Wednesday, March 08, 2017

Proposal: Lest We Run Faster than We have Strength

Quorums 9-0. — Quirck

Adminned at 09 Mar 2017 19:50:25 UTC

To the rule “Anatomy” add:

An organ may only change its state to amorphous once per day.

 

Right now the rules encourage long chains of actions done quickly, ending by using up all the resources that the statolith has accumulated. This is accomplished by constantly going amorphous in order to gain nutrients. This rule puts a limit on these chains. As a reminder, we use UTC time, so Americans have days starting and ending in the evening.

posted by derrick at 08 Mar 2017 21:54:00 UTC Comments (11)

Comments

Oracular rufio:

08-03-2017 22:02:54 UTC

for Right, it used to be a daily action, then Primordial Smoothie changed it.

Sphinx:

08-03-2017 22:22:26 UTC

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card:

08-03-2017 22:24:49 UTC

Ah, if the statolith had many nutrients, one organ could potentially do a lot of actions.  for

Kevan: he/him

08-03-2017 22:25:32 UTC

for Taking a no-brainer change to Amorphous once per day is also quite boring, though.

orkboi:

08-03-2017 22:27:09 UTC

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Viv:

08-03-2017 22:38:30 UTC

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derrick: he/him

08-03-2017 22:51:00 UTC

[Kevan]

Are you saying that’s a boring fix of the problem, or that you were hoping for a meatier proposal?

:)

pokes:

08-03-2017 23:06:53 UTC

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Oracular rufio:

08-03-2017 23:29:55 UTC

Probably there should be another way of disseminating nutrients to the Organs, ideally one that gets Gonium to Limbs and Nonium to Glands and so forth.

Madrid:

08-03-2017 23:46:23 UTC

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Kevan: he/him

09-03-2017 09:42:36 UTC

[Derrick] Just that if it’s mechanically uninteresting to have turning Amorphous as a free action that you should always take whenever you do anything, it’s still uninteresting if it’s a free action that you should always take once per day.