Friday, March 14, 2025

Proposal: New defaults dropping

In the rule Numbers and Variables, immediately before the string “or the list which is alphabetically earliest”, add:

false (if the range of possible outcomes is limited to “true” or “false”),

To the end of the same bullet point, add:

When an action is added to the ruleset that allows for the manipulation of a game variable based on set timescales, the first use of that action for each Seeker uses, by default, the time at which that action was added to the ruleset as the basis for assessing the most recent time at which that action was performed by that Seeker.

Comments

Habanero:

14-03-2025 20:07:36 UTC

I’m a bit worried that the second bit about default action times might make it so that you can’t take a newly-defined Weekly Action until the next week after it was added. Maybe the “basis for assessing the most recent time at which that action was performed by that Seeker” is specific enough to not have this happen though, since Weekly Actions don’t explicitly refer to the most recent time of occurrence

ais523: Custodian

14-03-2025 20:18:36 UTC

The second bit is interesting – often we want an action that can only be taken once every X hours (different from a daily or weekly), but sometimes we want a delay after it first becomes possible and sometimes we don’t, and there are lots of potential wordings that could be used. It might be nice to have a standardised suggestion on how to do that in the Glossary (or maybe a Building Block if it’s complicated).

We also often want actions which scale based on how long it is since the player has performed them, which is probably what the proposal is intended to target (but as Habanero says, it’s unclear whether this proposal does indeed target only those actions). For those, the default suggested in this proposal is fairly obvious.

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