Monday, November 24, 2014

Proposal: Start Your Engines

Passes 5–0 with Quorum FOR. –Seventy-Fifth Trombone

Adminned at 25 Nov 2014 20:03:40 UTC

Add the following text to the end of the first paragraph of the rule “Navigation”:

Orbits with the same Moon are equivalent modulo the Moon’s Orbital Size; that is, if an Orbit would have an Orbit Number larger than its Moon’s Orbital Size, instead divide its Orbit Number by the Orbital Size and set the Orbital Number to the remainder, or to the Orbital Size if the remainder is 0.

If there is no rule “Thrusters”, Add a new dynastic rule to the ruleset.  Call it ‘Local Maneuvering’ and give it the following text:

Each Shuttle has between one and three Thrusters, tracked in the GNDT in the column ‘Engine’.  A Thruster is a valid dice formula with a minimum value of at least 1 and a maximum value of at most 12.  Thrusters may not be of the form XDICE1 for any number X.
New Shuttles start with a DICE4 Thruster.  A Shuttle cannot under any circumstances lose or trade away its last Thruster.

A Thruster is Overcharged if its maximum value is at least 61% of the Orbital Size of its Shuttle’s Moon.  As a special exception, DICE4 and 2DICE2 Thrusters are not considered Overcharged in Io Orbits.

A Shuttle may spend 1 Fuel to Maneuver.  They roll the dice for each of their non-Overcharged Thrusters that they have not used to change Orbits in the last 20 hours.  If there are no such Thrusters, they cannot Maneuver.  They then select the result of one roll and increase their Orbit Number by that amount.

Then, if there is a rule “Local Maneuvering”, Give each Shuttle a single DICE4 Thruster as its Engine.

The author of this proposal gains no Fuel for its enactment.

Comments

Sylphrena:

24-11-2014 16:30:55 UTC

Can you have an Orbit greater than the Moon’s Orbital Size?

Sylphrena:

24-11-2014 16:32:14 UTC

Oh nevermind I can’t read.

Sylphrena:

24-11-2014 16:36:40 UTC

for However, I’m a little confused about how a 2DICE6 thruster works (for example) or really any XDICEY thruster where X>1.

Kevan: he/him

24-11-2014 16:59:01 UTC

imperial

Seventy-Fifth Trombone:

24-11-2014 19:29:51 UTC

imperial

“Thrusters may not be of the form XDICE1 for any number X.”

Someone may want to explicitly preclude “DICE1” thrusters without an explicit coefficient. The entry under “Keywords” may not be sufficient to cover thruster forms.

Teninten:

25-11-2014 02:37:49 UTC

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