Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Proposal: For the greater good

Timed out (2-4-2)
Failed by Hix

Adminned at 19 Jul 2007 16:22:55 UTC

In subrule Factories, change:

No Corporation may count Production from more than 50 of its own Factories.

To:

A Corporation may only count Production from 34 + (S / N) of its own Factories, where N is the number of active Corporations, and S is the sum total of all factories in play that belong to players with production greater than zero (i.e. Players which number of souls is enough to maintain their offices and factories).

(S + N) is currently 16 (So it doesn’t change the current 50 limit). I guess this is a way of incentiving people to produce more factories *AND* give things away to other corps, to increase the limit.

posted by ChronosPhaenon at 17 Jul 2007 02:18:01 UTC Comments (12)

Comments

Night:

17-07-2007 14:55:28 UTC

for I’m in favor of variable limits, as opposed to hard limits.

Hix:

17-07-2007 21:01:23 UTC

imperial

Kevan: he/him

17-07-2007 23:07:37 UTC

against

Bucky:

18-07-2007 01:50:20 UTC

I’d like to hear more opinions on this before I vote.

Josh: he/they

18-07-2007 09:04:57 UTC

against

Chivalrybean:

18-07-2007 18:12:37 UTC

for

Hix:

18-07-2007 19:57:42 UTC

Bucky:

The formula is quite reasonable, and seems like a fair way to allow for big corporations to get bigger, while still restricting them.

I’ll point out that this rule can cause the number of a Corporation’s production points to be partially in the control of other Corporations.  Specifically, when new players join or when other Corporations destroy their own factories, it can cause a Corporation to lose production points.  If corporations with lots of factories are careful in allocation, however, this will never be a problem.

Overall, I think the rule is pretty good, but complicates things.  And most of the burden of that complication falls on whoever is advancing time.

Chivalrybean:

18-07-2007 21:35:28 UTC

imperial

ChronosPhaenon:

18-07-2007 23:42:50 UTC

I’ve just posted a needed counterpart to this (tough the other proposal stands alone - without this one’s provisions).

Brendan: he/him

19-07-2007 00:21:54 UTC

against

Icarus:

19-07-2007 12:09:35 UTC

for More factories!

Brendan: he/him

19-07-2007 12:31:10 UTC

I should point out that this is in no way an incentive to give Factories away, as Chronos suggested—keeping extra Factories to yourself (and thereby boosting your Credit Limit) does just as much to raise the total-Factory-sum.