Saturday, November 05, 2022

Proposal: Fun For All The Family [Core] [Special Case] [Appendix]

Reached quorum 8 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 06 Nov 2022 09:31:19 UTC

Change the term “Visitor” to “Group” in all non-dynastic rules. Change the word “players” to “Visitors” in the rule called “Plaza”, if it exists.

Then add a new dynastic rule before all other dynastic rules, called “Visitors”:-

Each Group controls a number of Visitors, the Names of which are publicly tracked. Each such Visitor has a publicly tracked Name, which is flavour text and consists of a single-word Forename and single-word Surname.

Where a rule defines an action as being taken by a Visitor, it may be taken by the Group that controls it, on that Visitor’s behalf.

If a Group contains fewer than four Visitors, that Group may create a new Visitor with a Name of the Group’s choice which is different from all other Visitor Names (including Visitors belonging to idle Groups), under their control. The Proprietor may not create a Visitor in this way if they already control a Visitor.

We’re probably going to need a bigger crowd at the carnival, if we want to do interesting things with queues. Having each player control multiple visitors (and the Proprietor control just one, representing themselves) would be a way to do that.

Comments

Benbot: he/him

05-11-2022 13:15:54 UTC

for The Alien encourages this.

Raven1207: he/they

05-11-2022 13:48:10 UTC

for

Habanero:

05-11-2022 14:35:53 UTC

for

Josh: Observer he/they

05-11-2022 14:45:52 UTC

for

Bucky:

05-11-2022 16:27:10 UTC

Group is not a valid player synonym because it occurs in rule 4.6.1.

Kevan: he/him

05-11-2022 16:34:03 UTC

It wouldn’t be a valid synonym if declared during Ascension, but proposals aren’t constrained by that.

Bucky:

05-11-2022 16:58:49 UTC

I know, and that’s why that comment didn’t come with a vote attached.

I think four Visitors per Group is too many for now; one is fine, because we have so many more Visitors than Attractions. However, that will change as more attractions open up and dynastic attrition removes players. Group size can also be changed mid-dynasty.

Finally, for reasons that only matter for upcoming proposals, the “Z” stamp should be awarded once per group rather than once per visitor.

With all that said, tentative for . And, per Benbot, I expect some NPC Visitors to come about who don’t belong to any Group.

JonathanDark: he/him

05-11-2022 18:23:38 UTC

for

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

06-11-2022 01:03:29 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

06-11-2022 08:51:40 UTC

[Bucky] I don’t know what you were going for there, a flat “this is not valid” comment, on something which would break the proposal if true, and with no attached vote, reads a lot like a call for people to stop and consider voting the proposal down or withdrawing it.