Proposal: Act II: Bruté
Reached quorum 8 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 19 May 2020 12:12:34 UTC
Enact a new rule, “Acts”:-
The story of the town takes place through several Acts, the number of the current Act being tracked in the next sentence. The current Act is Act 1.
If they have not done so in the past four days, and if they have no outstanding dynastic “should” actions to perform, and they have not performed any such “should” actions in the past 24 hours, the Past Memory may increase the Act number by one, and post a blog entry announcing that this has happened.
If an action is defined as happening “once per Act”, each Amnesiac able to perform it may take that action only once during each Act.
Replace “As a weekly action” with “Once per Act”, throughout the dynastic ruleset.
Looks like some timing problems are emerging in having a lot of “as a weekly action, do X; the Emperor then responds at leisure”: as with any weekly actions there’s a big incentive to relax and perform them all towards the end of the week when more information is available, but doing so can push all the Emperor’s reactions into Monday, at which point they’re happening (for Reputation and Reminiscence) in the wrong week.
It might help to replace “calendar weeks” with “periods which end when the Emperor has no more responses to make” - with an extra 24 hour window to allow responses to information gleaned.
Kevan: he/him
May even be worth considering this as a core replacement for weekly actions, in some form, given how often players forget and novices don’t realise that weekly actions mean (with an average dynasty length of one month) “maybe three times per dynasty”. Midnight Sunday is in many ways the worst possible deadline for a set of actions.