Tuesday, May 07, 2024

Proposal: Redistribution of Wealth

Withdrawn. Failed by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 08 May 2024 21:09:42 UTC

In the rule “The Plan”, after the text “The possible plans are tracked in the table below”, add this text:

, along with a Target that is not empty if the Plan requires it. If the Plan requires a Target, the Target must be communicated when the Thief privately messages the City with their Plan, otherwise the Plan is invalid.

and in the same rule, add a “Target” column to the table, with blanks in every row of that column. Then, add the following to that table:

|-
| Redistribute || If the Pouch named in the Target is in the inventory of the Thief named in the Target, remove that Pouch from that Thief and add Florins equal to its Value to the Haul. When naming the Plan selected by each Thief in the Haul post, the City should treat each Thief who chose this Plan as if they had chosen the Standard Plan instead. || The name of a Thief and the full name of a Pouch in that Thief’s inventory

In the rule “Injury”, replace “If your Plan is Standard, Pocket or Scout” with “If your Plan is Standard, Pocket, Scout, or Redistribute”.

In the rule “Possessions”, add the following to the table:

|-
| Trap Kit || 3 || If a Thief names you as the Target of a Redistribute plan, a Trap Kit is removed from your inventory and that Thief’s plan instead has no effect.

If you think that someone has gotten too far ahead in Florins and tied up their riches in pouches, this is a way to get those gains spread out to everyone else.

Comments

Kevan: City he/him

07-05-2024 07:25:25 UTC

Would there not be a timing dodge here in a Thief renaming all of their Pouches right before they think a Burglary is about to happen? Taking a Pouch from them at random would seem functionally equivalent, people are going to be making a guess on which Pouch has the most money anyway.

Juniper.ohyegods: she/her

07-05-2024 09:56:44 UTC

Since the 4 hour is gone, I’m going to give this a firm against. It just discourages using Pouches. Sidenote, I don’t think there’s any benefits in using Pouches, so this isn’t really necessary.

NadNavillus: he/him

07-05-2024 12:43:43 UTC

Per Kevan against

Kevan: City he/him

07-05-2024 13:26:05 UTC

against

JonathanDark: he/him

07-05-2024 14:50:15 UTC

Fair point about the pouch renaming. If that’s the chief complaint, I’ll re-propose with a random pouch selection instead.

against Withdrawn