I’m not sure that late game resets would be all that bad, really, so long as they weren’t part of a deliberate gameplay loop with multiple resets. If we’d be unhappy about a player respawning on day 27 and speedrunning some optimal strategy, it’s nothing that a new or idle player couldn’t do at that point.

A pure reset should also absolve the player of their past actions: if they’d already taken a particular daily, weekly or otherwise “if you have not already” action, they should become free to take it again.

I have some reluctance around action resets for the pooling potential; with any kind of item or currency trading mechanic that’s a recipe for infinite resource scams.

I think this is a rule that can always be switched back on if needed or wanted, or held on by a dynastic rule. Having it switch itself off to prevent nasty surprises feels safer.

Maybe some limitation on how frequently a player can reinitialise?

I think the action reset needs to be there to be fair to the resetting player; dynasties will put all kinds of things behind weekly or “if a player has not already” limits. Trading is its own question which often won’t be connected to daily or weekly actions at all.

A frequency limit would make a lot of sense - we would, I think, want to cut out having to consider any early game nonsense where we’re having to tactically choose our opening move between “walk to cargo bay and pick up toolbox” and “attack nearest player and respawn, repeat 1000 times until everyone is dead, walk to cargo bay and pick up toolbox”.

Once per week or once per dynasty both feel plausible as limits.

Okay, I’ve made some changes - look okay?

To be a bit more watertight I’d extend “for the purposes of determining the validity of limited actions” to say ”... taken after the Reinitialisation”, to be clear that it can’t be read as invalidating the old action.

Done, thank you

Interested to see what this does to the game, and whether we reassess how much power a newly joining player actually has.

  At some point I’d probably want the 168 hour time limit repealed, but for an early trial run of the rule it’s fair enough.

I appreciate that this distinctly helps me in the current situation, but it does seem like a bit of a “try turning it off and on again” approach in the larger scheme of things!