BlogNomic: Put on your running shoes

Saturday, March 04, 2023

Proposal: Put on your running shoes

Withdrawn. - Misty

Adminned at 06 Mar 2023 02:18:31 UTC

Replace “Each Runner optionally has a Heading, being a direction of North, South, East or West, and defaulting to not having a Heading” with

Each Runner optionally has a Heading, being a direction of North, South, East or West, or being Idle, and defaulting to not having a Heading

Replace “If all Live Runners have a Heading, the Gridmaster may perform the following atomic action, known as a “Tick”:-” with

If all Live Runners have a Heading, or no less than 36 hours have passed since the last Tick, the Gridmaster may perform the following atomic action known as a “Tick”:-

This new 36 hour timer prevents people from being held up by one person not picking a direction. The new Idle heading is intended to let you be wilfully stationary, rather than either forcing you to pick a direction or forcing everyone else to wait.

Comments

lendunistus: he/him

04-03-2023 11:04:24 UTC

36 hours seems a bit too long, would rather do 24 myself

but greentick

Kevan: he/him

04-03-2023 11:44:12 UTC

BlogNomic generally needs to be clearer about the baseline expected level of player interaction.

I think a 36-hour timer risks framing the game speed as “one turn per 36 hours and anything faster than that is a bonus”; that if a player moves to the grid and then submits no further instructions for the remainder of the dynasty, and we play the whole thing out on 36-hour turns, we’re all okay with that.

I’d rather that the game moved as quickly as the active players were playing it.