Proposal: Black Market Blues
withdrawn—Clucky
Adminned at 03 May 2024 16:06:30 UTC
In “Possessions” add a subrule called “The Black Market”
The Black Market is publicly tracked and consists of a list of Possessions, and a Cost associated with that Possession. At any time, as an atomic action a Thief may spend the cost of a possession, adding that possession to their inventory and then increasing the cost of that possession in the Black Market by 1.
The Cost of a Possession may never be less than its Value. Possessions which do not have a constant value may not be listed in the Black Market. If a Possession has a constant value, any thief may add it to the Black Market with a cost equal to its value plus three.
As a daily communal action a Thief may reduce the cost of all Possessions in the black market by 1 (or to their minimal values, if already there). Each individual thief may only perform this as a weekly action (in addition to the daily communal action restrictions).
Providing a system to purchase items outright if you want. Experimenting with the idea of a “Selfish Communal Action” that is limited to being done daily as a group but also weekly for each individual player.
sounds like there’s not really any incentive to give items to the black market, because you don’t get florins for it, so it’s ok if it’s a little broken at the moment imo?
JonathanDark: he/him
I’m not sure it’s clear how this all works.
After a Thief spends the cost of a Possession and adds it to their inventory, the Possession is still also in the Black Market, since they increase the cost in the Black Market by 1? If that’s the case, the Black Market should be “a list of all possible Possessions”, otherwise it sounds more like an inventory.
If it’s a list of all possible Possessions, how does a thief “add it to the Black Market” when it’s already there? Conversely, if it’s actually more like an inventory in which the Black Market is empty until a Thief adds to it, you’re back to the original problem I stated above.