BlogNomic: Baby It’s Cold Outside

Wednesday, February 08, 2023

Proposal: Baby It’s Cold Outside

Reached quorum 10 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 09 Feb 2023 16:29:21 UTC

Create a new dynastic rule, titled “Location”:

There exist a number of Locations, which are subrules of this rule. Every Villager has a publicly tracked Location, defaulting to “Outside”. If two Locations are described as Adjacent with a given cost, then a Villager at one Location in the pair may spend the Adjacency’s cost in Time, then set their Location to the other Location in the pair.

Create a new subrule of “Location”, titled “Outside”:

When a Villager’s Location is Outside, they lose 1 Heat for each unit of their Time that is spent.

Making a framework to move around and stuff. I leave it to others to propose more complicated Locations; for now everyone is nice and frosty Outside.

Comments

Brendan: he/him

08-02-2023 18:33:10 UTC

Probably no need to make movement an atomic action, especially without a bulleted list of steps; “A Villager at one Location in the pair may spend the cost of the pair’s adjacency to change their Location from one of the pair to the other” would suffice, I think.

JonathanDark: he/him

08-02-2023 18:43:15 UTC

For being Outside, I think you want each Villager to lose 1 Heat for every unit of Time spent regardless of who does it.

The distinction is necessary because according to your other Proposal, any Villager or the Blizzard can increment all Villager’s Time by 1, so the question becomes whether or not that action should cause each Villager to lose 1 Heat. If so, then I recommend the change below: