BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

I still don’t like the numbers, but there is any even bigger problem: “If both players are Healthy” could trigger even though Uncle Sam loses because his status always changes to healthy.  It could be changed to say something like “If the Shootout is resolved without either Player being Wounded”.

Good point. I’ll fix that in the 3rd version.

But what do you think the numbers should be?

I would recommend at least 2 times for the taxes (we are all about risk taking) and 3 (2 would still be ok, though) for his QD.

Okay, I’ll wait for one or two more people to comment to see what everyone else thinks before I put up a new proposal.

You could make it so Sam is changed to Healthy after all other checks are made.

Good point. I’ll change it to that.
Planned changes:
-Make Uncle Sam take double the taxes if you lose to him.
-Add the “If both are healthy” part to before the “If Uncle Sam is wounded” to fix that interaction.

If anyone has any other changes I need to make, let me know soon, as I plan on posting v3 tomorrow, and hopefully it will be the last version.

so this is self killed?

It will be as soon as I come up with the (hopefully) final version. If I self-kill it, people might not come to it if they have a problem with anything it says so far.

ok.

It’s not clear to me when the Shootout occurs—immediately after the player drinks the drink, or at the end of the hand when Uncle Sam’s tax would be assessed.  “...Uncle Sam takes money equal to 1.5 times what the player would have been taxed”.  Isn’t it true that you don’t know what the player would have been taxed until the hand is over?

This creates a replacement effect that replaces the first time you would be taxed this hand.

Meanwhile Self-Kill