Proposal: Easily Distracted
Reached quorum, 4-1 with 1 DEF. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 25 Jan 2025 19:46:44 UTC
In the rule Focus {I}, replace “Each Participant has a Focus, a publicly tracked number that can be 0, 1, or 2, and defaults to 0.” with
Each Participant has a Focus, a publicly tracked number that can be 0, 1, 2, or * and defaults to 0. A focus of * is numerically equivalent to 1 when you are spending or losing focus, but is numerically equivalent to 0 in all other circumstances. A focus of * can only be obtained when a rule explicitly sets it to that value.
Replace the final sentence of that rule with
A Participant who is on opposite teams from a quorum of Participants can set their own Focus to *. If they do so, they cannot perform this action again until the next time they gain a new Target.
In the rule Teams and Targets {I}, create a third bullet point immediately after the other two:
* For each Participant with a focus of *, set their focus to 0.
Currently one of the best uses for the focus you gain as a minority team seems to be to just keep it for the next target, which somewhat defeats the point of it. The best solution then seems to be to make it something that can only be spent when you have that target, and which can’t otherwise be retained.
, though do the asterisks mess up the MediaWiki formatting?
I still haven’t made my mind up.
per ais.
ais523: Mastermind
FWIW, being able to keep it for the next target was intentional, as that’s also a way to compensate people for being on a small team; if the current score is too difficult you can try the next one.
That’s also part of the reason it’s a set to 1 rather than an addition – to stop that sort of bonus accumulating over time.
That said, just because it was intentional doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a good mechanic! I haven’t made my mind up about whether your way is better or not. (That said, if it isn’t substantially better I’d be leaning toward voting against just for ruleset complexity reasons.)