Wednesday, August 02, 2023

Proposal: Background Resources

Vetoed upon Ascension. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 04 Aug 2023 09:37:00 UTC

Add the following sentence to the end of the first paragraph of the rule “Resource Triangle”:

New Machinists start with a number of Resources equal to the number of instances of Passing Time that have occurred this dynasty, divided evenly between Coal, Housing, and Valves with the remainder going to their Megasystem’s Resource.

Award 2 Coal, 2 Housing and 2 Valves to any Machinists who had never possessed any Coal, Housing or Valves between the start of the dynasty and when this proposal was posted.

posted by Bucky at 02 Aug 2023 15:40:00 UTC Comments (7)

Comments

Kevan: he/him

02-08-2023 16:14:28 UTC

New players can randomly win out of the gate already if they get dealt Agendas which happen to overlap with the current gamestate positions that we’ve spent time and resources setting up. I don’t think they need this additional help.

Bucky:

02-08-2023 16:51:36 UTC

And the old players had the same chance to randomly win, except with time and resources to set things up too. We can’t do anything about the time, but we can at least fill in the resources.

This proposal should additionally compensate for the components not gained from Time’s Passage, but didn’t have the character count to do that properly.

Kevan: he/him

02-08-2023 19:01:12 UTC

I know you and I have different thoughts on whether a player should be able to join in the final act of a dynasty and stand a good chance of winning it solo through conventional play.

I think the secret and undoubtedly overlapping Agendas of this dynasty make that too murky, though. That as a voter I’ve got no idea what the odds actually are of a new player being able to win within a day of joining, even without six free resources, and don’t really want to test our luck on it.

Kevan: he/him

02-08-2023 21:18:27 UTC

against

JonathanDark: he/him

02-08-2023 21:44:20 UTC

imperial

lemon: she/her

02-08-2023 22:04:14 UTC

for i tried to remove agendas which could easily happen by complete accident during Initialisation. if someone goes through the trouble of reading the dynastic rules and boldly jumps into the game late, they should have a shot — i think this evens the odds without making it too easy for them :0

Kevan: he/him

04-08-2023 09:34:51 UTC

veto Vetoed upon Ascension.