Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Proposal: Hellish Rebuke

Adminned at 14 Jan 2022 03:50:27 UTC

if “Staunton Lick” does not pass, this proposal does nothing

In “the Campfire at the end of Hell” replace

At any time, a Tripper may give any positive amount of their Coins to another Tripper.

with

At any time, a Tripper may give any positive amount of their Coins to another Tripper, provided the targeted Tripper has a positive number of coins

Add the following to “The Campfire at the End of Hell”

The Campfire Demon has a positive integer power, which by default is 5 and is publicly tracked.

As a daily communal action, a Tripper may carry out the following atomic action:

* Randomly select a Tripper who has a positive number of coins
* Reduce that Tripper’s coins by the Campfire Demon’s power, to a minimum of 0
* Increase the Campfire Demon’s power by 1

Quorum Reached. Passes 7-1.—Clucky

posted by Clucky at 12 Jan 2022 21:29:00 UTC Comments (15)

Comments

Josh: he/they

12-01-2022 21:40:53 UTC

I like this.

Josh: he/they

12-01-2022 23:36:23 UTC

for

TyGuy6:

13-01-2022 00:47:31 UTC

for

Brendan: he/him

13-01-2022 01:38:00 UTC

imperial

Kevan: he/him

13-01-2022 12:21:22 UTC

against I think a human kingmaker is more interesting than a coinflip-based NPC one, if we get to the point where two players both have slightly less than half the marbles and other players are considering how to break that tie.

Silverwing: she/her

13-01-2022 19:55:56 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

13-01-2022 20:00:51 UTC

Same goes for factions, in fact: we’ve just seen a few possible factions evaporate with Jumble unidling and adding 5 Coins to the economy, where those groups of players no longer quite have over half.

Having a demon which knocks coins back out is just going to randomly put one of those factions back into the lead at some point (whichever one was lucky enough not to have any of its members hit), with no negotiation or skill required.

Josh: he/they

13-01-2022 20:14:58 UTC

COV against per Kevan and per Clucky’s public utterances on Discord

Clucky: he/him

13-01-2022 20:16:59 UTC

@Josh awfully nice of you to provide enthusiastic support for this idea, leading me to support your original proposal, and then withdraw your support for this idea once your proposal passes

Josh: he/they

13-01-2022 20:18:33 UTC

Yeah, well, I wasn’t expecting to have it immediately weaponised against me, what can I say

Zack: he/him

13-01-2022 20:19:03 UTC

I am leaning towards against unless someone wants to throw me 7 or so coins so I’m not stuck at 0 and so the demon can’t insta-knock me out.

Josh: he/they

13-01-2022 20:24:23 UTC

re-CoV - I missed that this was random in its targeting for

Tech:

13-01-2022 20:59:28 UTC

for

Zack: he/him

13-01-2022 21:14:49 UTC

for

Raven1207: he/they

14-01-2022 03:44:21 UTC

for