I’m also open to a re-proposal from Kevan if he includes the spent Research Points as part of the chop.

Not sure that a count of successful Mutations tells us very much. Tactical mutations are more likely to have been blocked, when two players tried to take the same optimal move. To get Mutations through, a player has to either have made good double-bluffs, been lucky, or made bad moves in unimportant areas of the genome.

Darknight could end up being declared to have played an objectively stronger game than Desertfrog, under this rule, which doesn’t really sound right.

I agree that this is not as good as it could be for determining who made the “best” moves. It just felt a little better than “current Research Points”.

I’ll support the re-proposal “Break-Even”, but I’m leaving this one up in case it garners any interest.

I picked Research Points because if we were to play this dynasty out with no further proposals, the players with more RPs would probably find it easier to reach the Understanding goal, since Understanding costs RPs. The number of Mutations a player applied in the past doesn’t seem like it would help them from here.

There’s some haze, but it seems safe to say that Desertfrog played better moves than Darknight in this dynasty, overall. I wouldn’t want to support a chop that might decide that it was actually the other way around.