Friday, April 16, 2021

Proposal: Medium Firmness Reset

Reached quorum 8 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 17 Apr 2021 14:03:21 UTC

Enact a new subrule of “Nosy Researchers” entitled “Researcher Bias” as follows:

Each AI has a publicly tracked value called Leeway. Leeway defaults to 0.

If the Facility Head would Reinitialize an AI, but that AI has at least 6 Leeway, then instead of Reinitializing the AI, the Facility Head must perform an Atomic Action as follows:

  1. Set that AI’s Suspicion to the median Suspicion among all other AIs.
  2. Subtract 6 from that AI’s Leeway.

Replace the sentence in the rule “Reinitialization” that reads “When an AI is Reinitialized, all of their dynastic variables are set to the defaults.” with:

When an AI is Reinitialized, all of their dynastic variables are set to the defaults, except their Leeway, which is instead incremented by 1.

Comments

lemon: she/her

16-04-2021 20:11:22 UTC

interesting! ill vote for it once the edit window closes. i do like that leeway increases if u get reinitialized a lot. having to be rebooted six times to avoid a seventh does seem like a lot tho, sort of the other side of the scale from its first iteration! any particular reason it’s six :0?

Lulu: she/her

16-04-2021 20:13:24 UTC

it’s to prevent favor cheesing

Brendan: he/him

16-04-2021 20:13:44 UTC

[lemon] Parity with the Suspicion limit of 6, and everyone who has Favours outstanding has 5 of them—resistance to Favour-holders getting a free lunch seemed to inform pushback on the last one.

lemon: she/her

16-04-2021 20:19:27 UTC

right, that makes sense! i mean, i didn’t intend 2 be interpreted as “players with favours shouldn’t be able to get any bonus to this variable at all”, but the number parity i do like :0

lemon: she/her

16-04-2021 21:17:26 UTC

for

Brendan: he/him

16-04-2021 21:24:41 UTC

Open to patching this down to 3, if others agree that reboot-six-times-to-avoid-seventh is too high.

Josh: he/they

16-04-2021 21:29:26 UTC

for

Lulu: she/her

16-04-2021 23:47:59 UTC

for

Zack: he/him

17-04-2021 00:02:16 UTC

imperial

Raven1207: he/they

17-04-2021 01:03:36 UTC

for

SylkWeaver: she/her

17-04-2021 05:16:18 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

17-04-2021 08:33:25 UTC

imperial