BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

I feel it’s a waste of the Auctions, NOT to penalize high bidders with buyer’s regret.

I can be persuaded.

I think reset mechanics are generally a fair thing to have around, because they’re equivalent to leaving the game but asking a friend to join and take actions on your behalf. We can all theoretically find a friend to do that for us, so we might as well save the effort all round and allow players to just start again if they mess things up badly.

Winning great stuff and deciding to throw it all away and start again at zero still sounds pretty remorseful.

Sorry, I don’t buy it. You shouldn’t rope your friends into winning a weird online game.

Player elimination is a bad mechanic. I don’t like the full reset as it still leaves the reset player with a huge deficit - but it’s better than nothing.

Isn’t that more of an argument for a reset button than against? A reset button moves the option out of “well you could do that but you shouldn’t” (where some players would and others wouldn’t, giving an advantage to the former) and into a space where everyone has the same toolbox.

There’s also the angle that if we wouldn’t - on a purely gameplay level - object to a frustrated player leaving the game and an (unrelated but potentially genius level) new player joining to replace them, we shouldn’t object to the frustrated player effectively becoming a new player either.

And from a social perspective that’s better, as it means we don’t lose a player who feels locked out of the game and gives up.

The social argument works, I suppose. Kevan, friend to the people! 

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