Thursday, September 12, 2013

Proposal: More Juice

Quorums 8-1. — Quirck

Adminned at 14 Sep 2013 07:43:59 UTC

In rule 2.1 “Energy”, replace “New Apprentices start with 5 Energy.” with “New Apprentices start with Energy equal to the sum of each Apprentice’s Mastery of the Arcane Domain.”

In rule 2.6 “Recharging”, replace each instance of “five” with “the sum of each Apprentice’s Mastery of the Arcane Domain”.

Simply giving us more energy to use. Notice that Apprentices with Arcane Mastery do *not* gain a special advantage just by this. They already have their higher energy cap and this just gives everyone a little more energy in the long term. Also, this does not cut down on our energy supply at the moment, since our powerful wizard has an Arcane Mastery of 5.

posted by Sphinx at 12 Sep 2013 15:15:58 UTC Comments (11)

Comments

Kevan: he/him

12-09-2013 15:52:40 UTC

for New Apprentices should probably just start at zero, really, given that they can immediately trigger a Recharge (or a belated personal Recharge if they missed the current week’s).

quirck: he/him

12-09-2013 16:46:50 UTC

imperial

Spitemaster:

12-09-2013 19:49:07 UTC

for

Sphinx:

12-09-2013 20:36:25 UTC

Hmm, I think it’s not too Bad if new apprentices gain the energy of two weeks basically, since we have an advantage over them anyways, so that might make it easier for them to catch up…

Clucky: he/him

12-09-2013 21:25:45 UTC

for

@Kevan the whole point of the belated personal recharge is so that regardless of when in the week you join, you get the same benefits. Everybody else started with five, so I don’t see why new people should be punished.

Larrytheturtle:

13-09-2013 01:39:55 UTC

for

Purplebeard:

13-09-2013 06:48:07 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

13-09-2013 09:17:06 UTC

Well, it’s important to balance “easier for new players to catch up” against “easier for idle players to wake up briefly and do something powerful to help another player”. Once there’s a little more Arcane magic in the air, new players will be starting with a fair amount of Energy.

If you arrive too late to take advantage of a generous early rule, that’s just bad luck. This is Nomic! Everybody but Spitemaster missed out on the chance to travel to the Ancient Temple for 1 Energy, but that’s not necessarily a good reason to propose “each player can move to the Ancient Temple once for 1 Energy”.

Sphinx:

13-09-2013 09:57:14 UTC

Hmm, I guess once there’s more people with arcane mastery, it might actually be too powerful, but right now I think twice a week’s energy for new people is ok. We can (and probably should) change that later though.

nqeron:

13-09-2013 12:11:20 UTC

against

RaichuKFM: she/her

13-09-2013 12:37:12 UTC

for