Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Proposal: Rump Parliament

Pending more than 7 days. Failed by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 27 Dec 2023 14:09:48 UTC

In “Business”, replace “Additionally, Existing Business has Status which can either be Wildly Unpopular, Unpopular, Somewhat Unpopular, Neutral, Somewhat Popular, Popular or Wildly Popular and by default is Neutral.” with:-

Additionally, Existing Business has Status which can either be Backed, Neutral or Resisted and by default is Neutral.

In “Resolving a Meeting”, replace “If the Existing Business is Somewhat Popular, add 1 to this total. If it is Popular, add 3 and if it is Wildly Popular Add 5.” with:-

If the Existing Business is Backed, add 1 to this total.

In “Resolving a Meeting”, replace “If the Existing Business is Somewhat Unpopular, add 1 to this total. If it is Unpopular, add 3 and if it is Wildly Unpopular Add 5.” with:-

If the Existing Business is Resisted, add 1 to this total.

Within the most recently posted Tyngwall: give the Backed status to all Business which was either Popular or Wildly Popular prior to this proposal’s enactment, and give the Resisted status to all Business which was Unpopular or Wildly Unpopular prior to this rule’s enactment.

It doesn’t seem very politically interesting that - with the +5/-5 Wildly bonus and even the +3/-3 median one - a good chunk of Tyngwall business will be resolved at random irrespective of how anybody voted on it.

posted by Kevan at 19 Dec 2023 13:56:00 UTC Comments (3)

Comments

Clucky: he/him

19-12-2023 17:06:36 UTC

Is that a bad thing? I think its interesting that some pieces of business might just get pushed through by the non heir members of parliament

Kevan: he/him

19-12-2023 17:25:54 UTC

What’s interesting about it? In a mechanically slim dynasty, I feel like we’re losing rather than gaining by having the core mechanic resolving largely at random, when it would otherwise be political and encourage players to talk to each other.

The last Tyngwall had some genuinely interesting gameplay with Forest supporting a Patriarchy Disown against me to encourage me to pivot to taking the patriarchy down - but it didn’t actually matter how anybody actually reacted to that, because the Disown already randomly had +5 Wildly Popular votes on it.

Lendunistus being knocked out of the running for Prestigious Estate is also game-changing stuff - but the Heirs’ opinions on it didn’t matter, because with Wild Popularity it was going to pass anyway.

Desertfrog: Jury

19-12-2023 18:45:46 UTC

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