Thursday, January 30, 2025

Story Post: Bounty Notice: A win condition we can agree on

SingularByte won the bounty.

Enacted by ais523. (There doesn’t seem to be a restriction that the enactment of a Bounty Notice must be by an Admin, so I think I can do this myself.)

Adminned at 04 Feb 2025 13:40:32 UTC

I’m looking for a win condition to be added to the ruleset via writing a proposal that gets enacted, which ideally would have the following properties (which are not hard requirements, but I will be judging whether I think the “spirit” of them is met when deciding my vote on this Bounty Notice):

  • It encourages players to participate in the dynastic gameplay and score Triumphs, even if they are eventually planning to win by scam;
  • It makes it possible for players to win the dynasty conventionally even with no scams involved, giving players who are bad at scams a reasonable chance at a conventional win;
  • It rewards players to a moderate extent for having done well at the dynastic gameplay so far, without being too harsh on players who are behind (especially if they are behind due to bad luck) or who join the dynasty halfway through, or overly rewarding to players who have ended up a long way ahead to due to good luck;
  • Although it does not have to entirely exclude pooling possibilities, it shouldn’t give pools of players an excessive benefit compared to solo players.

One thing that you should probably take into account when writing it is that the Reinitialisation rule allows players who are behind to, once in the dynasty, increase their Triumph count to the average amount among all players, which a) can help to compensate for early bad luck and b) means that the total number of Triumphs that are potentially in existence may be higher than it would appear based on the tracker.

Comments

Raven1207: Monarchple he/they

31-01-2025 19:01:04 UTC

what about something where participants have to burn their Triumph for something

Josh: he/they

01-02-2025 09:28:37 UTC

for SingularByte Brendan JonathanDark

ais523:

01-02-2025 09:42:31 UTC

@Josh: according to the bounties rule, the votable matter created to fulfil the bounty has to be enacted, not just made, so you posted that early I think.

Holding off on approving a payout until I see which votable matters get enacted.

ais523:

03-02-2025 08:13:05 UTC

I think SingularByte’s proposal does indeed work towards this goal, but also that there’s room for another proposal to exist alongside it, working together to make a complete win condition.

Do people think I should just award the bounty to SingularByte now, or wait until the other half of the win condition is enacted and reward both players?

Josh: he/they

03-02-2025 08:43:41 UTC

I think that the Bounty has been met.

ais523:

04-02-2025 13:38:59 UTC

for SingularByte

This has been open long enough. I appreciate everyone’s efforts, but only one of the proposals passed, and it only got halfway there.

I would be quite happy if people kept trying – with the bounty closed, I wouldn’t be able to directly reward your efforts with Triumphs, but would support, e.g., rewards in proposals (even though the other players might not).