Proposal: Rejected Punchcards
Reaches quorum 8-0 and is enacted -SingularByte
Adminned at 09 Jul 2023 21:41:11 UTC
In “Initialisation Phase Two”, replace the “Delete Agendas” bullet point with:-
Delete Agendas until there exists a number of Agendas that is exactly four times the number of active Machinists, prioritising the deletion of Agendas that include the Initialisation Key(s) which appear in the most existing Agendas.
Add two bullet points before it:
* Delete all Agendas that the Great Machine judges to be unfairly easy or difficult to Fulfill, or that refer to or otherwise uniquely identify specific Machinists.
* If there are fewer Agendas than four times the number of active Machinists, then create Agendas until this is no longer the case.
Remove the sentence “These Agendas’ conditions must not refer to or otherwise uniquely identify specific Machinists.” from the ruleset.
Perhaps we shouldn’t allow any Agendas that the Great Machine judges to be “unfairly easy or difficult to Fulfill” into the game, rather than asking them to trim the Agenda stack down to exactly 32 and stop there.
This proposal adds around 170 characters net to the ruleset.
lemon: she/her
huh, good idea! i do have three complaints, but you’ll have a greentick from me either way.
1) i’d prefer that the duplication clause specify Agendas that haven’t already been duplicated, since if there’s a big enough deficit of Agendas, it’s likely for a small proportion of the existing Agendas to form a statistics snowball and have multiple copies. i /also/ think that 2+ copies of the same Agenda should never be dealt to the same Machinist, but that’s prolly best as its own proposal.
2) i do want there to end up being agendas equal to 4x active Machinists, so that there’s a healthy pile of reserves for potential unidlers or Agenda-swapping mechanics.
3) i think that deleting all unfair Agendas should take place before deleting all Agendas with the most common keyterms, so that i don’t end up having to remove well-balanced Agendas while there’s still tons of unfair ones on the stack.