Tuesday, April 01, 2025

Proposal: A moodier proposal queue

Withdrawn. Failed by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 01 Apr 2025 23:41:49 UTC

Create a new dynastic rule, “The Tally”:

The Enactment Tally and Failure Tally are each publicly tracked numbers defaulting to 0.

Whenever a proposal is enacted, the Enactment Tally is increased by 1. Whenever a legal proposal is failed, the Failure Tally is increased by 1, unless the proposal was withdrawn using an arrow AGAINST icon.

The Nomicer Count is a number equal to the number of Nomicers (not including the Imperator), which is continuously calculated (rather than being publicly tracked).
Whenever the Enactment Tally is equal to or greater than the Nomicer Count, any Nomicer can reduce the Enactment Tally by the Nomicer Count and increase every Nomicer’s Equity by 1.
Whenever the Failure Tally is equal to or greater than the Nomicer Count, any Nomicer can reduce the Failure Tally by the Nomicer Count and reduce every Nomicer’s Equity by 1.

Reorder the ruleset by moving “Wording Fixes” to a location immediately after “The Tally”.

Another idea for global variables – it’s designed as a self-contained mechanic but I’m hoping that other things will start hooking into it, eventually. This also moves Wording Fixes to the end of the dynastic ruleset, because it feels like it belongs there (perhaps the normal Edit Window rule normally goes there), but it doesn’t feel like it’s worth using an entire proposal to move it.

Comments

SingularByte: he/him

01-04-2025 13:35:04 UTC

I’m honestly not super keen on this one. Given how the rules are set up, you want to push as many rivals to 0 as possible rather than raising everyone’s score up, but that’s only possible by having far more proposals fail than succeed.

It creates an incentive to literally make failing proposals at every opportunity, and that doens’t feel like a good time to me.
against

Kevan: he/him

01-04-2025 14:35:55 UTC

against

JonathanDark: he/him

01-04-2025 15:04:35 UTC

I thought about something similar to this, but decided against it due to the issues brought up already.

against

ais523:

01-04-2025 22:54:57 UTC

against (withdrawn) I agree with the comments above.