Thursday, November 17, 2011

Proposal: Late Joiners’ Boon

Proposal failed. 1-2-7 - Prince Anduril

Adminned at 20 Nov 2011 05:36:27 UTC

Add a new subrule to the rule “Routes”.  Call it “Tailgate” and give it the following text:

A Tailgate Route has a Scouting Cost of 7.  When a Driver drives a Tailgate Route, he chooses another Driver to follow.  He adds a copy of that Driver’s DICENth non-Blocked Route in that Driver’s Route List (where N is the number of non-Blocked Routes that Driver has) to the end of his own Route List, and marks it as Blocked.  He then gains 1 Cash and may remove that Tailgate Route from his Route List.

This gives new players a quicker (probably) way to power up, without helping long-running players too much.

Comments

Clucky: he/him

17-11-2011 20:02:29 UTC

against I think it makes it too easy to get good routes. All you need is one player with an airport route at the end of their list…

ChronosPhaenon:

17-11-2011 22:01:46 UTC

imperial

Kevan: he/him

17-11-2011 22:06:17 UTC

against I don’t think it’s that easy to get good routes (these are non-Blocked routes, not Active ones), but the possibility of getting a good, cheap route if you hold out and watch the GNDT will make the game too much about timing and alertness.

Clucky: he/him

17-11-2011 22:22:45 UTC

Currently the best route is an airport route, and there are like 16 drivers with an airport route as their Nth route in their route list.

Kevan: he/him

17-11-2011 22:27:33 UTC

Are you arguing that “DICENth” effectively means “Nth”? It does seem rather odd shorthand, but I’m not sure how you could read it as “Nth”.

Clucky: he/him

17-11-2011 22:37:34 UTC

No, I just somehow missed the DICE part. Not sure how I did that. I’m less opposed to this now, but still agree its too powerful. Its arguably better than random scouting option, and is cheaper in the long run too

Spitemaster:

18-11-2011 02:12:33 UTC

against

Ornithopter:

18-11-2011 02:27:19 UTC

against

Bucky:

18-11-2011 02:34:25 UTC

Kevan: I seriously doubt timing matters as much as you think it does.  As things stand, there is no timing that will let you avoid the possibility of hitting a Downtown Route.

lazerchik:

18-11-2011 03:26:40 UTC

against

SingularByte: he/him

18-11-2011 07:28:47 UTC

against

Soviet Brendon:

18-11-2011 08:12:54 UTC

imperial

Prince Anduril:

18-11-2011 13:14:44 UTC

against

scshunt:

19-11-2011 18:03:45 UTC

for