Saturday, April 19, 2008

Proposal: Onward to victory! [Evil]

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-Ornithopter

Adminned at 21 Apr 2008 11:17:49 UTC

Create a subrule of Attributes entitled “Standing” with text:

Standing, which may be abbreviated STND for all purposes, is the measure of how highly regarded a Henchman is by the other members of the Overlord’s organization.

New Henchmen start with a Standing of 0.

The Overlord may at any time remove any amount of their own standing and increase another henchman’s by the same amount so long as their own standing does not fall below 500.

Set the Overlord’s standing to 590, darknight’s to 1 (because of Operation Hot Cake), and all other henchmen’s to 0.

Create a rule entitled “Sinister Machinations” with text:

Any henchman other than the Overlord may, as a weekly action, increase their standing and the Overlord’s influence in the continent they are currently on by (xDICE2)-x to a maximum of 100, if that continent contains no enemy HQs, where x is calculated any of the following ways:
*If they have the highest MS of any henchman on the continent, they may twist a few arms by setting x to their MS-10 plus the combined GL of all other henchmen on the continent, and reducing their MS by half the difference (rounded up) between their MS and the next highest MS on the continent rounded up.
*If they have the highest Int of any henchman on the continent, they may organize an assault by setting x to their Int-10 plus the combined MS of all other henchmen on the continent-(10 times the number of other henchmen on the continent), and reducing their Int by half the difference (rounded up) between their Int and the next highest Int on the continent rounded up.
*If they have the highest GL of any henchman on the continent, they may subvert the current powers on the continent by setting x to their GL plus the combined Int of all other henchmen on the continent-(10 times the number of other henchmen on the continent), and reducing their GL by half the difference (rounded up) between their GL and the next highest GL on the continent.
*Unless it would make x less than zero, they may set x to any of their MS-10, their Int-10, or their GL, and reduce that statistic by x/4 rounded up.

If a majority of valid “for” votes on this proposal contain the text “sit down”, do not create the subrule “Standing”, ignore the second paragraph of this proposal, and do not include “their standing and” in the text of “Sinister Machinations”.

posted by Ornithopter at 19 Apr 2008 16:58:00 UTC Comments (14)

Comments

aaronwinborn:

19-04-2008 22:35:54 UTC

for

jay:

19-04-2008 23:44:28 UTC

against

Darknight: he/him

19-04-2008 23:51:01 UTC

for

Yoda:

19-04-2008 23:56:30 UTC

for sit down

The standing part sounds too much like brownie points, which failed.

arthexis: he/him

20-04-2008 00:22:43 UTC

against
I got confused over rule sinister machinations. I might have a COV when I understand it.

Yoda:

20-04-2008 00:27:23 UTC

for COV

Actually, this is different than brownie points because we are not dependent on the Overlord to gain standing.  I have to ask, though, how does the Overlord gain standing?

Beane:

20-04-2008 03:28:50 UTC

imperial

Josh: he/they

20-04-2008 18:45:52 UTC

for

Purplebeard:

20-04-2008 19:59:56 UTC

against Seems somewhat confusing. Also, standing should be tracked somewhere.

Yoda:

20-04-2008 20:17:48 UTC

against I agree, but this needs to be vetoed if it’s gonna fail since it’s evil.

dogfish:

20-04-2008 21:11:24 UTC

against doesn’t need to be vetoed though… what’s the point of having the evil schemes rule if we’re always going to make sure it’s not put into effect?

Ornithopter:

20-04-2008 21:18:52 UTC

Making “Standing” a subrule of “Attributes” means it fall under the sentence “Each Henchman has several attributes representing measures of their abilities, which are tracked in the GNDT.”

Ornithopter:

20-04-2008 21:30:07 UTC

Oops, wasn’t finished.

I think a proposal that obviously has thought put into it but that has a pretty good likelihood of failing due to its size and complexity is a completely legitimate use of the [Evil] marking, and doesn’t deserve a veto.

My idea was that (assuming the 90 Antarctica points get passed out) the Overlord’s standing would be fixed at 500, and everyone else’s cumulative standing would eventually add to 700. Meaning that an alliance of maybe 3-5 henchmen would be able to best the Overlord in some as yet unspecified manner. But, y’know, nomic. So that’s all subject to what everyone else wants to do.

Soyweiser:

21-04-2008 11:58:35 UTC

for Delightfully complicated. But what happens if two henchmen in a continent have the same highest INT, are they allowed to increase the standing using INT or not? Or does it need to be higher?

(And for what it is worth, I agree with dogfish and Ornithopter regarding the [evil] part. It is not that big of a problem if henchmen get a little GL).