Proposal: Kessler Syndrome
Passes 7-0 with Quorum FOR. +2 Fuel. -Bucky
Adminned at 27 Nov 2014 02:30:13 UTC
If a rule exists called “Once-an-Orbit Actions”, repeal it.
To the last paragraph of the rule “Local Maneuvering”, add:-
The Shuttle may then optionally perform a single Knock-On Action.
In the rule “Derelicts”, replace the sentence beginning “Any Shuttle with the same Orbit as a Derelict” with:
Any Shuttle with the same Orbit as a Derelict may, as a Knock-On Action, cause that Derelict to take a GNDT action.
Changing the “take an action any time between two manoeuvres” mechanic to “take an action immediately after a manoeuvre”, given that we aren’t keeping visible track of whether players have taken that action or not.
(“Once-an-Orbit” seems like an unintuitive name for these actions because a player could easily perform many Once-an-Orbit actions during a single “Orbit” of a moon, if the metaphor for Orbit Numbers is that going from 1 to 20 and back to 1 will take you around Ganymede once.)
Bucky:
I like the idea of Knock-On Actions. I think there’s still a place for what we’re currently calling “Once-an-Orbit” actions, although they might need to limit them to 24 hours after maneuvering. And the limit to one Knock-On Action per move might be oppressive if we add too many types of them, but if that comes up, we can add Knock-Ons to other actions.