’s Global Atmospheric Processor (GAP). When an EM does this, they receive a Merit Asset and the MGTA is reduced by 50.

At any time, an EM may exchange three Merit Assets for one other Asset.

Reword the “End of the World!” rule to:-

If the MGTA is above 4000 and no Energy Minister has achieved victory in the current dynasty, the UNSG may Collapse Civilisation. When Civilisation Collapses, the following steps occur in order: the Industry rule is repealed, each Survivor’s Mettle is set to the number of Military Assets they have, all dynastic rules except this one are repealed, Energy Ministers are renamed to “Survivors” throughout the ruleset, and this paragraph is removed from the ruleset.

If no rule exists called “Industry”, then each Survivor has a numeric Mettle score, tracked in the GNDT and defaulting to zero.

In “Years”, change “An EM may take an Annual Action if they have not taken any Annual Actions or Leap Actions since the Year was most recently Advanced. An EM may take a Leap Action if they have not taken any Annual Actions or Leap Actions since the Year was most recently Advanced, if the Year is divisible by 4.”
To

An Annual Action is an action that may be taken by an EM if, and only if, they have taken no other Annual Actions since an EM Advanced the Year. A Leap Action is an Annual Action that may only be taken while the Year is divisible by 4.

Add to the list of Assets:

- Blogium: If you are the sole EM (who hasn’t been Idle in the last 72 hours) with the most Blogium Assets, you are the Blogium Lead.
- Nomium: If you are the sole EM (who hasn’t been Idle in the last 72 hours) with the most Nomium Assets, you are the Nomium Lead.
- Icium: If you are the sole EM (who hasn’t been Idle in the last 72 hours) with the most Icium Assets, you are the Icium Lead.

Create a new rule called “Supremacy” with:

If an EM is simultaneously the Blogium Lead, Nomium Lead and Icium Lead for 72 consecutive hours, they achieve victory.

We’re all going to soon hit 5 Assets which is the maximum. Once you hit that amount, I suggest having you all switch one of your Moneys to Green Policy, because you can’t claim the >=30 IO benefit anymore (more Assets), but you can claim the <30 IO benefit (which is swapping Assets, and you can use it to swap out Green Policy itself if you ever need to get more Money again).

Or you could go 5 x Green Policy and before it’s time for your Leap Action, do a Revolution, then claim your cash, and you’re back to 5 x Money again. (This seems more vulnerable to being punished by future rule changes though).

In “Power and Assets”, replace “Choose an EM with less Influence Assets than you. That EM loses an Asset of your choice (if they have any).” with:-

Choose an EM with less Influence Assets than you. Replace one of their Assets (if they have any) with a copy of an Asset that you have.

In “End of the World!”, replace 3000 with 4000, and add:

If the EM named pokes has achieved victory, and the safety phrase, which is “hot dog”, is not the final words of this rule, they may post an Ascension Address as if they had posted an enacted DoV.

The safety phrase is here: hot dog.

Add to the end of the first paragraph of “Treaties”: “The action of becoming a signatory to a treaty is also known as signing the treaty.”

Create a new Treaty called “Robotization Pact” with:

When an EM signs this Treaty, they gain 1 Money. If all EMs (excluding the UNSG) are signatories to this Treaty, a Robot Uprising happens.

When a Robot Uprising happens, all Assets that EMs have become Technology, and MGTA is multiplied by 1.20

In the last year, the MGTA increased by 90 from teleportation emissions and 165 from industrial output. Scientists also developed cutting-edge Giant Ice Cube technology.

For each EM with more than five Assets, remove all Assets from them beyond the fifth, in the order they are listed in the GNDT.

After the first paragraph of “Power and Assets”, add:-

An EM may not have more than five Assets in total.

Create a new Treaty called “Robotization Pact” with:

When an EM signs this Treaty, they gain 1 Money. If all EMs (excluding the UNSG) are signatories to this Treaty, a Robot Uprising happens.

When a Robot Uprising happens, all Assets that EMs have become Technology, and MGTA is multiplied by 1.20

Replace “weekly action” with “Leap Action” in the rule “Benefits” and (if it exists) the effect of the “Oil Rig” asset.

Replace “weekly action” with “Annual Action” throughout the rest of the dynastic ruleset.

To “Years”, add:-

An EM may take an Annual Action if they have not taken any Annual Actions or Leap Actions since the Year was most recently Advanced. An EM may take a Leap Action if they have not taken any Annual Actions or Leap Actions since the Year was most recently Advanced, if the Year is divisible by 4.

Add to the list of Assets:

- Giant Ice Cube: Lower the MGTA by 100 when you acquire this. Increase the MGTA by 100 when you lose this. Whenever you gain Money, you lose this Asset.
- Oil Rig: If you have at least one Oil Rig, as a weekly action, you can Drill: multiply the current MGTA by 1.10 (rounded up) and gain 1 Money.

Add a subrule to “Treaties”, named “Pact of the Cube”:

Signatories to this treaty may not use Propaganda against an EM with a Giant Ice Cube.
Signatories are:

Decrease the IO of each EM by 1.

Change “Each EM with an IO set above 30 may add 1 Money to their Assets as a weekly action. Each EM with an IO set below 12 may change one of its Assets to Money as a weekly action.”
To

Each EM with an IO set above 29 may add 1 Money to their Assets as a weekly action. Each EM with an IO set below 30 may change one of their Assets to Money as a weekly action.

In “Teleportation Protocol”, replace “As long as a Proposal is not a Teleportation Proposal and has not been voted on by every EM, it has an additional AGAINST vote, automatically. (This vote counts as being “cast”, but that doesn’t appear to speed up “Unpopular” resolution.)” with:-

Proposals which are not Teleportation Proposals are called Slow Proposals. If a Slow Proposal is more than 48 hours old and has exactly 1 more vote FOR than AGAINST, it is Unpopular instead of Popular.

Add a new rule called “Population Happiness” with:

Each EM has an amount of Population Happiness, tracked in the GNDT in the column “Happy”. Population Happiness defaults to 50. An EM can spend 1 Money to increase their Population Happiness by 20. If an EM’s Population Happiness is 0 or lower, they cannot gain Money. When a Population’s Happiness is 20 or lower, it becomes 20 when their EM performs a Revolution. When an EM is the target of Propaganda or Attack, they lose 20 Population Happiness.
- Once per dynasty, if your Population Happiness is higher than 100, you can gain 1 non-Money asset of your choice.
- Once per dynasty, if your Population Happiness is higher than 150, you can gain 2 non-Money assets of your choice.
- Once per dynasty, if your Population Happiness is higher than 200, you can gain 3 non-Money assets of your choice.

Add the following to the list of Assets:

- Megastadium: Whenever you gain Money, add 30 to the MGTA and increase your Population Happiness by 30.
- Televangelist: Whenever you gain Money, increase Population Happiness by 3 for each EM that has an Televangelist Asset.
- Anime: Whenever you gain Money, increase Population Happiness by 10.
- Giant Ice Cube: Lower the MGTA by 100 when you acquire this. Increase the MGTA by 100 when you lose this. Whenever you gain Money, you lose this Asset.

Add to “Power and Assets”:

The UNSG cannot have Assets.

Add a new rule, “Treaties”:

Subrules of this rule are known as Treaties. Each treaty has a subset of Energy Ministers that are signatories to the treaty, listed at the end of the treaty. At any time, if an Energy Minister is not a signatory to a treaty, they may become a signatory to that treaty by adding their name to the list of that treaty’s signatories.

Add a subrule to that rule, “Non-Aggression Pact”:

Signatories to this treaty may not Attack other signatories to this treaty. When a EM becomes a signatory to this treaty, they gain one Privileged asset. Signatories are:

If the proposal “Plugging spam” passed, then:

create a new rule called “End of the World!” with:

If the MGTA is above 3000, and no EM has achieved victory, then the EM named pokes has achieved victory.

Amend

Whenever a Teleportation Proposal is resolved, the MGTA increases by 5 for each vote cast on that Proposal. The resolving Admin is encouraged to also resolve and report this change.

to

Whenever a Teleportation Proposal is resolved, the MGTA increases by 10 for each EM that voted on that Proposal. The resolving Admin is encouraged to also resolve and report this change.

From “Years”, remove the bullet with the text: “Making a post to the blog indicating that the Year has been Advanced.”

Year has been advanced. Seeing it’s posted in the GNDT now, I will propose we needn’t post it here.

Create a rule named Teleportation Protocol:

In this age of revolutionary new technologies, teleportation is a must for most international leaders and businessmen. It’s not all that expensive, but due to the fact that it produces small quantities of radioactive waste matter it is banned from use in everyday contexts. For VIPs, the time saved and the convenience of in-person meetings can be considered worth the impact, and may even be required, more than expected.

A Proposal with the [Teleport] or [Teleportation] tag is a Teleportation Proposal. Whenever a Teleportation Proposal is resolved, the MGTA increases by 5 for each vote cast on that Proposal. The resolving Admin is encouraged to also resolve and report this change.

As long as a Proposal is not a Teleportation Proposal and has not been voted on by every EM, it has an additional AGAINST vote, automatically. (This vote counts as being “cast”, but that doesn’t appear to speed up “Unpopular” resolution.)

Create a new rule called “Alternative Morals” with:

Once per dynasty, an EM can instate Alternative Morals to improve their nation’s riches, gaining an Asset of their choice and creating a new Moral variable. When a new Moral variable is created, its creator also chooses what name it has, and sets what values it has for neighboring EMs (EMs that share a continent with them) other than themselves; between 0 and 99. Moral variables default to having a value of “unset” (abbreviated as “-” in the GNDT) and an EM can set one of their unset Moral variables to any integer value. However, the Moral variable for its creator will always default to a value of 100. The names of Moral variables are encouraged to have a negative or controversial connotation (such as “Brainwashing”, “Addiction” or “Racial Purity”). The names of Moral variables are strings up to 20 characters long that can only contain alphabetical characters and up to one space.

The value of Moral variables for each EM are tracked on the GNDT in the “Moral” column, in the order they appear listed in the Moral column of the Data row, separated by commas. For example: 800,8,135

There exists a GNDT row called Data. The names of Moral variables are tracked within the Data row, on the Moral column, as names separated by commas. For example: Ignorance, Obesity, Addiction.

Create a new rule called “Alternative Morals” with:

Once per dynasty, an EM can instate Alternative Morals to improve their nation’s riches, gaining an Asset of their choice and creating a new Moral variable. When a new Moral variable is created, its creator also chooses what name it has (and adds that name to the list below), and sets what values it has for neighboring EMs (EMs that share a continent with them) other than themselves; between 0 and 99. Moral variables default to “unset” (abbreviated as “-” in the GNDT) and an EM can set one of their unset Moral variables to any integer value. However, the Moral variable for its creator will always default to a value of 100. The names of Moral variables are encouraged to have a negative or controversial connotation (such as “Brainwashing”, “Addiction” or “Racial Purity”).

Moral variables are tracked on the GNDT in the “Moral” column, in the order they appear listed below, separated by commas. For example: 800,8,135

The following are Moral Variables (listed by their name):
-

In Power and Assets, to the end of the bullet point beginning with “Military”, add “Attacking can only be done if the MGTA is above 1200.” To the bullet point beginning with “Influence”, add “Propaganda can only be done if the MGTA is below 600.”

In “Years”, replace “any EM may Advance a Year” with “any EM with a Seat at the UN may Advance a Year”.

In “Power and Assets”, replace “an EM with no Assets can give themselves three Money Assets” with “an EM with a Seat at the UN and no Assets can give themselves three Money Assets”.

In “Continents”, replace “An Energy Minister’s Continent may be Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America or Undefined, and defaults to Undefined. (An Undefined Continent may be tracked as “-” in the GNDT.)” with:-

Eight Continents exist, with the following Names and (in brackets) Latitudes:-

* Africa (9)
* Antarctica (90)
* Asia (34)
* Australia (25)
* Europe (54)
* North America (54)
* South America (9)
* Undefined (0)

An Energy Minister’s Continent may be any Continent from that list, defaulting to Undefined. (An Undefined Continent may be tracked as “-” in the GNDT.)

If the text “Rolling DICE8000 in the GNDT for each Energy Minister. If that roll” exists in the ruleset, replace it with:-

For each Energy Minister, rolling DICE8000 in the GNDT and adding the Latitude of that Minister’s Continent. If the result

Create a new rule called “Mystery Variable”:

EMs have a Mystery Variable, which is an integer tracked in the GNDT. Once per dynasty, an EM can set their Mystery Variable to a number that isn’t 0. An EM cannot take dynastic actions unless their Mystery Variable has been set in this way. A Mystery Variable defaults to 0.

If the current month is November and this paragraph hasn’t been removed, new proposals must propose to remove this paragraph (ie. this one starting with “If the current month (...)” and ending with “(...) meaning to the game”). This paragraph should be removed along having the Mystery Variable renamed along having it given a further meaning to the game.

Replace “The mean global temperature anomaly (MGTA) is X.”, where X is a number, with “The mean global temperature anomaly (MGTA), measured in millikelvin, is Y.”, where Y is 1000 times X.

Remove the final bullet point from the list of bullet points comprising Advancing a Year, and then add:

* Increasing the MGTA by the sum of the IO of all Energy Ministers.
* Rolling DICE8000 in the GNDT for each Energy Minister. If that roll is less than the MGTA, remove a random Asset from that Energy Minister.
* Making a post to the blog indicating that the Year has been Advanced.

Add to “Power and Assets”:

A EM can acquire a Special Asset they satisfy the Requirements for by spending 1 Money and swapping a Root Asset for that Special Asset they have for it. A Special Asset’s Requirements are to be fulfilled by the sum of the EMs that are part of their Continent. The following are Special Assets, and their Requirements (in brackets), and its Root Asset (in parenthesis):

- Oil Rigs [Technology x 4] (Technology): Increase your IO by 30 upon acquiring this. Decrease your IO by 30 upon losing this.
- Eden Design [Green Policy x 4] (Green Policy): Decrease your IO by 30 upon acquiring this. Increase your IO by 30 upon losing this.
- Nuclear Weaponry [Military x 1, Technology x 1] (Military): When you successfully Attack another EM, choose any amount of EMs that share their Continent. Those EMs also lose an Asset.
- Imperialism [Influence x 2 Military x 2 Privileged x 2 Control x 2] (Influence): When you successfully Propaganda another EM, transfer an Asset of your choice from them to yourself instead of making them lose an Asset.

Add a rule called “The End of the World!” with:

When the MGTA reaches a value of 1.5 or higher from a value below 1.5, The Ocean Explodes, Everything Dies Horribly (for Real) and the World Ends. When the World Ends, a Metadynasty begins with no EM as its UNSG, all dynastic rules repealed, no changes to the Active/Inactive state of Special Case Rules, along the following amendments:

“all Energy Minister (abbreviated EM) shall obey it” to “all Survivahs shall obey it” and “known as the UN Secretary-General (abbreviated UNSG).” to “known as the Emprah.”

and EMs renamed to “Survivah” and UNSG to “Emprah” throughout the Ruleset

If the rule “Power and Assets” exists, replace its first paragraph with:-

Each EM has a number of Assets, tracked as a list in the GNDT column “Assets”, and defaulting to no Assets. An EM’s Power is the number of Assets they have. The following are Assets and their effects (if any):

Set every EM’s Assets to be an empty list.

Replace any paragraph that includes the phrase “declare a Revolution” with:-

Once per dynasty, an EM with no Assets can give themselves three Money Assets. At any time, an EM can declare a Revolution and lose 1 of their Assets to change all of their Assets to Money.

Remove any paragraph beginning “Assets gained are always put into Asset slots”.

If a rule exists called “Benefits”, replace its text with:-

Each EM with an IO set above 30 may add 1 Money to their Assets as a weekly action. Each EM with an IO set below 12 may change one of its Assets to Money as a weekly action.

In “Power and Assets”, change
“An EM can declare a Revolution and lower their Power by 1 to gain 3 (or less) Assets of their choice.”
to

An EM with at least 1 Power can declare a Revolution: they lose all their Assets and lower their Power by 1 to gain 3 (or less) Assets of their choice.

Assets gained are always put into Asset slots, and an EM cannot take an action to gain Assets if it would give them more total Assets than they have Power.

Create a rule named “Benefits”:

Each EM with an IO set above 30 may gain 1 Asset as a weekly action. Each EM with an IO set below 12 may increase their Power by 1 as a weekly action.

Add a new rule called “Power and Assets” with:

Each EM has an amount of Power, which is also the amount of Asset slots they have, which can have one Asset in them each. An EM defaults to having 5 Power. Assets are tracked in the GNDT under a column called “Assets”, with empty slots tracked as hyphens. Once per dynasty, a EM can fill three or less of their empty Asset slots with Assets of their choice. The following are Assets and their effects (if any):

- Money: You can swap a Money you have for an Asset of your choice.
- Military: Choose an EM with less Military Assets than you. That EM loses an Asset of your choice (if they have any). This action is Attacking, and is a weekly action.
- Influence: Choose an EM with less Influence Assets than you. That EM loses an Asset of your choice (if they have any). This action is Propaganda, and is a weekly action
- Technology: Increase your IO by 10 upon acquiring this. Decrease your IO by 10 upon losing this.
- Green Policies: Decrease your IO by 10 upon acquiring this (your IO can be negative with this). Increase your IO by 10 upon losing this.
- Control: If you have two or more Control Assets, you cannot be the target of Propaganda.
- Privileged: If you have two or more Privileged Assets, you cannot be the target of Attacks.

An EM can declare a Revolution and lower their Power by 1 to gain 3 (or less) Assets of their choice.

Create a new rule called “Treaty” with the following:

An EM can post a blog post that details restrictions to dynastic actions of one or more EMs, titled “Treaty: X”, where X is a title of their choice. Such a post is a Treaty. An EM can sign a Treaty by making a comment to that blog post that clearly indicates this intent (eg. “I sign this” or a picture of a signature of their persona in the game). An EM that has signed a Treaty is Bound to it. An EM cannot perform dynastic actions that would breach the restrictions described for them in a Treaty they are Bound to. EMs are, by default, not Bound to a Treaty, and the only way they can become Bound to it is by signing it.

Enact a new rule, “Continents”:-

Each Energy Minister represents a nation from a Continent, that Continent being tracked in the GNDT. An Energy Minister’s Continent may be Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America or Undefined, and defaults to Undefined. (An Undefined Continent may be tracked as “-” in the GNDT.) If an Energy Minister’s Continent is not Undefined, then they are considered to have a Seat at the UN.

An Energy Minister without a Seat at the UN may set their Continent to any valid value other than “Undefined”, at any time.

Replace “An EM with an unset Industrial Output may set it at any time to a value of their choice between 10 and 40, inclusive.” in “Industry” with:-

An unset Industrial Output has a value of zero.

The Average Output of a Continent is the arithmetical mean (rounding down) of the Industrial Output of every Energy Minister who represents a nation from that Continent, or zero if no Energy Ministers represent nations from it.

An Energy Minister with a Seat at the UN who has an unset Industrial Output may at any time set it to any value within 10 of their Continent’s Average Output, or to any value between 10 and 40 if their Continent’s Average Output is zero.

Add a new rule, “Years”:

The Year is 2150. The mean global temperature anomaly (MGTA) is 0.000.

Advancing a Year is an atomic action consisting of:
* Increasing the Year by one.
* Increasing the MGTA by the sum of the IO of all EMs, divided by 1000.

If no EM has done so within the last 46 hours, any EM may Advance a Year.

Add a rule, “Industry”:

Each EM has an Industrial Output, which is tracked in the GNDT as IO, and is by default unset. An EM with an unset Industrial Output may set it at any time to a value of their choice between 10 and 40, inclusive.

Centuries after five unknown sailors are rescued (and one is left behind), Cspe Key has been swallowed by rising sea levels, as have most of the Island Nations. Halfway across the world: Energy Ministers from their respective countries take time for one more photo op on the steps outside the Ringmauer, the seat of government in Pays-Loups Nord. Afterwards, they leave home to implement (or not) the agreements made during this year’s climate change roundtable.

Veto all pending proposals. Change the first instance of “Weatherman” to “UN Secretary-General (abbreviated UNSG)”, and later instances to “UNSG”. Change the first instance of “Castaway” to “Energy Minister (abbreviated EM)”, and later instances to “EM”. Set the Dynastic Distance and Traitor rules to inactive.

Here’s a post-dynastic commentary thread now that the DoV has passed.

(This also doubles as a formal post announcing that I’m passing the Emperor role to Pokes, for the next dynasty.)

Four ragged castaways standing near to the artfully rearranged “HELP” message proves sufficient to attract the attention of a passenger ship, which drops anchor near the island and sends a small rescue boat out through the rocks. Mac emerges from the trees and reveals himself to be alive and well, and declares that he will stay on the island, and an agreement is reached to deliver some supplies and repair the radio on the Cessna.

Safely back aboard the SS Haniver and recovering their faculties with fresh water and a good meal at the captain’s table, the castaways swap stories with the passengers: after a roll of the dice, Kevan is considered to have amassed 58 Story Points, Pokes 45, Thunder 14, Farsight 4 and Brendan 3.

With the most Story Points, I believe I have achieved victory.

In “A Ship has Arrived!”, replace “The Weatherman may remove one of these conditions, selected at random, as a weekly action (once each week).” with:-

If no Castaway (and no Weatherman) has already done so in the current week, a Castaway or the Weatherman may select one of these conditions at random and remove it from the ruleset.

Just FYI, my plan is to remove another condition from “A Ship ...” this coming week. It will be between Monday and Friday, and I can only guarantee that you will be surprised by the day that I choose!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpected_hanging_paradox

To the rule “Hallucinations”, add:-

If a proposal has the tag “Hallucination” and its only proposed change to the ruleset and gamestate is the repeal of a single subrule of “The Island”, it is considered a Hallucination Proposal. If a Castaway’s HSR is greater than the HSR of a Hallucination Proposal’s proposer, their vote on that Proposal is considered to be FOR (even if they have not voted on it, or have cast a different vote).

A rule repealed by a Hallucination proposal is Epiphanised immediately before being repealed.

In “Mac’s Cave”, after “When performing a Date Action in this way they may choose to ignore any increase in Hunger or HSR from it.”, add:-

(This does not apply to Exerted actions.)

Remove “If there is a Traitor, the Traitor may choose to use their recorded GNDT score for HSR, or use an HSR of 7, when they take actions under the Dynastic Rules. Exactly once this Dynasty, the Traitor may set their HSR to 0; doing so is permitted for the Traitor regardless of the Complexity of this rule.” from the ruleset.

If the Traitor has already set their HSR to zero using the mechanic described above, they wake up in a fever: set their HSR, Wood and SP to the values they had immediately before using that mechanic.

Astimageon idles out automatically after seven days without a post or comment. Quorum remains 4.

Rewrite the list item that begins with “Paranoia - ” in the rule Motivations as follows:

• Paranoia - Your primary goal is to avoid the rest of the group. A Castaway with this Motivation may not change their Location to a Location which contains another Castaway. As a Date Action, a Castaway who has this Motivation may deduct five SP from the total of another Castaway at their Location, and increase their own SP by five and their own HSR by one.

Add, as a paragraph in “The Island”, before its subrules:

The motto of Cspe Key is “You gotta go tell the world”.

Add a subrule to “The Island” called “The Outpost”:-

A ruined stone building stands on the edge of a low cliff, a mouldering logpile stacked against an outside wall.

A Castaway at the Outpost may take a Date Action to gain 2 Wood.

Castaways here:

Add a subrule to “The Island” named “The Kevan”:

The Kevan is a state of fortune, a psychic trap, an unlucky number. Any and all numbers chosen randomly by Castaways at The Kevan are instead defaulted to 1. A Castaway may not remove their name from this rule unless they also add an extra 2 to their Date.

As a Date Action, a Castaway at The Kevan may spend 4 SP to add another Castaway’s name to the list of Castaways in this location.

Castaways here:

Brendan removed my name from the list of Castaways at the Beach, commenting:

Taking it upon myself to remove an Idle Castaway from a legal location. CfJ if you disagree.

I don’t see a justification in the Ruleset allowing this change.

Undo this change, adding my name to the list of Castaways at the Beach.

Add a subrule to “The Island” called “The Cessna”:-

A Cessna 150 hangs at a dangerous angle in the tree canopy, one wing splintered, its fuselage wrapped in flowering vines.

A Castaway at the Cessna with an HSR of zero may take a Date Action to try to fix the radio, rolling DICE20: on a roll of 20, the Castaways are Rescued.

Castaways here:

Replace “The Weatherman may remove one of these conditions, selected at random, as a weekly action (once each week). ” with:-

The Weatherman may remove one of these conditions, selected at random, as a weekly action (once each week). If the list would be empty after removing the chosen condition, it is not removed and the Castaways are rescued instead.

In “The Clearing”, replace “Lose 1 Hunger” with “Gain 2 SP” throughout the second bulleted list. Then remove the bullet point which reads only “Gain 2 SP.”

Replace “Paranoid” with “Paranoia”.

Set the Total Spent of the Message in the Sand to zero.

Unidle the Castaway named pokes and set their HSR to the number of EVCs on this Proposal that are FOR.

Double the HSR of every Castaway whose EVC on this Proposal is not FOR.

In “The Beach”, replace “If a Castaway has no location such that are at that location, any Castaway or the Weatherman may add them to the list of Castaways who are at the beach.” with:-

If a Castaway has no Location, a Castaway at the Beach may add them to the list of Castaways who are at the Beach.

To the end of the first paragraph of “Hallucinations”, add:-

When a Castaway is unidled, if their HSR is the lowest among that of all Castaways, it is increased to the lowest HSR among other Castaways.