Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Proposal: Public Safety

Popular by Quorum, 6-0. -Bucky

Adminned at 12 Jul 2023 05:52:13 UTC

In the rule “Crime & Commerce” add a subrule named “Punishment” and give it the following text:

There is a publicly-tracked list named Lockdown where each entry is a Machinist’s name and a number of Days, defaulting to an empty list. A Machinist whose name is in this list may not perform any dynastic actions.

If the rule “Time’s Passage” exists, add the following bullet point to the list in that rule:

* Remove every entry in the Lockdown list with a Days value of 0, then subtract 1 from the Days value of each remaining entry.

otherwise, add the following text as a new paragraph in the subrule “Punishment”:

As a Daily Action, the Great Machine should remove every entry in the Lockdown list with a Days value of 0, then subtract 1 from the Days value of each remaining entry.

If there’s Crime, there should be Punishment. Since Crime hasn’t been defined yet, I’m omitting how a Machinist might get put in the Lockdown list and how to determine the number of Days they should stay there. The algorithm does mean that a Machinist will actually spend a minimum of more than 24 hours in Lockdown, but the alternative would have been to remove them immediately upon Days reaching 0, which could result in a very short time in Lockdown if they were just added to it hours before.

Worst-case if “Time’s Passage” does not exist is about 382 new characters.

Comments

lemon: she/her

11-07-2023 07:41:15 UTC

wouldn’t the minimum hours in lockdown be ~10 hours, due to the daily action rules? i mean, i’m unlikely to Pass Time that close together, but i probably won’t do it at the exact same time each day either :0

Josh: he/they

11-07-2023 13:00:12 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

11-07-2023 13:30:06 UTC

imperial

JonathanDark: he/him

11-07-2023 13:57:56 UTC

Good point on the minimum, but my point still stands that to have an impact on gameplay, the minimum should last at least 24 hours, in my opinion.

JonathanDark: he/him

11-07-2023 13:58:49 UTC

Of course, we could tweak this at any time if it seems off-balance.

SingularByte: he/him

11-07-2023 16:30:28 UTC

for

Lulu: she/her

11-07-2023 18:08:13 UTC

for

lemon: she/her

12-07-2023 01:24:28 UTC

for