Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Proposal: I Say Legal, You Say Not

Vetoed ~ southpointingchariot

Adminned at 22 Mar 2012 20:08:59 UTC

Append the following text to the rule entitled “Institutions”

The Mob: When a player influences the Mob, all other players with more than 5 credits lose 1 credit. The player who influences the mob then acquires these credits. The player who acquires these credits loses half of that number in power. If the player who influences the mob does not have enough power they do not acquire any credits.

 

This creates the Mob, which allows you to steal credits from other people in exchange for losing some of your power.

Comments

Klisz:

21-03-2012 03:54:20 UTC

for

Doctor29:

21-03-2012 04:19:55 UTC

for

southpointingchariot:

21-03-2012 04:24:01 UTC

for

SlamCrackle:

21-03-2012 04:52:49 UTC

for

southpointingchariot:

21-03-2012 04:56:54 UTC

Btw, cool title :)

omd:

21-03-2012 05:20:49 UTC

imperial

Josh: Observer he/they

21-03-2012 07:12:48 UTC

against

Soviet Brendon:

21-03-2012 07:13:24 UTC

imperial

Kevan: he/him

21-03-2012 10:36:37 UTC

against I see what it’s trying to do, but I think “does not have enough power” is too vague.

ChronosPhaenon:

21-03-2012 11:48:01 UTC

against per Kevan

Patrick:

21-03-2012 12:27:20 UTC

@Kevan: Would: “does not have enough power required by the mob” be better wording?

Kevan: he/him

21-03-2012 13:10:47 UTC

Better, but there’s still enough of a sliver of ambiguity for someone to argue a scam (“the Mob ‘require’ X credits, or all of my credits if I have less than X, so I’ve met their requirement”).

And actually, I think the power loss wouldn’t work anyway: “Any action that would set [a non-negative variable] below zero is an illegal action unless explicitly otherwise stated in the ruleset.”, so if I had 5 and lost 10, I’d hit an illegal action and just stay at 5.

I’d just boil it down to something like “The number of Credits lost in this way during a Cycle is X. If the player who influenced the Mob has Power greater than or equal to half of X, then they gain X Credits and lose X/2 Power.”

Murphy:

21-03-2012 14:10:37 UTC

against per Kevan

Doctor29:

22-03-2012 05:18:19 UTC

COV against thanks Kevan.

scshunt:

22-03-2012 11:21:25 UTC

against

Bucky:

23-03-2012 02:33:28 UTC

against

southpointingchariot:

23-03-2012 03:08:40 UTC

veto