Friday, February 07, 2020

Proposal: :thinking:

SK, CB

Adminned at 08 Feb 2020 12:50:17 UTC

Create a new rule called “Ideas”:

A Scientist can pay (500+Crisis/10) Budget to request Ideas from the Liaison in private. Upon this request, the Liaison can and shall then grant them 3 random Ideas in a timely fashion and inform them of these Ideas privately. Ideas are privately tracked by the Liaison.

A Scientist shall not fake the use of an Idea, and the Liaison is encouraged to raise CfJs about ambiguities or doubts about their use, should they arise, even if it involves revealing secret information, but should try to withhold as much secret information as possible.

The following are Ideas, and their effects, if any:
- Calculate: Via a blog post to this effect, a Scientist can spend two of this Idea to gain a new instance of a kind of Idea of their choice.

A system for a “hand of cards”. Feel totally free to veto Liaison if you prefer to not have this responsibility.

Comments

Darknight: he/him

07-02-2020 22:41:59 UTC

imperial

Josh: Observer he/they

07-02-2020 23:13:33 UTC

This proposal will become illegal when Proposal: There’s more than one of everything is enacted.

card:

07-02-2020 23:23:16 UTC

I consider demonic tutor as the initial idea, and therefore more probable for people to get them over the course of the dynasty, too powerful against

card:

07-02-2020 23:24:46 UTC

Also was it intentional to be able to get duplicates of the same idea?

Darknight: he/him

08-02-2020 06:09:33 UTC

Josh: It’ll still be legal as long as no portals form before hand, it might not pass at this rate though

Tantusar: he/they

08-02-2020 07:26:51 UTC

against

Darknight: he/him

08-02-2020 08:09:49 UTC

against cov

Kevan: he/him

08-02-2020 08:40:26 UTC

imperial Hands of cards are a good way to make an interesting secret information game, but it’s up to the Liaison whether they want to track all this.

We would need a more robust system, though, probably requiring Ideas to be played via the Emperor: it would be hard to recover fairly from Quinn saying “I cast Fireball!”, Arturo saying “Well, I cast Counterspell!” and the Emperor saying “Sorry Quinn, you don’t have Fireball, you lost that card a week ago. Play on with everyone knowing that Arturo still has a Counterspell.”

The Duke of Waltham: he/him

08-02-2020 10:06:41 UTC

All I need is a spreadsheet, I suppose… It can be done, so long as there are no unreasonable expectations about the amount of time I’ll be able to dedicate to the game.

I do like the secrecy theme. Keep in mind that, once Scientists are able to cross Universes, they could perhaps impersonate their other selves. I’d like there to be a way for someone to pretend to be their other and fool other players that way. Maybe it would be just the Traitor(s).

Josh: Observer he/they

08-02-2020 10:18:52 UTC

imperial

Madrid:

08-02-2020 12:45:33 UTC

against speedy speed