Proposal: Science Reborn?
Illegal 3rd proposal. Srry.-DK
Adminned at 26 Feb 2010 20:45:50 UTC
Create a rule, “Inventions”:
Each Commoner owns 0 or more Inventions, tracked on the wiki page [[Inventions]] (updating that page should only be done to take an action, to revert a mistaken update, or to change it to match the actual gamestate, as with the GNDT); each Commoner starts with 0 Inventions. An Invention has one or more Properties, listed in subrules of this rule; a Property has a Cost, which is any amount of Resources, a Power Requirement, which is a number, and an Effect, which applies to all Inventors who own an Invention with that Property. No Invention may have more than one of the same Property, but two Inventions may share Properties. An Invention itself also has a Power Requirement, equal to the total Power Requirements of its Properties, plus the square of the number of Properties it has, plus five times the number of different Resources involved in its Cost.
A Commoner can create an Invention, with a set of existing Properties of his choice, in their own possession by spending its Cost, spending its Power Requirement in Coal, and reducing his income by its Power Requirement; after doing so, he must edit the [[Inventions]] wiki page to specify the Invention and that he owns it; this is known as Inventing. A Commoner cannot Invent if he owns 3 Inventions already, however, nor if any of the Resource spending would be impossible or illegal due to leaving his Resources holdings at illegal values.
With science fading around them, the Commoners need to practice it themselves to have any chance of fixing their broken adorable steam-powered kittens. Inventions are easier to design, though, if they restrict themselves to a couple of effects rather than trying to do everything at once. You can make your own Inventions out of a list of Properties (useful things that the Invention can do, and possibly drawbacks that subtract from the cost), by choosing what it should do and what it shouldn't; there are no Properties yet, but presumably you'll come up with and propose some by the time I get my queue slots back. The limitation to 3 Inventions is mostly to make lumping Properties into Inventions a more interesting task; look before you leap, as they take up a lot of floor space, and you may never be able to fit more than three of the things into your house.
If you don’t have a wiki account, please ask a wiki admin to give you one. (Maybe in a comment to this proposal.)
redtara: they/them