Thursday, November 25, 2010

Proposal: A kink in the works.

Self-killed. Josh

Adminned at 26 Nov 2010 06:49:29 UTC

Change the last sentence of “2.6.3 Lord Marvolo” from:

Students who are Alive may not Study in such Lessons, and Students who are Zombies may not Disrupt them.

to:

Students who are Alive may Study in such Lessons, but they understand very little of the Zombie/Ghost language, and are only able to increment their current Grade in [UNE] by a maximum of one, for that Lesson. Students who are Zombies may Disrupt these Lessons.

In the rule 2.5.2 Disasters, change the disaster consequence in UNE from:

If a Disaster occurs in an Unbridled Evil Lesson, the pupils cheer. Any Alive Student who has taken a Class Action in the Lesson becomes a Zombie

to:

If a Disaster occurs in an Unbridled Evil Lesson, the pupils cheer. Any Alive Student who has taken a Class Action in the Lesson becomes a Zombie. Any Zombie or Ghost student who as taken a Class Action in the Lesson does not benefit the Grade increment from the Lesson.

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I noticed that the original rules seemed to contradict each other, were Alive students weren’t allowed to study in this UNE, but the disaster rule turns the alive students that have studied in the lesson into zombies.. I’m not certain as to how “gamebreaking” this might be, but I thought I’d give a go at actually playing this game. :)

Comments

Greytyphoon:

25-11-2010 03:14:12 UTC

Meh…
-The disadvantages of “only able to increment their current Grade in [UNE] by a maximum of one” don’t change a thing except for Advanced Lessons. Still, nice idea.
-“Students who are Zombies may Disrupt these Lessons.” Since what prevented them to disrupt has been removed by your proposal, this is useless repetition. Still, not gamebreaking nor bad in any way.
-“the disaster rule turns the alive students that have studied in the lesson into zombies” Wrong, it turned all the Alive students that took a Class action (including Brown Nosing and Disrupting). Still, the change is neat, and I like it.

imperial for the wording tweaks it needs and because the Disaster is very very powerful. It’s an IMPERIAL that tends toward FOR, though. =)

Richard:

25-11-2010 04:38:46 UTC

Thanks for the CC. So now I suppose, if I wanted to, I could selfkill and reword the proposal properly?

Ofcourse, I’ll wait to see what others have to say, but I definitely have a good idea on what to do next.

Darknight: he/him

25-11-2010 05:39:11 UTC

imperial

Josh: Observer he/they

25-11-2010 07:21:26 UTC

against Keeping the UNE lessons to the undead seems much more balanced to me.

Purplebeard:

25-11-2010 08:32:07 UTC

against To be fair, the fact that the living have no accessible way of getting to A+ in UNE right now seems hardly balanced given the ‘A+ in everything’ win condition.

Still, Brendan could easily solve this problem by calling one or two Basic/Intermediate UNE lessons of his own, in which Alive Students can freely study. They can read/piss themselves up to A+ on their own from that point, or get zombified and do it the proper way.

Kevan: he/him

25-11-2010 10:51:16 UTC

against

[Purplebeard] Lavatory Studies allows an Alive Student to jump straight in with a C in Unbridled Evil, unless I’ve missed something.

Greytyphoon:

25-11-2010 12:54:44 UTC

[Purplebeard] Nothing stops you from casting Autodecapitatum. =)

Purplebeard:

25-11-2010 13:29:20 UTC

Kevan: of course, but it’ll still take a while to get to A+: two library actions and two lavatory visits can get you there within a week, but then 2 of those actions only work 2/3 of the time and might ghostify you otherwise, and the other 2 leave you open to zombification (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, of course). All I’m saying is, an open UNE lesson might even the odds a little.

Brendan: he/him

25-11-2010 17:34:05 UTC

against I don’t plan to hold any UNE lessons, but I’ve proposed a fix for the imbalance.

macgeorge:

25-11-2010 21:42:04 UTC

against

Roujo: he/him

26-11-2010 00:56:30 UTC

imperial

Richard:

26-11-2010 08:04:52 UTC

against SK. I’ll rework this a little more in the not so distant future. Thanks for the input!