Proposal: Help! The Coppers Are Omniscient!
Reached quorum 5 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 20 Jul 2023 15:42:52 UTC
In the rule “Crime & Commerce”, subrule “Punishment”, add the following text to the start:
Each Machinist has a Witness List, which is a publicly tracked list that may contain names of Machinists.
Criminal Activity is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Add your name to the Witness List of all Machinists inhabiting the same Megasystem as you who don’t already have your name in their Witness List
* Blank your Witness List
In the rule “Crime & Commerce”, subrule “Punishment”, change this:
If a Machinist has performed a Crime within the previous 24 hours and is not Incarcerated, a Machinist who inhabits the same Megasystem as them may spend 1 Housing to Arrest them, which is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Add that Machinist to the Lockdown list, listed at 2 Days
* Increase Order by 5
to this:
A Machinist who has another Machinist on their Witness List and is inhabiting the same Megasystem as them may spend 1 Housing to Arrest them, which is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Add that Machinist to the Lockdown list, listed at 2 Days
* Remove that Machinist’s name from each Machinist’s Witness List wherever it appears
* Increase Order by 5
In the rule “The Great Machine’s Structure”, subrule “Damage and Repair”, change “As a Mechanised Action, a Machinist may Salvage the megasystem they inhabit (although this is a Crime): they add a random component and one non-Paint Component of their choice to its Damaged Parts, and they gain a component of that chosen type.” to:
A Machinist may Salvage the Megasystem they inhabit, which is a Mechanised atomic action with the following steps:
* Add a random component and one non-Paint component of your choice to its Damaged Parts
* Gain a component of the type you chose in the previous step
* Perform the Criminal Activity atomic action
In the rule “Crime & Commerce”, subrule “Graffiti”, remove the text “(that is also a Crime)” and add the following step to the end of the Deface action:
* Perform the Criminal Activity atomic action
makes it so you have to be there to see the crime before you can arrest someone for committing it. also, per Kevan on discord, performing a crime blanks your own witness list since you’re not reliable anymore
I’m slightly weary of this since it’s a bit bloated, but I’d like to hear others’ opinions
The witnessing mechanic is a good idea, but I remain lukewarm on the practice of rewriting rules to be more like computer code functions.
JonathanDark: he/him
I like this. It’s a lot of wording, but I think we’re finally getting the right justice system for the theme.
Perhaps there’s a way to encompass the last two bullet points as its own action? There’s nothing wrong with having an atomic action inside an atomic action. Something like this:
Then you could simply add:
as the last step of Salvage and Deface. This allows using Criminal Activity in other places as well in the future.