Friday, March 31, 2023

Proposal: Putting Time In Blocks

Reached quorum 7 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 02 Apr 2023 11:15:46 UTC

In “The Quarry”, change

Every hour the amount of Stone in the Quarry decreases by 1, to a minimum of zero; whenever any Engineer or City Architect would perform any action that would cause the amount of Stone to change they must first update its value to reflect any reduction due to the passage of time.

to

Erosion is an atomic action that decreases the amount of Stone in the Quarry by 24. Whenever any Engineer or City Architect would perform any action that would cause the amount of Stone to change, they must first perform the Erosion atomic action if it has been more than 24 hours since the last Erosion.

Set the amount of Stone in the Quarry to 650.

This continuous decrease thing seems like more work than needed, really.  I’m also worried that we’ll slowly drift off from the real value of Stone, so this also sets the amount of Stone in the Quarry to resolve any ambiguity.

Comments

JonathanDark: he/him

31-03-2023 23:55:53 UTC

The downside to this is that the original text required the Stone to decrease as other changes were made. Your replacement text says “may”, in which case all Engineers could choose to never perform the Daily Communal Action.

If that’s intention, that’s fine, but it would be good to know that you also meant to remove the enforcement aspect of decreasing Stone.

JonathanDark: he/him

31-03-2023 23:56:45 UTC

Correction: your replacement text says “can”, which still reads as an optional exercise of the action.

Lulu: she/her

01-04-2023 00:12:59 UTC

That’s not the case but I have no clue how to better word it

JonathanDark: he/him

01-04-2023 00:52:12 UTC

How about this?

Erosion is an atomic action that decreases the amount of Stone in the Quarry by 24. Whenever any Engineer or City Architect would perform any action that would cause the amount of Stone to change, they must first perform the Erosion atomic action if it has been more than 24 hours since the last Erosion.

JonathanDark: he/him

01-04-2023 00:55:06 UTC

I realize that if no one ever decreases the Stone in the Quarry, it will never erode over time, but that’s the same flaw that was already present in the existing rule, so it’s not making things any worse.

Lulu: she/her

01-04-2023 01:41:06 UTC

changed it to that for now

Kevan: he/him

01-04-2023 07:16:15 UTC

for since it seems unlikely that everyone has been applying the current version correctly, or will remember to do so in future.

SingularByte: he/him

01-04-2023 10:21:41 UTC

Idling myself, quorum is still 7.

Josh: Observer he/they

01-04-2023 10:40:06 UTC

for

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

01-04-2023 14:39:22 UTC

for

jjm3x3: he/him

01-04-2023 15:12:23 UTC

for

JonathanDark: he/him

01-04-2023 15:17:26 UTC

for

Habanero:

01-04-2023 23:58:41 UTC

for