Tuesday, April 01, 2025

Proposal: The Short Short

Reached Quorum, 5-1. Josh

Adminned at 02 Apr 2025 09:33:40 UTC

Add a new dynastic rule to the ruleset, called The Troll:

At any time, up to one Nomicer may be a Troll, with the existence and identity of the Troll being privately tracked by the Imperator. If there is no Troll then the Imperator may randomly select a Nomicer to be the Troll and commuicate that fact privately to the selected Nomicer.

The Troll’s objective is to generate negative Equity. Whenever a Nomicer ceases to be the Troll through any means other than an Accusation, any negative Equity they earned while they were the Troll is both reverted and then added to their Equity.

As a Daily Communal Action, provided that they have not done so within the preceding 72 hours, any Nomicer who is not the Troll may post an Accusation, which is a post with a title comprised of the [Accusation] tag and the name of a single other Nomicer, and optionally body text setting out their reasons for believing that the named Nomicer is the Troll. All Nomicers may vote on an Accusation; if the number of FOR votes exceed the number of AGAINST votes on the Accusation after 48 hours, or if the number of FOR votes on the Accusation exceed Quorum at any time, then it is Enacted, may be marked as Enacted by any Admin, and the named Nomicer, if they were the Troll, ceases so to be so without their Equity being adjusted as per the second paragraph of this rule. If an Accusation has been open for 48 hours and has not been Enacted then it is Failed and may be marked as such by any Admin.

Comments

JonathanDark: he/him

01-04-2025 16:20:44 UTC

Doesn’t this still have the issue ais mentioned, which is that there are no negative repercussions to simply voting FOR on every Accusation?

With this, Accusations simply become a Daily rotation through the active player list.

Josh: Imperator he/they

01-04-2025 18:42:19 UTC

I expect this to undergo iterations. That’s not a day 1 flaw so I don’t feel strongly impelled to fix it in this proposal.

There are other issues that aren’t fixed - eg the Troll’s best move being to leave their behaviour completely unchanged and just farm Mill decreases - but that just gives everyone things to use their proposal slots on/

JonathanDark: he/him

01-04-2025 19:52:27 UTC

Got it. Then as a work-in-progress,  for

ais523:

01-04-2025 21:08:49 UTC

for

DoomedIdeas: he/him

02-04-2025 04:41:11 UTC

for

SingularByte: he/him

02-04-2025 08:35:08 UTC

against  Now that we’re in the endgame, people can no longer lose the Troll status.

Raven1207: he/they

02-04-2025 08:59:57 UTC

for