BlogNomic: The Ninth Dynasty of ais523

A daily action to boost someone else’s Influence? That’s going to get very grindy and unfun very quickly.

One of the big issues with grind is that it’s rich-gets-richer, right? Only being able to boost other people seems more likely to have the opposite effect.

I am thinking about making a rich-get-richer type proposal later, where you can spend Benefices to get Nepotism, which increases your Influence weekly, but I won’t make that one until we have some other use for Benefices. I have a couple of ideas about that.

@Brendan: it’s easy enough for two people to just boost each other. (I know I’d be looking for similar deals if this passes.) Agora has had “spend resource X to boost someone else’s resource Y” mechanics for ages, and they nearly always just result in people making arrangements to do boosts on each others’ behalves.

Too easy; basic collaboration occurs.

The grinding doesn’t seem too bad here: if two players spent a week backslapping up to +7, they’d just be signalling that they were working as a trusted team, and other players would use that information against them.

It doesn’t seem worth slowing the dynasty’s opening and discouraging players from building on the basic “Cardinals have Influence and Benefices” idea until we’ve got every line of both rules exactly right. Nobody is going to grind to victory on day two.

Well, I also saw the alliances to boost Influency mutually as a natural result of this rule.
Let’s see what happens.

Isn’t there a typo?

“As a daily action, a Cardinal may reduce their Benefices by 1”

instead of

“As a daily action, a Cardinal by reduce their Benefices by 1”

Looks like it.