Friday, January 01, 2021

Proposal: Higher Level Functions

Timed out and failed, 2 votes to 3. Josh

Adminned at 03 Jan 2021 11:14:19 UTC

In the rule DEVAs, change the third paragraph to read

Each DEVA has statistics that are secretly tracked by Poindexter, that fall within the ranges for that DEVA’s sub-species. Whenever Poindexter has to generate a new DEVA, they should secretly randomly determine its Energy, Attack and Defence based on the published ranges, and secretly randomly determine whether it has any of the special features possible for its sub-species. Each Bogey has a space in public tracking for information relating to each Bogey’s statistics, Any Pilot may fill in the publicly tracked information for Bogey statistics to reflect information that they have publicly or privately gained, guesses or inferences derived from other game events, or speculation. The publicly tracked information on Bogey statistics does not necessarily reflect the private statistics of those Bogeys, and in the event that they disagree, the privately tracked information will be considered the true statistics for each Bogey; the publicly tracked information instead reflects the knowledge and best guesses of the Pilots.

If Proposal: No free-riders was enacted, remove the final two paragraphs of the rule Corporations and replace them with the following:

Each Corporation has a Creed, a Requirement and a Specialism . A Corporation’s Creed is Flavor Text. A Corporation’s Requirement sets out what criteria a Pilot must meet to be Affiliated with that Corporation; an Unaffiliated Pilot may change their Affiliation to any Corporation for which they meet the Requirement.

A Specialism is a single DEVA statistic (or “-”, meaning “no specialism”); it defaults to “-”. A member of a Corporation may make a Specialism Post, which is a Post with a title of “Specalism Post:” and the name of their Corporation, and the body text of which must be a single word (or two-word phrase) which is the name of a DEVA statistic, and no other content. They may then change the Specialism of their Corporation to that statistic. Whenever a Bogey Emerges, Poindexter must privately inform the members of each Corporation of the value of the statistic listed in their Corporation’s Specialism.

In the rule The Battlefield, change the fourth bullet point to read

If the Fire Vector is exactly equal to the target’s Defence, then the target’s Energy is reduced by the attacker’s Attack. If this results in the target having zero or less Energy then the target is eliminated.

Comments

Coderblaze:

01-01-2021 12:38:31 UTC

About specializations, defense would be the only one worth taking. The ability to not have to guess would be very powerful.

Josh: Observer he/they

01-01-2021 12:57:26 UTC

In isolation, yes. But if you can cooperate across corporations then energy, attack and special abilities will all be useful

Bucky:

01-01-2021 21:12:34 UTC

against

I have not yet evaluated the DEVAs changes, but object to the other two.

I really don’t want to end up playing real-time Nim to claim kills. And specializations completely override the current dynamics with Nim. That’s assuming the final paragraph even works as intended; I think it instead causes attacks to fail to do anything if they’d take the Bogey’s Energy outside the range for its Species.

Specialization, when eventually implemented, should come with modifications to the scouting Arms.

Josh: Observer he/they

01-01-2021 21:16:23 UTC

What is Nim, sorry?

Bucky:

01-01-2021 21:33:12 UTC

Raven1207: he/they

02-01-2021 02:00:27 UTC

against

Darknight: he/him

02-01-2021 15:10:31 UTC

against

Coderblaze:

02-01-2021 15:26:50 UTC

imperial