Saturday, July 08, 2006

Proposal: Gone Fishin’

Self-killed.
Failed by Hix.

Adminned at 09 Jul 2006 14:00:28 UTC

Add a new Rule titled ‘Manipulation’:

Twice every seventy-two hours, a Traveler may Attract another Traveler towards emself, afterwards posting a notice to the front page. If D is the distance in years between the two Travelers (taken to be a positive quantity), let M be defined as I*DICE(3I)/DICE(D^2), rounded up to the nearest integer, where I is the Influence of the Attracting Traveler.  If the Attracting Traveler has a later date then the Traveller being Attracted, the increase the latter’s TL by M years, but not past the TL of the Attracting Traveler. If the Attracting Traveler has a earlier date then the Traveller being Attracted, then decrease the latter’s TL by M years, but not past the TL of the Attracting Traveler.

Twice every seventy-two hours, a Traveler may Repel another Traveler away from emself, afterwards posting a notice to the front page. If D is the distance in years between the two Travelers (taken to be a positive quantity), let N be defined as I*DICE(2I)/DICE(D^2), rounded up to the nearest integer, where I is the Influence of the Attracting Traveler. If the Attracting Traveler has a later date then the Traveller being Attracted, the decrease the latter’s TL by N years. If the Attracting Traveler has a earlier date then the Traveller being Attracted, then increase the latter’s TL by N years, but not past the TL of the Attracting Traveler.

Comments

Kevan: he/him

08-07-2006 15:20:14 UTC

against Just feels out of theme for this to be a default ability for everyone (and one that people might as well do every so often).

Bucky:

08-07-2006 15:31:10 UTC

What does the Attracting Traveller from paragraph 1 have to do with Repelling?  I beleive the second paragraph could use some major revision.

against

Angry Grasshopper:

08-07-2006 16:55:30 UTC

Doh! Bucky is correct; that little oversight makes the second rule useless.

against

I’d still like to know general thoughts about this proposal, so please put them here after you’ve read it.

Coldspell:

08-07-2006 18:06:02 UTC

against

Excalabur:

08-07-2006 19:10:06 UTC

against Yick.  I’d rather you could attract yourself towards other people.

Hix:

08-07-2006 23:46:45 UTC

against

ChronosPhaenon:

09-07-2006 15:33:31 UTC

Just for the record, this was self-killed by AG 4 comments ago.

I’d vote FOR a better worded one.