If we’re heading inevitably for some kind of last player standing endgame, we probably don’t want new or unidling (or reinitialising!) players to be able to spawn into second place at the last minute.

Amended.

I’m not sure it’s a good idea to permit unidling players to skip the whole heat loss mechanic of the game. Half of all idle players who had been in this dynasty would be in first place (or joint first place) heat-wise if we delete that sentence.

Yes, doesn’t seem a great idea to remove the “When a Villager becomes Unidle, their Heat is set to the average of all other Villagers’ Heat rounded down, unless the last legally endowed value it held is lower in which case the Villager retains the lower value.” rule (which wasn’t part of this proposal when I first commented).

The other new clause of “A Villager with fewer than five Goals” is unnecessary; they’re defined as “Each Villager has a list of up to five Goals”, so a player giving themselves a sixth would be setting an illegal value.

I misunderstood how the fallback default would work, there. Withdrawn.