Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Proposal: Dum, Dum, Dum, Dum Dum-Dum, Dum-Dum, Dum-Dum

Times out and passes 5-3 ~ southpointingchariot

Adminned at 27 Apr 2012 16:56:58 UTC

Create a new institution “The Fleet”, which reads:

When specifying Directions to the Net, a Player may select an Institution the wish to Invade. When a player Influences the Fleet, they Influence that Institution instead of anyone else at the end of the next cycle. The Institution players select to Invade should be announced after they have Influenced it.

This allows player’s to purchase a guaranteed institution one cycle ahead.
Some may worry this is to similar to the Legion - however, this would trump marines, can only be used once per cycle, cannot be saved, and requires a player to pick their choice ahead of time.
Some may worry this is overpowered - however, it logically cannot be worth more than the most valuable other institution, requires a player to put their choice in ahead of time, and bids have not reached the point that institutions are unreachable by large portions of the player base.

Comments

Yonah:

25-04-2012 04:12:52 UTC

for

Clucky: he/him

25-04-2012 04:33:34 UTC

against

Murphy:

25-04-2012 05:54:04 UTC

for

Josh: Observer he/they

25-04-2012 06:20:27 UTC

for

Florw:

25-04-2012 07:28:14 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

25-04-2012 09:16:26 UTC

against

Cpt_Koen:

25-04-2012 20:09:23 UTC

for Though things are getting more and more random with every Institution of that kind…

Cpt_Koen:

25-04-2012 20:10:10 UTC

Also shouldn’t it be “Dum, Dum, Dum, Dum Dum-Dum, Dum Dum-Dum”?

southpointingchariot:

25-04-2012 21:07:50 UTC

arrow Oops

Clucky: he/him

26-04-2012 23:36:14 UTC

Doesn’t this let you influence unpowered institutions? (When an Unpowered Institution is resolved, no player influences it.) But then you still influence it either way. And if we patch that, this potentially a big pain because people might want to fix an institution, but then someone would be like “nooo I’m invading that institution. I’ll get it for free. if you edit it it unpowers and I’m screwed”

Really just seems broken to me.

Yonah:

27-04-2012 17:32:42 UTC

That’s a good point, CoV against

Josh: Observer he/they

27-04-2012 22:33:17 UTC

That is a good point, but I don’t mind it.