BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

I don’t see how Sockets would be hidden, unless nonces would affect it, but nonces don’t have to come from said page.

Only you know what your Style is. If you claim to have 12 Eyes and “Epic of Gilgamesh” as your Image (with 5 Sockets), then players will know that either your Style has at least 7 Sockets, or you are Impossible.

Ah, I misread the rule. I think that makes my Style illegal; I will correct it now.

possible suggestion: Instead of doing Socket(Image) + Socket(Style), maybe do something like 2 * (Socket(Image) + Socket(Style) MOD 12) so that it isn’t just encouraging people to get 12 sockets styles…

This proposal is intended to make Eyes a telltale sign of what a Player’s Style might be, rather than a pseudorandom number. (If you’ve got a Technology Image and 23 Eyes, then we’ll all know you picked a Mathematics Style.) This is meant to nudge the game very slightly in the direction of “Eyes: good; people knowing what your secret Style is: bad”.

But doesn’t that mean it is currently better to have a Mathematics image/style? Eyes wouldn’t be any more pseduodrandom, it would just remove the idea that you want to choose a Mathematics style if you are maximizing your game opportunities

I see this as more over-restrictive than strategic. It needlessly and artificially boils down 1000 items to 12 and punishes certain subjective choices while privileging others. We don’t even know what to do with Images and Styles yet, so making some objectively preferable to others reduces the matter to the point of triviality going forward.

Basically per Skju, except I was lazier. Also the ordering of the choices on the page seems pretty arbitrary.

Also this could punish players whose Images and Styles are changed against their will.

Tactical .

per Skju

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[Ienpw] Saying “my Image is the Great Pyramid of Gaza, but my Style is Capital Punishment; also, I have one Eye!” seemed kind of arbitrary to begin with. There was a small joke in that the entries in the People category all have two Eyes, but that was it.

If the Impossibility clause would punish players under a not-yet-existing mechanic, then that’s really an issue for the proposal that creates the not-yet-existing mechanic, if it’s ever made.

[Skju] If we want to play a game we’re going to have do something to differentiate choices from a list of 1000 things, otherwise it’s not going to matter which things we pick. It’s not boiling it down to twelve (that would be if I’d proposed that an Image/Style was a heading, rather than an item), it’s just making it more likely that players will pick things from the high end of the list. (Although this assumes that “more Eyes” is a good thing; it may not be.)

The “<><” rule already makes some Images objectively better or worse than others by defining how they’re changed - if you pick “X-Ray” as your Image, that will stop you from switching to one that shares its first letter. Your poetry proposal encourages players to pick Styles which can be easily concealed in poems, a quality which isn’t entirely subjective.