BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Could we even say “A Resident may not take more than one action at the same time” ?

Not endorsing any reading of the Blueprints rule, but may as well reword it now in case a consensus emerges. Also: a yawn for having had to write this fix instead of doing something else.

I don’t see the difference, there have been counter-CFJs to try to anul my would-be wins and DoVs even if I do attempt scams at the end the game, with my DoV up.

Shrug

[Diabecko] Certainly worth discussing, but I wouldn’t want to risk the vote being split on a CfJ to get the game back up, if it turns out there are some arguments against saying it that broadly. Let’s just get the game running again.

Ok I understand, but I just want to point out that if we don’t generalise this to all actions then the same “scam” can be attempted elsewhere, any time a first action renders the second illegal (like daily actions for example). You could post two (or more) simultaneous daily actions and bypass the limitation. In fact, with the ruleset explicitely stating that atomic actions cannot be simultaneous, it give more weight to someone stating non-atomic actions can.
(but it would be useless to attempt such a scam I suppose since a similar CfJ would be used there ;-)

(the daily actions example was a bad example since it’s not really written in way that says “if this action has already been done blah blah” but you get the point)

Anyways

(and I’m not up to the point where I would y*** on this but maybe in the future yes ;-D)

It’s just correct for me to be sleepy, but I also don’t want to be a dick, so hmm.

I’m conflicted, due to this being the first time I’ve experienced this, so I’ll be deferential about it.

[Cuddlebeam] Have there? If your scam gets you to a DoV, then that’s where it rises or falls. I don’t think we’ve ever seen a “fail that active and legal DoV because we don’t like it” CfJ.

If you’d used these scams to win, we’d now be voting on what just happened, and if enough people agreed with your reading of the rules, you’d win. Burning them all midgame to do something short of winning just means that even if people agree with your reading, they can and will clean things up, and (depending on how much advantage you grabbed from the scam) bring you back down to the level that they’d all been playing at.

I appreciate there’s a viable strategy in doubling-down with every attempted scam and hoping that the CfJs don’t quite catch up with you in time, hoping that a window emerges to grab 3 more Money before this CfJ can enact, and all that. But if there’s no potential for that and you’re just messing with the gamestate for mess’s sake, it’s not much fun from the other side, it’s just about deciding who’s going to go and get the mop.

@Kevan:

https://blognomic.com/archive/cover_all_bases_and_sanatize_inputs

DoV failed via CfJ, and “If Cuddlebeam is The Director, remove that title from Cuddlebeam and make Diabecko The Director.”

So, even if I did succeed, this would remove my dynasty if I had won it legitimately.

https://blognomic.com/archive/no_spam_please
“Set the gamestate to the values it had at March 20th 2017 08:46:00 UTC”

Which, would’ve meant that the gamestate of having “achieved victory” wouldn’t be there, and the DoV would stop being such, because its a gamestate item.

Also, there are times when people let the result of my scams be, and others where they revert them. It’s arbitrary.

Here, my players with obscene stats was allowed
https://blognomic.com/archive/lets_settle_this_with_bloggsball

And at other times, like here, complete reversion is proposed.

So, I don’t have a good reason time my scams at the beginning or the end of anything. Heck, even while I have all of the Money and waiting for the discard to get victory, it could’ve been cancelled as well with a CFJ during the wait.

Much like how this one went:
https://blognomic.com/archive/lets_get_on_with_it_already

So yeah. I don’t have much of a reason to time my scams at any particular moment, aside from doing them first and hope that it slips through the CFJ cracks or that the arbitrariness allows part of it through.

(Hrm, that first one is a CFJ but not a usual CFJ to be voted on actually, but anyways, we have those other cases)

Yawn. Mid-game, end-game, whatever, I don’t like these scams at any point.

Yes, the first one seems to be Card repeating your scam to undo the effects of your scam.

The second one is an invocation of Fair Play, a rule which explicitly calls for “a proposal or CfJ [to] be made to reprimand or punish the perpetrator”. Which seems fair enough: if someone DoVs and thanks their quorum of legal-but-discouraged sockpuppet accounts, we would strip them of the win.

The final two look like they’re players using CfJs to undo massive stat boosts which you hadn’t made a DoV about, presumably because the rules were such that you hadn’t yet achieved victory, merely achieved a very big number? Which is the thing.

@Kevan: I had an amount of victories due to those massive numbers (I won all matches) and then I got to keep the numbers, yes.

If you need more arbitrarily scam-favorable CFJs, here another: https://blognomic.com/archive/shooting_the_moon

Where, I should’ve done the rolls before the Combo, but instead of cancelling the attempted scam or whatever, it was handed a sort of pass.

(An amount of Bloggball match victories, not victory of the game itself)

yawn although it’s impossible for quorum now so I’ll just enact this