Friday, March 28, 2025

Proposal: Lending a Hand

Withdrawn. Failed by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 29 Mar 2025 05:31:32 UTC

If “First steps” was not enacted, the rest of this Proposal has no effect.

Add a subrule to the rule “Actions” named “Assist” with the following text:

As a Daily Action, but no more than three times a week, a Nomicer may increase the Equity of another Nomicer by 1, provided the Nomicer performing this increase has not reduced the Equity of that other Nomicer within the past 72 hours; if they do so they may then immediately increase their own Equity by 2.

In the rule “Mill”, after the text “a Nomicer may reduce the Equity of another Nomicer by 1” add the following text:

, provided the Nomicer performing this reduction has not increased the Equity of that other Nomicer within the past 72 hours

Comments

JonathanDark: he/him

28-03-2025 16:58:30 UTC

I forgot to add my commentary on this, which is that this is to introduce an incentive for pooling or other cooperative possibilities.

SingularByte: he/him

28-03-2025 17:10:09 UTC

against  I’m not too keen. Being able to earn 6 equity per week just through one set of daily actions is a fair chunk, and it goes up to 9 if you’ve got someone willing to pool with you. While pooling is unavoidable, I’d prefer if it was a little more involved than this.

JonathanDark: he/him

28-03-2025 17:16:27 UTC

I was assuming that if two Nomicers started doing this, they would get piled on by most of the other Nomicers, so being too blatant gets you in trouble.

I think there’s room to allow Nomicers to get ahead but then attract too much attention to themselves, leading to a requirement for some diplomacy or other negotiations.

ais523:

28-03-2025 19:48:48 UTC

against This would be more interesting with the numbers reversed (i.e. gain 1 Equity and someone else gains 2), which would make it more explicitly a pooling mechanic (although I think I would dislike it again). This way round, it’s more useful for grinding than pooling – you can just pick someone who’s behind to gain the 1 Influence, and have a mostly free 2 Influence.

ais523:

28-03-2025 19:49:25 UTC

My last comment was a bit misworded – I meant that I think swapping the size of the Equity gains would improve this, but that I would still probably vote AGAINST.

Josh: Imperator he/they

28-03-2025 19:52:21 UTC

imperial

Kevan: he/him

28-03-2025 20:07:58 UTC

”... but no more than three times a week ... provided the Nomicer performing this increase has not reduced the Equity of that other Nomicer within the past 72 hours” is a bit painful for only being tracked in the wiki edit history, if anybody wants to see who can and can’t take the action.

against

DoomedIdeas: he/him

28-03-2025 20:41:38 UTC

imperial

JonathanDark: he/him

28-03-2025 23:20:38 UTC

against Withdrawn