Friday, January 24, 2020

Proposal: Hazy Cosmic Jive

Reached quorum 9 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 24 Jan 2020 23:59:06 UTC

Enact a new subrule of Artefacts, “The Transistor Radio”:-

Description: A small AM transistor radio with a silver plastic casing and General Electric branding, circa 1955. Any spoken or sung audio picked up by the radio will occasionally have its words altered to a list of numbers, delivered in the transmitted voice. Some such messages have been decoded to produce geographic coordinates or short sentences.
Location: Unknown
Protocol: None.
Effect: Idle Individuals and the Director are encouraged to privately send the carrier of the Transistor Radio their thoughts on possible loopholes in the ruleset.

As suggested on Slack, an artefact to overrule any possible etiquette that idle players and Emperors shouldn’t point out gameplay loopholes, but only to the player carrying it.

Comments

Tantusar: he/they

24-01-2020 12:12:01 UTC

for

Josh: Observer he/they

24-01-2020 12:13:38 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

24-01-2020 12:26:49 UTC

For what it’s worth, I’m currently approaching this dynasty with the mindset that I’ll point out ruleset bugs that would create an ambiguous or frozen gamestate (ie. something we’d otherwise have to waste time resolving at the expense of other gameplay), but won’t point out loopholes (in the same way I wouldn’t shout and draw attention to a player doing something tactically clever in pure open gamestate).

Tantusar: he/they

24-01-2020 12:47:32 UTC

I don’t have much skin in the game having come in so late, but my goal in pointing out vote-deciding problems is to only do so when I believe a proposal negatively effects me and does not positively effect enough other players to render my pointing it out counter-intuitive. ...And, you know, also proposals that straight up break things. It’s a struggle. I don’t think I’m winning this dynasty from this position.

Brendan: he/him

24-01-2020 14:21:57 UTC

for

derrick: he/him

24-01-2020 15:30:10 UTC

imperial

Madrid:

24-01-2020 16:41:52 UTC

for lmao this is crazy and I love it

Lulu: she/her

24-01-2020 17:02:44 UTC

imperial

card:

24-01-2020 17:26:37 UTC

imperial

Darknight: he/him

24-01-2020 20:16:26 UTC

imperial