Monday, October 04, 2021

Proposal: Breaker Breaker

Withdrawn. redtara

Adminned at 06 Oct 2021 04:36:42 UTC

In “The Clock”, replace “For each Citizen in a Zone which has a Cache, if that player is on a Floor which is a Breaker, take the result of a DICE100: that Citizen gains an instance of the corresponding Item from the Cache. Otherwise, reduce the upper limit of the Range of each Item in the Cache by 5 for the purposes of applying the results of the next die roll corresponding to that Citizen, then take the result of a DICE100: that Citizen gains an instance of the corresponding Item from the Cache, if there is one. If reducing the upper limit of an Item in that Cache would place the upper limit below or equal to the lower limit for that Item, then instead remove that Item from the Cache for the purposes of applying the results of the corresponding die roll.” with:-

For each Citizen in a Zone which has a Cache, take the result of a DICE100 roll: that Citizen gains an instance of the corresponding Item from that Cache - unless the Floor they are on is a Breaker and the result was a multiple of 10, in which case they gain nothing

Simplifying the elaborate range reduction (currently knocking 13% off of Supply Requisitions searches) into just a 10% chance of not finding anything when a Breaker has tripped.

Comments

Clucky: he/him

04-10-2021 20:54:33 UTC

What’s the story reason for why breakers should reduce your chances of finding something?

lemon: she/her

04-10-2021 21:19:37 UTC

against i think this reverses “find less items when it’s dark” into “find less items when the lights are on”; and it also doesn’t add the heat signature clause back into the ruleset!

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

05-10-2021 04:11:51 UTC

against I like my system. In terms of real reasons, there’s a reason I had less items when the lights where off. As for an off-topic comment about me getting rid of hit signatures being relevant, I must have missed that proposal when I was double checking to make sure that nothing in the queue was affected by what I was proposing.

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

05-10-2021 04:12:27 UTC

I do admit my system for chance reduction could have been significantly less complex though.

TyGuy6:

05-10-2021 06:47:41 UTC

against I like your system, too. It didn’t seem too unintuitive to me, personally.

Kevan: he/him

05-10-2021 07:55:23 UTC

Oh! Looking back at the original proposal I’d forgotten that the theme for Breakers was “most of the floors on the tower are blacked out, except the ones with Breakers”. I was reading it as Breakers having tripped on a few rare Floors, cutting the power locally.

Josh: Observer he/they

05-10-2021 09:25:26 UTC

against

Brendan: he/him

05-10-2021 13:26:16 UTC

against

Kevan: he/him

05-10-2021 13:47:18 UTC

against Withdrawing the proposal to keep the queue moving.