Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Proposal: Late Military Target Selection

At 1-3, has fewer than a quorum of Pilots not voting AGAINST. Failed by Brendan.

Adminned at 21 Jan 2021 14:44:04 UTC

In the rule “Attack a Military Target”, change

“When attacking a military target is added to a DEVA’s schedule, a Jockeying Pilot must be secretly randomly selected as its target.”

to

“When a DEVA begins the Prepare stage of attacking a military target, a Jockeying Pilot must be secretly randomly selected as its target. If there are no Jockeying Pilots at that time, the Bogey switches to an Attack a Civilian Target action, starting immediately and ending at the same time the Attack stage would have ended.”

The current batch of DEVAs has a hard time hitting because the Shells have a shorter lifetime than their planning phase. They should be smart enough to find another target.

Comments

Josh: Observer he/they

19-01-2021 19:23:41 UTC

Shifting a bunch of military attacks to civilian seems like it’ll cause victory problems. How about making it so that target acquisition happens at the end of the action rather than the beginning?

Bucky:

19-01-2021 22:02:47 UTC

Right now the case where it has no available targets is simply undefined. Do you have a better default than “civillians”?

Josh: Observer he/they

20-01-2021 07:57:36 UTC

Define “better”

Civilians is tidy as it’s defined in the ruleset but, look, at this rate no-one is going to win, anything that pushes the civilian counter up that much is probably net negative. Having the attack fizzle and do nothing is probably objectively “better”.

against

Coderblaze:

20-01-2021 15:38:54 UTC

against

Bucky:

20-01-2021 16:35:56 UTC

Josh, that’s inevitable in the short term since “Evacuation Protocol” failed.

Josh: Observer he/they

20-01-2021 20:32:49 UTC

I mean, we can pass other proposals

Just

Not this one

Better ones

Brendan: he/him

21-01-2021 14:33:33 UTC

imperial