Sunday, October 29, 2023

Proposal: High Achiever

Withdrawn. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 30 Oct 2023 09:49:32 UTC

Add a new rule named “Achievements” and give it the following text:

Each Wizard has a publicly-tracked Achievements, which is a list that defaults to empty. The possible entries in the list of Achievements are defined below along with the criteria required for each Achievement:

;Trend Setter: The Wizard successfully cast Unify while being the only Trendy Wizard.
;Unique Magnifique: The Wizard successfully cast Spotlight while being the only Unique Wizard.
;Saintly: The Wizard’s Benevolent trait value is at least 5 and is greater than all other of their Personality Traits’ values combined.
;Fireproof: The Wizard was in the target position of one or more Burn spells but did not lose any Stars from the effects of any of the Burn spells.
;Elite Sniper: The Wizard successfully cast Snipe and prevented the Wizard that they named from casting Magical Armor.
;Expert Forager: The Wizard successfully cast Gather and did not lose Stars from any other Spell.

If a Wizard has at least 3 Achievements, that Wizard is considered to be an Archmage. The first Wizard to be an Archmage achieves victory. If there is more than one Archmage, the Archmage with the higest Stars among all Archmages achieves victory. If more than one Archmage has the highest Stars, no Archmage achieves victory until only one Archmage has the highest Stars among all Archmages.

In the rule “Commencing a Duel”, after the bullet point beginning with “Reply to the duel post”, add this bullet point:

* For each Achievement, add it to the list of Achievements for each Wizard who met the criteria for that Achievement during this Duel if that Wizard does not have that Achievement in their list already.

An attempt at setting up the win conditions.

Comments

Snisbo: she/they

29-10-2023 07:58:20 UTC

Hmm… the difficulty scale feels all over the place here. Some of these are incredibly easy, others probably won’t happen at all in this entire dynasty. It’s making it a bit hard to judge whether 3 is the right amount.

Clucky: he/him

29-10-2023 13:34:25 UTC

against

Some people already hit fireproof. Expert forager too I think. And elite sniper is super easy to get a friend to help you with. So I think this could cause things to easily end in a round or two

JonathanDark: he/him

29-10-2023 17:10:25 UTC

@Clucky, note the wording:

for each Wizard who met the criteria for that Achievement during this Duel

Meaning that the trigger for that achievement had to occur during the Duel in question. Past Duels don’t count.

JonathanDark: he/him

29-10-2023 17:14:12 UTC

All that said, if people like the idea of Achievements but just have problems with the specific ones listed, I could re-propose the structure and simply leave the list of possible Achievements blank for now.

It would be helpful if people were to pick out the reasonable ones from what I’ve already proposed. I could also add in a “if after” date so that we don’t even start counting Achievements until after a certain date, so that there’s plenty of time to come up with Achievements collaboratively and tweak them to be roughly balanced.

Clucky: he/him

29-10-2023 17:19:48 UTC

Hrm… I still worry a lot of these are easy for people to work together on but I’ll switch to imperial

Bucky:

29-10-2023 19:54:58 UTC

against  per Clucky’s worries.

Snisbo: she/they

29-10-2023 20:15:12 UTC

against Not against the idea, necessarily, just against how easy some are and how hard others are. Also, I think Clucky’s point with fireproof is that it happened accidentally, and would probably just be incredibly easy to get intentionally. At that point, we may as well just remove fireproof from the list and lower the requirement to 2 achievements, because if people can accidentally get it before achievements even exist, everyone is likely to get it.

JonathanDark: he/him

30-10-2023 03:23:02 UTC

against Withdrawn, but I’ll re-propose with no Achievements actually defined and a “not until” date, to give us time to work it out.