BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

I see the idea: get more proposals made. The downside is that a perfectly good proposal could get voted down or not voted on at all just to keep it from being Popular to deny the Group the P stamp.

I’d rather have a Proposal that makes the game more interesting get enacted than have such a Proposal fail merely for strategic blocking reasons.

I have to agree with Jonathan here. While I will vote for regardless, is there perhaps a way to prevent that type of behavior besides good sportsmanship?

Per Jonathan. Rewarding proposals if and only if they enact was ever thus.

Maybe I’ll fire up my overhead projector and write a wiki essay about why players should make proposals anyway, and how to get ideas for them.

Can’t hurt, Kevan.

But also isn’t this dynasty still above the historic average for proposal activity? Haven’t had an empty queue yet as far as I can tell

Yes, it looks like it’ll surpass most of this year’s dynasties, if proposals continue at the current rate.

(And hmm, that graph goes wrong somewhere around dynasty 180 due to the Second Switch dynasty being retconned out of existence - the spike at 190 is actually 189, the Vampire Dynasty - but I think it makes sense otherwise.)

> Yes, it looks like it’ll surpass most of this year’s dynasties, if proposals continue at the current rate.
Proposal rates predictably drop off after the first couple of weeks of a dynasty, so the current dynasty probably won’t hit the green line either.

> Rewarding proposals if and only if they enact was ever thus.
To my knowledge, this is the first ever attempt to reward Popular proposals while they are still pending.

[Bucky] This was a neat idea, and I think something like it could still work. Maybe if the reward wasn’t directly tied to a Victory-deciding component like stamps, but simply gave the author of the Proposal a smaller benefit?

Essay now written up: How and Why to Submit Proposals