Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Proposal: I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool

Self-killed. -coppro

Adminned at 27 Oct 2011 11:06:13 UTC

Add a new dynastic rule called “Birth of the Cool” with the following text

Each player has a potentially negative integer level of coolness, tracked in the GNDT in a column called cool. New players start with 0 cool. Players with negative amounts of cool are said to be Uncool. Players with positive amounts of cool are said to be Cool.

Create the following subrule of the above rule called “Lingo” with the following text

Certain words or phrases are cool. Other words or phrases are uncool. Cool and uncool words and phrases are tracked in a wikipage called “Lingo”, with cool words and phrases tracked in a section called “Cool Lingo” and uncool words and phrases tracked in a section called “Uncool Lingo”. Any time a proposal passes, right before the proposal is enacted the player who proposed the proposal has X added to their cool where X is equal to the number of lines from the Cool Lingo section page that appears in his proposal, not including the flavour text minus the number of lines from the Uncool Lingo section page that appears in his proposal, again not including the flavour text.

Create a wikipage called “Lingo” with the sections “Cool Lingo” and “Uncool Lingo” both originally empty.

I realize this is stylistically similar to the The Faux Pas rule, but I think that was a cool mechanic that wasn’t fully explored before, and this should pevent potentially locking up the gamestate. Even if someone makes “a” uncool, anyone who uses an a in their proposals just loses a cool, not that bad. There isn’t anything inheriently “better” about being Cool or Uncool either (at least currently) so we’d just need to make sure we don’t get in a situtation where people don’t want to propose anything because anything that passes would give them -500 cool.

Comments

ais523:

25-10-2011 20:54:41 UTC

against I don’t think this is an interesting mechanic, and it’s too similar to the last dynasty’s. I’d very much like the current dynasty to give teamwork opportunities other than the standard group scamming.

arthexis: he/him

25-10-2011 20:57:37 UTC

against

Prince Anduril:

25-10-2011 20:58:25 UTC

against per Ais

omd:

25-10-2011 20:58:45 UTC

against

Brendan: he/him

25-10-2011 21:00:48 UTC

against

flurie:

25-10-2011 21:24:38 UTC

against

Spitemaster:

25-10-2011 21:48:05 UTC

against

Bucky:

25-10-2011 22:21:04 UTC

for

Shadowclaw:

25-10-2011 22:44:18 UTC

against

redtara: they/them

25-10-2011 22:56:37 UTC

for

Moriarty:

25-10-2011 23:03:50 UTC

against

zuff:

25-10-2011 23:28:09 UTC

against

Pavitra:

25-10-2011 23:47:55 UTC

for but there should be a comma before “minus”.

scshunt:

26-10-2011 00:13:13 UTC

for

Doctor29:

26-10-2011 01:33:42 UTC

against  the title had me so excited :(

Winner:

26-10-2011 01:43:53 UTC

imperial Abstain, can’t bring myself to vote against, title is so awesome.

Darknight: he/him

26-10-2011 02:13:37 UTC

imperial

ChronosPhaenon:

26-10-2011 03:32:16 UTC

against

Ornithopter:

26-10-2011 04:01:56 UTC

against Per Doctor29

Kevan: he/him

26-10-2011 10:44:44 UTC

for

Wooble:

26-10-2011 11:05:55 UTC

against

lazerchik:

26-10-2011 14:24:53 UTC

against

southpointingchariot:

26-10-2011 20:58:32 UTC

against

Josh: Observer he/they

26-10-2011 21:26:31 UTC

against

Amnistar: he/him

26-10-2011 21:42:05 UTC

against

zuff:

27-10-2011 07:41:20 UTC

against

SingularByte: he/him

27-10-2011 13:28:25 UTC

against

scshunt:

27-10-2011 14:16:05 UTC

CoV for due to the power of bowties

Ely:

27-10-2011 15:58:38 UTC

imperial I was pretty sure I had voted on this. I don’t like it, but I don’t hate it either.

Brendan: he/him

27-10-2011 16:58:26 UTC

6-3-20 right now.

Clucky: he/him

27-10-2011 17:53:40 UTC

against I’m to lazy to clear up the queue right now, but theres no way this is getting 8 CoVs in 2 hours so if someone else is trigger happy out there be my guest

monqy:

27-10-2011 18:02:04 UTC

against