BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

I don’t want special me-powered gameplay. I do like the concept though.

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coppro - I’d rather not have the Professor-fuel gameplay; I tend to dislike that as a mechanic. I can’t think of another way to do it, though.

[Josh] Define a dice-rolling mechanism for generating customers (maybe taking the names from a specific list), and let any player make the weekly post.

Dice-rolling is usually a better approach to take anyway, so that we don’t have to second-guess the range of requirements the Professor might come up with.

@Kevan - I considered that, but the post has to specify the type of stock needed, and that’s both awkward to randomise and subject to self-interest.

[Josh] It’s not that awkward - we have four types of stock, so maybe just roll three DICE4 to see what the customer wants. Provided that players are obliged to continue generating a customer even if they don’t like the die rolls, I don’t see that there’d be any problems of self-interest.

@Kevan - isn’t that limiting, though? As our capacity to produce grows, shouldn’t it be possible to have bigger and more elaborate Premium Goods? As Corporations have more skilled employees, won’t we want a greater array or rarer or more valuable Stocks?

I accept what you’re saying, and of course I considered that when I was writing the prop - it’s a pretty standard setup after all. It just didn’t feel future-proofed to me. I’d happily see a fix prop if you can make it work, though.

Fair point, although given that it’s a weekly action I don’t think we’d have to worry too much about future-proofing it - we could just bump the dice up by proposal, or tie it to the number of products in existence when we had a better idea of how easy it was to fill an order.

I’ll have a stab at a dice-based replacement later or tomorrow, if nobody else gets there first.

I have to change my vote to , as after I’ve considered this, I can’t adopt this role and still participate naturally in the dynasty; I can easily simply create Premium Goods that are within my reach. Sorry.

On an unrelated note, the last position in PlanEx is now open to everyone.