Monday, September 03, 2007

Proposal: Media Frenzy

self-killed, failed by aaronwinborn

Adminned at 05 Sep 2007 04:36:31 UTC

Enact a new rule, ‘Media Frenzy’:

A wiki page shall be created, titled ‘The Media Circus’. Once per day, a Kaiju God may post a headline to the top of this page, underneath a section header for the current day (creating a new section if there is not one currently for that day), adding their name in parentheses after the headline. The headline may include up to one of the phrases cited below (which will enact the effects listed for that phrase), replacing the word ‘Monster’ (when it appears) with the name of an active monster in the game that has a wiki page, and replacing the word ‘Neighborhood’ (when it appears) with the name of a named Neighborhood listed in The City Document that has listed Building and Population values. If none of the following phrases appears, but one or two otherwise active monsters are named in the headline, then if only two active monsters are named, who both have threat levels listed in their wiki page, then the threat levels of each monster is raised by 75,000 points; or if only one such active monster is named, then its threat level is raised by 100,000 points.

Monster spotted in Neighborhood The named monster will have its threat level raised by a specific amount, assuming it has a current threat level: if it is currently in that Neighborhood, then its threat level will be raised by 1,000,000 points; if it is not currently in that Neighborhood, but is in another Neighborhood, then its threat level will be raised by 500,000; or if it is not currently in that Neighborhood, then its threat level will be raised by 150,000 points.

Monster leaves Neighborhood The named monster will have its threat level reduced by a specific amount, assuming it has a current threat level: if it was in that Neighborhood earlier that day, but is no longer, then its threat level will be lowered by 500,000 points; if it is still currently in that Neighborhood, then its threat level will be lowered by 100,000; if it has not been in that Neighborhood during that day but was in a previous day that week, then its threat level will be lowered by 200,000; or if it is not currently in that Neighborhood, nor has been during that week, then its threat level will be lowered by 50,000 points.

Other headlines could be added in the future with more media influence, or new effects could be added; for instance, once our Neighborhoods have standing armies, headlines might influence the build-up of those armies. And then there’s always ‘Cornzilla battles the Giant Gerbil’ or ‘Wobbly Weeble decimates the Army’...

Comments

Hix:

03-09-2007 14:06:37 UTC

Awesome idea.  Some things I noticed, though:

*Monsters don’t have their own wiki pages.  At least, not according to the ruleset.  That’s just how we happen to be organizing them.

*What does it mean for a Monster to be “in” a Neighborhood?

*In the “Monster spotted” effects, after the last semicolon, is “that Neighborhood” perhaps supposed to be “any Neighborhood”?

Kevan: he/him

03-09-2007 14:11:56 UTC

Rule 2.1 (paragraph 4) explicitly says that completed monsters get their own wiki page.

But no, I don’t understand the “in” mechanic either.

Hix:

03-09-2007 14:14:11 UTC

Ah, you’re right about individual wiki pages.  My mistake.

I know we sometimes leave things undefined early on in a Dynasty (to be defined later), but somehow the whole mysterious “in” thing turns me off this Proposal. against

Kevan: he/him

03-09-2007 14:43:55 UTC

against Actually it’s more than just to-be-defined later, it’s an unknown variable, and having a rule depending on an unknown variable isn’t good.

aaronwinborn:

03-09-2007 14:53:25 UTC

maybe i can remove the two headlines there and have something like ‘Monster spotted offshore’ and ‘Monster believed to be hoax’ to start with

Chivalrybean:

03-09-2007 16:23:38 UTC

against
Good concept though. Needs fixed as stated above, though.

aaronwinborn:

03-09-2007 18:46:35 UTC

against s/k—revised version coming shortly