BlogNomic: Game Balancing Guideline

Thursday, October 20, 2022

Proposal: Game Balancing Guideline

Passes 4-1

Adminned at 22 Oct 2022 17:56:43 UTC

Add the following text to the end of the rule “Fun and Games”, after the end of the table:

A new game’s Reward should generally be assigned so that the expected (average) value of the Party Score gained by each participant of an associated Activity played to completion is roughly equal to twice the energy it cost them.

Change the Reward for Darts to 18, and subtract 57 from the Party Score of every Partygoer who has won a game of Darts during the current Party or Grand Party.

Comments

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

20-10-2022 17:32:02 UTC

Do you intend this to be referring to the cost in energy? That’s what I would think on first reading it since energy is what’s listed as the cost for activities, but then that would put party score rewards and even lower than what you have here for darts.

lendunistus: he/him

20-10-2022 17:53:59 UTC

eh, don’t really agree with this

also, if you’re nerfing darts, you should probably nerf pogs as well

Bucky:

20-10-2022 18:12:17 UTC

Pogs can keep its higher reward because its energy cost is variable and can easily exceed darts twice over.

Clarified for Trapdoorspyder’s concerns, although I’m certain I did the math right for darts (3 energy spent per 1/3 chance of winning, times 2, equals 18).