BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Congrats Josh, nice scam. Now a question on ettiquette:

I noticed the scam but didn’t point it out as I felt that was a bit unsporting, given I’m inactive. Thoughts?

(Though to be honest, I was probably even more impressed by Kevan’s counter-scam/fix, which I would never have thought of.)

I was a little disappointed it ended so soon, but it happened because I didn’t realise the implications of Classical Conditioning. That’s a unique scam if I’ve ever seen one.

Totally missed what happened that set up the dov do to traveling back home from a trip (prob also why I got lost on my one movement lol) so can someone fill me in by chance?

Josh made a Proposal that let any Rat, as a Weekly Action, take any action they had already performed at least five times, with no prerequisites. Any action. No prerequisites. Josh, having achieved victory nine times before, achieved victory.

Ienpw - I would have considered pointing out the scam from idle to be a bit unsporting, although unidling to exploit it would have been entirely legitimate.

Kevan’s fix I’m dubious about the legality of - I think the Conditioning Actions probably can’t be used during hiatus - and if the DoV had failed I probably would have contested it.

Onlookers pointing out scams would feel about the same as people watching a boardgame and offering advice: best case you annoy the person who was about to do something clever, worst case you also annoy the opponents who’d noticed and had planned a countermeasure that relied on the player doing whatever they were doing. But yes, taking a seat and exploiting the scam yourself seems fine.

And yes, I’m just as dubious of my fix’s legality, I just wanted to put the game into a state where if an arbitrary CfJ was legal, it wouldn’t be legal any more.

As for a dynastic post-mortem - the theme was a good one, and I liked the potential of the Hypotheses. But the strong veto stance was deterring me from spending what little spare time I had last week writing any proposals, and I was considering idling out.

What were the final Hypotheses, out of interest? Mine was that Josh’s Hypothesis would come true - which I’d hoped would get a Significance score at least as high as his, but his must have been something equally meta-level.