Sunday, May 06, 2018

Proposal: Here’s The Ship

reached quorum 7-3 enacted by card

Adminned at 07 May 2018 17:53:01 UTC

Make a new rule “The Haniver” with the text

The wikipage [[The Haniver]] tracks the following information about the Haniver:
Knots is the speed that the Haniver is traveling. Represented by an integer and defaulting to 0.
The area surrounding the Haniver is represented by a 5x5 grid with the ship located in the center cell. Each cell represents one square nautical mile.
The direction that the Haniver’s bow is facing is tracked in the center square of the aforementioned grid, using the abbreviations of the compass rose and defaults to West.

I’m not sure about the size of the grid. I don’t know how far exactly one could see on deck or in the lookout position, aided or not nor do I know how fast the ship in the novel could move.
The idea is that the ship is always in the center and as it moves the objects will shift instead. Perhaps having the Narrator update it? I’m not too certain which is best.

Comments

Kevan: he/him

06-05-2018 10:14:25 UTC

Anecdotal, but it always feels to me that whenever we put gamestate on its own wiki page, players engage with it less (and thus engage with the game less), as it means checking too many different pages just to see what’s happening every day.

What we’ve got here would be fine converted to a regular blog post from the Narrator, though.

for

Madrid:

06-05-2018 10:50:14 UTC

for

Corona:

06-05-2018 12:37:53 UTC

for

pokes:

06-05-2018 13:59:53 UTC

for

Cpt_Koen:

06-05-2018 14:34:25 UTC

for I seem to recall “Blank this wiki page if it already exists” had to be included in all Proposals adding a wiki page to gamestate. Otherwise, someone could create the page and edit it just before it becomes gamestate.

Kevan: he/him

06-05-2018 16:30:55 UTC

[Koen] We put it in the glossary to avoid having to write it out every time.

Brendan: he/him

06-05-2018 16:31:16 UTC

against I have very rarely had good blognomic experiences with grid pages.

Thunder: he/him

06-05-2018 16:40:36 UTC

for

pokes:

06-05-2018 16:43:26 UTC

against CoV, I agree with Brendan now that I think about it. Grids tend to become heavyweight rules that suck up a lot of oxygen for themselves in dealing with the rule complexity of 2D space.

card:

06-05-2018 18:11:11 UTC

well I’ll resolve to change it to blogposts by the Narrator next time I have a free proposal.

derrick: he/him

06-05-2018 22:23:54 UTC

against

No grid. This theme does not lend itself to geometry.

Lulu: she/her

07-05-2018 12:18:41 UTC

against

derrick: he/him

07-05-2018 17:40:46 UTC

for CoV.

No wikipages looks like its going to pass, we’ve made our point, and this is holding up the rest of the proposals.