Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Proposal: The Life of the Parties

Enacted 8-0. TDS.

Adminned at 12 Oct 2022 19:08:01 UTC

Add the following rule to the ruleset, known as “Party Time”:

At any point as a daily action, as long as there is not an ongoing Party or Grand Party and it is neither at least 60 hours prior to Wednesday or Wednesday itself, a player may begin a Party. If there is an ongoing Party, that fact is publicly tracked, along with when it was started and all Partygoers that have joined it.. Parties may consist of any number of partygoers. A Partygoer may join the current party at any time, and the Holder of the Rubber Ducky (if there is one) is automatically assumed to be in any ongoing parties.

If it has been over 48 hours since the current Party was started, partygoers can no longer join the current Party and the Host should resolve that party as soon as possible as long as they have not already done so, using the following atomic action:
- The Partygoer with the highest Party score for the current Party wins the party. If there is a tie, the winner is decided secretly randomly among all partygoers that tied for the most points.
- If that Partygoer is the current Holder of the Rubber Ducky, they gain 15 points, otherwise possession of the Rubber Ducky is transferred to them and they gain 10 points.
- All Partygoer’s Party Points are set to 0
- The current Party ceases to be ongoing, and may not become ongoing again.
- The Host publishes a story post summarizing the events of that party and who won that party.

Add the following rule to the ruleset, called “The Grand Party”:

Once each week, on the Wednesday or as soon as possible thereafter of that week, the Host shall start a Grand Party. If there is an ongoing Grand Party, that fact is publicly tracked, along with when it was started and all Partygoers who have joined the current Grand Party. Partygoers may join the Grand Party at any time.

If it has been 48 hours since the current Grand Party was started, then Partygoers may no longer join the current Grand Party, and the Host should resolve it at their earliest convenience as long as they have not already done so, using the following atomic action:
- The current Holder of the Rubber Ducky gains 5 points, and then possession of the Rubber Ducky is Transferred to the Host.
- The Partygoer with the highest Party score for the current Grand Party wins the Grand Party. If there is a tie, the winner is decided secretly randomly among all Partygoers that tied for the most points.
- That Partygoer gains 30 points and possession of the Rubber Ducky.
- All Partygoer’s Party Points are set to 0.
- The current Party ceases to be ongoing, and may not become ongoing again.
- The Host publishes a story post summarizing the events of that Grand Party, and the Partygoer that won it.


Add the following rule to the ruleset, known as “A Slight Delay”:

No Parties or Grand Parties may be started. If the current date is on or after October 18, any player may repeal this rule.

The main thing for this dynasty: you can hold parties for the person holding the rubber ducky, and the person holding the rubber ducky should try and hold on to it. I’ve tried to include generous reaction times so that no one feels rushed. The exact content of parties is up to all of you though: the Host only has so much control over what people do at their parties.

Comments

Bucky:

12-10-2022 00:18:12 UTC

How are distinct Parties tracked?

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

12-10-2022 00:19:46 UTC

There’s never more than one at a time.

Bucky:

12-10-2022 01:50:02 UTC

That’s not guaranteed.

TyGuy6:

12-10-2022 02:07:49 UTC

Only way I see is if the Host decided to start the Grand Party without ending the previous party? (Unless something were to change, and you know that’s going to happen sometime.)

But anyway, parties and their times and occupants are tracked, so it seems reasonable we could just track them each separately, and revise OP’s wording a bit to detach the 1-current-party premise.

Axemabaro:

12-10-2022 04:17:18 UTC

If you assume that the Host’s “earliest convenience” is before “as soon as possible” then it should all work out. Shouldn’t be a hard fix, though and it’s been 4 hours so for

Bucky:

12-10-2022 04:36:17 UTC

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Josh: Observer he/they

12-10-2022 07:28:14 UTC

Seems to me that there’s some confusion between points and party points?

Raven1207: he/they

12-10-2022 11:55:33 UTC

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Lulu: she/her

12-10-2022 12:03:53 UTC

for

Habanero:

12-10-2022 12:10:24 UTC

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Axemabaro:

12-10-2022 15:13:49 UTC

I think Party points = Party score =/= points? However, neither are tracked.

Snisbo: she/they

12-10-2022 15:18:34 UTC

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Darknight: he/him

12-10-2022 18:08:56 UTC

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