With unanimity reached by players on the DoV, it seems safe to start a post-dynastic discussion thread.

As a result of the proposal Break-Even, I have achieved victory.

Give Desertfrog 4 Research Points and JonathanDark 1 Research Point.

Select a random Research Point from those held by Genetic Engineers (excluding Genetic Engineers who have included the word “pass” in a comment on this proposal). The Genetic Engineer who holds the selected Research Point achieves victory.

Remove 4 Research Points from Desertfrog and 1 from JonathanDark.

Add a new rule named “Success” with the following text:

Every Genetic Engineer has Success Points which is the number of Mutations submitted by that Genetic Engineer since the beginning of this dynasty that have resulted in a change in the Genome, except for the Genetic Engineer named Josh whose value of Success Points is fixed at 3. Success Points are publicly tracked by the Head Researcher, who should keep the gamestate updated with the current values for each Genetic Engineer at their earliest convenience. There is a publicly-tracked Updated, which defaults to empty and must be set to the string “Yes” when the Head Researcher has updated the gamestate with the most current values of Success Points for all Genetic Engineers.

If Updated contains “Yes”, any Genetic Engineer or the Head Researcher may perform a Breakthrough, if it has not yet been performed in this dynasty, by randomly selecting a Success Point from the Success Points held by all Genetic Engineers. The Genetic Engineer who holds the selected Success Point achieves victory.

Give Desertfrog 3 Research Points.

Select a random Research Point from those held by Genetic Engineers (excluding Genetic Engineers who have included the word “pass” in a comment on this proposal). The Genetic Engineer who holds the selected Research Point achieves victory.

Remove 3 Research Points from Desertfrog.

Add a new Building Block to the Building Blocks page, called “Precondition Unidling”:-

Idle Genetic Engineers may submit Proposals as if they were not idle; such proposals are known as Precondition Proposals, and should suggest terms (in the form of amendments to the ruleset and/or gamestate) on which the proposer would be willing to join the current dynasty. The proposer of a Precondition Proposal is not considered to have a vote on that Proposal while they remain idle.

If a Precondition Proposal enacts, the enacting admin must unidle its proposer before applying the proposal’s effects.

Add this block to the Building Block section of the ruleset.

Add a new step to the start of the list in “Synthesis”:-

* For each valid Mutation submitted, reduce the submitter’s Research by its Cost. (In cases where this is not possible, that Mutation submission becomes invalid.)

Replace “which is the amount of Research Points that must be spent to submit the Mutation request and may be 0” with:-

which is an amount of Research Points that may be 0

Somewhat surprisingly, there were no conflicts among the 5 Mutations, resulting in 3 new Organisms. Codons processed: TGG, ACT, ACT, ACT.

Genome comparison before and after the Mutations:

TGTACTTCTTCTCT
TGGACTACTACTTA

After “Processing them from left to right: for each set of three consecutive Nucleotides in the Genome, follow the corresponding instructions in the rule “Codons”” in Synthesis, add:-

and award 1 Research to every Genetic Engineer who is Observing the applied instruction of that Codon

Add an “Observed by” column to the table in Codons, with the following values:-

ACT: Every Genetic Engineer in the chosen Containment Cell.
ACC: Every Genetic Engineer in those Rooms.
CGA: Every Genetic Engineer in the same Room as that Organism, if it gained a Stage.
ATC: Every Genetic Engineer in those Rooms.
TGG: Every Genetic Engineer in the selected Rooms.
AGG: Every Genetic Engineer in those Rooms.
CAT: Every Genetic Engineer in the Materials Airlock.

In “Synthesis”, replace “For each Genetic Engineer who Discovered a Codon which is currently present in the Genome, give that Genetic Engineer 1 Research.” (if it exists) with:-

For each Codon in the Genome, give 1 Research to each Genetic Engineer whose Mutation affected any of the Genome’s Nucleotides that form part of that Codon, during this action.

(If the proposal “Brushcutting” enacted, add the above quoted text as a new bullet point at the end of the list in “Synthesis”, instead.)

Remove the “Discoverer” column from the table in the rule Codons, and the text “and optionally the name of a Genetic Engineer (or idle Genetic Engineer) who Discovered them” from the same rule, if they exist.

Remove “The Genetic Engineers (if any) who most recently caused a Mutation in this Codon gain 3 Research Points each if they are in the Computer Room, 6 Research Points each if they are in any Room whose name starts with “Containment Cell” in which there is at least 1 Organism, and 0 Research Points otherwise..” from the ACT Codon in “Codons”.

Add a new subrule to the rule Synthesis, called Physical Actions:

Physical actions can be undertaken at any time by any Genetic Scientist who meets their requirements. Where a physical action has a requirement of “Loud”, the Genetic Scientist carrying it out must make a post to the blog announcing that they have done so. Where a physical action has a requirement of “Quiet”, the act of carrying it out is privately tracked by the actor.

Available physical actions are as follows:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Physical Action !! Effect !! Requirement
|-
| Credential Lockout || The Head Researcher must count as valid but disregard the next Mutation they received from a single named Genetic Researcher. || Loud; Must be in the Computer Room
| -
| Arm self || The acting Genetic Researcher becomes Armed || Quiet; Must be in Storage or the Kitchen
| -
| Attack other || The acting Genetic Researcher sets the Status of another Genetic Researcher in the same location as themselves to Injured, increases their Understanding by 1, and rolls DICE2; on a result of 2 they cease to be Armed. || Loud; Must be armed
|}

Remove “For each Genetic Engineer who Discovered a Codon which is currently present in the Genome, give that Genetic Engineer 1 Research.” from the Synthesis atomic action.

Remove the “Requirements” column from the table in the rule Mutations.

Remove the “Discoverer” column from the table in the rule Codons, and the text “and optionally the name of a Genetic Engineer (or idle Genetic Engineer) who Discovered them” from the same rule.

To the rule Research Points add the following to the end of the second paragraph:

If any Genetic Engineer has ten or more Understanding then the Genetic Engineer with the highest unique value of Understanding has achieved Victory.

Add the following to the end of the rule Dormancy Plus One:

When a Genetic Engineer joins the dynasty for the first time (i.e. becomes unidle having never been unidle previously during this dynasty) they may once gain 6 Research points.

Add a new rule, “Dormancy Plus One”:-

If there are fewer than five Genetic Engineers (not including the Head Researcher), then BlogNomic is on Hiatus. This rule may be repealed at any time by any Genetic Engineer whose name is not Darknight, Desertfrog, JonathanDark or Kevan.

Remove “Some Codons may be assigned to one or more Rooms, Organisms, and/or Genetic Engineers. There is a publicly tracked table that lists all such assignments.” from the rule “Codons”.

Remove ” and assign that Organism a (not necessarily unique) random Codon” from the table entry for ACT.

Remove “If an Organism’s Stage is at least 3, a dynastic action may not increase that Organism’s Stage unless that Organism’s Codon can be found in the Genome at the time the dynastic action is performed.” from the rule “Evolution”.

Add the Codon “CAT” to the table in the rule Codons, with “Desertfrog” as Discoverer and an Effect of:

If there is at least one Organism in the Wet Lab, randomly choose one of them and move it to the Materials Airlock. Additionally, if there is at least one Organism in the Hallway, randomly choose one of them and move it to the Materials Airlock.

Add a new rule named “Needs” with the following text:

Each Genetic Engineer has a publicly-tracked number named “Needs” which defaults to 0.

In the rule “Synthesis”, in the Synthesize atomic action insert the following steps just before the step “For each Genetic Engineer with a Status of Injured who is in the Medlab, set their Status to Healthy”:

* For each Genetic Engineer who has a Needs greater than 5, set their Status to Injured.
* For each Genetic Engineer, if they are in the Kitchen or Restrooms, set their Needs to 0, otherwise add 1 to their Needs.

In the rule “Mutations”, replace the text “Must be in the Computer Lab” with “Must be in the Computer Room”.

One new Organism synthesized. Two non-conflicting Mutations were processed, one of which overrode an existing ACT Codon. One ACT Codon was processed.

Genome Comparison:
GTACTTCTCCACT
GTACTTCTTCTCT

To the table in “Mutations”, add a Mutation of:-

Remove the Nucleotide at a specific position

With a Cost of 2, and a Requirement of “Must be in the Autoclave”.

Then add a Mutation of:-

The Genome is Refrigerated for the duration of this Synthesis

With a Cost of 0, and a Requirement of “Must be in the Freezer”.

Then in Synthesis, replace “Add a random Nucleotide to the beginning of the Genome” with:-

If the Genome is not Refrigerated, add a random Nucleotide to the beginning of the Genome

In the rule “Codons”, in the Effect for the ACT Codon, after the text “Add a new Organism to a random Containment Cell” add the following text:

and assign that Organism a (not necessarily unique) random Codon

Assign a (not necessarily unique) random Codon to each existing Organism.

In the rule “Organisms”, add a subrule named “Overpopulation” with the following text:

When 5 or more Organisms are in the same Room, that Room is considered Overpopulated.

Survival is an atomic action with the following steps that apply only to the Organisms in a specific Room:
* Select all the Organisms with the lowest Stage in that Room and consider that group of Organisms the Prey.
* Randomly select an Organism from the Prey and remove it from the gamestate.
* Select all the Organisms with the highest Stage in that Room and consider that group of Organisms the Predators.
* Randomly select an Organism from the Predators and increase its Stage by 1 if it is legal to do so.

In the rule “Synthesis”, add the following as the last step in the Synthesize atomic action:

* For each Room that is Overpopulated, perform the Survival atomic action for that Room, repeating the action until that Room is no longer Overpopulated.

Two more Organisms created! There was only one non-conflicting Mutation this time around. Two ACT Codons were processed.

Genome comparison:
TACTTCTGCACT
TACTTCTCCACT

Add a new entry to the table in Codons with a Codon of “AGG”, a Discoverer of “Kevan” and an Effect of:-

For each Room which has multiple Organisms in it, remove all but one of those Organisms at random and add the combined Stages of the removed Organisms to the Stage of the Organism left in that Room.

Remove “, or the fact that they do not want to perform any Mutations” from the rule “Synthesis”.

In the rule “Synthesis” after this text “if two or more Mutations specify the same position, those Mutations are instead not performed” add the following text:

and the Nucleotide at that position must be changed to a randomly-selected Nucleotide (repeat this step for each position that was specified in more than one Mutation)

In the rule “Codons”, add the Codon TGG with JonathanDark as the Discoverer and the Effect as follows:

For each Organism with a Stage of at least 2, randomly select a Room connected to their current Room containing at least 1 Genetic Engineer (excluding all Rooms with the word “Airlock” or “Freezer” in their names), and if there is such a Room, move that Organism to that Room.

On our third synthesis attempt, we have finally created two viable lifeforms! Please treat them well.

Two ACT Codons were processed. Genome before and after the Mutations:

GCTTGTGCACA
ACTTCTGCACT

In the rule “Synthesis”, replace “Genetic Researcher” with “Genetic Engineer”.

Uphold the two Synthesis actions attempted by the Head Researcher at 14:21 on 25 October 2024 and 14:50 on 30 October 2024.

To the second paragraph of Synthesis, add:-

If there are one fewer Submissions than the number of Healthy Genetic Engineers, then the Head Researcher is encouraged to publicly remind the remaining Engineer (on Discord or the blog) that they need to submit a Mutation.