Sunday, December 19, 2010

Proposal: Hard Hats

Quorumed -Darth

Adminned at 19 Dec 2010 14:34:08 UTC

Add a new rule to the ruleset, entitled Currency:

Each Mini Figure has a quantity of Funds, which is tracked in the GNDT. New Mini Figures start with 100 Funds.

Funds can be used to buy bricks. A mini figure may buy a brick by reducing their funds by the value of the brick that they wish to purchase. There is a wiki page entitled Toybox. The Toybox page is split into two section for each Mini Figure - The Bucket and The Workbench. The bricks owned by each Mini Figure are tracked in the Bucket section of the Toybox page.

Add a new rule to the ruleset, entitled Construction:

Mini Figures may combine three or more of their bricks to form a Construction. Bricks that have been used to form a construction are removed from the Bucket section of the Toybox page and the construction is added to the Workbench section of the same page. The Workbench section must detail a name, a value and the composition in bricks for each construction. The base value of a construction is strictly equal to the sum of the values of the bricks used in its composition. As a weekly action, a Mini Figure may sell one of their Constructions by removing it from their section of the Toybox page and adding its value to their Funds.

The value of a construction may be affected by any of a number of modifiers. These are detailed a subrule to this rule.

Add a subrule to the rule called Construction, entitled Value modifiers:

The following value modifiers apply to all constructions:

* Big
Criteria: The base value of the construction is 500 or more.
Effect: Value x2

* Little
Criteria: The base value of the construction is 10 or less.
Effect: Value x0.75

* Uniform
Criteria: All of the bricks involved in the construction are the same colour.
Effect: Value +10

Illustrations for constructions from the Lego Digital Designer are encouraged.

More twiddling around with modifiers needed, plus the framework for building recognisable shapes (for which additional modifiers should be achievable.)

posted by Josh at 19 Dec 2010 09:35:07 UTC Comments (14)

Comments

Subrincinator:

19-12-2010 10:20:18 UTC

imperial Can Mini Figures add to their own existing Constructions?

Can they add to other Mini Figures’ existing constructions?

Perhaps a certain colour brick can only be purchased on a specific day of the week (with White and Black being available only be a special die-roll, or something…)

Josh: Observer he/they

19-12-2010 10:35:42 UTC

At the moment, no, but I’d like to add that… Constructions that combine into other constructions.

I was thinking that there could be a shortage mechanic - so that if too many bricks of one colour get bought, that colour gets more expensive, and similarly with various dimensions. That too is a future proposal.

Purplebeard:

19-12-2010 12:39:15 UTC

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Roujo: he/him

19-12-2010 16:32:29 UTC

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Clucky: he/him

19-12-2010 16:52:11 UTC

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I like it. Keeps things simpler, actually having rules for building physical things would’ve been too complex.

iqforu:

19-12-2010 16:56:02 UTC

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Klisz:

19-12-2010 16:58:00 UTC

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Thane Q:

19-12-2010 17:09:17 UTC

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scshunt:

19-12-2010 18:38:37 UTC

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Clucky: he/him

19-12-2010 18:56:42 UTC

two complaints after reading it again:

1) there is no real reason to buy non 1x1 bricks, as eight 1x1 bricks has the same value as a 2x4.

2) if I have 500 value bricks, all blue is that (500 + 10) * 2 or (500) * 2 + 10?

scshunt:

19-12-2010 18:58:48 UTC

The latter won’t come up for a while and can be fixed by a disambiguator proposal.

Josh: Observer he/they

19-12-2010 19:02:42 UTC

The first is a problem at the moment, but I anticipate that further mechanics (such as constructions that require specific templates) will make that an undesirable strategy.

Darknight: he/him

19-12-2010 21:32:04 UTC

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Hyronious:

19-12-2010 22:23:17 UTC

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