Friday, November 11, 2011

Proposal: Sweet Disposition

Times out 2-13 and fails. -coppro

Adminned at 14 Nov 2011 00:43:37 UTC

Add a new rule called “Ware and Tear” with the following text

Each driver has a condition for their taxi cab, tracked in the GNDT in a column called “Condition”, which is either “Working Order”, “Broken Down” or “In the Shop”. New driver’s start with a condition of “Working Order”.

If a driver’s condition is Broken Down, they may spend 5 cash to change their condition to In the Shop.

If a driver’s condition has been In the Shop and nothing else for the past 24 hours, that driver may set their condition to Working Order.

If a driver’s condition has been Broken Down and nothing else for the past 3 days, that driver may set their condition and cash to the default values for a new player.

Set the condition of every driver to Working Order

replace

a Driver may Drive

with

a Driver whose condition is Working Order may Drive

Clearly fixing your cab should cost money. I donno if 5 is enough. But it seems reasonable. However, if you don’t have enough funds you should be able to restart. Pay 5 cash to get going again in 1 day or all your cash to get going again in 3 days seems like a reasonable balance.

Not totally sure how the cab should break down (we could track how much its used in a week. Or even remove the “twice a day” rule but do something like ‘Whenver you driver, roll a DICEN where N is the number of times (including this one) that you have driven in the last 24 hours. If the result is greater than 3 set your condition to Broken Down).

Comments

Bucky:

11-11-2011 19:23:06 UTC

against I really hope this isn’t inflictable on other drivers, ever.  In fact, it seems like the main purpose for this is to force whoever is unfortunate enough to break down to hit their double-dailies more consistently for the rest of the week.

Spitemaster:

11-11-2011 19:27:27 UTC

against

PBURNS:

11-11-2011 19:29:43 UTC

imperial

Murphy:

11-11-2011 19:31:58 UTC

for

scshunt:

11-11-2011 19:50:01 UTC

against how are you supposed to get cash to repair your car if you can’t drive?

Clucky: he/him

11-11-2011 20:11:45 UTC

@Bucky - the purpose is simply to better represent taxicab driving.

@coppro - hence the restart after 3 days option.

Pavitra:

11-11-2011 20:45:44 UTC

against per coppro, despite Clucky. It’s an uninteresting escalation-of-loseage.

Ornithopter:

11-11-2011 21:29:07 UTC

against

ChronosPhaenon:

12-11-2011 00:47:05 UTC

imperial

Shadowclaw:

12-11-2011 03:16:13 UTC

against

SingularByte: he/him

12-11-2011 07:17:50 UTC

against

Prince Anduril:

12-11-2011 11:02:38 UTC

against Too complex

ais523:

12-11-2011 18:14:02 UTC

against

Darknight: he/him

12-11-2011 22:17:32 UTC

against

lazerchik:

13-11-2011 04:28:11 UTC

against