BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

First the robot stamp and now the T stamp. Are you afraid of high-value points, Kevan?

We do have almost 2 weeks between now and Dec 4. I feel like there’s plenty of time for people to get the stamps that they want, and to affect the value of other stamps to their benefit.

I don’t think such a high-value stamp should be attached to an action whose difficulty depends mostly on which timezone a player is in.

Can I even vote? I’m leaning on this, for offical vote taking purposes, I’m but I’m not sure I can vote.

Benbot, you probably need to be officially un-idled first. You’ve got time to wait for that.

I think the timezone argument is somewhat of a red herring. Every stamp is affected by who gets in line first to some degree or another. The only reason the T stamp is high-value at the moment is because no one has taken advantage of getting it yet. Once folks do, it won’t be so high-value.

How about a compromise? Rather than repeal the whole T stamp, make a proposal to improve it. Lower the requirement for the stamp to just 2 of the Group’s Visitors, which opens it up to more of the attractions. There won’t be such a rush to beat the clock for Advancing the Queues. Also, the stamp will naturally decrease in value as a result of being easier to get.

@JonathanDark Benbot is okay to come back now, actually; the 96 hour cooldown is for idle-by-requests, not idle-by-timeouts.

That said I do agree with you about this proposal. 

Four does seem to be the wrong number, given that the default admit value seems to be three.

However, this proposal has a shoot-the-leader component to it, so .

[Bucky] In what sense? That you think I’m targetting it at specific players for wider gameplay reasons? Or do you think that once a bias has been noticed in the ruleset, the players that it advantages deserve to be protected from the bias being flattened?

“If any Visitor has any T Stamps…”

Nobody has any. It was to discourage everyone (myself included) from grabbing a confirmed 50-pointer rare Stamp before it became impossible to get any more.

The “Shoot the Leader” case won’t happen, but I’ve already proposed an alternative.