BlogNomic: The Ninth Dynasty of ais523

You posted this in the wrong category, I think – it looks like a proposal, and we don’t have any types of Story Post defined.

If it is meant to be a proposal, you can move it into the correct category using “if a post is less than six hours old and appears to the Monarchple to have been intended as a Proposal, and if its author does not already have two Proposals pending, then the Monarchple may move it into the Proposal category” from Official Posts.

On a separate note, I think you’re allowed to make that sort of Story Post even without ruleset encouragement, although I’m not opposed to a rule formalising it. You might not want to limit it to weekly, in case you want to give suggestions more often.

Ah, I see it’s a Proposal now.

I mean fair. I just thought since it would help to at least give a reason to inform non-Discord crew what is going on.

I do think it helps – and surprisingly, it’s an idea that I don’t remember having been tried before. It’s something you could do even without rules support, but adding it to the rules makes it more officially a major part of the dynasty, which might be a good reason to do that.

Anyways, as for the networks thing, I just thought it would be something to have it where the islands can be connected and that later on, could have a “toll booth tax” for some to leave an island to come to another.

@Raven1207: do you intend for “Constructive Criticism” to be a true Building Block, in that it could be used for future dynasties? If so, you should add an instruction to copy it to the wiki page of the same name. Something like this below:

Copy the subrule “Constructive Criticism” and its contents from the “Building Blocks” rule to the Building Blocks wiki page as a rule of the same name.

updated

Going idle as I’m not wanting to play a dice rolling board game at this point in time. Player count is 10, quorum is 6.

on SB’s concern, and also on the new Building Block; I believe very strongly that the Emperor is not an especially privilged position, past the AA and the initial proposals, and forcefully oppose measures to give the role more heft - the Emperor should not have the power to formally direct the game. That power is reserved solely for the players.

I think it’s OK for the role of the Emperor to change from dynasty to dynasty, just like the rest of the game does. I think “the Emperor suggests game directions and the players try to implement them” is interesting space to experiment in, and may help to make this dynasty different from others.

It’s worth noting that BlogNomic has had deferential votes for ages, rather than the more usual abstain votes – I think one of the primary reasons for that is to give the Emperor power to shape the dynasty in cases where many of the players are noncommittal.

Don’t we already have a functional Building Block for “Emperor guides future proposals”, in the form of Bounties?

If there’s additional context here of “Emperor has ideas but is not confident about writing proposals”, that sounds more like a rare but Designer/Provocateur-adjacent Imperial Style.

I think bounties are slightly materially different, in that they slot into a dynamic resource reward framework so have to be consistent with dynastic play in order to function - i.e. they’re a mechanic.

This feels a lot like the lord reclining on their throne directing the peons, which is not what I come to a nomic for.

Payouts don’t seem that fundamental to it, the Emperor can make the same basic suggestions under either system. The bigger difference may be Bounties being “a single mechanical or ruleset change” where Criticism is encouraged to be “a list”, which I’d agree feels too reclining-lord, and is more likely to discourage people from having big ideas in other directions, in case they’re voted down by the Emperor for not being one of the things that they asked for.

I guess it might be a good time to be a scheming vizier.

As I find separate islands more interesting.

If this had had only the building block part I would have probably deferred to the emperor (i.e. essentially voted for)

@Desert if Island are separate then 400 Marks the Spot has a harder way of being accomplished

CoV per Josh/Kevan

For what it’s worth, I a) agree with Josh and Kevan about the likely effects of the building block, but b) think it might be a playstyle that’s at least worth experimenting with for one dynasty.

CoV

CoV

There’s enough bad feelings about this that I think I have to CoV as well. I’d hate for half the players to idle just for this one thing even if the experiment sounds interesting. Experiments don’t work well when the data set is too small.