Friday, March 28, 2025

Proposal: Six Shots or Only Five

Reached quorum 6 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 29 Mar 2025 13:12:23 UTC

Enact a new rule, “Discs and Jokers”:-

Each Nomicer has a number of white perspex Discs, and a number of red perspex Jokers. These are publicly tracked and both default to 3.

As a weekly communal action, any Nomicer may set every Nomicer’s Discs to 3.

In “Mill”, replace “but no more than three times a week, a Nomicer may reduce the Equity” with:-

a Nomicer may spend a Disc to reduce the Equity

In “Heightened Mill”, replace “but no more than three times in the dynasty, a Nomicer may reduce the Equity” with:-

a Nomicer may spend a Joker to reduce the Equity

Getting in under the wire of Stepping In To Assist’s ban on “publicly tracked dynastic variables”, to make these two “no more than three times” limits visibly trackable, so that we (and later arrivals) can easily see who has and hasn’t used them yet.

Comments

JonathanDark: he/him

28-03-2025 23:25:46 UTC

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ais523:

29-03-2025 00:27:35 UTC

imperial Given that Josh tried to ban this sort of proposal earlier, I think it’s only fair to give him the chance to vote it down if he wishes.

I am also mildly concerned that this may lead to Discs and Jokers being repurposed for other purposes, defeating the idea behind the dynasty. I wonder if maybe we could instead put some sort of action log in the sidebar somehow?

(Something that’s annoyed me for a while is that when using the wiki rather than GNDT, there’s no easy way to get a summary of historical actions – you get a list at times at which actions were performed and who performed them, then have to click on those individually to see what the actual action was. The use of informative edit summaries helps but isn’t usually sufficient.)

Raven1207: he/they

29-03-2025 00:48:32 UTC

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JonathanDark: he/him

29-03-2025 03:20:12 UTC

If you’re worried about Discs and Jokers being repurposed, why not Propose a change to the rule that bans them from being used in any other way? Something like:

No Proposal may add any rules that would provide methods of gaining or losing any amount of Discs or Jokers, nor can Discs or Jokers be used as part of deriving any gamestate other than the spending actions described in this rule.

 

SingularByte: he/him

29-03-2025 06:55:23 UTC

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Josh: Imperator he/they

29-03-2025 07:37:27 UTC

for I wanted to wait to see how voting would go on this and I think it’s popular enough that I’m not going to shoot it down. But after this no more tracked variables, y’hear??