Sunday, January 01, 2023

Proposal: How old is everyone?

Fewer than a quorum not voting against. Failed 1 vote to 7 by Kevan.

Adminned at 02 Jan 2023 19:48:06 UTC

In section ‘Explorers’, add a subsection denoted as ‘Ages’ with the following text:

Age is a publicly known variable that is recorded on the gamestate. If an Explorer’s age is blank, that Explorer can set their age to ‘Child’, ‘Adult’, or ‘Elderly’. Age can restrict the abilities that a player can do known by the rules of the ruleset.

Comments

Raven1207: he/they

01-01-2023 19:41:50 UTC

I know it might be an orphan variable but I was just thinking that if this dynasty is going to be based of Betrayal on the Hill that it could be something to implement

JonathanDark: he/him

01-01-2023 19:46:59 UTC

Can an Explorer change their Age multiple times or just once? It’s fine if your intention is to allow multiple changes, but I thought I’d call this out.

You don’t need the phrase “Age can restrict the abilities that a player can do known by the rules of the ruleset.” as that will come with whatever future Proposals contain rules regarding Age.

I would also recommend re-wording this a bit to match the language of the ruleset so that it’s more clear. There’s already a bulleted list that contains the tracked fields of Explorers, so just add Age to this list, like so…

In the rule “Explorers” add the following bullet to the end of the bullet list:

* Age, which is a string with the valid values “Child”, “Adult”, or “Elderly”, defaulting to “Adult”

 

Raven1207: he/they

01-01-2023 19:49:16 UTC

Ooops

SingularByte: he/him

01-01-2023 19:50:48 UTC

I’d say this needs some mechanics associated with it in the proposal. It would probably be fine as an early proposal, but I’m suspecting stub proposals aren’t going to be fleshed out much if we’re already in the late mid-game.

Raven1207: he/they

01-01-2023 19:52:55 UTC

Fair…

JonathanDark: he/him

01-01-2023 20:16:31 UTC

You still have plenty of time to edit this Proposal

Raven1207: he/they

01-01-2023 20:44:16 UTC

True but the thing is I’m unsure what to add.

JonathanDark: he/him

01-01-2023 20:47:42 UTC

If you didn’t like my suggestion of what to change it to, or you wanted to add more to it based on SingularByte’s suggestion, comment here or in Discord what kinds of abilities you envisioned Age to affect. We can help you craft the Proposal so that it works as you intended in your head. No sense in wasting your Proposal slot if we can help you make it a productive one.

Bucky:

02-01-2023 07:24:25 UTC

against

I don’t think the hanging variable is a good idea in any event, but the first sentence accidentally(?) defines a single Age variable not associated with any particular Explorer which means the rest of the rule doesn’t function.

Josh: Observer he/they

02-01-2023 08:31:32 UTC

against

SingularByte: he/him

02-01-2023 08:35:53 UTC

against

quirck: he/him

02-01-2023 10:38:25 UTC

against

Kevan: he/him

02-01-2023 10:39:53 UTC

against If you’re not sure how to word a rule, it’s always a safe bet to just base it off of one that already does a similar thing (eg. “Advantages and Disadvantages”, or any of many rules from past dynasties).

JonathanDark: he/him

02-01-2023 17:22:19 UTC

against

Habanero:

02-01-2023 19:14:46 UTC

against