Monday, April 16, 2007

Proposal: Evolving Traits

Qourumed
-Amnistar
Proposer: 35DNA & 1 Complexity
Voters (Rodney, Amnistar, Clucky, Chronos Phaenon, Seebo, Axeling): 7 DNA & 1 Complexity
All Others: 7 DNA

Adminned at 17 Apr 2007 20:41:46 UTC

Enact the following rule:

There exists a game action called “Advance”. Occasionaly a Lifeform may Advance by posting the text “Advance:(Trait)” to the GNDT, where Trait is the name of an Inactive Trait. In order to Advance, the Lifeform must pay double the Cost associated with the Trait, and meet all the Requirements for the Trait. When a Lifeform Advances a Trait, it becomes an Active Trait, and the Lifeform gains that Trait. The Lifeform should update the Creature Page and the List of Traits accordingly.

Whenever a Lifeform would purchase an Active Trait, the Lifeform that Advanced that trait gains 5 DNA points.

A way to get Traits onto the active list, at a cost, but also at an ongoing reward to the player to first advance the trait.

posted by BobTHJ at 16 Apr 2007 15:18:01 UTC Comments (8)

Comments

Rodney:

16-04-2007 16:07:54 UTC

for, but I think it would be better to make a post to do this, so as to be more visible.

Amnistar: he/him

16-04-2007 17:08:05 UTC

for

Clucky: he/him

16-04-2007 18:00:08 UTC

for WHy not?

Amnistar: he/him

16-04-2007 20:21:56 UTC

for sure

ChronosPhaenon:

16-04-2007 22:14:31 UTC

for

Axeling:

18-04-2007 02:24:07 UTC

I like the idea.  There are just a few minor points I’d like to mention:

-The Inactive/Active list was designed to allow people to balance traits before they were brought into play.  While this does help in the fact that the first Lifeform must pay more, it still might allow a trait that isn’t properly balanced to enter (not that I care that much, but other people might).
-Keeping track of which Lifeform has advanced which trait and adding the 5 DNA each time might be annoying (the first could probably be solved by adding the Lifeform’s name in the list of traits).  I think that the 5 DNA is probably small enough that this part could be cut in any case.
-Not a problem, but a Lifeform can have advanced a trait that e no longer has.  Is this intentional?

Seebo:

18-04-2007 03:32:30 UTC

for

Axeling:

18-04-2007 03:38:37 UTC

imperial