Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Proposal: Let the Games Begin

14-8-2 means this sucker’s enacted. -coppro

Adminned at 28 Oct 2011 09:47:18 UTC

Create a new rule, “Involuntary Representation Service”:

In today’s economy, the voting power of Players has been damaged by inflation. In order to reinvigorate our limping lobbying industry, some Dynastic Proposals can be Representation Proposals. A Representation Proposal’s text begins with the line “REPRESENTING:” followed by a list of Players. Those Players are said to be Represented by the Proposal. The author is always Represented by such a Proposal, even if not included in the list.

Whenever a Representation Proposal is enacted, each Player it represents becomes eligible to receive a Stimulus Package.

If a player Represented by a Proposal votes AGAINST that Proposal, it counts as if the author of that Proposal has voted AGAINST it (in other words, it has been Self-Killed), for the purposes of the rule “1.6 Resolution of Proposals”.

My take on a factions and secrets game.

posted by arthexis at 26 Oct 2011 15:33:17 UTC Comments (27)

Comments

ais523:

26-10-2011 16:22:16 UTC

for That’s not a bad way to do factions, actually.

Josh: he/they

26-10-2011 16:24:48 UTC

for

Pavitra:

26-10-2011 16:30:25 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

26-10-2011 16:32:15 UTC

for

Brendan: he/him

26-10-2011 16:38:15 UTC

for

Prince Anduril:

26-10-2011 16:58:25 UTC

against

Amnistar: he/him

26-10-2011 17:00:24 UTC

for  someone.should create a rule to represent no one.

flurie:

26-10-2011 17:20:42 UTC

for

scshunt:

26-10-2011 18:10:59 UTC

for

Clucky: he/him

26-10-2011 19:04:07 UTC

against

I personally don’t think Stimulus Package should be awarded for making proposals, or at least not that easily. Its an overused mechanic.

Clucky: he/him

26-10-2011 19:09:05 UTC

Like, what stops me from making a proposal that simple represents quorum total players? They all have no reason not to vote for it, if it passes they each get SP. Everyone doing that twice a day will cause 100 proposals today with everyone getting on average 50 SP. Completly breaks the point of proposals.

arthexis: he/him

26-10-2011 19:22:05 UTC

Clucky: You can try that… but it won’t work. There are many contrarians around that would SK that kind of proposal given the chance. I know I would. I see a few players that would too. Furthermore, they wouldn’t get any richer if everyone can do it, for your scam to work, there would have to be a large rigidly defined faction working coordinately… and if you had such a following, well, you might as well just declare victory, don’t you think?

Shadowclaw:

26-10-2011 20:26:08 UTC

against

southpointingchariot:

26-10-2011 21:05:39 UTC

against

omd:

26-10-2011 21:07:56 UTC

for

Ornithopter:

26-10-2011 21:53:19 UTC

for
The “Vote for this and everyone (or most of everyone) gets points!” proposals usually fail for being uninteresting.

Clucky: he/him

26-10-2011 22:11:45 UTC

@arthexis: Then I wouldn’t include those people in the Represention list. Finding quorum of people who want free points is very different from finding quorum of people who want me to win.

@Ornithopter: If everyone gets points, there clearly is no reason to do it. If only some people get points its clearly in their favor to vote for it.

Moriarty:

26-10-2011 22:40:39 UTC

for Ain’t no rule says someone on the Representation list can’t backstab the group. I’m iffy on giving SP for votes, but we can fix that if we need to.

Winner:

26-10-2011 23:17:44 UTC

against Factions are over used in BN

lazerchik:

27-10-2011 05:02:42 UTC

for

Darknight: he/him

27-10-2011 05:55:49 UTC

imperial

zuff:

27-10-2011 07:43:05 UTC

imperial

SingularByte: he/him

27-10-2011 13:34:59 UTC

for

Ely:

27-10-2011 13:38:11 UTC

against

arthexis: he/him

28-10-2011 03:50:36 UTC

Tally: 14-2-6

Soviet Brendon:

28-10-2011 07:32:11 UTC

against

ChronosPhaenon:

28-10-2011 10:30:26 UTC

against