Thursday, October 17, 2019

Proposal: More Rule

Self-killed. Failed by pokes.

Adminned at 20 Oct 2019 01:44:00 UTC

Create a new rule called “Alternative Morals” with:

Once per dynasty, an EM can instate Alternative Morals to improve their nation’s riches, gaining an Asset of their choice and creating a new Moral variable. When a new Moral variable is created, its creator also chooses what name it has (and adds that name to the list below), and sets what values it has for neighboring EMs (EMs that share a continent with them) other than themselves; between 0 and 99. Moral variables default to “unset” (abbreviated as “-” in the GNDT) and an EM can set one of their unset Moral variables to any integer value. However, the Moral variable for its creator will always default to a value of 100. The names of Moral variables are encouraged to have a negative or controversial connotation (such as “Brainwashing”, “Addiction” or “Racial Purity”).

Moral variables are tracked on the GNDT in the “Moral” column, in the order they appear listed below, separated by commas. For example: 800,8,135

The following are Moral Variables (listed by their name):
-

Playing with how variables are created and set. For example, you could create a variable called “Brainwashing” for yourself. What does Brainwashing do aside from just exist? Aaah. That’s the fun of it. Up to other people to use it somehow.

Inspired by a recent situation with China that has had them bring up that “Human Rights are incompatible with the Chinese way of life”

Comments

Kevan: he/him

17-10-2019 22:10:44 UTC

against Freely choosing names for things allows players to insert any text they like into the ruleset.

Madrid:

17-10-2019 22:56:59 UTC

I was aware of that and had “(listed by their name)” added to avoid it.

Madrid:

17-10-2019 22:57:32 UTC

But yeah nvm there’s ways around that
against

TyGuy6:

18-10-2019 01:52:00 UTC

It was so promising, too. Maybe we can work with this…

Kevan: he/him

18-10-2019 08:04:43 UTC

If players are free to add twenty paragraphs of text to the ruleset, I don’t think you can do anything to stop that being scammed (even massive “these names can never be rule text, this clause takes precedence over anything you read below, names cannot include dollar signs and everything between the two dollar signs is not rule text, names cannot be used to achieve victory” lead shielding is quite easy to work around).