BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

That atomic actions needs more careful formatting (either indenting the second, or breaking it up with a “Starting a Game is the following atomic action:”), as it’s just going to run straight into the other one to make one big bulleted list, as written.

I added a note that clarifies the final step in the first action is the final step. I feel like we can format the second action with double indent to help clarify what goes where without needing a proposal… or am I wrong?

Reformatting to match an unambiguous meaning is fine, now that this is unambiguous. It feels a bit precarious to write two separate atomic actions as one big run-on bulleted list (that this might inadvertently confuse some rule that expects a bullet list of steps to all be the same action), but I think I just haven’t seen it done before.

The very first part of the atomic action rule is to specify:

“All steps of an Atomic Action are considered one action, including the steps of an Atomic Action that is itself a step of a parent Atomic Action.”

so I think nested atomic actions are fine.

“Top ranked players always play each other” translates to “top ranked players stay top ranked forever.” This is a huge nerf of Magistrelli.

why?

lesser ranked players who win games will gain Magistrelli and move up the rankings, replacing those who didn’t win games.

This does make the game much more inert and drastically cuts down on the opportunity for players to move up the rankings.

It’s also boring, making it likely that the bottommost players will play each other on a loop and the topmost players will play each other on a loop and will only mingle as a result of great effort. I’d like to play against Brendan at some point!

Of course I’m going to vote because it does materially benefit me but it is BAMPAM and should really be regarded as such.

[Clucky] Nested actions are fine, we just normally write them as clearly separate actions which call each other: I was just being cautious about writing them as one combined list with a “by the way this step is the final one therefore the bullet points below are a different action” explanation halfway through, in case that tripped any atomic action effects which just talk about “a list” and would get confused by this.

It looks okay, though.

Actually now that I see clucky’s vote on the masters I’m switching to

@Josh why is me preferring a different system than masters had a reason to change your vote? This to me seems to anti-synergize with the ideas in masters