Thursday, February 09, 2023

Proposal: Tapping the Thermometer

Reached quorum 9 votes to 1. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 10 Feb 2023 18:17:19 UTC

In “Heat”, replace “Every Villager has a publicly tracked integer amount of Heat which may be negative and defaults to 100. Any attempt to change a Villager’s Heat to a value above 100 instead sets it to 100.” with:-

Every Villager has a publicly tracked amount of Heat, representing their core temperature in Fahrenheit, a non-integer which may be negative and which defaults to 98.6. Heat is always rounded to one decimal place, rounding towards zero.

Replace “A Villager with Heat below 0 is considered Frozen.” with:-

A Villager with Heat of 100 or higher is considered Feverish. A Villager with Heat of 92 or lower is considered Cold. A Villager with Heat of 85 or lower is considered Unconscious. A Villager with Heat of 72 or lower is considered Lifeless.

Replace “lose 1 Heat” with “lose 0.1 Heat” throughout the ruleset. If “I swear to god I will turn this makeshift tent around” enacted, change “5 Heat” in the cost of Shove to “0.5 Heat”.

Multiply every Villager’s Heat by 0.986.

Nudging the temperature scale onto Fahrenheit, if coldness is the foreground of the dynasty.

Comments

SingularByte: he/him

09-02-2023 10:36:13 UTC

If this does pass, I’m thinking we should probably have the Fahrenheit numbers for the various villager states in the tracking page, just because not everyone is too familiar with the scale. I know I’m not.

I wonder if there’s some wiki magic that could auto-colour the heat values too.

Kevan: he/him

09-02-2023 10:39:27 UTC

I’m not familiar with the scale either, but I expect we’ll all quickly internalise the idea that dropping to 92 is bad and 85 is very bad.

Josh: he/they

09-02-2023 10:42:55 UTC

Yeah, a fictionalised scale might be better here than either of the situationally-inaccessible options in common use.

Kevan: he/him

09-02-2023 11:03:41 UTC

What do you mean by situationally inaccessible?

Fahrenheit may as well be a fictionalised scale to me. But I enjoy it when a BlogNomic dynasty teaches me about something - I’d rather emerge from the game having vaguely internalised the fact that 85°F is a dangerously low body temperature, than that 25 Heat Points is.

Josh: he/they

09-02-2023 11:09:50 UTC

Oh, just reflecting that Celsius is probably just as obscure to our American friends, Kelvins are uncharismatic etc.

I don’t hate the change the Fahrenheit but find decimal scale movements conceptually fiddly.

Darknight: he/him

09-02-2023 14:46:57 UTC

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Habanero:

09-02-2023 15:02:02 UTC

for Quite like this.

SingularByte: he/him

09-02-2023 15:14:55 UTC

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Josh: he/they

09-02-2023 15:16:06 UTC

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Trapdoorspyder: he/him

09-02-2023 15:53:44 UTC

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JonathanDark: he/him

09-02-2023 16:26:56 UTC

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Brendan: he/him

09-02-2023 17:02:12 UTC

imperial Fascinated by the choice of “a non-integer.” Is it legal for my Heat to be 98.0? What if I want it to be pi?

JonathanDark: he/him

09-02-2023 17:27:39 UTC

@Brendan: I guess that could include imaginary numbers as well, like sqrt(-1)

Chiiika: she/her

09-02-2023 17:52:39 UTC

against I like my Celsius scientific scale more than a Farenheit one - also integer is imo prettier

Kevan: he/him

09-02-2023 17:56:17 UTC

I quite like the aesthetic of using a one-decimal-place number for a change. Although yes, I have slightly miffed up defining it here.

Raven1207: he/they

10-02-2023 05:07:02 UTC

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