Please authorise me, summai, the candidate for this review board.

Add a new rule named “The Chopping Block” with the following text:

The game is in a state of Endgame Lockdown. While the game is in a state of Endgame Lockdown, no Proposal may be posted that proposes to make any changes to the dynastic ruleset except for those that make changes to the rules contained within the section named The Chopping Block; Additionally, no dynastic actions other than those listed in the section named The Chopping Block may be taken. All text in the dynastic ruleset not contained within the section named The Chopping Block are considered flavor text and cannot be part of any dynastic action.

Uphold each action made in this dynasty that would otherwise have been legal had the variables known as the Building, the Building Number and the Building Stability been publicly tracked. Uphold that the values for those variables are what they would have been had those actions thus upheld been legal.

If Proposal: Construction Site Cleanup has not been enacted, add the following to the end of the first paragraph of the rule The Building:

The Building, the Building Number and Building Stability are all publicly tracked.

In the rule Review Board, as the following to the end of the last sentence of the first paragraph:

“and that there must be no other Review Boards that have closed within the preceding 72 hours with this Review Board’s Candidate as their Candidate.”

This is a resubmission of my previous Review Board, which was closed early by someone despite having gained significant support from the factory floor. I hereby recommend to AUTHORISE Kevan to work at the regulation Safety Check level.

Again, all support given on this will be reciprocated, minus the previous exceptions.

Since my last Review Board timed out, I, Taiga, would again like to be AUTHORISEd.

As before, I will respond with the desired response on any Review Board, as long as its Candidate is the same as its author.

Remove every instance of “in the Building” from the Ruleset, maintaining whitespaces according to normal English conventions.

Remove every instance of “of the Building” from the Ruleset, maintaining whitespaces according to normal English conventions.

In The Building, replace

The Building consists of an ordered collection of Levels arranged vertically, each of which contains a left-to-right ordered collection of exactly three Blocks (defaulting to three Empty Blocks). The Building also has a Building Number, which defaults to 0, and a Building Stability, which is an integer that defaults to 500. The Building is said be in critical condition if the Building Stability is less than or equal to 100.

with

The Levels of the Building is a publicly tracked and ordered collection of Levels, defaulting to 6 Levels. A Level is an ordered collection of Blocks, defaulting to 3 Blocks. The Levels of the Building is tracked as a table, with each row representing a Level, ordered bottom-up, and the cells in each row representing the Blocks of each Level, ordered left-to-right. Levels are assumed to belong to the Levels of the Building unless otherwise specified. Blocks are assumed to belong to a Level unless otherwise specified.

The Building Number is a publicly tracked non-negative integer, defaulting to 0. The Building Stability is a publicly tracked integer, which may be negative, defaulting to 500. We say the Building is in Critical Condition if the Building Stability is less than or equal to 100.

Add a new rule to the dynastic ruleset, called A Reverent Hush, with the following text:

If the current Building Number is 2 or less lower than the Final Building number then the game is in a state of Endgame Lockdown.

While the game is in a state of Endgame Lockdown, no Proposal may be posted that proposes to make any changes to the dynastic ruleset; any Proposal that contains such a provision that is posted while the game is in Endgame Lockdown is Unpopular, and cannot be made Popular by any means.

I, jjm3x3 am coming to you all hat in hand asking to be AUTHORISED. I will gladly respond with the desired response to all who put a review board up which names the same Engineer who made the author.

I, summai, am the candidate for this review board and request the support of all to be authorised. As someone who doesn’t have much at stake, I will support the authorisation of every candidate on every review board, regardless of the responses to this review board, unless there is a drastic change in the rules.

To the rule “Safety Checks”, add:-

If three or more Engineers each have more than a million Safety Checks, then any Engineer may remove the bullet point beginning “Optionally, spend Safety Checks to roll DICEN again and use that roll instead” from the rule “The Building”, if it exists.

We haven’t used this mechanic yet. Let’s see what it can do.

Following the Enactment of Access All Areas, I, Taiga, would like to be AUTHORISEd.

I will respond with the desired response on any Review Board, as long as its Candidate is the same as its author.

This is a Review Board recommending to AUTHORISE Kevan to work at the regulation Safety Check level. Operating at a zero risk level makes the work site much safer for everybody.

I will support the Review Board of any Engineer that supports this one, with a couple of exceptions that I’ll lay out in the comments.

Note that the two new players who recently had a Review Board pending will want to submit new ones, as somebody chose to close both of them prior to the Safety Check output being raised this morning.

Since I’m unlikely to achieve victory, I’m making myself available to make the Building more likely to Collapse, or even attempt to cause a Collapse, if anyone is interested in locking out their competitors from getting in an Inspection during the current Building Number. Hit me up in Discord to discuss the details.

I will not ask for or accept any favors for outside of BlogNomic, being passed the Mantle, or being made City Architect of the next dynasty, per the rules. Any other favors are on the table.

Having earned the first Accident, I’d like to ask for JonathanDark to be acquitted. My Safety Checks and Expertise are both low, so there’s really very little risk of me gaining much of an advantage against the other active Engineers at this point.

In the Appendix rule “Atomic Actions”, add the following bullet at the end of the bulleted list:

* If a dynastic action from another Engineer changed any gamestate that was referenced during the Atomic Action and was completed before the completion of the Atomic Action, the steps of the Atomic Action should be undone and repeated starting at the first step that referenced that gamestate.

In “Review Board”, replace “The Ending Condition for a Review Board is that it has been at least 48 hours since the Review Board was created and there has been at least 1 valid Response.” with:-

The Ending Condition for a Review Board is that it has been at least 48 hours since the Review Board was created, or that a number of Responses on it equal to Quorum included the same capitalised word from ACQUIT, AUTHORISE, DEMOTE or DISCIPLINE.

In “Review Board”, replace “the number of Gaps plus 3 (if their current Safety Checks value is less than the number of Gaps plus 3)” with:-

the Building Number (if their current Safety Checks value is less than the Building Number)

Now that we can have multiple Review Boards going, let’s allow summai to build as well.

Reword the step of the Build action in the rule “The Building” that reads “Perform their Specialisation’s Bonus (if they have a Specialisation)” to read:

Optionally, if they have a Specialisation, perform their Specialisation’s Bonus

In “Review Board”, replace “The Creation Conditions for a Review Board are that there must be no other Review Boards that are Open, and the body of the post must contain the name of exactly one non-idle Engineer whose Accident value is at least 1 or whose Safety Checks is a value below the current Building Number. The named Engineer is known as the Review Board’s Candidate.” with:-

The Creation Conditions for a Review Board are that the body of the post must contain the name of exactly one non-idle Engineer (known as that Review Board’s Candidate) whose Accident value is at least 1 or whose Safety Checks is a value below the current Building Number, and that there must be no other Review Boards that are Open with this Review Board’s Candidate as their Candidate.

Let’s give our newest players an opportunity to get into the game if they so choose, starting with Titanic

In the rule “The Building”, replace this text:

If no Build action has occurred in the previous 48 hours

with this text:

If the Building is not Collapsed, but neither a Build action nor a Move On action has occurred in the previous 48 hours

Summai is to be mentored by Kevan until the Third Dynasty of Misty has ended and the date is past the 21st of May 2023.

Add a term and definition to the rule “Keywords” under the heading “Other” as follows:

Variable
A variable is a persistently tracked element of gamestate—such as a number, a text string, a null value, or an element from a defined set—which may belong to an entity, such as a player, or may belong to the dynasty or the game itself.

In Accidents, change

While an Engineer has zero or more Accidents

to

While an Engineer has one or more Accidents

Hello Everyone,

This is a formal announcement expressing my intention to join this game as a player.

In “Numbers and Variables, replace “If a set of valid values is not specified in their definition, game variables defined to hold numeric values can hold only non-negative integers.” with:-

If a game variable is defined as holding a numeric value with no specified set of values, or an integer value without explicitly stating that this value may be negative, then that variable can only hold non-negative integers.

In the rule “Review Board”, replace this text:

If a number of Responses equal to Quorum included the word AUTHORISE, set the Candidate’s Safety Checks to the Building Number (if their current Safety Checks value is less than the Building Number)

with this text:

If a number of Responses equal to Quorum included the word AUTHORISE, set the Candidate’s Safety Checks to the number of Gaps plus 3 (if their current Safety Checks value is less than the number of Gaps plus 3) and set the Specialisation of the Candidate to the one they name in their most recent Response (if they named exactly one Specialisation in their Response).

Josh is now mentoring Titanic until the 3rd Dynasty of Misty has ended and it the date is past the 19th of May, 2023.

This is my post to state that I wish to become a player in the Nomic game.

In the rule “The Building”, replace this text:

add the Risk of this Build to their Expertise

with this text:

add the greater of the Risk of this Build or 1 to their Expertise

In the rule “Demolition”, replace this text:

Replace the Block corresponding to the Block Number

with this text

Replace the Block whose Block Number matches the result of the dice roll from the preceding step

To the bullet point in “Number and Variables” that begins “If a game variable has a default value but no defined starting value”, add:-

For the purposes of this bullet point, the names of Engineers are not considered to be legal values for game variables, nor for list items within game variables.

Change the name of the Engineer called Taiga into 000000000Taiga.

In "Safety Checks", change

If the Build atomic action was completed in the previous step of this Inspection, and the Building is not Collapsed at the time of this completion, count the number of Gaps in the Building at that time and add this number to their Safety Checks.

to

If the Build atomic action was completed in the previous step of this Inspection, and the Building is not Collapsed at the time of this completion, count the number of Gaps in the Building at that time and add this number to their Safety Checks. Then, increase their Expertise by the amount of Expertise they increased during the previous step.

and change

If the number of Gaps formed throughout the Building since the most recent Moving On is exactly 1, then optionally, they may choose to gain ten times the number of Safety Checks that they originally would have gained during this step. If they choose to do so, they may not Build again while the Building Number is the same as the current one.

to

If the number of Gaps formed throughout the Building since the most recent Moving On is exactly 1, then optionally, they may choose to gain 10 times the number of Safety Checks that they originally would have gained during this step and choose to gain Expertise equal to 50 times the number of Gaps in the Building. If they choose to do either, they may not Build again while the Building Number is the same as the current one.

In "Demolition", change

* If the Building is not Collapsed, the Demolisher adds the value of Boom to their Safety Checks.

to

* If the Building is not Collapsed, then the Demolisher adds the value of Boom to their Safety Checks, and gain 10 Expertise for each distinct Level below the top Level in the Building that had more than one non-Empty Block before the Demolition but has only one non-Empty Block after the Demolition.

Add a new rule named “Expertise” and give it the following text:

Each Engineer has a publicly-tracked integer named Expertise that defaults to 0.

There is a publicly-tracked number named Final Building that defaults to 0.

Whenever the Final Building is greater than 0, if there is only 1 Engineer who has the highest Expertise when the Building Number equals the Final Building, that Engineer achieves victory.

If there are 2 or more Engineers who have the highest Expertise when the Building Number equals the Final Building, any Engineer or the City Architect may increase the Final Building by 3.

Replace the step of the Build atomic action in the rule “The Building” that begins with “If the Building is not Collapsed, add 1 to their Safety Checks…” with the following:

* Calculate the Risk of this Build, where Risk = N - Building Stability - F.

* If the Building is not Collapsed, add 1 to their Safety Checks and add the Risk of this Build to their Expertise; otherwise, add 1 to their Accidents.

* If at least 1 Engineer has an Expertise of at least 500, and the Final Building is 0, set the Final Building to the current Building Number plus 3.

For each Engineer whose EVC on this proposal contains the name of a single Specialisation, set the Specialisation of that Engineer to the one they so named.

In “Safety Checks”, add a full stop (a period) onto the end of every step of the Inspect atomic action.

Append onto the end of the last step of the Inspect atomic action, within the same bullet, which reads

If the Build atomic action was completed in the previous step of this Inspection, and the Building is not Collapsed at the time of this completion, count the number of Gaps in the Building at that time and add this number to their Safety Checks.

the following sentence

If the number of Gaps formed throughout the Building since the most recent Moving On is exactly 1, then optionally, they may choose to gain ten times the number of Safety Checks that they originally would have gained during this step. If they choose to do so, they may not Build again while the Building Number is the same as the current one.

In "The Building", change

If no Build action has occurred in the previous 48 hours

to

If the Building is not Collapsed, but neither a Build action nor a Move On action has occurred in the previous 48 hours

Make illegal all Review Boards that's Opened at the point of Enactment of this Proposal.


In "Review Board", change

The Creation Conditions for a Review Board are that there must be no other Review Boards that are Open, and the body of the post must contain the name of exactly one non-idle Engineer whose Accident value is at least 1 or whose Safety Checks is a value below the current Building Number.

to

The Creation Conditions for a Review Board are that there must be no other Review Boards that are Open, and the body of the post must contain the name of exactly one Engineer whose Accident value is at least 1 or whose Safety Checks is not the greatest amongst all Engineers.

and change

* If a number of Responses equal to Quorum included the word AUTHORISE, set the Candidate’s Safety Checks to the Building Number (if their current Safety Checks value is less than the Building Number)

to

* If a number of Responses equal to Quorum included the word AUTHORISE, then set the Candidate’s Safety Checks to the least Safety Checks that is strictly greater than their Safety Checks possessed by any other Engineers at the moment of Ending. If at the moment of Ending, the Candidate has the greatest Safety Checks amongst all Engineers, then instead, do nothing.

In the rule “The Building”, replace this text:

If no Build action has occurred in the previous 48 hours

with this text:

If the Building is not Collapsed, but neither a Build action nor a Move On action has occurred in the previous 48 hours

Set the Building Number to 3.

Set Josh’s Safety Checks to the average of the three highest Safety Checks among the other Engineers at the time of this enactment.

By passage of this CfJ the player called Josh has achieved Victory in this dynasty.

Esteemed members of the board, I come to you helmet in hand with a humble request to be AUTHORISEd.

Lendunistus becomes idle after 7 days of inactivity. Quorum drops to 5.

If Safe as Houses was enacted, then in The Hardest Hat, change

Any Engineer who has more Safety Checks than all other Engineers combined has achieved Victory.

to

Any Engineer who has strictly more Safety Checks than half of the sum of the Safety Checks of all other Engineers has achieved Victory.

If Safe as Houses was not enacted, then add a new dynastic rule, called “The Hardest Hat”, which states the following

Any Engineer who has strictly more Safety Checks than half of the sum of the Safety Checks of all other Engineers has achieved Victory.

In the rule “The Building”, add the following text:

If every Level of the Building except the two topmost Levels contains only one non-Empty Block, the Building is Finished, otherwise it is not Finished. While the Building is Finished, any Engineer can Move On.

Add the following to the end of the last paragraph of the rule Building Contents:

If at any time more than half of the Blocks in the Building are Weakened then its Stability is immediately set to 0.

Add a new dynastic rule, called The Hardest Hat:

Any Engineer who has more Safety Checks than all other Engineers combined has achieved Victory.

Hello Review Board. The Candidate is me, Josh, and I would like to be AUTHORISEd, please.

Reword the text “Randomly select 3 Blocks and Weaken them” in the rule “Threat” to

Randomly select 3 non-Empty, non-Weakened Blocks and Weaken them

In the rule “The Building”, replace this text:

As a Daily Action, if the Building is not Collapsed,

with this text:

As a Daily Action, if the Building is not Collapsed, and there is no Demolition that is Open,

In the rule “The Building”, add a subrule named “Block Numbers” and give it the following text:

Blocks in the Building are numbered from left to right starting at the Level below the topmost Level, then continuing left-to-right on the Level below, until the rightmost Block is numbered on the bottommost Level. The numbering begins with 1 and continues with the next Natural number. This number for each Block is the Block Number.

The number of Blocks in the Building not counting the Blocks in the topmost Level is called the Structure.

Add a new rule named “Demolition” and give it the following text:

A Demolition is a type of Event. The Creation Conditions for a Demolition are the following:
* There must be no other Demolition that is Open
* The Building Stability must be 100 or less
* The Engineer creating the Demolition must meet the criteria for performing a Build
* It has been at least 48 hours since the Engineer creating the Demolition created a prior Demolition,unless this is the Engineer’s first creation of a Demolition

The Response Format for a Demolition is a comment that satisfies all of the following conditions:
* The comment contains the phrase “I wager X”, where X is a number between 1 and the Structure
* The Engineer posting the comment has at least X Safety Checks
* The X in this Response is larger than the X in the most recent valid Response, unless this is the first valid Response

The Ending Condition for a Demolition is that it has been at least 48 hours since the Demolition was created.

The Ending Action for a Demolition is an atomic action with the following steps, which must be performed by the Engineer who posted the most recent valid Response. In these steps, the Engineer with the most recent valid Response is the Demolisher, and the value of X in their most recent Response is the Boom:
* If there are not at least 2 different Engineers who have posted valid Responses in this Demolition, skip the remaining steps and end the Demolition. Otherwise, perform the two sub-steps below Boom times or until the Building is Collapsed, whichever comes first.
* * Roll DICEN, where N is the current Structure
* * Replace the Block corresponding to the Block Number with an Empty Block, unless the Block is already an Empty Block
* If the Building is not Collapsed, the Demolisher adds the value of Boom to their Safety Checks. Otherwise, they add the value of Boom to their Accidents.

If this text is in the rule “The Building”:

If no Build action has occurred in the previous 48 hours, then any Engineer can Move On.

replace it with this text:

If no Build action has occurred in the previous 48 hours, and there is no Demolition that is Open, then any Engineer can Move On.

Before the paragraph beginning “Move On is an Atomic Action” in “The Building”, add a paragraph:-

If no Build action has occurred in the previous 48 hours, then any Engineer can Move On.

Delete the post that was assigned the URL https://blognomic.com/archive/critical_condition_chaos.

If the Proposal “New Frameworks” passes, then this Proposal has no effects.

In “The Building”, at the end of the first paragraph, which ends in “... which is an integer that defaults to 500”, append the following sentence

The Building is said be in critical condition if the Building Stability is less than or equal to 100.

In the “Build” atomic action, after the end of whichever bullet starting with “Spend any amount of Focus”, append the following sentence within the same bullet

If the Building is in critical condition, the amount of Focus spent may not be more than T, where T is the most recent amount of Focus spent by any Engineer while the Building is in critical condition and the Building Number is the same as the current one.

To the rule “Accidents”, add a paragraph:-

While an Engineer has zero or more Accidents, any effect that would cause them to achieve victory instead does not do so. An Engineer who has a Specialisation may lose that Specialisation to reduce their Accidents by 1.

Reword the text “As a Daily Action, if the Building is not Collapsed, an Engineer with at least as many Safety Checks as the current Building Number may Build” in the rule “The Building” to

As a Daily Action, if the Building is not Collapsed, an Engineer who has at least as many Safety Checks as there are Gaps, or at least as many Safety Checks as the current Building Number, may Build

If “Risk Management” or “Safety Dance” passes, this proposal does nothing.

In “The Building”, change

The Building also has a Building Number, which defaults to 0, and a Building Stability, which is an integer that defaults to 500.

to

The Building also has a Building Number, which defaults to 0.

From the “Build” Atomic Action, delete the bulletpoints starting with “If they do so, and the Material has the..”, “If the Block that was swapped with…” “Spend any amount of Focus…” and “Decrease Building Stability…”
change

If Building Stability is 0 or lower, or if any Level of the Building below the topmost Level consists entirely of Empty Blocks, then the Building is Collapsed; otherwise, the Building is not Collapsed.

to

If any Level of the Building below the topmost Level consists entirely of Empty Blocks, then the Building is Collapsed; otherwise, the Building is not Collapsed.

change

Set Building Stability to its default value and the Building to be six Levels, each of which contains three Wooden Blocks

to

Set the Building to be six Levels, each of which contains three Wooden Blocks

In “Threat”, change

As a Weekly Communal Action, an Engineer or the City Architect may Trigger, which is an atomic action with the following steps:

to

If a Build has not been performed within the last 24 hours, as a Daily Communal Action, an Engineer or the City Architect may Trigger, which is an atomic action with the following steps:

If the proposal “Risk Management” has been enacted then this proposal has no effect. Otherwise, replace the steps of the Build atomic action that begin “Spend any amount of Focus (which may be 0 Focus)...” and “Decrease Building Stability by the result…” with the following:

* Spend any amount of Focus, F (which may be 0 Focus), to roll DICEN, where G is equal to the number of Gaps in the Building, and N = G x 25; the result of the roll is W.
* Optionally, spend Safety Checks to roll DICEN again and use that roll instead; this step may be repeated, but the amount that must be spent goes up each time. This cost starts at 3 Safety Checks for the first reroll and increases by 1 for each repetition during a given instance of the Build action. The result of the final such die roll becomes W.
* Decrease Building Stability by W - F, but if W - F is less than 0, then instead, do not decrease Building Stability.

I’m idling out

If “Risk Management” is not enacted, this Proposal has no effect.

At the time of the enactment of this Proposal, determine the highest value of Safety Checks among all non-Idle Engineers, subtract 10 from this value, and call the result the Baseline. For each Engineer whose Safety Checks are at least equal to the current Building Number but less than the Baseline, set that Engineer’s Safety Checks to the Baseline.

Add a new rule named “Expertise” and give it the following text:

Each Engineer has a publicly-tracked integer named Expertise that defaults to 0.

There is a publicly-tracked number named Final Building that defaults to 0.

Whenever the Final Building is greater than 0, if there is only 1 Engineer who has the highest Expertise when the Building Number equals the Final Building, that Engineer achieves victory.

If there are 2 or more Engineers who have the highest Expertise when the Building Number equals the Final Building, any Engineer or the City Architect may increase the Final Building by 3.

In the rule “The Building”, replace these bullets in the Build atomic action:

* Spend any amount of Focus (which may be 0 Focus) to roll DICEN, where F is the amount of Focus spent, G is equal to the number of Gaps in the Building, and N = G x 25 - F. If N would be less than 0 then this step cannot be completed.
* Decrease Building Stability by the result of the die roll in the preceding step.

with these bullets:

* Choose any amount of Focus between 0 and their current Focus. Roll DICEN, declaring in the roll description the Focus being spent, where G is equal to the number of Gaps in the Building, and N = G x 25.
* Track the Risk of this Build action using the value of N from the preceding step, F is the focus spent in the preceding step, and Risk = N - Building Stability - F.
* D is the result of the dice roll from the preceding steps, F is the Focus spent in the preceding steps, and S = D - F. If S is greater than 0, decrease Building Stability by S.

In the rule “Safety Checks”, replace this bullet in the Inspection atomic action:

* If the Build atomic action was completed in the previous step of this Inspection, and the Building is not Collapsed at the time of this completion, count the number of Gaps in the Building at that time and add this number to their Safety Checks

with these bullets:

* If the Build atomic action was completed in the previous step of this Inspection, and the Building is not Collapsed at the time of this completion, perform the Passing Inspection atomic action:
* If at least 1 Engineer has an Expertise of at least 500, and the Final Building is 0, set the Final Building to the current Building Number plus 3

Add a subrule titled “Passing Inspection” to the rule “Safety Checks” and give it the following text:

Passing Inspection is an atomic action which can only be performed when explictly instructed to do so in the Inspection atomic action. The Engineer who performs it executes the following steps:
* Count the number of Gaps in the Building at that time and add this number to their Safety Checks
* Add the Risk of the Build completed during this Inspection to their Expertise
* Optionally, subtract any positive amount of their Safety Checks that would reduce it to no less than 0 and add this amount to their Expertise

Increase the Safety Checks of the Engineer named Brendan by 6.

Replace “The Response Format for a Review Board is a comment containing a single voting icon of FOR or AGAINST as defined by the Voting Icons keywords.” in “Review Board” with:-

The Response Format for a Review Board is a comment containing one or more of the following capitalised words: ACQUIT, AUTHORISE, DEMOTE and DISCIPLINE. If an Engineer has made multiple Responses to a Review Board, all but the most recent of their Responses to that Review Board are ignored during its Ending Action.

To the end of the first paragraph of the rule, add:-

The named Engineer is known as the Review Board’s Candidate.

Change the definition of the Ending Action in that rule to:-

The Ending Action for a Review Board is an atomic action with the following steps performed in reference to its Responses, and applied to the Candidate of that Review Board:-
* If a number of Responses equal to Quorum included the word AUTHORISE, set the Candidate’s Safety Checks to the Building Number (if their current Safety Checks value is less than the Building Number)
* If a number of Responses equal to Quorum included the word DISCIPLINE, decrease the Safety Checks of the Candidate by their Accidents
* If a number of Responses equal to Quorum included the word DEMOTE, remove the Candidate’s Specialisation
* If a number of Responses equal to Quorum included the word ACQUIT, set the Candidate’s Accidents to zero

Finally, change “24 hours” in that rule to “48 hours”.

Per the rules after the enactment of “No Hat, No Boots, No Job”, Taiga will not be allowed to Build because their Safety Checks are less than the current Build Number.

Since Taiga is new, I’m posting this Review Board to allow Taiga to continue to Build. A vote in favor will set Taiga’s Safety Checks to the current Build Number, per the rules, which will allow them to Build.

Note that Taiga is allowed to vote as well, and so am I, as creating this post does not count as a vote.

In “Threat”, change the bullet point

* Randomly select a Disaster and add its name to the Threat. Repeat this step until the list has three items.

to

* Randomly select a Disaster and append its name to the Threat. Repeat this step until the list has three items.

Delete the rules “The Quarry” and “Builder’s Exchange.” Delete the list items for Carpenter, Decorator, and Logistician from the rule “Specialisation.” Delete from the rule “The Building” the bullet point that begins “If they do so, and the Material has the Supportive Property…” Rewrite the rule “Building Contents” as follows:

The possible building contents for The Building, known as Materials, are listed in the table below. The ruleset may refer to a given Material using either its Name or Abbreviated Name - they are considered equivalent. The Description is flavour text. Each Material may have Properties, as determined by the table below.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name || Abbreviated Name || Description || Properties
|-
| Empty || _ || This represents open space. ||
|-
| Wood || W || A reliable building material. ||
|}

A Block may have the condition of Weakened, defaulting to not Weakened. A Block that is Weakened is tracked by formatting the Abbreviated Name of its Material in italics. Empty Blocks are always not Weakened.

Rewrite the last item in the list from the rule “Specialisation” as follows:

* Supervisor: Either change one non-Weakened Block in the Building to Weakened, or change one Weakened Block in the Building to non-Weakened

Delete from the rule “The Building” the step of the Move On action that begins with “If the Quarry has at least…”

If there are any Engineers who had the Specialisations Carpenter, Decorator, Logistician, or Stonemason before this proposal was enacted, change each of their Specialisations to Supervisor. If there are any Stone or Rebar Blocks in the Building, change those Blocks to Wood.

In “The Building”, replace the “Choose a non-Empty Block that is not in one of the three topmost Levels of the Building, and swap that Block with an Empty Block on the topmost Level.” bulletpoint in the Build atomic action with the following:

Choose a non-Empty Block that is not in one of the two topmost Levels of the Building, and swap that Block with an Empty Block on the topmost Level.

In “The Building”, replace the last two bulletpoints of the Build atomic action with the following:

If the Building is not Collapsed, add 1 to their Safety Checks; otherwise, add 1 to their Accidents

Taiga is now being mentored by Brendan until the 3rd Dynasty of Misty has ended and the date is past the 10th of May, 2023

Hello, I’m Taiga! I would like to join the game and become a player here! In the meantime I’ll go read the current ruleset.

Add a new rule named “Expertise” and give it the following text:

Each Engineer has a publicly-tracked integer named Expertise that defaults to 0.

There is a publicly-tracked variable named Performance Review that defaults to empty.

Whenever the Performance Review contains a date and time, if there is only 1 Engineer who has the highest Expertise at exactly 48 hours after the date and time in the Performance Review, that Engineer achieves victory.

If there are 2 or more Engineers who have the highest Expertise at exactly 48 hours after the date and time in the Performance Review, any Engineer or the City Architect may add 48 hours to the date and time in the Performance Review.

In the rule “The Building”, add the following text to the end of the bullet that begins with “Spend any amount of Focus”

Track the Risk of this Build action where Risk = N - Building Stability.

In the rule “Safety Checks”, replace this bullet:

* If the Build atomic action was completed in the previous step of this Inspection, and the Building is not Collapsed at the time of this completion, count the number of Gaps in the Building at that time and add this number to their Safety Checks

with these bullets:

* If the Build atomic action was completed in the previous step of this Inspection, and the Building is not Collapsed at the time of this completion, add the Risk of the Build completed during this Inspection to their Expertise
* If at least 1 Engineer has an Expertise of at least 100, and the Performance Review is empty, set the Performance Review to the current date and time rounded down to the nearest minute

For each Engineer who does not have a Specialisation and whose Safety Checks are at least equal to the Building Number, set their Safety Checks to 10.

For each Engineer who has a Specialisation, set their Safety Checks to 7 minus the value of the Building Number at the time that they most recently set their Specialisation.

In “The Building”, replace “an Engineer may Build” with:-

an Engineer with at least as many Safety Checks as the current Building Number may Build

To the end of the atomic action in “Review Board”, add a bullet point:-

* If the Engineer has fewer Safety Checks than the current Building Number, set their Safety Checks to the Building Number.

And in that rule, replace “whose Accident value is at least 1” with:-

whose Accident value is at least 1 or whose Safety Checks is a value below the current Building Number

Add a new rule named “Performance Review” and give it the following text:

There is a publicly-tracked variable named Performance Review that defaults to empty.

Whenever the Performance Review contains a date and time, the Engineer who has the highest Safety Checks at exactly 48 hours after the date and time in the Performance Review achieves victory.

If there are 2 or more Engineers who had the highest Safety Checks at exactly 48 hours after the date and time in the Performance Review, any Engineer or the City Architect may add 48 hours to the date and time in the Performance Review.

In the rule “Safety Checks”, add the following bullet at the end of the steps for the Inspection atomic action:

* If at least 1 Engineer has a Safety Checks of at least 100, and the Performance Review is empty, set the Performance Review to the current date and time rounded down to the nearest minute

In “The Building”, replace whichever bullet point contains the phrase “odd number” with:

* Optionally choose a Block that is both Weakened and orthogonally adjacent to the previous location of the Removed Block, and replace the chosen Block with an Empty Block.

Replace “Choose a non-Empty Block that is not in one of the three topmost Levels of the Building” with:-

Choose a non-Empty Block (known as this action’s Removed Block) that is not in one of the three topmost Levels of the Building

Delete the three consecutive steps in the Build atomic action that begin with the step “Spend any amount of Focus” and replace them with the following:

* Spend any amount of Focus (which may be 0 Focus) to roll DICEN, where F is the amount of Focus spent, G is equal to the number of Gaps in the Building, and N = G x 25 - F. If N would be less than 0 then this step cannot be completed.
* Decrease Building Stability by the result of the die roll in the preceding step.

Delete the step of the Build atomic action that reads “If the Level of the Block that was swapped with the topmost Level now contains 3 Empty Blocks, decrease Building Stability by 50”

If the proposal “The Weakest Link” was enacted, then reword the step of the Build action that begins “If the Wobble before subtracting Focus was an odd number…” to read as follows:

* If the amount that Building Stability decreased in the preceding step was an odd number, and there are any Weakened Blocks, then choose any one Block that is Weakened and replace it with an Empty Block.

Update the Rule Threat to be called “Monumental Moments”. Then replace every instance of Threat with “Monumental Moments”. Replace every instance of Disaster with Moment.

Update first bullet of the communal action to read as follows:

* Carry out the Effect of the Moment corresponding to the non-blank, left most item in the Monumental Moments and remove that Moment from the Monumental Moments. Repeat this step until the Monumental Moments is blank.

Add a bullet point to the end of the list consisting of:

* Create a Story Post describing the results of the Monumental Moments action

Add the following rows to the table:

| Kaiju Attack || Set the building’s stability to 0 and increase the accidents of the last engineer who performed the build action by 1 || OH NO It’s a large lizard or big moth or monkey or something |
| Stroke of Ingenuity || Randomly select 5 blocks which are _ and change their contents to Rebar || Wow we should have thought of that sooner |
| Performance Bonus || Increase the Safety Checks of the last engineer who performed the build action by 10 || Hey good on ya! You benefit from a recency bias in the workplace |

In the subrule “Building Contents”, add the following text:

A Block may have the condition of Weakened, defaulting to not Weakened. A Block that is Weakened is tracked by formatting the Abbreviated Name of its Material in italics. Empty Blocks are always not Weakened. A Block that is Weakened is changed to not Weakened whenever the Material of the Block is changed (swapping a Block with another Block is not considered changing the Material for either Block for the purposes of this rule, but replacing the Block with another Block of the same Material is considered changing the Material for the purposes of this rule).

In the rule “The Building”, add this bullet after the bullet that begins with “Decrease Building Stability by the Wobble”:

* If the Wobble before subtracting Focus was an odd number, choose any one Block that is Weakened, if there are any such Blocks, and replace it with an Empty Block.

Add a new rule named “Builder’s Exchange” and give it the following text:

Each Engineer has an amount of Rebar which is publicly tracked and defaults to 0.

At any time, if a Builder has at least 10 Stone, they may subtract 10 from their Stone and add 1 to their Rebar.

Reword the text “If Building Stability is 0 or lower, then the Building is Collapsed” in the rule “The Building” to read

If Building Stability is 0 or lower, or if any Level of the Building below the topmost Level consists entirely of Empty Blocks, then the Building is Collapsed

Repeal the rule “Integrity”.

In the rule “The Building”, after the bullet that begins with “Optionally, by spending 1 from any of their Materials”, add the following sub-bullet:

* * If they do so, and the Material has the Supportive Property, increase Building Stability by 25. Decrease Building Stability by 25 if the Material has the Heavy Property and the Block is not on the bottommost Level.

and after the bullet that begins with “Choose a non-Empty Block”, add the following bullets:

* If the Block that was swapped with an Empty Block contains a Material with the Heavy Property, decrease Building Stability by 25
* If the Level of the Block that was swapped with the topmost Level now contains 3 Empty Blocks, decrease Building Stability by 50

In “Safety Checks”, replace “As a Weekly Action” with:-

If they have not already done so while the Building Number was at its current value

For each Engineer who has performed more than one Inspection this dynasty, reduce their Safety Checks by the amount they gained from Inspections other than their first.

I performed an inspection at 22:08 UTC and forgot to announce it.

Replace the text “An Engineer with 6 or more Safety Checks may set their Safety Checks to 5 to set their Specialisation to any valid value.” with:

An Engineer may spend a “Years of Experience” in Safety Checks to set their Specialisation to any valid value, where “Years of Experience” is defined by 3 plus the building number.

Replace the text “If the Build atomic action was completed” in the rule “Safety Checks” with the following:

If the Build atomic action was completed in the previous step of this Inspection,

Repeal the rule “Integrity”.

In the rule “The Building”, after the bullet that begins with “Optionally, by spending 1 from any of their Materials”, add the following sub-bullet:

* * If they do so, and the Material has the Supportive Property, increase Building Stability by 25. Decrease Building Stability by 25 if the Material has the Heavy Property and the Block is not on the bottommost Level.

and after the bullet that begins with “Choose a non-Empty Block”, add the following bullets:

* If the Block that was swapped with an Empty Block contains a Material with the Heavy Property, decrease Building Stability by 25
* If the Level of the Block that was swapped with the topmost Level now contains 3 Empty Blocks, decrease Building Stability by 50

In the subrule “Building Contents” add this text:

A Block that “is, “has”, or “contains” a Material “X” is the same as describing the Block as an “X Block”, e.g. a “Wood Block” is the same as a “Block that is Wood” or “Block that contains Wood”.

In the rule “Specialisation” replace this text:

Carpenter: Change any Block in the Building to Wood

with this text:

Carpenter: Change any Block in the Building to Wood and update the Building Stability depending on the Block’s former Material, as described below:
* * Empty: increase Building Stability by 25
* * Had the Supportive Property: decrease Building Stability by 25
* * Had the Heavy Property: increase Building Stability by 25 unless the Block is on the bottommost Level

and replace this text:

Decorator: Change a non-Empty Block in the Building to the Material listed directly below it in the Building Contents table

with this text:

Decorator: Change a non-Empty Block in the Building to the Material listed directly below it in the Building Contents table and update the Building Stability depending on the Block’s new Material, as described below:
* * Has the Supportive Property: increase Building Stability by 25
* * Has the Heavy Property: decrease Building Stability by 25 unless the Block is on the bottommost Level

Pokes idles out after seven days without a post or comment. Under the new idling rule this means they can’t be unidled during the next four days, and will time out at four days rather than seven for the current and subsequent dynasty.

Quorum drops to 6.

In the rule “The Building”, replace this text:

Building Stability, which is an integer that defaults to 1,000

with this text:

Building Stability, which is an integer that defaults to 500

and replace this text:

Set Building Stability to (1,000+Building Number*100)

with this text:

Set Building Stability to its default value

If this text exists, remove it:

If the result is less than half of N, roll another DICEN and use the larger of the two dice rolls as the result, otherwise use the single roll as the result.

In the subrule “Building Contents”, if two columns exist with the heading “Properties” in the table, remove the rightmost of these columns from the table. If two rows exist that contain “Rebar” in the first column of the table, remove one instance of these rows from the table.

Replace “choose any W in the Building Contents” with “choose any Wood Block in the Building”.

Replace “the number of _ currently in the Building Contents” with “the number of Gaps in the Building”.

Replace “count the number of Blocks containing _ in the Building Contents” with “count the number of Gaps in the Building”.

To the end of the rule “The Building”, add a paragraph:-

A Gap is defined as an Empty Block which is not on the top Level of the Building.

Replace the first paragraph of the rule “The Building” with:-

The Building consists of an ordered collection of Levels arranged vertically, each of which contains a left-to-right ordered collection of exactly three Blocks (defaulting to three Empty Blocks).
The Building also has a Building Number, which defaults to 0, and a Building Stability, which is an integer that defaults to 1,000.

Replace the bullet point that begins “Choose a non-Empty Block” with:-

* If the topmost Level of the Building contains no Empty Blocks, add a new Level to the top of the Building.
* Choose a non-Empty Block that is not in one of the three topmost Levels of the Building, and swap that Block with an Empty Block on the topmost Level.

Replace “Building Contents to WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW” with:-

the Building to be six Levels, each of which contains three Wooden Blocks

Set the Building to have a number of default Levels equal to the number of items that were in the Building Contents immediately prior to this proposal’s enactment, divided by three (and rounded up). Then, for each Block in that Building (working from left-to-right within each Level, and from the bottom Level to the top), replace it with the corresponding item in that was in the Building Contents immediately prior to this proposal’s enactment (working from start to end).

In the rule “The Building”, replace these bullets in the Build atomic action:

* Roll a DICEN, where N is the number of _ currently in the Building Contents, times 25.
* Decrease Building Stability by the Wobble. (The Wobble for this action is equal to the result of its die roll, minus any Focus spent during it, to a minimum of zero.)

with these bullets:

* Roll a DICEN, where N is the number of _ currently in the Building Contents, times 25. If the result is less than half of N, roll another DICEN and use the larger of the two dice rolls as the result, otherwise use the single roll as the result.
* Decrease Building Stability by the Wobble. (The Wobble for this action is equal to the result of the step above, minus any Focus spent during it, to a minimum of zero.)

In the subrule “Building Contents”, if two columns exist with the heading Properties in the table, remove the rightmost of these columns from the table. If two rows exist that contain “Rebar” in the first column of the table, remove one instance of these rows from the table.

Add a new rule named “Review Board” and give it the following text:

A Review Board is a type of Event. The Creation Conditions for a Review Board are that there must be no other Review Boards that are Open, and the body of the post must contain the name of exactly one non-idle Engineer whose Accident value is at least 1.

The Response Format for a Review Board is a comment containing a single voting icon of FOR or AGAINST as defined by the Voting Icons keywords.

The Ending Condition for a Review Board is that it has been at least 24 hours since the Review Board was created and there has been at least 1 valid Response.

The Ending Action for a Review Board is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Track two numbers named For and Against that each start with a value of 0
* For each Engineer posting a valid Response, add 1 to For if their most recent Response contained a FOR voting icon, or 1 to Against if their most recent Response contained an AGAINST voting icon
* Post the final values of For and Against as a comment in the Review Board post
* If For is greater than Against, decrease the Safety Checks of the Engineer named in the Review Board post by their Accidents
* Set the Accidents of the Engineer named in the Review Board post to 0

If “Building Goes Up” was enacted, add the following bullet as the last step of the Ending Action for a Review Board:

* If For is greater than Against, remove the Specialisation of the Engineer named in the Review Board post

Enact “Stacks on Stacks” if it isn’t enacted already.  Remove all text after the second blockquote in the proposal “Block Chains” if it hasn’t passed, or remove the second instance of the material “Rebar” in the table of building materials if it has passed.  Change all instances of “WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW” to “18 blocks of Wood”.  Uphold all Build actions taken before this CfJ was posted.

To the Build action, after the “Choose a Block” bullet, add another:-

* Perform their Specialisation’s Bonus (if they have a Specialisation)

Enact a new rule, “Specialisation”:-

Each Engineer may have a single Specialisation from the following list, being publicly tracked by having the first letter of that Specialisation prepended to their Safety Checks (and no letter prepended if they have no Specialisation). Each Specialisation has the Bonus effect listed for it.

• Architect: Swap any two non-Empty Blocks in the Building
• Carpenter: Change any Block in the Building to Wood
• Decorator: Change a non-Empty Block in the Building to the Material listed directly below it in the Building Contents table
• Electrician: Gain 20 Focus
• Logistician: Increase three Engineers’ Stone values by 1
• Stonemason: Gain 1 Stone

An Engineer with 6 or more Safety Checks may set their Safety Checks to 5 to set their Specialisation to any valid value.

If “Underlay, Underlay, A Rebar, A Rebar” enacted, move the Rebar Material to be above Stone, in the Building Contents table.

In the rule The Building, change

Add a copy of it in the topmost place of the Building Contents

to

Add a new empty Block to the top of the Building and then fill it with the contents of the chosen Block.

For any Block that contains more than one Material, create sufficient new Blocks immediately above them, and then move the excess Materials in the original Block into the newly created Blocks such that each Block contains one Material, moving excess Materials out from right to left.

If “The Stonecrusher 5000” is enacted, this Proposal has no effect.

In the rule “The Quarry” replace this text:

they must first perform the Erosion atomic action if it has been more than 24 hours since the last Erosion.

with this text

they must first perform the Erosion atomic action if it has been more than 24 hours since the last Erosion, or if Erosion has not been performed since the beginning of this dynasty.

In “The Building”, change

Choose a Block that is not one of the five topmost Blocks in the Building Contents.

to

Choose a non-Empty Block that is not one of the five topmost Blocks in the Building Contents.

Reword the subrule “Integrity” (or create it as a subrule of The Building if it doesn’t exist) to the following:

Each Block of the Building has an Integrity score, which is an integer that is not publicly tracked but which is an emergent property of its relative position and composition in the Building, and which must be specifically recalculated whenever it is called upon in the completion of an action.
A Block’s Integrity is -1 if it is Empty.  Otherwise, it is the number of consecutive blocks directly above itself that are not _, plus the number of Supportive blocks below it.  Then, if the block is Heavy, the Integrity score is doubled.

If “That Guy Who Topples Your Tower For No Reason” passed, add the following to “Integrity”:

If the block is Weakened, the Integrity score is halved, rounding down.

If “Underlay, Underlay, A Rebar, A Rebar” did not pass, add the following to the rule Building Contents, before the table:

Each Material may have Properties, as determined by the table below.

In the same rule, add a new column to the table for Properties, and give Stone the value “Heavy, Supportive” in that column. Add the following new Material to the table:

| Rebar || R || Modern girders to support vertical construction. || Supportive

If Proposal: That Guy Who Topples Your Tower For No Reason was not enacted, skip the rest of this proposal.

In the rule “Threat”, change the following:

* Starting from the leftmost item, carry out the effect of the Disaster corresponding to the item in the list once for every item.
* Blank the Threat

to:

* Carry out the Effect of the Disaster corresponding to the first item in the Threat and remove the first item in the Threat. Repeat this step until the Threat is blank.

Randomly select a Disaster and add its name to the Threat. Repeat this until the Threat has three items.

In the rule “The Quarry”, remove everything after the first sentence.

To the end of the “Move On” atomic action, add a step:-

* If the Quarry has at least as much Stone as five times the number of Engineers: give each Engineer 5 Stone and reduce the amount of Stone in the Quarry by five times the number of Engineers.

Add a new rule called “Verbal Warning” with the text:

The Verbal Warning list is a list of Engineers that starts out empty and is publicly tracked. If at the end of any 72 hour period an engineer has not performed a build action then the city architect will add them to the verbal warning list.

If the Proposal “This Way Up” was not enacted then this proposal has no effect.

Add a new rule named “Safety Checks” and give it the following text:

Each Engineer has a number of Safety Checks which is publicly tracked and which defaults to 0.

As a Weekly Action, an Engineer may perform an Inspection, which is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Make a blog post or comment stating that they are performing an Inspection
* Perform the Build atomic action if possible
* If the Build atomic action was completed, and the Building is not Collapsed at the time of this completion, count the number of Blocks containing _ in the Building Contents at that time and add this number to the their Safety Checks

In the rule “The Building”, add the following bullet as the last step of the atomic action Build:

* If Building Stability is greater than 0, add 1 to their Safety Checks.

Set the Stone of every Engineer who has any Stone to 10.

If Proposal: Underlay, Underlay, A Rebar, A Rebar was not enacted, skip the rest of this proposal.

Create a new dynastic rule named “Threat” with the following body:

The Threat is a publicly tracked list of values in the format “X, Y, Z” that may contain up to three items.

As a Weekly Communal Action, an Engineer or the City Architect may Trigger, which is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Starting from the leftmost item, carry out the effect of the Disaster corresponding to the item in the list once for every item.
* Blank the Threat
* Randomly select a Disaster and add its name to the Threat. Repeat this step until the list has three items.

A Disaster consists of a Name, an Effect and a Description (which is flavor text). The Disasters are listed in the table below:

{| class=“wikitable sortable”
|-
! Name || Effect || Description
|-
| Saboteur | Randomly select a Block that isn’t _ and set it to _ | Hey, who took this block out?
|-
| Earthquake | Randomly select 3 Blocks and Weaken them | At least it didn’t collapse immediately…
|}

In the rule “The Building”, subrule Integrity, change “A Block’s Integrity is calculated as follows: (Support) - (Height), plus or minus (Pressure)” to:

A Block’s Integrity is calculated as follows: (Support) - (Height) - (10 if it is Weakened), plus or minus (Pressure)

In the rule “The Building”, append the following paragraph to the end of the subrule Integrity:

A Block may be Weakened by another action if it does not contain a _. When this happens, change the letter representing the Block item from upper case to lower case. If it is already Weakened as displayed by a lower case letter, change it to _.

If Proposal: This Way Up was not enatced then this proposal has no effect.

Add a new subrule to the rule The Building, called Integrity, with the following text:

Each Block of the Building has an Integrity score, which is not publicly tracked but which is an emergent property of its relative position and composition in the Building, and which must be specifically recalculated whenever it is called upon in the completion of an action.

A Block’s Integrity is calculated as follows: (Support) - (Height), plus or minus (Pressure) - determined at random at the moment of recalculation.

A Block’s Height is equal to the number of Blocks that are between it and the base, inclusive of both itself and the base, divided by 10 and rounded down.

A Block’s Support is equal to the number of Blocks between it and the base, inclusive of the base but not itself, that have the Supportive property, minus two times the number of blocks between itself and the base (inclusive of both) that are Empty.

A Block’s Pressure is one-fifth, rounded down, of the number of non-empty Blocks between it and top, inclusive of the top but not itself, plus one for each of those Blocks that are Heavy.

Add the following to the rule Building Contents, befor the table:

Each Material may have Properties, as determined by the table below.

In the same rule, add a new column to the table for Properties, and give Stone the value “Heavy, Supportive” in that column. Add the following new Material to the table:

| Rebar || R || Modern girders to support vertical construction. || Supportive