Monday, April 26, 2021

Proposal: Original Synonym (Core) (Appendix)

Timed Out. Passes 7 - 0—Clucky

Adminned at 29 Apr 2021 03:02:51 UTC

Add a new section to the Appendix called “Synonyms”

A dynasty may provide extra theming by using alternative terms for words like “AI” and “Facility Head”.

Each term in this list is synonymous with the term in parentheses

* AI (Player)
* Facility Head (Emperor)

When a new Dynasty is started, the Ascension Address may specify new terms for each entry in the above list, provided the newly chosen term does not appear anywhere in the ruleset outside of this rule (though if it only appears in rules which are being removed as part of the Ascension Address, it is fine), and that doing so would not cause two terms in the above list to become synonymous with each other. Doing so causes the old corresponding value (including regional spelling variations) to be replaced by the new value everywhere in the ruleset except in any of the parenthesis in the above list.

In “Victory and ascension” replace

and it may optionally specify that dynasty-specific terms for “AI” and “Facility Head” will be used in the Ruleset,

with

and it may optionally specify new dynasty-specific terms as outline in the rule “Synonyms”

If it appears there, remove the line “The terms “AI” and “Player” are synonyms.” from “Spelling”

Yes this means we can’t have dynasties where Players are Emperors any more, but I think that is probably an okay thing?

Also lays the groundwork where if we wanted to rename other terms like “Idle” or “Favor” we could

Comments

Zack: he/him

27-04-2021 00:47:06 UTC

I do like that this gives the potential to add other terms, not that I see that being used in the immediate future.

Clucky: he/him

27-04-2021 00:53:19 UTC

Its something I think we want to be careful about, because it can add confusion for returning players if we go overboard renaming things. We’ve done it in the past (used to be able to replace anything… looks like that was changed around dynasties 75-80), but I’m not sure if there is anything else really worth changing.

Lulu: she/her

27-04-2021 04:13:17 UTC

imperial

Kevan: he/him

27-04-2021 09:41:45 UTC

for Overkill to give this a whole separate section when it could be a subsection of Keywords.

Also missed a chance to also fold in Dynastic Tracking, which the Ascension rule doesn’t mention at all (and which I forgot when I last ascended).

pokes:

27-04-2021 14:33:06 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

27-04-2021 14:50:15 UTC

Was just checking to make sure this wasn’t repeating the line about changing keywords to meaningful terms, by mentioning it in a new rule, but it turns out we repealed it last month with nobody noticing.

Clucky: he/him

27-04-2021 14:59:49 UTC

yeah I went looking for where it was defined and realized it somehow got removed

Kevan: he/him

27-04-2021 15:12:56 UTC

Josh took it out while fixing some other stuff and saying how hard it was to make Core changes.

Janet: she/her

27-04-2021 16:13:39 UTC

for

Zack: he/him

27-04-2021 23:35:30 UTC

for

Raven1207: he/they

28-04-2021 04:08:33 UTC

for