BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

and keep it as it is if it does pass.

Galatea may not declare victory anyway, as it is only a player for the purposes of dynastic rules.

Besides, making 96189 Pygmalion Unpowered does not make it less of a Player, unless one amends its description to read “If the 96189 Pygmalion is Powered, then the Galatea counts as a Player for the purposes of every Dynastic Rule”; but this would make Influencing the Pygmalion less interesting, and maybe paradoxal since “actions that would be legal for the Galatea to take” wouldn’t make much sense any longer when the Galatea is not a Player.

Lastly, “Galatea may not achieve victory” is not really effective. If a rule reads “the Player with the most Power Achives Victory” and the Galatea has the most Power, forbidding it to win doesn’t make any other (real) Player be “the Player with the most Power”.
I think if one rule says the Galatea would achieve victory and another says it may not achieve victory, then it doesn’t achieve victory, so no one does. And since it cannot declare victory anyway, “no one achieves victory” has the same effect as “the Galatea achieves victory”.

I don’t really know what the Galatea may be useful for, it just sounded interesting; we currently don’t have transfer mechanics, so I guess it’s only useful to “block” an Institution by having the Galatea Influence it (or other interaction mechanics, like having it Direct one credit to the Bank if you plan to Influence the Bank, etc.)

@Koen - the reason for the specific Galatea clause I suggested is because we don’t know if the current victory condition will stay the same, and even if it doesn’t, we don’t know how Galatea will interact with future rules. It’s not inconceivable that a rule will come in that allows players to transfer resources, for example. This change is not intended to eject Galatea from the ruleset, just make her inaccessible when we get towards endgame.

(Your point in the second paragraph is a good one, but it’s an entirely different bug. This proposal doesn’t affect it in any way: Galatea being in a position to achieve victory prevents anyone else from doing so under the status quo. Another proposal will be required to fix that, but it’s a separate issue from anything that this proposal interacts with.)

also keep it as it is