“The title of an Ideology may also be referred to as an Ideology.”

God, there has to be a better way of doing that

You’re also defining Integer Alliance as an integer value and setting it to a text string title, here.

(Ideology Alliance, I mean.)

@Kevan okay, I’ll just say it’s a value

@Josh i’m so, so sorry

Probably also worth saying that Titles and Bodies of Ideologies are flavour text, if players can write whatever they want there.

It’s not just an “I’m Sorry” here - if the Title of an Ideology is itself an Ideology, and ‘an Ideology consists of a title, body and an owner’, then it’s titles, bodies and owners all the way down, an infinite recursive nightmare which - since the act of making an Ideology is atomic - essentially soft-locks the game the moment someone wants to carry it out.

i’ll remove the title line and make the title and body flavor text

Feels a bit strict to ask people to write out their entire ascension address in full. And a bit early, when we’re only a day into this one.

Or is that the intended gameplay - that if someone sets their Ideology to something about joining forces with the Guardian and recovering a terraforming device from inside the vault, they risk being shut out of a victory if other players want to kill the guardian or find something else there?

it’s just about what kind of dynasty people want to do

the intended use for this is to make it so demons have to choose an ideology when they transform. the idea is that in exchange for getting superpowers, you lose the ability to decide exactly what kind of dynasty you want to run

I actually like the idea of competing between ideologies. Nothing stops you from leaving it unset for some time either.

per Kevan.