Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Proposal: Shake it off

Withdrawn. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 13 Jul 2022 16:35:13 UTC

If the proposal “Why? Why not?” does not pass, this proposal does nothing.

In the rule “Statuses”, reword the rule “Each Status has a name, which is flavor text, and an effect” to

Each Status has a name, which is flavor text, an effect, and optionally a positive numeric value. After an Actor has processed its turn, if it has Statuses with positive numeric values, reduce the value of each such Status by 1. If a Status would be reduced to 0 or less this way, remove it instead.

To the rule named “Statuses” add the following:

* Scrambled N: If an Actor is Scrambled, any Trigger in its Script that checks a numerical value of X instead checks the value of X-N or 1, whichever is greater
* Stuck N: If an Actor is Stuck, any step that results in it moving is ignored, unless that step would also result in them ceasing to be Stuck.

Further extending statuses to support temporary ones

Comments

Brendan: he/him

12-07-2022 18:44:02 UTC

I realize the implication is that Scrambled and Stuck connect to the numeric-value option, but their names don’t actually state that “N” is supposed to be a number.

Josh: Observer he/they

12-07-2022 19:57:28 UTC

imperial

thundershrike:

12-07-2022 20:00:47 UTC

Yeah, I realize that the N in the name doesn’t actually do anything. Each Status that mentions N should probably have “where N is the numeric value of this Status if it exists or 0 if it doesn’t”

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

13-07-2022 00:38:38 UTC

Also, isn’t stuck just a flipped by a different name?

thundershrike:

13-07-2022 02:12:33 UTC

Stuck only prevents movement and it wears off on its own eventually.

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

13-07-2022 04:59:01 UTC

ah

SingularByte: he/him

13-07-2022 06:09:26 UTC

against But I would like to see a fixed version of this re-proposed.
I’d probably say you should be very explicit that the value in question that you’re decreasing is the value in its name, rather than just referring to positive values in the effect, since that could be anything numeric in there.

Kevan: he/him

13-07-2022 07:05:15 UTC

against

thundershrike:

13-07-2022 16:31:22 UTC

withdrawing against