not quite idle yet (just in case this gets speedy quorumed)

I unidle. Quorum is 9. 

Ummm… if we’re going to do this, let’s do it the proper way through an actual DoV rather than somehow hand-waving a new dynasty in.

By the proper way, I mean having the proposal say that Ely achieves victory and allowing the full DoV process to go through rather than trying to shortcut it.

Why? A DoV is just a waste of time if a proposal awards a win; better to short-circuit it.

Simply shifting the dynasty be proposal seems shady at best.  Plus, I think that the new dynasty alert goes out when a DoV is posted, which is what attracts the mass of new and unidling players.

I just want to make it clear that I’m not opposed to a “farmer X achieves victory” proposal, I would just like to see it go through the proper channels.

The new dynasty alert hasn’t ever worked. (Also, I think it’s meant to be tied to ascension addresses.)

There’s an RSS feed for Ascension Addresses, and I manually copy it to the Yahoo mailing list.

It seems a bit impolite to force someone to declare victory, without giving them any say in the matter. And I’d be disappointed if I was a background player with a clever scam lined up, who didn’t check the game at weekends.

For obvious reasons.

I’m sure if we all work together, we can take him down.

Ely has 229 resources total. I have 422. Purplebeard has 463. How exactly does Ely have a massive resource advantage?

I people find this dynasty fun and do want to go on, let them go on.
Abstaining.

At times like this - when people still enjoy the current dynasty but it seems to be settling down to a grind-off - I think it can be helpful to do a partial overhaul of the game mechanics. Cut out or streamline ones that aren’t working well, and introduce some new ones. Blognomic often acts like there are two choices: keep playing the same way we already are, or start a new dynasty.

Seconding Ienpw on this. It’s not like the ruleset is finished - one of the points of a nomic is that you can use proposals to erode advantages like this, either by feathering exchange rates or adding new mechanics. It seems way too early to just give up.

End it now that I just realized how the mechanic works? Now, please don’t!

*if

Im only for it if the landlord is ok with it.