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Rules question: how do Extra Spots work? I’m having trouble understanding the Extra Spots rule (to the extent that I don’t really understand what it’s meant to mean). How is the Extra Spots mechanic supposed to work, and does the current rule text actually capture that behaviour? ais523 04/12/25 1 04/12/25
An analysis of the PHP 7.0.33 random number generation bug According to Kevan, BlogNomic (and thus its dice roller) are currently running on PHP 7.0.33. This version of PHP contained a random number generation bug, which I’ll use this post to try to explain in case it informs voting on any of the relevant CFJs. (We were a bit unlucky… ais523 04/05/25 2 04/05/25
Reinitialising I am Reinitialising. ais523 04/05/25 0
A couple of technical questions about the software powering BlogNomic First: what version of PHP is being used to run the blog software at the moment? (In my DoV, Josh brought up the possibility that the dice roller might be returning unfair results. This prompted me to look into the matter, and apparently versions of PHP before 7.2 had a… ais523 04/04/25 4 04/05/25
Roll Off This is a Roll Off post. The Equity held by each Nomicer is: ais523: 33 Darknight: -3 (treated as 0 for Roll Off purposes) DoomedIdeas: 11 JonathanDark: 29 Kevan: 20 Raven1207: -3 (treated as 0 for Roll Off purposes) SingularByte: 22 Total (treating negative numbers as 0): 115 Here is… ais523 04/03/25 3 04/03/25
Story Post: Announcement of Attainment: A Lacuna My Equity is 24, at least three times greater than the Float of 8. ais523 04/01/25 9 04/01/25
What happened last night? So, it turns out that the clock on my computer was wrong. What I was attempting to do last night was – very early on Monday morning, mill Kevan at 00:00:01, then immediately after do a disc refresh (still early on Monday morning). However, my actions instead occurred late on… ais523 03/31/25 4 03/31/25
Pace of Play 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… ais523 03/20/25 4 03/21/25
Story Post: [Opportunity] Be on TV! An Opportunity has arisen. You could become the next star of TV! This Opportunity has a Fame Reward of 24. ais523 03/11/25 10 03/14/25
Ascension Address: Our Goal in Life 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… ais523 03/09/25 1 03/09/25
More issues with coloring under tokens Snisbo’s recent turn attempted to color squares 22 and 23 purple, even though they both had (multiple!) tokens on them at the time I can’t find a rule that makes that legal (the action looks like it was meant to be “(The Island of Kittens) Spend 1 Kitten from a… ais523 02/27/25 6 03/01/25
I paid out my bounty… …meaning that SingularByte gains a Triumph. Probably making posts for bounty payouts isn’t that interesting, but the rule recommends I do so, so I’m doing so. ais523 02/04/25 0
Spying doesn’t always pay Raven1207 was a Spy, and gained Triumphs. I have therefore reduced his triumphs by twice the amount gained (reducing by 2 due to the gain of +1). ais523 02/03/25 0
I credit that I have scored So it turns out that “credit” is a synonym for “believe” (and “credits” is thus a synonym for “believes”); the Wiktionary page even gives an example in which “credit that” is used exactly like “believe that”. Using a Focus point and Brains action, I made just that change in “Bounties… ais523 01/31/25 5 01/31/25
Automatic win The word “automatic” was already in the ruleset (rule “Victory and Ascension”) when it was selected as my Target and Brendan’s. As such, I scored immediately, and Brendan and I gained 1 Triumph each. ais523 01/27/25 6 01/27/25
Praying scored We scored – “praying” is in the ruleset (“having” → “paving” → “paying” → “praying”). Triumphs changed like this. ais523 01/27/25 7 01/27/25
On the version of reversion When enacting “Clarity on What the End of a Sentence is Per the Rules”, Josh reverted the ruleset to a different revision than the one specified in the CFJ, on the basis that the version specified in the CFJ was never legally created. Although I agree that the version the… ais523 01/27/25 13 01/27/25
Too much pressure Although I’m mostly feeling fine keeping up with the dynastic gameplay this dynasty (you can scheme at your leisure and, at least in smaller teams, agree on an appropriate time of day to go for it), I’ve really been struggling to keep up with the core gameplay. Under the current… ais523 01/24/25 9 01/25/25
Ascension Address: The Perfect Heist What do you steal when you’ve already stolen everything you need? A series of unexplained, and often spectactular, thefts had ignited the press and captured the conversations of the public. The culprit – or culprits – had clearly already made enough profit to retire, pay the rest of their team,… ais523 01/15/25 4 01/15/25
Snails past the finish line This is intended as a post-dynastic discussion thread; I generally find these really interesting to read, so here’s a place for all your thoughts on the dynasty that just finished. Any things that worked? Didn’t work? Any lessons to learn for next time? ais523 01/14/25 19 01/15/25
Bucket List 5 CyberStella never started nor finished, and is still in the Bucket. ais523 01/13/25 0
Award Ceremony, Race 5 ais523 and Josh finish first. All Racers are Runners due to the change in how Track Record works, so they get +4 Fame and a Gold Medal. JonathanDark and Habanero finish second. They get +3 Fame and a Silver Medal. CyberStella did not finish. No change. ais523 01/13/25 0
Noting a disagreement Something happened that probably needs more publicity than a couple of wiki history entries and a comment in the current Race, so I’m making a post to explain. JonathanDark attempted to Spot Danger (bringing the Danger Level to 4), then activate a Stomp Rocket for 96, presumably under an interpretation… ais523 01/05/25 6 01/06/25
Something that’s bothering me This dynasty has been full of incorrectly performed actions. We collectively (and I in particular) have been trying to fix the tracker as we notice them (the Glossary permits you to “alter the representation to match what [you] believe to be the correct application of an incorrectly-applied alteration. This may… ais523 01/05/25 8 01/05/25
Unidle request Could an Admin unidle me, please? ais523 12/29/24 3 12/29/24
Idle me Could an admin please idle me? I’m not sure I really have the time to dedicate to BlogNomic right now, especially given things like the speed of the queue and the size of the edit window. ais523 08/30/21 2 08/31/21
I can’t get the ruleset wiki to load For whatever reason, wiki.blognomic.com isn’t working for me (other BlogNomic subdomains, and other websites, work fine) – it times out when I try to load pages on it. As a consequence, I’m going to hold off on vetoing things / writing proposals until I can actually read the rules. ais523 08/25/21 1 08/26/21
Ascension Address: Legislature At Work With the decline of the Royal Court in the late 18th century, its legislative body, once the seat of power for an empire, no longer served any useful political function. However, organisations of this age and venerability don’t go down lightly. Lawmaking started out as politics, but it evolved into… ais523 08/21/21 4 08/22/21
To revert or uphold? Something which perennially seems to lead to arguments is what to do when there’s been a mistake (by which I mean, someone inadvertently doing something that wasn’t permitted/possible according to the rules). I think it would be worth having a discussion about the correct course of action in this respect,… ais523 08/07/21 7 08/08/21
So, it turns out that most of our Glyphs don’t exist “If a room contains a Sigil from a Vampire Lord then no Glyph may be created for that Vampire Lord, and vice-versa.” This seems pretty clear to me: if you have a Sigil, you can’t have a Glyph. Nothing about this rule says it has to be the same room.… ais523 07/26/21 2 07/26/21
An offer Anyone interested in the new trading mechanics? I’m looking to buy a Favour from Jumble or Chiiika or both, and would be willing to offer the inclusion of their names on my Glyph on the Cliff Edge in return. ais523 07/01/21 2 07/26/21
Unidling Could an admin please unidle me? ais523 06/10/21 1 06/10/21
Idle me As a consequence of the previous Wheel spin (which gave me a 50% chance to catch up with the leaders, thus was worth trying), I’m now too far behind to have much of a chance in this dynasty, and don’t find it much fun to play when I don’t have… ais523 06/01/20 8 06/02/20
For people who are still trying to get random words into the ruleset I decided to just roll 5DICE6 twice to see what happened (with no immediate ruleset impact). The first (“Amnesiac”) roll produced 24315 “dubbed”, which is possibly not that interesting (you could sort-of make it work, but probably not). The second (“Past Memory”) roll produced 64262 “unmade”, which is much more… ais523 05/27/20 4 05/27/20
Post-dynastic discussion So, given that the dynasty’s now over and there’s no point in keeping secrets any more: what Role did everyone have, anyway? Even though it ended in a rather unsatisfying way, we might still be able to piece together what the gamestate was, and that will be useful for historical… ais523 05/26/20 11 05/27/20
Story Post: It’s always in the last place you look I search my pockets. ais523 05/21/20 1 05/22/20
Now that unidling actually works Given how much attention I’ve been playing to BlogNomic recently, I may as well participate more directly. Unidle me. ais523 05/21/20 1 05/21/20
You all suck at cleanup I thought you should know that you majorly screwed up the ruleset a few dynasties ago, but nobody noticed at the time and the problem has mostly fixed itself by now. There’s still a bit of damage to the ruleset, though, so someone might want to submit a proposal to… ais523 05/19/20 13 05/20/20
Idle me This dynasty has too many daily actions (already!) that need to be performed every day in order to be in the best position to win it (because they can be traded for other people’s dailies). As such, attempting to win it would be really bad for my personal life (I… ais523 10/09/15 8 10/09/15
Story Post: Passing the Mantle I nominate Thrawn as the new Warden. ais523 10/07/15 0
Attack: Purplebeard With the Warden out of action, Thrawn and I are taking over. ais523 10/05/15 5 10/05/15
Attack: Aname Tantusar and I have been conspiring to kick people while they were down. ais523 10/04/15 4 10/05/15
Story Post: Attack: Aname Tantusar and I have been conspiring to kick people while they were down. ais523 10/04/15 4 10/04/15
Unidle me Given that the new-player-lockout proposal has gone up, I’d at least like a chance to participate even though I’m coming in late. Would an admin please unidle me? ais523 09/25/15 2 09/25/15
I’m idle right now, but something that probably needs fixing According to the ruleset, accepting a Test means that you must complete its Task by the Competition Deadline. As I understand normal BlogNomic terminology, doesn’t this mean that all Rats who accept the Test are deemed to complete its Task (perhaps with gamestate changes to match), even if they actually… ais523 07/27/15 0
Wiki account Could an admin create me a wiki account, please? Also, please idle me for now. I might or might not come back later in the dynasty. (I know this looks like a weird combination, but there’s a few dynastic histories that need fixing.) ais523 02/24/15 4 02/24/15
Error: You have surpassed the Private Message sending limit for a 24 hour period Can we get this limit increased? As it is, I’m being locked out of participating in the Dynasty by the software. (I’m going to send Kevan emails to substitute for PMs, for the time being.) ais523 02/20/15 10 02/21/15
I’m not enjoying this dynasty I was enjoying this dynasty earlier, but things are getting increasingly upsetting. My main problem is that it’s impossible to accomplish anything without the support of several other players, but I’m not getting that support even when it’s in those players’ best interests. For example, we haven’t had a trial… ais523 02/19/15 18 02/20/15
Discussion: A technical suggestion I’ve been thinking about two problems recently, which seem connected: Frequently, players will forget to categorise a post (most commonly leading to a Proposal that isn’t, and spamming up the blog if the mistake isn’t caught within 5 minutes). This just creates a little extra tedium all round. Sometimes, I… ais523 02/17/15 11 02/18/15
Life Support sabotage This mission just failed despite being a) Rostered; b) with a valid Command Team; c) with a Command Quorum. In other words, the mission was either Sabotaged or Tampered with by _Fox_, Sylphrena, or Brendan, even though there’d be no Clearance benefit either way from doing so. Thus, one of… ais523 02/17/15 10 02/18/15
Mysterious GNDT update Latest update: 12/02 12:15 (UTC) (Kevan) Bucky’s Emotions = Paranoid, Calm, Fatigued, Disabled [was Paranoid, Calm, Fatigued] (Bucky has become Disabled somehow.) Looking through the ruleset, I’m guessing this was a phaser shot? I can’t see any other reason in the ruleset that Kevan would have been able to do… ais523 02/12/15 5 02/12/15
Time to unidle I wonder if it’s been long enough that people have stopped trying to Disable me? Please could an admin unidle me, anyway? ais523 02/12/15 1 02/12/15
Ruleset history archive? I was looking through the old dynastic histories recently, and noticed that some were missing their Final Ruleset (which is normally theoretically possible to recover via reading proposals, but would be a pain). The wiki’s history only goes back to the server move. Does anyone (Kevan? 75th Trombone?) happen to… ais523 02/05/15 7 02/06/15
Idle me This is a blatant scam in order to prevent myself being Disabled via Trial, because it would make it quite hard to participate in the dynasty (there’s basically nothing I can actually do, besides vote and propose, which isn’t so interesting). Could an admin please idle me? (It’s not like… ais523 02/03/15 6 02/05/15
Unidle me I’m too busy to play right now, but might play later on in the dynasty. It looks like the way the rules are going at the moment, getting in now is necessary to not upset things if I unidle later. So could an admin unidle me now please? I’ll likely… ais523 01/23/15 2 01/23/15
Oh right, I’m idle Could someone unidle me, please? ais523 06/17/12 1 06/17/12
I idle I idle. Because I’m not Keba. ais523 06/16/12 1 06/16/12
Story Post: Unblocking a Chakra: Dynasty 100 If I were enlightened, I would be able to achieve victory this dynasty (rule 2.2.4). And I currently occupy this dynasty. This is the condition required to unblock a dynasty, and nothing in the rules prevents the unblocking of dynasty 100 itself. (I’ll leave the unlocking of the chakra until… ais523 06/11/12 3 06/13/12
May as well Someone unidle me, please? ais523 06/11/12 1 06/11/12
A huge mess Just found a pretty serious bug that I think you should all know about so that you can fix. (I’m idle so can’t make a CFJ about it.) Rule 2.2.8 says “Any non-Ruleset document on the Blognomic wiki that would qualify as gamestate under the final Ruleset of a dynasty… ais523 06/10/12 3 06/11/12
The Black Market Given that communication is quite important this dynasty, I thought I’d make this thread for people to coordinate possible Assisted Actions, if they feel like publicly doing it on the blog. Enjoy! ais523 01/14/12 2 01/23/12
Ascension Address: Let’s get this started An anonymous note turns up just inside your secret hideout… Too long have you all worked as a disorganised rabble, stealing for your own benefit and competing over scraps of unimportant drug deals. I am sending this note to each one of you, to let you know: I know about… ais523 01/09/12 0
We apologise for the delay, and any inconvenience caused I’d just like to say that I’m sorry for not starting the next dynasty yet. I’m a little exhausted, having a few problems with my RL sleep patterns, and I’ve tried a couple of times to write the start of the dynasty and not really managed it. I may be… ais523 01/06/12 9 01/07/12
Just a note… It seems I screwed up my attempts to Drive yesterday, accidentally entering the wrong set of routes in the GNDT. I’m assuming nothing since was legal (even my Assignment Request, because it was based on the wrong number of routes), as they each updated the GNDT to an impossible state,… ais523 12/19/11 0
A rant about daily actions and timing scams From the GNDT timestamps:  09/11 17:55 (UTC) - ais523 10/11 00:02 (UTC) - ais523 The timing is obviously not a coincidence. I want to talk about daily actions, and in particular, the 6 hour limit on consecutive uses of the same daily action. First off, the 6 hour limit does… ais523 11/10/11 21 11/11/11
ADMIN REMINDER: Announcing arrival For everyone trying to count votes: note that an admin cannot register a human as an Artist unless they make a post announcing their arrival. If their arrival was announced in some other way, such as making a vote, it thus means that it was not their post announcing their… ais523 10/21/11 17 10/22/11
My Sparrowscript/Alethioscript/whatever it’s called nowadays has stopped working Is it working for other people, or down for everyone? Playing BlogNomic is quite hard without it; I remember I almost gave up on BlogNomic before it was invented because it was so hard to track everything going on, but the script + an RSS feed reader has served me… ais523 10/11/11 5 10/11/11
Not Quite Square The Same Colour As The Background ais523 10/08/11 6 10/09/11
The best sort of unidling post is a minimalist one ais523 09/30/11 5 09/30/11
Hey, what’s up with the GNDT? The GNDT lists no players and shows no history. What’s happened to its history? ais523 09/30/11 1 09/30/11
Getting out before I’m cut to pieces Could an admin idle me, please? ais523 07/08/11 1 07/08/11
I was trying to stay in the running for this dynasty, but the grind has got too bad Could an admin please idle me? ais523 06/18/11 1 06/18/11
Hey, everyone CoV on the DoV Just a heads-up to everyone: Yoda doesn’t have economic dominance after all, he’s only Chairman of the Board of 6 corporations. (His meeting to become Chairman of BNS has not yet been approved.) So go and vote AGAINST on the DoV before it passes due to apathy! ais523 05/16/11 8 05/16/11
Cayman Island Holding Corp. - Shareholder Meeting: Declaration of a Dividend Dividend Amount: 100000 Record Date Information: ais523: 51Roujo: 49 ais523 05/14/11 0
Startup: Cayman Island Holding Corp. (CIH) A Venture to create a new Startup, Cayman Island Holding Corp. ais523 05/13/11 2 05/13/11
Story Post: A conspiracy approaches The Conspirators have been informed. If you haven’t been told by me that you’re a Conspirator, you definitely aren’t. ais523 04/12/11 6 04/14/11
Ascension Address: A tour of the Bureaucratic Meadow Welcome, Mister Wolfson! I am the Tourism Facilitation Supervisor, and it looks like it’s my job to show you around the Bureaucratic Meadow. I hope you like your stay. Feel free to take a look around. Our biggest attraction is our amazing political system. You wouldn’t imagine that sheep could… ais523 04/11/11 0
Adding a lock I lock Boston Manor. ais523 04/05/11 1 04/05/11
The trains finally started running again Please could an admin unidle me? (On another note, there’s something very wrong for me with the textboxes in the make-a-new-post page. They use my default background color - dark gray - and a custom foreground color - dark gray. Really, they should set both the foreground and the background,… ais523 03/29/11 0
Mysterious antics Could someone please unidle me? (I’m not going to stick around long, likely; just planning to perform a couple of actions then idle again.) ais523 02/07/11 3 02/07/11
Idle talk costs lives Could someone idle me, please? ais523 10/02/10 1 10/02/10
[Competition] OK, if I can’t trust you to keep answers secret, I’ll set the questions (Not a proto.) The Riddler will post three puzzles as comments to this post; one soon after this competition is posted, and the other two on separate occasions in the future. In order to encourage Befuddled to join sooner rather than later if they join at all, when a Befuddled… ais523 09/24/10 6 09/27/10
[Proto-Competition] Nomic Invasion Wooble wrote, in Agora:  If I haven’t voted yet, I vote AGAINST each proposal from 6834-6841; without a recent referee’s report I can’t be bothered to figure out who’s on my team, and I’m not voting FOR an interested proposal by a non-team-member as a protest against our Honored Speaker… ais523 09/21/10 13 09/24/10
Story Post: [Competition] Competition Competition Whenever a Befuddled other than the Riddler creates a competition, and the proposal which allowed him to create the competition contained the exact text of that competition, that Befuddled gains a Medal. ais523 09/12/10 7 09/19/10
[Proto-Competition] Puzzle solving! [Putting this out there to see any obvious issues, etc, before posting it. We probably need a rule to prevent people revealing answers to each other first, although it would be hard to enforce; how trustworthy are Blognomickers in general?] A Puzzle Submission is a puzzle labelled as a Puzzle… ais523 09/09/10 8 09/12/10
Story Post: [Competition] Fixed proposal count Comments to this post in the form “Guess: [6-12 September 2010] 5 proposals” are considered to be Guesses; each specifies a week and a number of proposals. Guesses are ignored if they duplicate a previous non-ignored guess, if they are made later than the end of Wednesday on the week… ais523 09/09/10 3 09/09/10
[Proto-Competition] Proposal count (Not a competition, because that rule hasn’t passed yet, and to give feedback for possible improvements. This is an example to show the sort of thing I mean. Come up with your own ideas, and propose to make them into real Competitions!) Comments to this post in the form “Guess:… ais523 09/06/10 8 09/08/10
Ascension Address: Ascension Address: Your flight has been diverted Scene: a Cessna 150 flying from Funafuti International Airport to Gotham City. Fourteen passengers are somehow crowded into the back of the plane, which has been customised with many bizarre additions over the years to provide extra space. A small television is sitting in the middle of the floor; a… ais523 09/06/10 3 09/09/10
[Corporation] Rocky Express We make strange rocky objects, then ship them elsewhere. Only ais523 and Darth Cliche can join. ais523 09/04/10 2 09/04/10
[Corporation] Rainbow Express We have a beautiful multicolored logo. Our other purposes are mysterious. Only Darth Cliche and ais523 can join. ais523 09/04/10 2 09/04/10
Getting quiet enough to rejoin Could someone unidle me, please? ais523 08/29/10 1 08/29/10
Paradox So, suppose there’s a Citizen with higher Clearance than the rule “Information Clearance”. Unfortunately, the rule forgets to exclude itself; thus, for the purposes of rule 2.1.1.1, a Citzen with higher Clearance than rule 2.1.1.1 is not a Citizen, according to rule 2.1.1.1; except that this cancels the effect of… ais523 08/12/10 3 08/13/10
Story Post: Because flurie figured out what my scam was I accuse ais523 of being in The Secret Police. I accuse ais523 of being in The Secret Police. I accuse ais523 of being in The Secret Police. I accuse ais523 of being in The Secret Police. I accuse ais523 of being in The Secret Police. I accuse ais523 of being… ais523 08/05/10 9 08/06/10
Spam vs. good play I have a scam that allows me (alone) to get up to ULTRAVIOLET clearance, but it’s very spammy (it’ll require me to make six story posts). Should I do it anyway? Or shall I just demonstrate one round of the scam and become ULTRAVIOLET by CFJ, or something? Or something… ais523 08/05/10 4 08/05/10
Historical loose ends I’ve been looking through recent dynastic histories to see if there was anything missing (like the Theme of arthexis’ dynasty…) I assume that given that it’s well over a year ago now, there’s no harm in revealing this now, so: could anyone who played through the Fourth Metadynasty reveal what… ais523 07/27/10 7 07/28/10
Which reminds me… If keywords have been replaced by an Ascension Address between this proposal’s proposal and its enactment, make the same keyword replacements on this proposal before enacting it. In rule 1.2 “@s”, immediately after Some @s are Admins, responsible for updating the site and the Ruleset, and are signified as such… ais523 07/26/10 0
Making mistakes… I’ve just noticed that last time (and possibly earlier times) I Found the Stairs, I didn’t then Find Treasure, a compulsory action. (What a complex ruleset we have…) Should I do so now? Or just leave it? Or something else? ais523 07/25/10 5 07/26/10
You get idlers on NAO too… Could someone unidle me, please? ais523 06/02/10 6 06/03/10
Lack of time Could someone idle me, please? ais523 05/21/10 0
Story Post: Leader’s Debate: New Players The current leaders are Ienpw III, Kevan, and Josh (purely because I voted to break the tie for third; I’ll unvote after making this post). Leading candidates are invited to comment on how their dynasty would treat new players. Would it be a grind, where new players have pretty much… ais523 05/04/10 11 05/05/10