Proposal: End of the Hour
Timed Out. Passes 7-0—Clucky
Adminned at 12 Apr 2020 18:01:57 UTC
Replace the text of “Action Points” with:
Players and Villagers each have a number of Action Points which are tracked on the “Archipelago” wiki page. A Player or Villager’s Action Points cannot exceed 10 and any action that would set it higher than 10 instead sets it to 10. As a Daily Communal Action, a player may increase the Action Points of all Players and Villagers by 1.
A Player’s Action Points default to three or the median value of Action Points held by all Players, whichever is higher. A Villager’s Action Points default to seven.
In “Islands”, replace “A Player who is the Mayor of an Island may spend two Action Points to change the Location of any Villager to their Island, provided their Island is not Full and that Villager has not had their location changed within the last 96 hours (or week, if the Villager is Skittish). The last time a villager’s location changed is tracked in the Villagers table of the “Archipelago” wiki page.” with:
A Player who is the Mayor of an Island may spend two of their own Action Points and 4 Action Points of any one Villager (7 if that Villager is Skittish) to change the Location of that Villager to their Island, provided their Island is not Full.
In “Tasks”, replace everything before the bulleted list with
Villagers may perform Tasks. A Player may spend one of their own Action Points and 2 Action Points of any one non-Displaced Villager (4 if that Villager is Lazy) to have that Villager perform one of the following tasks:
Set the Action Points of all Villagers to 7, minus 4 if that Villager is not Displaced, minus 2 if that Villager was Tired before enacting this Proposal.
This puts Villagers on the same clock as us, and spares us from updating timestamps.
Clucky: he/him
This does create some differences with how the dynasty would play. Easier to string several different actions in a row with the same villager. Not sure how much of problem that would wind up being. Its probably okay.
Also if you wind up with high value villagers that everyone wants to use, it turns the timing for getting to use that villager from “Show up some arbitrary time 48 hours after they last went” to “Show up at the start of the day”. I’m not really sure which is better. Shifting it to the start of the day does make it more advantageous for people who are online at the start of a day.
One thing that this approach is better with is it lets us have tasks that take different periods of time for a villager to complete. So I think overall the pros outweigh the cons.
That being said, semantically, I’d rather call Villager action points “Energy”. I think it would help with possible confusion between the different types of action points.