Thursday, August 17, 2023

Proposal: Another Heart Has Made The Trade

Reached quorum 3 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 18 Aug 2023 08:40:19 UTC

Rewrite the rule Commons to read as follows:

Each District has a Calendar, which is a publicly tracked number. When a District is required to apply its Fallow Value, that is defined as the difference between their own Calendar and the number of the Dilemma to which they are Reacting.

There exist a number of Commons, each of which has a name and a Connection Effect, all of which are detailed in this rule. At any time a District may spend x*4 from their Energy Trap to establish a new Connection to a Commons, where x is their number of pre-existing Connections; the Commons to which each District is connected are publicly tracked. Once established, such a connection may not be broken.

The available Commons are:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Name !! Connection Effect
|-
| The Grazing Lands || Gain their Fallow Value / 5 Food
|-
| The Deserted Barracks || Gain their Fallow Value / 10 Defences
|-
| Shrine to Iclaseer || Apply a random Upside other than Governing
|-
| Shrine to Oseele || Apply a random Downside
|-
| The Silicon Lake || Choose to increase or decrease the Solar Field by 1
|-
| Gnostic Mainframe || Gain their Fallow Value / 10 Ingenuity
|}

Gathering is an atomic action with the following steps:

* Apply the Connection Effects of each Connection individually, in the order that they are listed in that District’s Commons field, with repeated Connections duplicating but not compounding their effects. Round all values to the nearest whole number.
* Increase the value of the Solar Field by 1
* Randomly select one Consequence (other than Governing) and apply it
* Set their Calendar to the number of the Dilemma to which they are Reacting.

Mostly just a rewrite to make the interactiosn clearer and more orderly

Comments

lemon: she/her

17-08-2023 08:47:57 UTC

i think “gain” is unclear when paired with certain outcomes, particularly downsides — how do i “gain Govern” or “gain Lose 1 Defences”? also, while you’re at it, could you remove the now-ineffectual “population criteria” clause?

also, “Gnostic Mainframe” is cool as hell!! at the start of the dynasty i would’ve thought it off-theme and asked for a library of some sort instead, but now that we have silicon lakes and battery gardens as remnants of the past, this fits in well enough :0

lendunistus: he/him

17-08-2023 08:54:10 UTC

you should probably specify rounding

lemon: she/her

17-08-2023 08:55:09 UTC

oh, i mean, u couldn’t “gain Govern” anyway, silly me! but still — maybe “Suffer a random Downside” instead of “Gain”?

lendunistus: he/him

17-08-2023 08:55:25 UTC

also, the reference to “population criteria” should be removed

Josh: he/they

17-08-2023 08:59:22 UTC

@lemon I’ve gone with Apply, that okay?

Rounding is specified in the first bullet of the Gathering action.

lemon: she/her

17-08-2023 09:34:46 UTC

yeah, looks good to me :-0

Kevan: City he/him

17-08-2023 12:02:20 UTC

imperial

lemon: she/her

17-08-2023 12:58:43 UTC

for

JonathanDark: he/him

17-08-2023 13:04:24 UTC

for