Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Proposal: Gosh darn sellouts

Reaches 1-6 and cannot achieve quorum so it fails -SingularByte

Adminned at 14 Jul 2022 04:03:51 UTC

Create a new dynastic rule named “Sponsors” with the following body, allowing the wiki to interpret the included wiki formatting into a table:

Each Operator has a Sponsorship, which is a publicly tracked value defaulting to None.

A Sponsor consists of the following: a name, which is flavor text, a description, which is flavor text, a Benefit, an Ad Read and a Severance Payment.

While an Operator’s Sponsorship is set to any value other than None, they must abide by the Ad Read of the Sponsor corresponding to their Sponsorship.

While their Sponsorship is set to None, an Operator may Accept a Sponsorship Deal, which is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Select a Sponsor
* Set your Sponsorship to the name of the Sponsor you selected
* Carry out the Benefit of the Sponsor you selected

While their Sponsorship is set to a value other than None, an Operator may Sever their Contract, which is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Subtract the Severance Payment of the Sponsor corresponding to your Sponsorship from your Money
* Undo the Benefit of the Sponsor corresponding to your Sponsorship, except for any sentences prefixed with “Instant:”.
* Set your Sponsorship to None.

The following is a list of Sponsors:

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Sponsors
! Name || Description || Benefit || Ad Read || Severance Payment
|-
| Lending Tech Inc. || Bottom of the barrel parts for bottom of the barrel prices. || Instant: Add ₩6000 to your Money. || None. || ₩10.000
|}

Adding a basic sponsorship system, starting off with a “loan” of sorts

Comments

SingularByte: he/him

13-07-2022 15:41:11 UTC

Is there intended to be any actual downsides to sponsorships, or is the cost basically that if you pick one too soon, it’s harder to pick others due to the severance costs?

Josh: Observer he/they

13-07-2022 15:51:08 UTC

I acknowledge that this is a nice conceptual idea, but no-one has spent any money on components yet; the economy of this game needs a *lot* of fine tuning and until we’ve had a couple of builds and a couple of bouts I think mechanics like this are too early.

lendunistus: he/him

13-07-2022 16:25:03 UTC

@SB ad reads are intended to be the downsides. stuff like having to use a deadweight system or having to refrain from using a competitor’s parts (although we’d have to brand parts them) were what I was thinking of

lendunistus: he/him

13-07-2022 16:25:48 UTC

@Josh if you think it’s too soon, fair enough. just wanted to get something off the ground.

lendunistus: he/him

13-07-2022 20:00:29 UTC

oh I forgot to add the “you must abide by the ad read” text

probably not passing but I’ll put it in in a future proposal if this does pass

Brendan: he/him

13-07-2022 21:04:06 UTC

imperial

Josh: Observer he/they

13-07-2022 21:31:10 UTC

against

Kevan: he/him

13-07-2022 21:33:46 UTC

against Does see a bit early.

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

13-07-2022 22:58:11 UTC

against

Snisbo: she/they

14-07-2022 00:03:48 UTC

I really like the idea but yeah. Let’s get some bouts going first against

SingularByte: he/him

14-07-2022 04:03:02 UTC

against