Saturday, September 15, 2018

Proposal: Mitochondiral Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam

Timed out and passed, two votes to one. Josh

Adminned at 17 Sep 2018 13:58:02 UTC

Add the following to the end of the dynastic rule called “Genes”:

Some Genes are Legacy Marker genes. These occupy a slot in the Genetics of an Ape in the same way as other Genes, but are notated as an & symbol followed by two letters. Whenever an Ape is permitted or required to create a Legacy Marker, they add their own name (preceded by an & symbol) to the list of Genes in this rule, unless their name starts with the same two letters as an Ape who has already created a Legacy Marker, in which case they must instead add an & symbol followed by any two letters that are not used to denote the name of any other Gene when recorded in the GNDT, followed by their own name in brackets. That Ape is considered to own that Legacy Marker.

posted by Josh at 15 Sep 2018 13:52:00 UTC Comments (5)

Comments

Kevan: he/him

15-09-2018 20:16:16 UTC

Fun, but it’ll presumably require some recoding of the Generation script. Also bad news for Derrick.

We could get to a similar place by allowing Apes to claim any unclaimed Gene if they’re the only Ape to possess it - “Be” is unique right now.

Kevan: he/him

16-09-2018 18:23:49 UTC

against in the absence of any discussion on script changes.

Zaphod:

16-09-2018 21:04:17 UTC

I know this rule is just laying groundwork for future rules, but I’m a little confused. Does anyone have ideas for what the Legacy genes would do?

Josh: Mastermind he/they

16-09-2018 21:55:26 UTC

I was thinking of it as a potential victory marker. I understand that that’s what Legacy in the GNDT is doing, but Legacy is bad for a number of reasons (essentially random, disadvantages late-joining players) so it would be a pity if it went down on Kevan’s sole, not entirely impartial vote.

Zaphod:

17-09-2018 06:13:29 UTC

for Since the Ruleset currently contains no ways for players to create Legacy Markers, I think this rule is harmless so far. If further rules are built on it, though, we will need to address the NGE Gene Splicing.