Isn’t this redolent of rich-get-richer snowball potential?

It does snowball to some extent, but a) very slowly, b) Influence isn’t something you’re likely to be able to hold on forever so it’s more like “gain an advantage while you can”, and c) some amount of snowballiness in an interactive dynasty like this one is good because it gives some incentive to attack the leaders rather than just doing your own thing, and because it gives a reason to engage with the gameplay early on.

If you think that that’s an issue, though, feel free to vote it down.

I’m not hostile to the proposal and your defense of it is solid.

I’m curious about influence, though: you say you expect it to fluctuate while I think I’m seeing it more as a VP analogy. Is there currently a way for it to go down, besides being dusted?

maybe just let people have more Influence by default?

Or maybe allow for partial construction of rooms? That way in order to get really fancy rooms you need multiple vampires working at once

Room pools is a nice idea.

I do still feel like this is a stage 2 problem when stage 1 isn’t really in place, though, a bit like Richardo’s 6 Energy not being enough to get him anywhere: until people actually want to create rooms at all, worrying about people not being able to create big enough rooms feels like a solution to a problem we haven’t really encountered yet.

as I ultimately think there are better, less snowbally, ways to fix the issue and I’d rather leave the issue present and in need of a fix, than to introduce this rich get richer mechanic and then it’ll be harder to remove

@Josh: Right now, Influence drops to 0 if Richardo enters your Sepulchre. It’s likely to be near-impossible to keep him out indefinitely, given all the random mechanics and abilities for players to reshape the dungeon.

I agree that it might be too early for something like this, though.

yea influence should definitely not be VP

I think influence as VP is probably okay. you just don’t want VPs tied to stuff that makes it easier to get more VPs cause that leads to snowball effects