I’d also like to have some distant aim, but does this proposal set such? Is victor allowed to achieve victory?
What if someone occasionally jumps from 49 to 51 ponits?

You all know the standards around here better than me.  Is “being the victor” really so different from “achieving victory” that it’s an unacceptable ambiguity? 

Same with the “50 points” versus “at least 50 points.”  Not allowing victory to be declared with 51 points (under this rule) would be like saying “August has 31 days, therefore it does not have 28 days.”  I admit this isn’t as strong a case as the victory issue, but isn’t that just how numbers work?

I understand the need for clarity, but you have to draw the line somewhere on what constitutes logical common ground.  If not, then what’s preventing everyone from declaring victory now, based solely upon the logic that “There’s nothing that says I can’t”?

I could have been more specific, but forcing all proposals to read like depositions would cut into the flavor somewhat.  Would an extra clarifying line like “(A Baker who has at least 50 Pie Points has achieved victory)” settle this?

I believe that “50 points marks a victor” is enough to set a victory condition; but the ambiguity of “exactly 50 points” against “at least 50 points” is there. It could be fixed easily, of course (my apologies to your alexandrines);
but I’m anyway because I do not like this system, as it relies way too much on the daily actions (if we don’t quickly set up another, more profitable system to get pies, this victory condition will turn the game into “after about one month of playing, the player who has been present the most days since the beginning of the dynasty achieves victory”).

I like the theme-tying-in-poetry, but I would just prefer that the actual rule text is written in plain English so as to avoid ambiguity/loopholes/misunderstandings.

Keep the actual rules in straight english please.

Furthermore, I don’t want the victory condition to be so… grindy. Like, it would just turn into “wait X number of days”. Pies generation should be used for various mechanics, and those mechanics should be used to determine victory.

Very well.  I know when I’m beat.

And the “daily action” problem that many of us seem to have could be solved by repealing the one-upgrade-per-day rule.  It could become one Empty per day, with unlimited upgrades.  But that is a thought for another day.

Unlimited upgrades seems too much - maybe make them have a cost or something.
And about the one Empty per day: apparently Quirck has been giving one Empty Pie per day to everyone who did not use their daily upgrade. I’m pretty sure this is currently illegal, so we should probably make a CfJ to make it legal.

Illegal? “If a Baker does not perform this action during a day, they gain one Empty Pie at the end of that day.”

Oh. I missed that part, sorry.