BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

“As a weekly action, each Heir may Pass Time”

So if there are 11 heirs, within a week, Pass Time could occur 11 times?

If you meant that Pass Time itself could only occur once weekly, that part needs re-wording, I think.

You’ve interpreted my intent correctly

I don’t really care for it, in that case. It feels like Pass Time will happen far too often. I’ll have to do the math and see if my gut check is right.

Yeah I’m with JonathanDark here. Seems like this’ll move too fast

*If* everyone passes time in a week (big if) then it comes down to 1 in 50 that the dynasty ends

I’d be surprised if 7 people do it though

If there’s 10 pass-times in the first week, there’s an overall 11% chance that the dynasty ends.

If all 10 go in a second week, 31%.

If all 10 go again for a third week, 51%.

Fourth week, 71%.

I’m worried that the numbers are too low tbh.

Would this also mean that the Old King reaches potentially hundreds of years old?

Yeah he’ll have been ailing for 200 years at the end of week 4

You’re forgetting that there would also be 10 increases in Reputation and 10 decreases in Estate Prestige every week, inflating the Reputation market to make Reputation have less value and killing the Estate Prestige market.

I’m about to put up a counter-proposal that focuses just on the Old King’s death so that it feels like we have a mechanism for the dynasty to end, if that’s what is desired.

@Jonathan I’m not forgetting; I think you might be missing that this would drastically increase the number of Successors who get generated.

Ok, that’s fair. So basically this could significantly increase the churn of the overall gamestate values and make it a lot more dynamic and harder to hold on to anything for any length of time.

I still don’t know that I like that too much. I can see that there’s a period where it would benefit the youngest Heirs, though obviously their time would come up as well.

I suppose players aren’t required to Pass Time, so maybe there’s a strategic calculation here that makes this not quite so drastic. I’ll ponder it.

The churn here does feel too fast. Factoring in the reputation penalty for nominating a successor too, I suspect we’re going to see people’s reputations plummeting.

Plus, the king being hundreds of years old feels a bit odd given that nothing else supernatural has been proposed or hinted at.

for theme, given that the Ascension said that we were in the “final days” of Vovix’s reign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_King_List#Rulers_in_the_Sumerian_King_List

in favor of “As I Lay Dying”

I like the time passing mechanic but anyone being able to trigger it at will is a lot.