Monday, March 16, 2020

Proposal: Interior Design

Adminned at 18 Mar 2020 10:33:14 UTC

Add a new rule to the ruleset, entitled Locations:

The Palace of Versailles has many inspirational locations contained within its grounds. The locations in the Palace are the Garden, the Chapel, the Canals, the Battle Gallery and the Marble Hall.

Noblemen can occupy one Location at any time; this is tracked in the Noblemen page of the wiki and defaults to the Marble Hall. Noblemen can change their locations as a daily action.

Each Location is associated with an Item Type (defaulting to Favour of the King), and has a number of Inspirations, both of which are tracked in the Noblemen page of the wiki. If, at any time, a Nobleman is the only Nobleman at a Location, they may change its associated Item Type to any of the Item Types or Subtypes listed in the rule Items.

Add a subrule to this rule, entitled A Moment of Clarity:

As a Daily Action, a Nobleman may have a Moment of Clarity by carrying out the following Atomic Action:

* Create an Item, as per the rule Items, with a Type (and Subtype, if appropriate) that matches the Item Type associated with the Location that they are occupying, and a name of their own choosing that follows the format of “an idea for x” where x is not more than three words.
* Add that Item to the list of Inspirations associated with the Location that they are currently occupying.
* Increase their Prestige by 1.

Remove the first sentence from the rule Items, and change the second to read ‘An item in an auction must have the qualities detailed in this rule, with all quality values except names being selected at random. Item Names are always flavour text.’. After the first sentence of the rule Auctions, add “The Items in the Auction must consist of one item, randomly selected, from the Inspirations of each Location that has any Inspirations to choose from, which Louis XIV must remove from the relevant Inspiration lists and rename with a name of his choosing when the Auction is posted”.

Enacted, 9-0. Josh

Comments

Kevan: he/him

16-03-2020 14:07:05 UTC

The Items created here won’t have Names, I think? It’s also a bit hazy whether we can make Valuable ones, as Noblemen don’t know the median Debt (or does Valuable mean that the Debt change is only calculated and applied at the moment of an Auction win?).

Josh: Observer he/they

16-03-2020 14:14:01 UTC

Thank you, I’ve made some changes around names.

I think that X is determined at the moment of posting the Auction? Thematically the concept is that Items on Inspiration lists aren’t items yet, they’re just ideas, and they don’t become items until they hit the market… Hard to know how to render that…

Kevan: he/him

16-03-2020 14:42:11 UTC

I’d maybe also add that Names are flavour text, to cut down the scam potential of being able to inject any text into the gamestate.

Not sure about the concept as a whole, yet.

Josh: Observer he/they

16-03-2020 14:48:06 UTC

I’ve done that.

This proposal and the other one, together, are intended to make the game more player-focused and less reliant on the Emperor, and increase the space available for strategic decision-making, in case that wasn’t clear.

Ninja:

16-03-2020 15:20:51 UTC

so the only thing players got to affect is the type and subtype of the items?
also, what do the item types of the locations default to?

Josh: Observer he/they

16-03-2020 15:24:01 UTC

At the moment, yes, although we can extend other levers once the concept is stood up.

I didn’t define start values (oops) as the Appendix makes it so that in this situation it’s the alphabetically first value, so Favour of the King.

Josh: Observer he/they

16-03-2020 15:33:00 UTC

Have changed it to make it explicit that the Item Type default is Favour of the King.

Ninja:

16-03-2020 15:44:20 UTC

for

naught:

16-03-2020 16:00:51 UTC

for

Clucky: he/him

16-03-2020 16:12:55 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

16-03-2020 16:57:11 UTC

imperial I’m fine with Louis XIV being an unbiased deck of cards.

Kevan: he/him

16-03-2020 17:05:50 UTC

Wait, what Impacts do these Items have? This rule only sets their Type and Name.

Josh: Observer he/they

16-03-2020 17:07:21 UTC

You still do the whole Items process, this only details exceptions from that process

Lulu: she/her

16-03-2020 19:15:52 UTC

for

Darknight: he/him

16-03-2020 19:21:05 UTC

for

card:

16-03-2020 19:37:01 UTC

for

Brendan: he/him

17-03-2020 16:17:54 UTC

imperial