Sunday, October 16, 2022

Proposal: Gambling is Fun

Timed out and passed, 5-4. Josh

Adminned at 18 Oct 2022 10:51:14 UTC

Add the following to the end of the rule “Fun and Games”:

Name: Pogs
Rules: When this Activity has 4 Members, it is Ongoing. Each Member of this Activity may choose to bet any amount of Energy that is equal to or lower than their current amount of Energy. Within 24 hours of the Activity becoming Ongoing, they must post a Response to the Activity post, where [Response] is a SHA-1 hash whose contents start with the amount of Energy spent as a bet. After this Response has been posted, the bet cannot be changed. Every hash must include a salt which consists of the word ‘salt:’ followed by any number of characters; all text including and following the word ‘salt’ is considered to have no effect on the contents of the hash. When all Members of this Activity have posted a Response, they must then post a Response within 24 hours where [Response] is the contents of the hash they responded with previously to this Activity post. When all Members of this Activity have posted said Response, the Activity is Over. When the Activity is Over, the Member of this Activity that bet the highest amount of Energy in this Activity is the Winner of this Activity. When this Activity is Over, every Member of this Activity must spend the amount of Energy they bet. When 2 or more Members are tied for the highest bet, this Activity has no Winner. When a Member fails to respond with their hash or the contents of their hash within the allotted time, then their bet is considered to be 0 and they are considered to have posted a Response.
Location: Garden
Cost: 1
Reward: 100

In the rule “Party Time”, directly after “A Partygoer that joins or is the Captain of an Activity is considered to be a Member of that Activity.”, add:

While an Activity is Open, all of its Members must abide by the Rules of its Game. When an Activity is Ongoing or Over, only Responses in the format “Move: [Response]” can be Responded with to it.

adding a generic Pogs game (suggested by Madrid) so we have something to do when the first party starts

Comments

Madrid:

16-10-2022 16:05:00 UTC

for

TyGuy6:

16-10-2022 16:32:30 UTC

for Activities sure do appear to be an interesting idea. I’m considering inventing a few, myself.

I thought maybe the Captain of a Pog game might be able to End it early, just after he revealed his own bet. But if he did so, the bets of others would still apply, right? We just wouldn’t know what they were until/unless they were revealed?

lendunistus: he/him

16-10-2022 16:41:20 UTC

@TyGuy6 the activity isn’t Over until everything is revealed, and you can only end activities if either the party ends or it’s Over

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

16-10-2022 17:39:41 UTC

for

Raven1207: he/they

16-10-2022 18:04:52 UTC

for

Bucky:

16-10-2022 20:06:33 UTC

Reward 100 seems excessive compared to the other party score amounts proposed so far, the largest of which was 20 for the Ducky grab.

snail:

16-10-2022 20:22:40 UTC

imperial

Snisbo: she/they

16-10-2022 21:01:26 UTC

for

Raven1207: he/they

17-10-2022 15:35:41 UTC

for

Josh: Observer he/they

17-10-2022 15:47:24 UTC

against

lendunistus: he/him

17-10-2022 17:24:52 UTC

why, josh

Bucky:

17-10-2022 17:58:19 UTC

against

This is scammable, but I’ll hold off on the how to abuse if it passes.

Reward 100 is independently a reason for concern; the winner of the most pogs also wins the party regardless of what else happens.

Josh: Observer he/they

17-10-2022 18:03:03 UTC

Actually now I read it closely there are quite a few bids of messy wording in this that would be a problem

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

17-10-2022 18:18:47 UTC

against cov based off of other comments

Axemabaro:

17-10-2022 19:57:02 UTC

imperial