Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Proposal: Clocks Are Like People

Self-killed. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 17 Nov 2016 23:51:42 UTC

To the second paragraph of “The Twelve Arcs”, add:-

Each Hour may have a Predecessor as its Guardian: this is tracked on the wiki page by describing the Hour as “Broken by X” (or Focused or Restored by X), where X is the Guardian’s name.

In “Restoration of the Hours”, replace “The Player marks the Hour of that dynasty as Focused, and adds the sentence as its Moment.” with:-

The Player marks the Hour of that dynasty as Focused, marks themselves as its Guardian, and adds the sentence as its Moment.

For each Hour which is Focused or Restored, set its Guardian to be the Player who Focused it.

Keeping tabs on who Focused each Hour, so that we can do something with that (perhaps moving towards rewarding players for successfully awakening Predecessors).

posted by Kevan at 16 Nov 2016 13:32:00 UTC Comments (4)

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gazebo_dude:

17-11-2016 13:54:25 UTC

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southpointingchariot:

17-11-2016 14:26:39 UTC

Maybe I’m confused: the Predecessor is the player referenced in an hour’s Moment, right? So this only records who was referenced, not who did the focusing or “awakening.” It seems like we would to record the player who made the story post.

gazebo_dude:

17-11-2016 14:34:40 UTC

Oh yeah, this is broken because a Guardian is a Predecessor and the player “marks themselves as its Guardian”, but “A player may not name themself as a Predecessor.” CoV against

Kevan: he/him

17-11-2016 15:01:49 UTC

No, a Predecessor is just “any human who has ever played BlogNomic” - it is (or was) a useful synonym for “Player or idle Player” (so that Guardianships don’t fall off when players go idle).

But yes, the enactment of A Predecessors like None Other‘s sweeping “may not name” has broken this usage of it.

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