Proposal: Event Horizon [Building Blocks]
Timed out and enacted, 5-1. Josh
Adminned at 01 Jun 2025 16:03:45 UTC
Remove the “Event Types” Building Block from the Building Blocks wiki page.
Is it true that we’ve only used this block twice?
It was created in December 2021 and so far as I can see from the archives, of the 40 dynasties we’ve had since then, it’s only been used in two: the the Demiurge dynasty in June 2022, and the Cities metadynasty in May 2023 (the latter having one active player drop out after repeatedly seeing their Event actions invalidated for not following the Events block wording closely enough).
We’ve had a lot of other dynasties in that time which have featured Event-like mechanics (a blog post is made, players reply to it, there is an outcome), but they haven’t felt the need to use the Building Block to do so. This may be because a hand-crafted version isn’t much more work to write than an Event (which still requires the proposer to define in detail a response format, start/end conditions and an ending action), and because a hand-written rule is usually clearer to read.
Building Blocks should work intuitively out of the box, and make life easier for players, and I don’t think this one has been doing that.
I’m trying to use it in my Draft currently, so I’m against the idea of removing it right now.
JonathanDark: he/him
It’s probably because, unlike a Virtual Action, an Event requires much more detail to make it operational, so the framework provided by the Building Block isn’t enough to provide a turn-key solution.