BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

If the Proposal “The Price of Fame” passed, then this Proposal has no effect.

Reduce Habanero’s Fame by 24, and remove Slime Lubricant from their Equipment if it is there.

Add the following Equipments to the rule “Equipment”:

== Opposable Radulae ==
Cost: 1 Medal of Bronze quality or better
Effect: When you Discard, you may remove and apply the effect of 2 Items from your Inventory.

== Cool Sticker ==
Cost: 15 Fame and 1 Paper
Effect: You may spend 1 Fame to be blindingly cool and reroll a die you rolled in the Dice Roller immediately after rolling it. The Fame price of this Effect doubles for every time you have used it before in a Race.

== Enlarged Foot ==
Cost: 10 Fame and 1 Medal of Silver quality or better
Effect: When you use the Crawl Move, you may adjust the amount it would change your position by up to 2cm in either direction.

In the rule “The Award Ceremony”, remove the text “Each non-Slug Snail has a publicly tracked numeric amount of Fame, which defaults to 0”.

In the same rule, in the Award Ceremony atomic action remove the step beginning with “Increase the Fame” and the step beginning with “Halve the Fame”.

In the same rule, replace “Fame and Medals” with “Medals”.

In the same rule, remove the sentence starting with “If there is a single Snail with the most Fame” and the sentence starting with “The Snails who have a quorum of Snails”.

In the rule “Equipment”, replace the text “spend the amount of Fame” with “Pawn their Medals for a value” and add a subrule named “Pawning” with the following text:

When a Snail Pawns their Medals, they pay a 0 or positive amount of their Gold, Silver, and Bronze to receive a value equal to the following formula based on the amounts of each paid: (5 x Gold paid) + (3 x Silver paid) + Bronze paid

Add a Slime Lubricant to Habanero’s Equipment if it is not already there.

This proposal edits the Official Rules.
In Rule Amendments, replace “Unless a Proposal” with

If there is an Ongoing Race when a proposal is enacted, then unless it

In the rule “Position”, replace:

A Snail in the Bucket or on the Bench does not count as a Snail for the purposes of dynastic rules other than this one (except where those rules refer specifically to Snails who are in the Bucket or on the Bench).

with:

A Snail in the Bucket or on the Bench does not count as a Snail for the purposes of dynastic rules other than this one (except where those rules refer specifically to Snails who are in the Bucket or on the Bench, or for the tracking of their gamestate variables).

In the rule “The Award Ceremony”, in the Award Ceremony atomic action, add the following steps to the end:

* Set the Position of all of the non-Slug Snails who are on the Track but failed to finish the Race to “Bucket”.
* Make a separate Story post to the blog with the title “Bucket List X” where X is the current Race Number and the contents of the post contain the names of the Snail(s) whose Positions are “Bucket”.

In the rule “The Award Ceremony”, after the text “Each non-Slug Snail has a publicly tracked numeric amount of Fame, which defaults to 0.”, add the following text:

Each non-Slug Snail has four types of publicly-tracked Medals named Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Paper, each of which defaults to 0.

and in the same rule, add the following bullet point as the third step in the Award Ceremony atomic action:

* Increase the Medals of the Snail(s) who are past the Finish Line:
** The Snail(s) who finished in the lowest number of Moves get 1 Gold.
** The Snail(s) who finished in the second lowest number of Moves get 1 Silver.
** The Snail(s) who finished in the third lowest number of Moves get 1 Bronze.
** Other finishing Snails get 1 Paper.

and in the same rule, after the text “the changes in Fame” add “and Medals”.

Set Habanero’s Gold to 1.

In “Races” replace “If no non-Slug Snail can Move, any Snail or the Jury may perform the Award Ceremony.” with “If there is an Ongoing Race but no non-Slug Snail can Move, any Snail or the Jury may perform the Award Ceremony.”

TLDR; Someone could just post a CfJ to patch the rule and be done with it, but in the meantime, Habanero could post as many more Award Ceremonies as they want, and there’s no reason they shouldn’t. This post is to talk through where to go from here before trying a flurry of CfJ’s to get it right. I think it’s more productive to see if there’s common ground.

Similar to The First Dynasty of Habanero, we have a situation where a player, in this case Habanero, can use a fault in the rules to generate an infinite amount of a resource, in this case Fame. However, there is currently no win condition, thus despite being able to generate this infinite resource, Habanero cannot actually win.

In the First Dynasty of Habanero, the player who did something similar was Brendan, and they used it to justify an end to the dynasty via chop based on relative strength of resources in the dynasty, on the basis that they could hold the dynasty hostage and render it unplayable otherwise. I don’t know what Habanero’s intentions are, but I think we should discuss options. I don’t want to propose a CfJ just yet until there’s a better understanding of where people are. I feel like a CfJ might be premature.

The options, as I see them (please add more if you think of them):
* Let Habanero keep a certain amount of Fame and patch the rules to prevent any further use of this exploit, reverting any other gains of Fame using this exploit from Habanero or anyone else after X amount of Fame, whatever value of X seems fair
* Take away Habanero’s Fame and set it to the amount that maybe people feel was intended by the rules. Note that this is traditionally not done in most dynasties. If you figure out an exploit, you generally keep some sort of reward from it.
* Follow the same path as the First Dynasty of Habanero and go straight to a victory chop
* (something else?)

What say the Snails?

Once more for good measure.
Habanero gains 8 Fame
Everyone else gains 0 Fame

And again!

Habanero gains 8 Fame
Everyone else gains 0 Fame

You know, that flaming snail was pretty awesome. They majestically leapt through the air, clearing the entire distance of the race in a single bound. I think they deserve a bit more of a round of applause.

Habanero gains 8 Fame (4x2 from being the Fan Favourite)
Everyone else gains 0 Fame

*Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz*
Huh? Agh, this announcer’s booth is the opposite of comfortable. Impossible to get a good rest. Are they still just sitting there? The crowd has already left by now. It’s been several days. The Slug of Death is so close, you’d think these guys would have a little more self-preservation. At least the flaming one took some initiative. It looks like Death is gearing up to Crawl once again.

And there it goes! Oh… oh my… that is rather gruesome. Yes, it looks like the rest of them won’t be moving anytime soon. Is that reversible? I sure hope so, would be a shame to have to find others to replace them. Eh, snails are pretty resilient critters.

Habanero gains 4 Fame
Everyone else gains 0 Fame

Throughout the ruleset, change the name of the “Leapfrog” Move to “Leapsnail”. Update its text to read as follows:

If one exists, randomly select a non-Slug Snail before the Finish Line whose Moves are within 2 of yours. Set your Position to be 1 greater than the selected Snail’s. Optionally, you may add to the random selection Snails who have been directly eligible Leapsnail targets for you at some time in the past 24 hours of this Ongoing Race.

For each of the following Slugs, if less than half of EVCs on this Proposal contained the phrase “I hate X” (where X is the name of the Slug in question), then add it to the list of Slugs:

* Name: Broom Barry
* Movement Rules: After Broom Barry sweeps, he moves backwards by 5cm.
* Extra Effects: Broom Barry starts each race at a Position of DICE50 + 50. If after a Move a Snail’s Position is changed to be within 8cm of Broom Barry, he sweeps, pushing all Snails in his range away from him until they are 8cm away. Snails sharing his Position are pushed backwards.

* Name: Friendly Fiona
* Movement Rules: If a single non-Slug Snail’s Position exactly matches Friendly Fiona’s and has done so for the past 24 hours, then whenever that Snail’s Position changes her Position changes by the same amount and her number of Moves is the same as that Snail’s Moves.
* Extra Effects: Friendly Fiona starts each race at a Position of DICE100. If a Snail’s action causes Friendly Fiona to cross the Finish Line for the first time in a Race, that Snail captivates the crowds with a heartwarming display of friendship, gaining 2 Fame.

* Name: The Iron Slug
* Movement Rules: When a Snail’s Position exactly matches that of the Iron Slug and has done so for at least 24 hours, then that Snail may reverse its polarity by making a comment in the Ongoing Race saying they are doing so and setting its Position to DICE100.
* Extra Effects: The Iron Slug starts each race at a position of DICE100. If after a Move a Snail’s Position is changed to be within 20cm of the Iron Slug, then that Snail is pulled closer to the Iron Slug by 5cm (or, if less than 5cm away, directly on top of the Iron Slug).

* Name: Identity Crisis Ian
* Movement Rules: If it has been longer than 24 hours since he has last moved or he has not Moved this Race, then any Snail may cause Identity Crisis Ian to perform the Slipstream Move.
* Extra Effects: Identity Crisis Ian starts each race at a Position of 50. If a single non-Slug Snail is within 5cm of Identity Crisis Ian, that Snail may help him find himself by choosing a Slug from the Bucket, swapping its Position with Identity Crisis Ian’s, and mentioning this in a comment in the Ongoing Race.

* Name: Danger Daryl
* Movement Rules: Danger Daryl cannot move by normal means.
* Extra Effects: Danger Daryl starts each race at a position of 35 + DICE30, because she enjoys the thrill of being directly in the path of oncoming traffic. Whenever a non-Slug Snail passes her for the first time in a Race, they may immediately after choose to roll DICE20. On an 11-19, they Spot Danger. On a 20, they Spot Danger three times.

Add the following step after “Create a new Race” in the atomic action in “Races”:

* Select the Slug of Death and 3 other Slugs at random, including those in the Bucket, and set their position to the Bench. Set the Position of all other Slugs to the Bucket.

Change the distance Slingshot Sam throws Snails from 5 to 20.

Add the following new rule, titled “Items”:

Each Snail has a publicly tracked list of Items, defaulting to an empty list. Each Item has a name, and optionally an effect that is applied when the Item is Discarded. Items may also have Passive effects, which apply to all Snails who have that Item in their Items.

The following Items have effects:
* Magnet: choose to either move all Snails 5 cm towards you or move all Snails 5 cm away from you.
* Magic Mirror: if your Position is negative, set it to the corresponding positive value.
* Crystal of Moderateness: remove all Items from a single Snail (if such a Snail exists) who has at least as many Items than every other Snail, and then remove all Crystals of Moderateness from every Snail’s Items. (Passive effect: the only Move you may make is Discard)
* Shield: (Passive) Other Snails may not change your Position by more than 11-N cm at a time (where N is the number of Shields in your Items). If they would, your Position changes by only 11-N cm instead (to the same direction as the original change)
* Huge Club: if a Snail (other than you) has the same positive Position as you, move that Snail 30 cm backward.

At any time, a Snail may Order an Item by privately sending to the Jury the name of that Item. The name must appear in the above list or be an English language concrete noun.

In the rule “Races”, replace “may perform the following atomic action” with

may perform Preparations, which is an atomic action with the following steps

Add a new step to the beginning of Preparations:

* Set all Snails’ Items to empty. Then, for each Item that was Ordered since the last Race was created, add that Item to its orderer’s Items. (If a Snail made more than 10 Orders, only consider the 10 most recent ones for that Snail)

Add the following new action to the list of possible Moves in the rule Moving:

Discard: remove one Item from your Items and apply its non-Passive effects (If any Snail(s) have the Crystal of Moderateness in their Items, no other Snail may perform this action.)

If a quorum of Snails included the text “confusing terminology” in a comment on this proposal, rename the rule “Equipment” to “Upgrades”, and replace its contents with:

Each Snail has a publicly tracked Upgrades, which is a list of names of Upgrades, and defaults to blank.

An Upgrade has a name, a cost and an effect which is applied to a Snail that has that Upgrade’s name in their Upgrades. A Snail may, at any time, spend the amount of Fame equal to the cost of an Upgrade to add that Upgrade’s name to their Upgrades (if it isn’t already there).

An Upgrade is defined as a subrule of this rule, with the name of the subrule being the name of the equipment.