Sunday, February 28, 2021

Proposal: Mastermind

Timed out 1 FOR, 2 DEF, 3 AGA. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 02 Mar 2021 19:07:43 UTC

If the following text does not appear in the rule The Masquerade, add it to the end:

An action that can only be undertaken once per player per Season is called a Seasonal Action.

Add a new rule to the ruleset titled Codebreaker:

As a seasonal action, any Elector may send a private message to the Doge where the message subject contains the word “codebreaker”.

A codebreaker message must contain no less than four Guesses, where each guess consists of the name of exactly one other Elector or Idle Elector, and exactly one valid secret faction name. An elector may not be named by multiple guesses in the same codebreaker message.

The Doge must, at their earliest convenience, reply exclusively to the sender of the codebreaker message with the following information regarding the relevant guesses:
- The numerical quantity of guesses where the named Elector belongs to the secret faction named in the same guess (the number of “correct guesses”).
- The numerical quantity of Electors named in any of the guesses that belong to a secret faction named in any of the guesses (the number of “potential pairs”).

The information in the codebreaker reply should be accurate as of the time the codebreaker message was sent to the Doge.

If any of the guesses in a codebreaker message are rendered invalid, either by containing an invalid Elector or secret faction name, then the Doge should disregard the guesses and notify the sender that their request was invalid. The sender may send a revised codebreaker message during that season.

Adds a mechanic for players to identify members of a secret faction, while still leaving room for doubt (unless they manage to get every single guess right, which rewards them for skilled sleuthing). Also, could be used as a tool to check your faction’s loyalty. Think of it as intercepting and decoding a secret communication.

Comments

Josh: Observer he/they

28-02-2021 19:57:10 UTC

I’m a little averse to this, partly because I think that the rate of disclosure of secret info is about right at the moment, and partly because I don’t really want to take on the additional admin layer; but I’m happy to pick it up if there’s a sense amongst players that it would be useful and not too disruptive.

Lulu: she/her

01-03-2021 07:02:54 UTC

against I think the Masquerades are already too much info tbh

Kevan: he/him

01-03-2021 10:24:57 UTC

against Per Josh.

Raven1207: he/they

01-03-2021 13:32:49 UTC

against

Clucky: he/him

01-03-2021 21:50:59 UTC

imperial not sure I’d use this, and don’t want to add more workload for the Doge. but not opposed to others using it

Brendan: he/him

01-03-2021 22:37:08 UTC

imperial