BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

I don’t think “randomly assigning” will work - random rolls “must be determined by an appropriate DICE roll in the GNDT” according to the appendix (we added this to avoid the boring necessity of explaining how to fairly roll random numbers every time it came up), and this would mean that everyone knew what factions people were in.

Still burnt out for now from private factions in the last dynasty. 

Segregation is a cornerstone of nomic (if everyone is the same, you have no advantage! You need to create differences), but I think that this style of “core*” segregation has already been made recently (a variable which is binary and secret).

Mana is (my attempted) core (along promises), one of all integer values and public. I intentionally made it as different to our previous “core” (be cultist or not) as possible.

*“Core” being something that we easily consider to be important or central to the game, subjectively. For example, last dynasty, Camp position could’ve just as easily been attempted to be made to be as important or more than what faction you were in, but it wasnt made so because its easier to make stuff that “feels right” with leverage on the core thing.

per pokes

Wouldn’t differentiation between players (at least to an American reader, ‘segregation’ is a poor word choice) be a cornerstone of any game, not just nomic in particular? And even then, with no explicit player differentiation there’s still general cleverness; symmetric perfect information games have no other mechanic to do so.

@pokes: Differentiation is a good word. Also, I believe that cleverness is also differentiation although not as much as a formal one and one that we can control explicitly with proposals. It’s like “non-formal differentiation”.

Overall, I was thinking of differentiation in the context of leveraging your proposals/votes, not really it being the essence of games. You could propose/greentick mechanics that benefit having the differentiation of being “very diligent” or “ability to scam” (non-formal), like intentional daily action grind or linking more mechanics together to make outlets; or the differentiation of “having little mana” or “having a lot of Stamina” (formal), like “if you have 4 mana or less, you can’t be targeted by other players” or “Double the amount of Stamina all Pactmakers have”.

(And furthering into self-reflection and non-formal differentiation, it’s scary to me how thinking of what dynasty to do parallels my scamming lol. Huge volume, relatively low accuracy, creating overall more productive value than average but a lot, lot of ‘waste’ of value that isn’t productive.)