Thursday, April 12, 2012

Proposal: Syncopathy

Reaches Quorum and passes 8-0 ~ southpointingchariot

Adminned at 12 Apr 2012 21:38:45 UTC

Reword the effect of the Black Market to:-

When specifying Directions to the Net, a Player may specify a number of Malcontents to be Recruited. When a Player Influences the Black Market, if they specified a number of Malcontents to be Recruited during the current Cycle, then if the Player has at least 5X+(X(X-1)/2) Credits (where X is the number of Malcontents they specified), then they lose 5X+(X(X-1)/2) Credits and gain X Marines.

If The Exchange exists, reword its effect to:-

When specifying Directions to the Net, a Player may specify a number of Crates to be Shipped. When a Player Influences the Exchange, if they specified a number of Crates to be Shipped during the current Cycle, then if the Player has Credits equal to at least X multiplied by MPI (where X is the number of Crates they specified), then they lose a number of Credits equal to X multiplied by MPI, and gain 5X Power.

Yonah bought a Marine on the Black Market two hours before the end of a cycle, and Koen apparently reacted and sent the Mob after him, in the short time before the Cycle ended. I think we forgot that this dynasty wasn’t meant to have “actions that don’t sync with the 72 hour direction cycle”.

posted by Kevan at 12 Apr 2012 16:07:44 UTC Comments (10)

Comments

Yonah:

12-04-2012 16:17:38 UTC

against As written this would cripple those institutions as using them would require holding back a large number of credits. If the costs were paid after the restocking instead of during the resolution process then this would be good.

Josh: he/they

12-04-2012 16:24:41 UTC

against Solely because I am insufficiently mathsy to understand the new Black Market equation.

Clucky: he/him

12-04-2012 16:26:16 UTC

imperial Yonah raises a good point, but Kevan’s initial complaint is also valid.

What if we did something like “You can’t do this the last 24 hours of a cycle”? It wouldn’t be perfect, but it would still be a lot better. We could also reward it to factor in restocking, if we do that we should reword it something like


“When specifying Directions to the Net, a Player may specify a number of Crates to be Shipped. After the Restock phase but before checking the Public, if the Player who Influenced the Exchange specified a number of Crates to be Shipped during the current Cycle, then if the Player has Credits equal to at least X multiplied by MPI (where X is the number of Crates they specified), then they lose a number of Credits equal to X multiplied by MPI, and gain 5X Power. If they specified a number of Crates to be Shipped during the current Cycle but have fewer than X*MPI credits, then they lose Y*MPI credits and gain 5Y power where Y is the largest positive integer for which that player has at least Y*MPI credits”

Kevan: he/him

12-04-2012 16:31:46 UTC

[Yonah] Not really. If you’re relying on the +10 bonus credits to get you back up above zero after a Black Market shopping spree, then you’d be ending up stuck in the <10 dead zone anyway. But Clucky’s fix would be fine.

[Josh] Sorry, yes, it’s ugly, it’s just exactly equivalent to the current costs (you pay 5 for the first Marine, 5+1 for the second, 5+2 for the third, etc). We seem to be living in reactionary times, so I didn’t want to risk simplifying it.

Josh: he/they

12-04-2012 16:37:26 UTC

Ah, fair enough. CoV for

southpointingchariot:

12-04-2012 18:11:04 UTC

for Seems good. The cycle does need to be protected.

Yonah:

12-04-2012 20:33:01 UTC

CoV for Kevan has convinced me.

Patrick:

12-04-2012 21:54:57 UTC

for

Cpt_Koen:

12-04-2012 23:43:01 UTC

for I would have proposed the “you can’t do this the last 24 hours of a cycle”, but this is much much better.

Florw:

13-04-2012 03:13:44 UTC

for