It seems like a shame to lose the Marine loss. This also loses another nice bit of the rule, whereby riots would persist in a location unless they were broken, rather than only afflicting the first person to stumble across them; it also means that riot locations are no longer secret, making it less of a strategic booby trap.

Agreed that this is much clearer than my original, but it removes too much of the mechanical interest for me to really support it.

Ah, I hadn’t even noticed that the Riots were intended to be secret! I lazily assumed that “tracked privately” just meant that they were announced but not tracked anywhere. I’m not sure I’d have voted that through if I’d realised. Hmm.

How about moving the Slave Pits to the top of the Institution list? I don’t see why the Mine, Council, Legion and Bank should be less affected than other institutions.

[Koen] It’s actually not a bad split, since the four Institutions above it are the “mundane” ones. Might be worth a punt, though.

Koen - I did think about that, but the level of effect is actually equal, as a rich player can’t influence the Slave Pits to get rid of a Slave Riot at the Mine on the same turn as as trying to influence that Mine, and benefit from the effect.

It really needs to be kept secret, otherwise it is little different from a weaker version of the Reactor.