Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Proposal: Monkeys got Banana

Clearing up the queue

Adminned at 01 Aug 2007 15:00:28 UTC

If the proposal entitled ‘Line Dance’ passes, add a dynastic rule called banana:

  Each Monkey has a number of Bananas which is tracked in the GNDT as a nonnegative integer in the “bananas” column.  New Monkeys start with 5 bananas. A monkey may pay 3*(Total number of active monkeys-N) bananas where N is his position in the monkey line in order to advance to (N-1)th position in the line. Any other players that are occupying the N-1 th place will be displaced to the Nth place.

 

So if a Zephyr is in the tenth position, Night is in the ninth position and there are 20 active monkeys. Zephyr would have to pay (20-10)x3 =30 bananas to advance to the ninth position. Night would then drop to tenth position.

This is just an idea and I think that the numbers may have to be balanced out.

 

posted by Zephyr at 31 Jul 2007 09:51:01 UTC Comments (13)

Comments

Icarus:

31-07-2007 10:44:27 UTC

Bear in mind that no monkey line yet exists. If this proposal passes before the initialisation proposal does, it could cause all sorts of havoc.

Zephyr:

31-07-2007 12:16:21 UTC

Oops. I was planning to add that in but forgot. Its there now.

Amnistar: he/him

31-07-2007 12:19:32 UTC

Also, why just spend these points nebulously?  why not give the bananas to the monkey in front of you, or some percentage of them?

Kevan: he/him

31-07-2007 13:54:42 UTC

The last monkey in the line can always swap position with the penultimate monkey for zero bananas?

imperial

Night:

31-07-2007 13:58:05 UTC

imperial

Clucky: he/him

31-07-2007 14:30:52 UTC

Good catch, Kevan. There is no limit on the number of switches. Thus you could have two monkeys in the last two positions, each one wanting to be further up in the line and there would be on fair way to decide who gets to be second to last.  against

Chivalrybean:

31-07-2007 16:29:21 UTC

against

Josh: Observer he/they

31-07-2007 17:27:54 UTC

against

90000:

31-07-2007 19:15:37 UTC

for It costs the most to get in first, not 0.

90000:

31-07-2007 19:19:00 UTC

against CoV.  That’ll teach me some reading comprehension.

Oracular rufio:

31-07-2007 20:00:25 UTC

against

Hix:

01-08-2007 19:30:20 UTC

against to help clear the queue. (Needs 1 more vote)

Clucky: he/him

01-08-2007 21:59:51 UTC

veto It isn’t going to pass. I don’t want it to pass. Lets speed things up and just kill it now.