Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Proposal: Firm Foundation

Fewer than a quorum not voting AGAINST. Failed 4 votes to 7 by Kevan.

Adminned at 21 Oct 2021 16:58:58 UTC

Add a dynastic rule called “Firms” and give it the following text

Each Realtor may belong to a Firm, or no Firm at all (and by default belong to no firm at all). Each Firm has a name, which may only contain letters, numbers, and spaces, cannot be empty, and is considered to be flavor text. The name of the Firm a Realtor belongs to is publicly tracked (if they belong to no firm, this field is blank). Each Firm also optionally has a Leader, which is a Realtor belonging to that Firm. A Firm’s Leader is tracked by appending a * next to the Firm’s name for that realtor. Two Realtors who share the same Firm are said to be Partners.

As a Weekly Action, a Realtor may Start a Firm by choosing a Name which does not belong to any other Firm and setting their Firm to be a newly created Firm with that name, at which point they become that Firm’s Leader.

If a firm does not have a Leader, any Realtor who belongs to that Firm may choose to become its Leader. If the Leader of a Firm goes idle, or ceases to belong to that Firm, they cease to be its Leader.

As a Daily Action, a Realtor may request to join a Firm. To do so, they must make a Story Post to the blog naming the firm that they wish to join. If a Realtor (The Requester) has requested to join a Firm (The Target) within the last 24 hours, and has not had their firm changed in the last 24 hours, then the Leader of the Target may set the Requester’s firm to be the Target.

Comments

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

20-10-2021 21:25:37 UTC

Not super against this mechanically, but if you think about the lore I’ve set forth, it doesn’t really make sense for a bunch of greedy realtors who just paid their soul to get into a contest for loads of money to work together to try and sell houses.

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

20-10-2021 21:26:08 UTC

If you can provide some solid lore reasons why they would, I don’t have any problems going along with it.

Clucky: he/him

20-10-2021 21:28:53 UTC

Teamwork makes the dream work. You can sell more houses with friends than you can on your own, and then when the time is right you can stab your friends in the back as well.

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

20-10-2021 21:32:15 UTC

Alright, fair enough. Seems reasonable, but as per the recent discussions on discord firms should definitely not be made too strong.

Josh: Observer he/they

20-10-2021 21:38:01 UTC

Is this the public pooling restriction? If so it should probably just include that, with a mantle-pass stipulation and all the other bits and bobs.

Clucky: he/him

20-10-2021 22:17:25 UTC

this is intended to be an avenue (heh) for pooling, yes; but given the open discussion around pools and mantle passing I don’t want to include any of those stipulations here

I’d personally rather see this work as a “you work together until it becomes optimal not to” rather than a “you work together until the end because you can win together”

redtara: they/them

21-10-2021 00:16:37 UTC

I think I’d rather mechanically discourage pooling than encourage it. Personally I feel like this could easily end up as “you keep working together because you have developed a certain inertia and suddenly going solo isn’t likely to improve your situation”. The more mechanically important it becomes, the less likely people are to ditch firms. Unless we build in some kind of system that progressively undermines them the more powerful they become, which could actually be interesting.

pokes:

21-10-2021 00:58:45 UTC

for

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

21-10-2021 01:31:05 UTC

imperial

TyGuy6:

21-10-2021 01:50:59 UTC

against This is fun stuff, but I’m going to try to steer away from exercises in team-building this early on, in line with redtara’s comments.

Raven1207: he/they

21-10-2021 02:51:53 UTC

imperial

Chiiika: she/her

21-10-2021 03:49:04 UTC

imperial

Kevan: he/him

21-10-2021 07:13:39 UTC

[Raven1207, Chiiika] Trapdoor has voted DEF here, so player votes of DEF don’t count for anything.

against

Chiiika: she/her

21-10-2021 07:53:53 UTC

against CoV
was on edge tho

Josh: Observer he/they

21-10-2021 08:29:06 UTC

for

Raven1207: he/they

21-10-2021 12:30:58 UTC

Ok cov

for

redtara: they/them

21-10-2021 13:13:00 UTC

against on reflection

Axemabaro:

21-10-2021 14:44:02 UTC

against Based on Lore

Zack: he/him

21-10-2021 16:16:19 UTC

imperial

Brendan: he/him

21-10-2021 16:57:17 UTC

against