BlogNomic: The Ninth Dynasty of ais523

So far this dynasty, some of the main mechanics (e.g. Vocating) generally encouraging doing nothing most of the time, taking actions as rarely as the timer allows (in this case, once a week). That means that nothing is happening most of the time.

I’m making this post to check whether or not players are OK with that sort of pace – everyone might be fine with it, but possibly it might have happened accidentally without anyone really wanting it, and I can’t tell without asking.

Think about it: unlimited free pens.

This is a Bribe Someone Mildly Important deal. I propose a Stakes split of 22 to me, 18 to you.

I would like to be idled.

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

There is a publicly tracked Insurance which is a list of one or more Policies that defaults to an empty list. Each Policy has a Seeker, a Resource, and a Covered.

At any time while Misfortune is not being performed, a Seeker may add a Policy to Insurance by spending a positive amount of one of their Resources up to the amount of that Resource they have, then adding an entry to Insurance with their name, the name of the Resource that was spent in this action, and a Covered equal to the amount spent. A Seeker who adds a Policy to Insurance is said to own that Policy. A Seeker may not add a Policy for a given Resource if one already exists with their name and that Resource.

At any time while Misfortune is not being performed, a Seeker may increase the Covered amount of a Policy they own by spending a positive amount of the Resource associated with that Policy, up to the amount of that Resource they have, and adding that amount to that Policy.

In the rule “Insurance”, add a subrule named “Misfortune” with the following text:

As a Communal Weekly Action, any Seeker or the Custodian may perform the Misfortune action, which is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Randomly select a Resource.
* Randomly select a Life Event from the list of possible Life Events.
* Roll 2DICEX, where X is the current Tension, and call the result of this roll the Damage.
* Subtract the Damage from the Covered of every Insurance Policy where that Policy’s Resource matches the Resource selected in the preceding steps, to a minimum of 0.
* Remove every Insurance Policy that has a Covered of 0.
* For every Seeker that does not own an Insurance Policy with a Resource that matches the Resource selected in the preceding steps, apply the Life Event selected in the preceding steps to that Seeker.

Consider the Misfortune action as having been performed at the time of the enactment of this Proposal, without having performed its steps.

Replace the conditions under which a Seeker is in the Adult and Geriatric Life Stages with the following:

In the second and third weeks after performing Be Productive for the first time, a Seeker is in the Adult Life Stage.
In the fourth and all subsequent weeks after performing Be Productive for the first time, a Seeker is in the Geriatric Life Stage.

Remove all Jobs from Seekers, if any exist.

Uphold the post Viral Video as a legal Opportunity.

In the text “As a daily Communal Action, any Seeker or the Custodian can increase the Tension by 2.” in “Targets”, change “2” to “3”.

Change the Building Blocks rule “Edit Window” to read as follows:

Recommended: An official post may be altered by its author if it is less than 4 hours old and either no Seeker has commented on it or (if it is a Votable Matter) there are no valid FOR votes on it. This rule is superseded by the rule “Protected Edit Window”, if it exists.

Make the same change on the Building Blocks wiki page.

Add a new dynastic rule, titled “The Market”:

There exist three Stocks, each of which is associated with a non-Wealth Resource:
* Deep State Inc ($DSI for short) is associated with Influence;
* Celebrity Drivel News ($CDN for short) is associated with Fame;
* The Academic Research Cooperative ($ARC for short) is associated with Savvy.

Each Stock has a numeric Price, and every Seeker has a numeric amount of Shares in each Stock, both of which are publicly tracked.

As a Weekly Action, a Seeker may Trade. They do this by buying and/or selling any amount of their Shares in any amount of Stocks (with the value of each Share given by its Price and paid in Wealth). Wealth gained from selling Shares is not boosted by Aspiration.

Seekers with a Job of Investor may Trade as a Daily Action rather than a Weekly Action.

As a Communal Daily Action, any Seeker or the Custodian may Update Prices, which is the following atomic action:
* For every non-Wealth Resource:
** Calculate the percentage of non-Wealth Resources owned by all Seekers which are that Resource (a real number from 0 to 100).
** Divide the result of the previous step by 10.
** If the result of the previous step is less than 2, set it to 2.
** Set the Price of the Stock associated with that Resource to the result of the previous step, rounded to the nearest integer.

If the proposal “Personal clocks” was enacted, then this proposal has no effect.

In the rule Vocating, change the text “Let X be the number of days between the start of the last day you performed this action” to read:

Let X be the number of days between the start of the last day you performed this action (or the date upon which you assumed the Vocation chosen in this atomic action, whichever is most recent)

In the rule “Life Stages”, replace the conditions under which a Seeker is in the Infant and Juvenile Life Stages with the following:

If a Seeker has not performed Be Productive at any point in the Dynasty then that Seeker is in the Infant Life Stage.
For the first week after performing Be Productive for the first time, a Seeker is in the Juvenile Life Stage.

In the rule Vocating, change the text “Let X be the number of days between the start of the last day you performed this action” to read:

Let X be the number of days between the start of the last day you performed this action (or the date upon which you assumed the Vocation chosen in this atomic action, whichever is most recent)

Revert any Be Productive actions taken between the posting and enactment of this proposal.

You win a raffle at a concert for your favourite band, and before you know it you’re up on the stage with them! If you’re charismatic enough (and happened to spend enough money on looking presentable beforehand), you might just be able to win the audience’s hearts.

This Opportunity has a Fame Reward of 37

In the rule Numbers and Variables, immediately before the string “or the list which is alphabetically earliest”, add:

false (if the range of possible outcomes is limited to “true” or “false”),

To the end of the same bullet point, add:

When an action is added to the ruleset that allows for the manipulation of a game variable based on set timescales, the first use of that action for each Seeker uses, by default, the time at which that action was added to the ruleset as the basis for assessing the most recent time at which that action was performed by that Seeker.

In the rule “Life Events”, replace the description for RIF with the text “Remove that Seeker’s Job if they have one.”

In the same rule, replace the description for Obsolete with the text “Randomly select one of that Seeker’s Hobbies and remove it.”

In the same rule, replace “to one of their empty Vocations” with “as a Vocation”.

In the same rule, replace “in any Vocation” with “as a Vocation”.

You’ve heard about viral videos and people becoming influencers, but you never imagined yourself being one of those people, until today. An Opportunity has presented itself to you to pay some highly talented internet video producers to make the next viral video, starring you. Do you take them up on it?

This Opportunity has an Influence Reward of 15 and a Fame reward of 27.

Add a new dynastic rule, titled “News”:

The News is a publicly tracked list of Stories, defaulting to the empty list. Every Story has a Seeker who created it, a date and time that it will expire, and a thing that that Story is Slandering, all of which are publicly tracked.

At any time, a Seeker may spend 20 Influence, tripled for every time they have performed this action before this dynasty, to create a Story Slandering a Resource of their choice and add it to the News (or extend the expiration date of a Story they created slandering a Resource by 48 hours).

At any time, a Seeker may spend 5 Fame, doubled for every time they have performed this action before this dynasty, to create a Story Slandering a Vocation of their choice and add it to the News (or extend the expiration date of a Story they created slandering a Vocation by 48 hours).

When created, Stories expire 48 hours after their creation. If a Story in the News is past its expiration date, any Seeker or the Custodian may remove it from the News, and it no longer has any effect.

If there is a Story in the News Slandering a Resource, then any time a Seeker would gain an amount of that Resource they instead do not (regardless of Aspiration).

Stories in the News Slandering a Resource have no effect on and may be ignored by Seekers with more Savvy than the Influence of the Story’s creator. Stories in the News Slandering a Vocation have no effect on and may be ignored by Seekers with more Savvy than the Fame of the Story’s creator.

Change the first bullet point of the “Be Productive” action to the following:

* Choose a Vocation you have which there is no Story in the News Slandering (this Vocation is considered the Activity for the rest of this action).

Give every Seeker 20 Savvy.

Replace the text of steps 2 and 3 of the “Closing the Opportunity” action with the following:

# For each Seeker other than the Purchaser, increase the Wealth of that Seeker by that Seeker’s Bid (and this increase is not affected by Aspiration).
# Increase the Purchaser’s Wealth by the difference between the highest and second-highest Bids (not affected by Aspiration, and if the difference is greater than the Tension increase by the Tension instead).

In the rule “Vocating”, add a subrule named “Jump Start” with the following text:

Each Seeker has a number called “Reserve” that defaults to 0 and a “Reservation” which is a Hobby that defaults to no Hobby.

As a Daily Action, a Seeker who is in the Infant or Juvenile Life Stages may perform Jump Start. Jump Start is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Spend an amount of your Wealth greater than 0, up to your current Wealth, and add that amount to your Reserve.
* Set your Reservation to any Hobby that you do not already have as a Vocation.

For a given Hobby, if there is a Seeker who has that Hobby as their Reservation and a Reserve that is higher than any other Seeker who also has that Hobby as their Reservation, that Seeker is considered the Starter for that Hobby. Additionally, if there is a Seeker who is the only Seeker with that Hobby as their Reservation, that Seeker is considered the Starter for that Hobby.

A Seeker may not add a Hobby as a Vocation if there is another Seeker who is the Starter for that Hobby. A Seeker who is the Starter for a Hobby may not add that Hobby as a Vocation if they have performed Jump Start less than 48 hours ago.

Whenever a Seeker adds a Hobby as a Vocation, their Reserve (not boosted by Aspiration) is added back to their Wealth if they were not the Starter for that Hobby, and their Reserve and Reservation are set to their default values regardless of whether they were the Starter for that Hobby or not.

If there are no active Seekers in the Infant or Juvenile Life Stages, any Seeker or the Custodian may repeal this rule.

So, I’ve been struggling with how to make closed-fist betting easier, or at least less wordy, without having the Custodian have to handle private communications for actions or resolution of those actions.

My initial idea was:
* Set the amount you want to bet.
* Hash your bet, but first add a “salt” of your choice so no one could reverse-engineer the hash to figure out what you bet.
* Once all bets are in (for anyone who might participate), reveal the bets by posting the bet and salt. Checking the hash of that against the original hash proves you bet what you said you did.

Wording that correctly has been a challenge. Does anyone have alternatives to this?

Change the first sentence of the rule Recusants to read as follows:

An Idle Seeker may post or vote on a Votable Matter provided that its effect is entirely limited to amending the non-dynastic ruleset. An Idle Seeker who makes or votes upon such a Votable Matter is, for the purposes of that Votable Matter, a Recusant.

In the rule Dormancy, change “fewer than four Seekers” to “fewer than four Active Seekers”.

In the rule “Life Events”, replace the description for RIF with the following:

Remove a Job from each of that Seeker’s Vocations that contain a Job.

and in the same rule, replace the description for Obsolete with the following:

Randomly select one of that Seeker’s Vocations that contains a Hobby and remove it.

and in the same rule, append the following text:

If a Seeker loses a Job or Hobby due to a Life Event, they may add a Hobby of their choice to one of their empty Vocations, provided that they have never had that Hobby in any Vocation during this dynasty.

I would like to be idled

Create a new dynastic rule, “Anonymous Proposals”, with the following text:

As a weekly action, a Seeker may privately send the Custodian the text of a hypothetical proposal, labelling it as an Anonymous Proposal submission. Upon receiving such a submission, the Custodian should rewrite the proposal in their own words (keeping the gameplay intent of the proposal approximately intact, but potentially using different wording in any created or modified rules), and then submit it as a proposal with [Anonymous] in its title. (The Custodian must not put [Anonymous] in the title of proposals except in this circumstance.) The Custodian can submit a proposal this way even if they already have 2 proposals pending or have already submitted 3 proposals this way, and proposals submitted this way do not count as proposals for the purpose of the 2-pending-proposal or 3-proposals-per-day limits.

An Opportunity has arisen. You could become the next star of TV!

This Opportunity has a Fame Reward of 24.

Perform the Income action once on behalf of every Seeker, regardless of any restrictions on its frequency of occurrence.

Repeal the rule “Wealth Actions”.

Add a new dynastic rule, titled “Vocating”:

As a Daily Action, a Seeker may Be Productive. This is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Choose a Vocation you have (considered the Activity for the rest of this action).
* Let X be the number of days between the start of the last day you performed this action and the start of today, to a maximum of 7.
* For every other Seeker who also has the Activity as one of their Vocations, reduce X by 1, to a minimum of 0.
* For every Resource the Activity is Strongly Correlated with, gain 20 * X of that Resource. For every Resource the Activity is Correlated with, gain 10 * X of that Resource. For every Resource the Activity is Negatively Correlated with, lose 5 * X of that Resource, to a minimum of 0.

When a Seeker updates the gamestate tracker as a result of performing this action, they are encouraged to mention in the edit summary that they are being productive.

Consider every Seeker to have performed Be Productive at the moment this proposal enacts (but do not generate any Resources for those Seekers).

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

A Misfortune is a Story Post that starts with the title “[Misfortune]”. A Seeker may post a Misfortune if all of the following are true:
* The current date is March 20, 2025 00:00 UTC or later.
* That Seeker has not posted a Misfortune before in this dynasty.

When a Misfortune is posted, the Seeker who posted it must include the following into the contents of that post:
The text “Life Event: ” followed by the name of a Life Event of that Seeker’s choice.
The text “Resource: ” followed by the name of a Resource of that Seeker’s choice.

A Risk is a percentage expressed as an integer between 10-100 inclusive. A Bet is a string which begins with a Risk followed by a space followed by any string of 3-20 alphabetical characters. A Blind is the SHA256 hash of a Bet, which can be generated using the website https://tools.keycdn.com/sha256-online-generator

A Misfortune is considered Open if it has been less than 48 hours since it was posted. A Misfortune is considered Impending if it has been at least 48 hours since it was posted but less than 72 hours since it was posted. A Misfortune is considered Triggered when it has been at least 72 hours since it was posted but is not Closed.

Any Seeker may comment on an Open Misfortune with a Blind by choosing their Risk, creating a Bet with that Risk, generating the Blind for that Bet, then adding a comment to that Open Misfortune containing that Blind.

Any Seeker may comment on a Impending Misfortune with a Bet, but that Bet is only valid if all of the following are true:
* That Seeker posted at least one Blind in a comment while that Misfortune was Open.
* The Blind for that Bet matches the most recent Blind that Seeker posted in that Misfortune while it was Open.

If a Seeker did not comment on a Misfortune with a valid Bet while it was Impending, that Seeker’s Bet for that Misfortune is considered to be “10 aaa”, and their Risk is 10 for that Bet.

When a Misfortune is Triggered, any Seeker or the Custodian may perform Activation on that Misfortune, after which that Misfortune is considered Closed. Activation is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Add a comment to that Misfortune stating “Misfortune is Closed”.
* If there is only one Seeker whose Bet in that Misfortune contains the highest Risk among all Seekers’ Bets, consider that Seeker to be Exempt in this instance of this action.
* For each Seeker who is not Exempt, calculate the value of that Seeker’s Resource named in that Misfortune post multiplied by that Risk and dividing that by 100, rounding down to the nearest integer. Subtract this result from that Seeker’s Resource named in that Misfortune post.
* Select all of the Seekers whose Bets in that Misfortune contains the lowest Risk among all Seekers’ Bets.
* Apply the effects described in the Life Event named in that Misfortune post to those Seekers selected in the preceding step.

If “Life Happens” was not enacted, insert the following text as the first paragraph in the rule “Misfortunes”:

The rest of this rule is flavor text.

In the rule Life Stages, change the phrase “after joining the dynasty for the first time” to “after giving themselves a Vocation for the first time” wherever it appears.

In the same rule, immediately before the line which starts “For the first week”, add the following line:

If a Seeker has not given themselves any Vocations at any point in the Dynasty then that Seeker is in the Infant Life Stage.

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

Life Events are listed below, where each is named and has the described effect when it is applied to a Seeker:

;RIF: That Seeker must remove a Job from each of their Vocations that contains a Job. If they removed a Job due to this action, they may optionally pick a Hobby that they have never had in any Vocation during this dynasty and add it to an empty Vocation.
;Obsolete: That Seeker must remove a Hobby of their choice, if they have one, from one of their Vocations. If they do so, they may optionally pick a Hobby that they have never had in any Vocation during this dynasty and add it to an empty Vocation.
;Emergency: That Seeker loses 10% of each Resource they have the most of at the time this was applied.

In the rule “Vocations by Life Stage”, replace “they may once carry out the Get A Job Action” with “they may carry out the Get A Job Action if they currently do not have a Job Vocation” and after the text “the Hobby being replaced is also Correlated” add the text “, and provided that they have never had that Job in any Vocation during this dynasty”.

Add a new dynastic rule, titled “Gathering Influence”:

A Deal is a type of Story Post whose title starts with “[Deal]”. A Deal may be open or closed, and is open initially. The author of a Deal is considered its Bargainer, and the body of a Deal must contain the name of a single other Seeker, who is considered the Authority of that Deal. The body of a Deal must also contain an amount of Influence, known as the Stakes of that Deal, and a proposed division of the Stakes of the Deal between its Bargainer and Authority.

Once the Authority of an open deal posts a comment to that open Deal containing either a FOR or AGAINST voting icon, that deal is considered closed and no longer open. When a Deal becomes closed, if its Authority closed it with a FOR voting icon, then its Bargainer and Authority gain Influence according to the division proposed in the body of the Deal (and this gain is boosted). If its Authority closed it with an AGAINST icon, then the Bargainer is refunded the Resources spent to create that Deal. If an open Deal has been open for more than 72 hours, any Seeker may make a comment with an AGAINST icon to close that Deal as if they were its Authority.

If the proposal “More Resourceful” failed, remove the text “(and this gain is boosted)” from the above, and add the text “(and this refund is not boosted by Aspiration)” after “the Bargainer is refunded the Resources spent to create that Deal”.

Add a subrule to “Gathering Influence”, titled “The Price of Power”:

If a Seeker has not created a Deal in the past 72 hours, then they they may choose an entry in the following list and spend some Resources as indicated in that entry to create a Deal (where the amount of Resources to be spent is indicated after the colon, and the Stakes the created Deal must have is indicated in parentheses):
Bribe Someone Mildly Important (Stakes 40): 5 Wealth
Dig up Dirty Secrets (Stakes 100): 10 Influence, 10 Fame, 10 Savvy
Incite your Fans to Join a Cult (Stakes 200): 100 Fame
Steal Highly Confidential Knowledge (Stakes 300): 150 Savvy
Buy the Government (Stakes 1000): 500 Wealth, 100 Influence

The Authority of a Deal created in this way must be selected randomly among the Seekers other than that Deal’s Bargainer. The Bargainer may decide the division of the Stakes for a Deal, and may do so after rolling for its Authority.

Rewrite the rule Seekers as follows:

A human with access to the blog who is not already a Seeker may make a blog post making clear their wish to be a Seeker (plural form Seekers); in response, an Admin shall add them to the roster in the sidebar, at which moment they become a Seeker. (See the FAQ for guidance on how to apply for access to the BlogNomic blog.)

Some Seekers are Admins, responsible for updating the site and the Ruleset, and are signified as such in the sidebar. Seekers who wish to become Admins should submit a Proposal or CfJ to that effect. Existing Admins may be voluntarily resignation by making a post to the blog.

A Seeker may cease to be a Seeker at any time by posting an entry to the BlogNomic weblog requesting such an action. A human who has ceased to be a Seeker in this way may not become a Seeker again within the following two weeks.

Add the following to the beginning of the last bullet point of the rule Names:

A Seeker’s name may only be changed as a result of a Proposal approving the change.

Rewrite the rule Idle Seekers as follows:

A Seeker may be either Active or Idle. A Seeker is only Active if their name is on the list of currently active Seekers in the Sidebar; otherwise they are Idle.

A Seeker may request to become Idle at any time by making a post or comment to that effect. An Admin may render a Seeker Idle if that Seeker has asked to become Idle in an entry or comment from the past 96 hours (4 Days), or if that Seeker has not posted an entry or comment in the past 168 Hours (7 days). Admins may render themselves Idle at any time, but should announce it in a post or comment when they do so.

For the purposes of all Gamestate and the Ruleset, excluding the core and appendix Rules “Ruleset and Gamestate”, “Seekers”, “Dynasties”, “Fair Play”, “Imperial Tracking”, “Mentors” and any of those Rules’ subrules, Idle Seekers are not counted as Seekers. The combined term “Idle Seekers” can be used to refer to Seekers who are Idle even in Proposals or rules that do not treat them as Seekers, and any votable matter that specifically refers to a named Idle Seeker can affect them as if they were Active. Idle admins may act as Admins as if they were Active.

An Admin may make a Seeker Active if that Seeker is Idle and has asked to become Unidle in an entry or comment from the past 96 hours (4 Days), and Idle Admins may make themselves Active at any time, unless the Seeker who would become Active has become Idle within the past 96 hours (4 days), and within the current Dynasty. Admins who are making any Seeker Active should highlight the changed status of the relevant Seeker and any changes to Quorum to have come about as a result of it as a comment to the entry requesting the change, or as part of their next vote comment if making themselves Active.

When a Seeker is made Active, if they went Idle in the same Dynasty, their personal gamestate retains the last legally endowed values it had, if they are still valid. Otherwise (including if a value is invalid, does not exist, or the Seeker Idled in a different Dynasty), the Seeker is given the default value for new Seekers, if such a value exists.

When a Seeker becomes idle due to inactivity, the Admin must announce the idling in a blog post, and the 168 Hour idle timeout is considered to be reduced to 96 hours for that Seeker during the current and subsequent dynasty.

Add a new subrule to the rule Seekers, called Recusants, with the following text:

When an Idle Seeker makes or votes on a Votable Matter whose only effect is to amend the non-dynastic ruleset, that Idle Seeker is, for the purposes of that Votable Matter, a Recusant. When resolving a Votable Matter, all Idle Seekers who are Recusants on that matter are considered to be Active solely for the purposes of determining whether it was legally posted, and for determining Quorum on that matter; and all otherwise valid votes cast by Recusants are considered to be valid votes cast by Active Seekers.

Add the following to the end of the second paragraph in the rule Dynasties:

Additionally, Proposals may be submitted and resolved as normal, provided that they only have the effect of amending the non-dynastic ruleset.

Create a new subrule, “Boost”, of “Resources” (in the blockquote below, * is MediaWiki markup for the start of a list item):

Each Seeker has a Boost for each Resource, a positive integer defaulting to 1 (different Resources can have different Boosts for the same Seeker). Boost is publicly tracked via writing “x” followed by the Boost after each Seeker’s Resource value (for example, if a Seeker has 50 Wealth and a Weatlh Boost of 2, their Wealth is written as “50x2” on the Tracker).

When a rule defines a change as “boosted”, this means that if the change increases a Seeker’s value for a Resource, the size of the increase is multiplied by that Seeker’s Boost for that Resource.

There is a list of Boost Conditions, each of which may apply to a particular combination of a Seeker and a Resource. The list of Boost Conditions is as follows:
* At least two of the Seeker’s Vocations are Correlated or Strongly Correlated with the Resource, and none of the Seeker’s Vocations are negatively Correlated with the Resource;
* At least one of the Seeker’s Vocations is Strongly Correlated with the Resource, and none of the Seeker’s Vocations are negatively Correlated with the Resource;
* That Seeker’s Aspiration is associated with that Resource, and that Aspiration is not the most common Aspiration among all Seekers;
* That Seeker is the only Seeker with that Aspiration.

If a Seeker meets at least two Boost Conditions for a Resource, that Seeker may set their Boost for that Resource to the number of Boost Conditions they meet for it.
If a Seeker meets fewer Boost Conditions for a Resource than their Boost for that resource, any Seeker may reduce their Boost for that Resource by 1, to a minimum of 1.

If there is a rule “Aspirations”, remove the paragraph starting “If a Seeker has an Aspiration” from it. Otherwise, delete the list items containing “Aspiration” from the new “Boost” subrule.

If there is a rule “Influence”, add a paragraph “Gains due to this rule are boosted.” at the end of that rule.

If there is a rule “Opportunities”, add the sentence “This gain is boosted.” immediately after “For each Resource for which a Reward was chosen as part of the process creating that Opportunity, increase the Purchaser’s value for that Resource by that Resource’s Reward.”, within the same list item.

Change “Wealth Actions” to read as follows (in the blockquote below, * is MediaWiki markup for the start of a list item):

As a daily action called “Income”, a Seeker may increase their own Wealth by an amount of their choice, subject to the following restrictions on what values the amount of the increase can have:
* The chosen amount is at most 36;
* That Seeker has not performed the Income action within the previous X hours, where X is twice the chosen amount.

This increase is boosted (and the restrictions above apply to the amount before the boost).

Create a new dynastic rule, “Opportunities”, positioning it in the ruleset immediately before “Vocations” (in the blockquote below, “#” is MediaWiki formatting for the start of a numbered list item):

If there is no open Opportunity, any Seeker or the Custodian can perform the following Atomic Action:
# Randomly choose DICE2 non-Wealth Resources.
# For each chosen Resource, generate a random number between 1 and three times the Tension.
# Create a Story Post whose title starts with “[Opportunity]”, which specifies the chosen Resources, and the random numbers that were generated for them in the previous step.

A post created this way is known as an Opportunity; nothing else is an Opportunity. An Opportunity is initially open when it is created. For each Resource chosen when creating an Opportunity, the random number corresponding to it is known (in the context of that Opportunity) as the Reward for that Resource.

While there is an open Opportunity, each Seeker has a Bid, a nonnegative integer defaulting to 0 that is tracked in the comments to the open Opportunity. (The tracking is done as follows: whenever a Seeker’s Bid changes, the new value is posted as a comment to the Opportunity, e.g. a Seeker might post “My Bid is 50” upon increasing their Bid to 50.)

While there is an open Opportunity, any Seeker can reduce their own Wealth by any amount less than their current Wealth, and increase their own Bid by the same amount, as long as doing so causes that Seeker to have the unique highest Bid. This action may not be performed while the “Closing the Opportunity” atomic action is ongoing.

While there is an open Opportuntiy, the Seeker (if any) who has the highest Bid is known as the Purchaser.

If an open Opportunity has been continuously open for 48 hours, and no Bid has changed within the previous 24 hours, any Seeker or the Custodian can perform the following Atomic Action, known as “Closing the Opportunity”:
# Add a comment to that Opportunity stating “Bidding is closed.”
# For each Seeker other htan the Purchase, increase the Wealth of that Seeker by that Seeker’s Bid.
# Increase the Purchaser’s Wealth by the difference between the highest and second-highest Bids (except that if the difference is higher than three times the Tension, increase by three times the Tension instead).
# For each Resource for which a Reward was chosen as part of the process creating that Opportunity, increase the Purchaser’s value for that Resource by that Resource’s Reward.

Once the “Closing the Opportunity” action is completed for a given Opportunity, that Opportunity is no longer considered Open, and the Bid variable loses its value and is no longer tracked. (When the next Opportunity is created, it will start at its default value again.)

In the rule Vocations by Life Stage, change the phrase “after joining the dynasty for the first time” to “after giving themselves a Vocation for the first time” wherever it appears.

In the same rule, immediately before the line which starts “For the first week”, add the following line:

If a Seeker has not given themselves any Vocations at any point in the Dynasty then that Seeker is in the Infant Life Stage.

Add the following as a new first line to the rule Vocations by Life Stage:

When a Seeker is in the Infant Life Stage, they may add a single Hobby as a Vocation.

If “Supporting the Community” was not enacted, the rest of this Proposal has no effect.

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

If the date is on or after September 16, 2025 00:00 UTC, any Seeker or the Custodian may remove this paragraph. The rest of this rule is flavor text.

As a Weekly Communal Action, any Seeker or the Custodian can perform Collect Taxes as an atomic action with the following steps:
* Start with a Taxes, which is a number rounded down to 2 decimal places, of 0.00.
* For each Seeker, multiply their Wealth by 0.10 and add the result to Taxes.
* Divide the Taxes equally by the number of Resources that exist and add that result to the Funding of each Resource.

In the rule “Resources”, add a subrule named “Public Funding” with the following text:

For each Resource, there is a publicly tracked non-negative number named Funding and a non-negative number named Benefit, both of which are rounded down to two decimal places. For each Resource, Funding defaults to 0.00 and Benefit defaults to 1.00. Whenever a Seeker gains an amount of a Resource, after performing any other mathematical operations on that gain per other rules, that gain is multiplied by the Benefit for that Resource, with the result rounded down to the nearest integer.

As a Daily Communal Action, any Seeker or the Custodian can perform Investment as an atomic action. Investment has the following steps that must be performed once for each Resource during that instance of Investment:
* Divide the Funding for that Resource by 100.00 and add the result to that Resource’s Benefit
* Set the Funding for that Resource to 0.00

Add a subrule to the rule “Resources”, titled “Aspirations”:

If a Seeker has at least 50 of a Resource and more of that Resource than any of their other Resources, then that Seeker is considered to have an Aspiration of:
Rich, if that Resource is Wealth;
Famous, if that Resource is Fame;
Powerful, if that Resource is Influence;
Clever, if that Resource is Savvy.

If a Seeker has an Aspiration and that Aspiration is not the single most common Aspiration among all Seekers, then that Seeker’s gains of the Resource associated with that Aspiration are doubled. If that Seeker is the only Seeker with that Aspiration, their gains of the associated Resource are instead quadrupled.

If the Proposal “The Most Important Thing” passed, add a new Aspiration to the above list of Aspirations:

Joyful, if that Resource is Happiness.

Add a new dynastic rule, titled “Influence”:

When a proposal authored by a Seeker is enacted or failed and at any point had at least one FOR vote on it from a Seeker other than its author, its author gains 5 Influence.

If the Proposal “A Life’s Ambition” passed, replace the text of “Influence” with the following:

When a proposal authored by a Seeker is enacted or failed and at any point had at least one FOR vote on it from a Seeker other than its author, its author gains 5 Influence. If they have a Hobby of BlogNomic or a Job of Politician, they instead gain 10 Influence.

In the rule Targets, replace

For each Resource, there is a Target for that Resource, a publicly tracked positive integer defaulting to 500.

with

For each Resource, there is a Target for that Resource, a publicly tracked range of positive integers defaulting to 450—500. The upper and lower boundary are included in the range.

In the same rule, replace

A Seeker can choose any Resource, and subtract any number between 1 and the Tension from the Target for that Resource, as long as both of the following conditions are true:
* That Seeker has not changed any Targets in the previous 72 hours;
* The change in Targets does not cause two or more Seekers to achieve victory simultaneously.

with

A Seeker can choose any Resource, and subtract any number between 1 and the Tension from the lower or upper bound of the Target for that Resource, as long as all of the following conditions are true:
* That Seeker has not changed any Targets in the previous 72 hours;
* The change in Targets does not cause two or more Seekers to achieve victory simultaneously.
* The change in Targets does not cause the lower bound of a Target being greater than or equal to the upper bound of that Target

In the same rule, replace all instances of “Seeker has as least as much” with “Seeker’s” and replace all instances of “as the Target for” with “is within the range of the Target for”

To the beginning of the rule Resources, add

Each Seeker has a Happiness, a publicly tracked non-negative integer.

To the beginning of the next paragraph in the same rule, add “Happiness, “

In the rule Targets, after the text “A particular Seeker achieves victory if all four of the following are simultaneously true for that Seeker:”, add

* That Seeker has as least as much Happiness as the Target for Happiness;

In the rule Vocations, if it exists, add the following to the end of the paragraph that begins “Vocations are associated with Resources”:

All Vocations are Neutral with respect to Happiness.

Create a new dynastic rule, “Wealth Actions”:

As a daily action called “Income”, a Seeker may increase their own Wealth by an amount of their choice, subject to the following restrictions on what values the amount of the increase can have:
* The amount of the increase is less than 72;
* The amount of the increase is less than the number of hours since that Seeker last performed the Income action, and
* The amount of the increase is less than the number of hours since this rule was added to the ruleset.

Add the following as a new rule, called Life Stages:

Each Seeker occupies a Life Stage, which is publicly tracked and should be kept up to date by the Seeker in question.

For the first week after joining the dynasty for the first time, a Seeker is in the Juvenile Life Stage.
In the second and third weeks after joining the dynasty for the first time, a Seeker is in the Adult Life Stage.
In the fourth and all subsequent weeks after joining the dynasty for the first time, a Seeker is in the Geriatric Life Stage.

If there is a rule called Vocations, add the following as a subrule to it, called Vocations by Life Stage:

When a Seeker is in the Juvenile Life Stage, they may freely add Hobbies up to the maximum number of Vocations that they may have.
When a Seeker is in the Adult Life Stage they may once carry out the Get A Job Action, which allows them to remove one Hobby and replace it with a Job, provided that that Job is either Correlated or Strongly Correlated with a Resource with which the Hobby being replaced is also Correlated.
When a Seeker is in the Geriatric Life Stage they my not have any Job Vocations and may not change their Hobby Vocations.

Add a new rule to the ruleset, called Vocations:

Each Seeker may have, at any time, up to two Vocations, of which at most one may be a Job and any number of which may be Hobbies, and all of which are publicly tracked, defauling to having no Vocations. A Seeker may only set or change a Vocation when specifically permitted by the ruleset, and when any restrictions, should any exist, that apply to that change are met.

Vocations are associated with Resources, and may be either Strongly Correlated (noted as ++), Correlated (+), Neutral (no mark), or Negatively Correlated (-).

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Vocation Type !! Vocation Name !! Wealth !! Fame !! Influence!! Savvy
|-
| Job || Academic || + || || - || ++
|-
| Job || Artist || - || ++ || || +
|-
| Job || Politician || + || || ++ || -
|-
| Job || Investor || ++ || - || + ||
|-
| Hobby || Debate || || || + ||
|-
| Hobby || Amateur Dramatics || || + || ||
|-
| Hobby || Collectables || + || || ||
|-
| Hobby || BlogNomic || || || || +
|-
| Hobby || Sport || + || + || || -
|-
| Hobby || Dating || - || || + || +
|-
| Hobby || Progamming || + || - || + ||
|-
| Hobby || Philosophy || || + || - || +
|}

Create a new dynastic rule, “Resources”:

Each Seeker has a Wealth, a publicly tracked non-negative integer.
Each Seeker has a Fame, a publicly tracked non-negative integer.
Each Seeker has an Influence, a publicly tracked non-negative integer.
Each Seeker has a Savvy, a publicly tracked non-negative integer.

Wealth, Fame, Influence, and Savvy are known collectively as Resources, and each of them is a Resource. There are no other Resources.

For each Resource, the default value of that Resource for new Seekers is the median value of that Resource among the other Seekers.

Create a new dynastic rule, “Targets”:

The Tension is a publicly tracked positive integer, defaulting to 2. As a daily Communal Action, any Seeker or the Custodian can increase the Tension by 2.

For each Resource, there is a Target for that Resource, a publicly tracked positive integer defaulting to 500. (Targets are common to all Seekers, rather than specific to individual Seekers, but separate for each Resource.)

A Seeker can choose any Resource, and subtract any number between 1 and the Tension from the Target for that Resource, as long as both of the following conditions are true:
* That Seeker has not changed any Targets in the previous 72 hours;
* The change in Targets does not cause two or more Seekers to achieve victory simultaneously.

A particular Seeker achieves victory if all four of the following are simultaneously true for that Seeker:
* That Seeker has as least as much Wealth as the Target for Wealth;
* that Seeker has as least as much Fame as the Target for Fame;
* that Seeker has as least as much Influence as the Target for Influence; and
* that Seeker has as least as much Savvy as the Target for Savvy.

Set each Seeker’s value for each Resource to 0.

Plenty of people have sought the meaning of life. One way to look at the problem is – if life were a leaderboard, then who would be on top? It’s hard to compare success. Some people want to become rich, others to become famous, others to become knowledgeable, some to make their mark on the world.

But if you want to keep score, you need a way to pick a single winner. If you have a group of people, they will naturally all claim that it’s their own achievements that are most important. And to be acknowledged as the best? Just make sure you move the goalposts in the right direction.

Of course, everyone else will be trying to move them too.

Change Meeple to Seeker and Monarchple to Custodian. Do not keep any dynastic rules. Retain the Building Blocks “Precondition Unidling” and “Edit Window”, but remove “Reinitialisation”. Change the gamestate tracking page to “Life Goal Progress”.

A post-dynastic chat thread.

As the author of an enacted Kingmaker post (with that post having been upheld as legal by CFJ), I have achieved victory.

In the subrule “Names” of the Appendix rule “Clarifications”, add a new list item after the first list item:

Within the Ruleset, a word or phrase cannot refer to the name of a gamestate entity unless the Rules explicitly define what name that gamestate entity has.

If “Is the Oxford Comma Dead?” was enacted, the rest of this CfJ has no effect.

Uphold the Story Post - Votable Matter “Kingmaker: Conditionally flavour text?” as a valid Kingmaker per the rule “Winning”.

Set ais523’s Team to empty.

In the rule “Teams” replace ” As a Weekly Action, a Meeple can set their Team to any string of between 3 and 20 alphanumeric characters, where this string is considered flavor text, as long as all of the following criteria are true” with the following:

A Meeple’s Team is considered flavor text. As a Weekly Action, a Meeple can set their Team to any string of between 3 and 20 alphanumeric characters as long as all of the following criteria are true

The newly enacted “Teams” rule says “As a Weekly Action, a Meeple can set their Team to any string of between 3 and 20 alphanumeric characters, where this string is considered flavor text, as long as all of the following criteria are true:”.

I attempted to set my Team to “Winning”. Because the following criteria are not all true, the team name is not considered flavor text (because the string contains the word “Winning”, which is one of the criteria for the name to not be flavor text).

I am unsure whether the team name not being flavor text implies that I am in fact on the Winning Team. If so, this Kingmaker post is legal. If not, it isn’t. I think it would make sense to use this post to discuss whether the post is legal or not.

Add a new rule named “Teams” as the first rule under “Dynastic Rules” and give it the following text:

Each Meeple has a publicly tracked Team which is empty by default. If a set of Meeples each have the same non-empty Team, where this comparison is case insensitive, those Meeples are said to be on that Team and are considered to be on the same Team. A Meeple with an empty Team is never considered to be on a Team.

When a Meeple sets their Team, they are said to Join that Team. As a Weekly Action, a Meeple can set their Team to any string of between 3 and 20 alphanumeric characters, where this string is considered flavor text, as long as all of the following criteria are true:
* That string does not contain the word “Winning” or the name of any Meeple.
* Setting that Meeple’s Team to that string would not result in more than 3 Meeples being on the same Team.
* That Meeple was not already on a Team with any other Meeple.

When a rule mentions the word “Team”, it applies to all Meeples on that Team. Any action that a Team can take or perform can be performed by any Meeple on that Team, and when a Meeple performs such an action, they are performing it on behalf of that Team. A rule that mentions the word “you” or “your” applies to the Team (and all of the Meeples on that Team) on whose behalf the action is being performed or the rule is being applied.

In the rule “Teams”, add a subrule named “Placeholder Variables” with the following text:

The variables defined in this rule cannot be affected by any dynastic rule other than this rule and cannot affect any action taken if that action is defined any dynastic rule other than this one.

Each Meeple has three Tokens: a Small Token, a Medium Token and a Big Token. Each Meeple’s Token has a publicly tracked Position, which is a number that defaults to 1.

Each Meeple has a publicly tracked numeric amount of Energy, which defaults to three times the Rounds.

Each Meeple has a publicly tracked Dice Type, which can be any type of Sicherman Dice, defaulting to Blue and White Dice.

Each Meeple’s Token has number of Kittens publicly tracked in The Island of Kittens that defaults to 1.

Merging is an atomic action performed by a Meeple who is on a Team and has the following steps:
* Optionally replace one or more of the values of that Team’s publicly tracked variables with the same-named values of that Meeple’s publicly tracked variables.
* Optionally replace one or more of that Team’s Token’s values by that Meeple’s Token’s values, as long as the type of Token whose variables are being replaced are also the same between that Meeple and that Team.
* Reset that Meeple’s publicly tracked variables and that Meeple’s Token’s publicly tracked variables to their default values.

Any Meeple on a Team may post a Story Post - Votable Matter whose title starts with “Merge Matter” and is known as a Merge Matter. This is a votable matter on which only votes from Meeples on the same Team as its author are counted. If a Merge Matter has FOR votes from every Meeple on the same team as its Author, it can be enacted by any Admin; if it has an AGAINST vote from any of those Meeples, it can be failed by any Admin. The author of an enacted Merge Matter may perform Merging if that author has not performed a Merging before in this dynasty.

In every dynastic rule except the rule “Teams” and the rule “Placeholder Variables”, replace the text “Meeples” with “Teams” and the text “Meeple” with “Team”.

In the rule “Winning”, replace “A Team has achieved victory” with “A Team is considered to be the Winning Team”.

In the same rule, add the following text:

When a Team becomes the Winning Team, no Meeple may take any dynastic actions except for actions mentioned in this rule.

Any Meeple on the Winning Team may post a Story Post - Votable Matter whose title starts with “Kingmaker” and is known as a Kingmaker. This is a votable matter on which only votes from Meeples on the same Team as its author are counted. If a Kingmaker has FOR votes from every Meeple on the same team as its Author, it can be enacted by any Admin; if it has an AGAINST vote from any of those Meeples, it can be failed by any Admin. The author of an enacted Kingmaker has achieved victory.

Meeples on the Winning Team are strongly encouraged to play a game amongst themselves on Board Game Arena, posting the link to that game as a non-official blog post, and select the winner of that game as the Meeple who should make the Kingmaker post.

Copy the rule “Declared Alliances” and its contents from the Building Blocks wiki page to a rule with the same name in the Building Blocks section.

In the rule “Isles of BoardGamia”, add a subrule named “Alliances” with the following text:

A set of Meeples who are each named in the other’s Alliance are considered to be in a Verified Alliance.

A Meeple in a Verified Alliance with the Current Meeple may perform actions described in the rule “The Turn” on behalf of the Meeple who is the Current Meeple; whenever they do so, those actions are performed as if the Meeple who is the Current Meeple is performing them.

In the rule “Island Local Rules”, in the second paragraph, at the end of the third sentence, add the following text:

; the exception to this is when a paragraph in a Local Rule starts with ‘’‘Treaty:’‘’, in which case the rest of the text in that paragraph is not flavor text and applies to all Tokens and all non-idle Meeples.

In the rule “Forbidden Island Local Rules”, replace the text “Whenever a square’s color is changed from White to either Turquoise, Magenta, or Purple, add the name of that color to the end of the Path.” with the following text:

‘’‘Treaty:’‘’ Whenever the color of a square in Forbidden Island is changed from White to either Turquoise, Magenta, or Purple, the name of that color must be added to the end of the Path.

In the rule “Hellapagos Local Rules”, before the text “The color of the squares with values”, add the text:

‘’‘Treaty:’‘’

Josh brought up a good point that this dynasty is a bit slow and dull. I’ve been already thinking about ideas to make it more interesting and kick up the pace.

One thought is around free form turns. The problem is that we have first mover advantages with several of the mechanics having token on token action, and square coloring could be considered an advantage to get in first as well. Might have to re-envision some of those.

Another thought is around teams, so that turns don’t take as long if anyone on the team can take them. The idea is to merge tokens so that the team owns the small, medium, and big token. A team victory would require the team to choose the Meeple among them to achieve victory, or there could be a Board Game Arena playoff between team members.

These are very basic thoughts with little meat behind them. What’s on everyone else’s minds about this?

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