BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

I see the problem with determining when the atomic action ends, but I’m not sure I like being forced to swap Domain values or increase or decrease them every time I Harvest the Crop.

I’m thinking about an alternative that isn’t quite so pushy…

I suppose another route might be to say that you only get to make one wiki update for the whole thing.

You could also have a “Harvested” gamestate variable that gets cleared at every Production of Resources, and Settlers have to add their name to the list in Harvested at the end of their atomic action Harvest the Crops.

  I’d prefer a different end step than being compelled to change domain values, on the basis that alliances will become a tad fragile if you’re compelled to change that. Not all alliances would be affected since some are Faction based, but enough that it could be problematic. (Assuming anyone plans to ally, that is.)

Plus wouldn’t it be against fair play to leave an open action just hanging there for more than a few minutes intentionally?
“A Settler should not deliberately and unreasonably prolong the performance of a game action once they have started it.”

True enough on fair play.

Compelling players to take occasionally difficult decisions sounds like something that would add to the game, rather than detract.

If we think it’d be useful in itself to track who’s Harvested then that would be another way to do it, but I’m wary of BlogNomic’s tendency to have tunnel vision on patches, where it prefers those that respectfully leave (days old) game rules intact, even if the cost is to add more paperwork elsewhere.

Withdrawing to keep the queue moving.