Saturday, January 29, 2022

Proposal: This box is kinda heavy…

Timed out. fails 3-3—Clucky

Adminned at 31 Jan 2022 19:16:22 UTC

In the rule “Boring Box Company”, replace the paragraph beginning “A box is” with the following:

A box is a kind of resource. A box has properties for material, size, value, weight, and contents. The Warehouse Table is a list of boxes and their properties. The default value for weight is the same as the size, and the default value for contents is blank. The contents of a box are secretly tracked by the CEO, but the CEO may at any time assign each box an arbitrary public identifier to distinguish otherwise identical boxes from one another.

If the proposal “Horizontal Integration” was enacted, add a new subrule to Departments called “Warehouse” as follows:

An Employee may only take actions described in this rule if they are in the Warehouse.

If the proposal “Horizontal Integration” was failed, create a new rule called “Warehouse”.

Add the following to the rule “Warehouse”:

As a Weekday Action, an Employee may put something in a box by sending a private message or Discord DM to the CEO naming exactly one box in the Warehouse Table, and the name of an item they wish to put in, which may be any noun. An item in a box either has value (and is valuable), or has no value (and is not valuable).

The list of items that have value is secretly tracked by the CEO, but a SHA-256 hash of the list must be kept at the wiki page List of valuable box contents (SHA-256 hash). The list may only be changed by votable matter or where allowed by the ruleset. An item that has value is any term(s) that appear on the list, including spelling variations, plurals, or alternate grammatical forms. The CEO should resolve ambiguities in item names at their discretion in order to avoid confusion.

When an Employee puts an item in a box, the CEO must increase the box’s weight by 1, and set the box’s contents to the given item (or if multiple employees add an item to the same box, a comma separated list of those items). The first time any particular valuable item is sold in a box, the CEO must increase the Company Budget by a random value from 1 to 100 (inclusive), and increase the Options of the Employee that put the item in the box by 10% of that value, rounded up.

The CEO should, as soon as possible (and only once), perform the following atomic action:
* Populate a list of items (at their discretion) which have value.
* Generate a SHA-256 hash of the list, and add it to the wiki page List of valuable box contents (SHA-256 hash).
* Remove the bullet points comprising this atomic action, and the preceding sentence, from the ruleset.

What are you doing in the warehouse? There’s nothing to see here, carry on!

Comments

Zack: he/him

29-01-2022 19:11:28 UTC

I know this gives me a lot of freedom to set up the secret info mechanic but let me reiterate that I am trying to be a neutral emperor, and I don’t intend to do anything that would favor anyone in particular, or secretly give away info that might help any particular player or group of players.

TyGuy6:

29-01-2022 19:24:59 UTC

This is good stuff, actually. As I understand it, you’ll have a secret list of nouns that we’re trying to guess? How would we be able to guess them, when the possibilities range through the tens of thousands?

Zack: he/him

29-01-2022 19:34:48 UTC

Yeah, that’s the gist of it. I’d like to keep my hand close to my chest for now, but you can trust I have the company’s best interests at heart.

Josh: he/they

29-01-2022 23:33:35 UTC

imperial

Clucky: he/him

31-01-2022 07:54:02 UTC

against feels like a pretty big shift in gameplay mechanics

Josh: he/they

31-01-2022 08:36:09 UTC

Actually, I agree with Clucky; too late in the day for this I think against

Snisbo: she/they

31-01-2022 17:14:49 UTC

against

Zack: he/him

31-01-2022 17:46:27 UTC

I thought this would like a fun mechanic to break up the monotony. It doesn’t change anything, it just adds a new twist. If y’all aren’t willing to let something like this pass then I’m just gonna have to give up on trying to be anything other than the boring boss who only cares about boring boxes.

Snisbo: she/they

31-01-2022 17:59:58 UTC

I just don’t like “the CEO may at any time assign each box an arbitrary public identifier”, the idea is solid, imo.

Josh: he/they

31-01-2022 18:06:22 UTC

No-one owes you the passage of your proposals, and you can’t take it personally.

(I say this having literally dozens of shot-down imperial this-would-make-the-game-better proposals under my belt, so I know how hard the feelings get, and am not saying this to be glib or to dismiss them; you just have to let go, for the sake of your own sanity.)

Zack: he/him

31-01-2022 18:13:45 UTC

@Josh I’m not saying anyone owes me anything and I’m not taking it personally. I’m saying if you guys want a boring dynasty where all we do is make and sell boxes until someone gets a boatload of money, so that’s what we’ll. But the “boring” in the name was always meant to be ironic, not taken literally.

@Supernova What exactly don’t you like? It doesn’t affect the box at all, it just makes it so if there’s 2 boxes with the same properties, we can tell them apart. I will probably just end up using letters or numbers for the identifier, so we can say something like “Box A” or “Box 7” to be clear about which box we mean.

Zack: he/him

31-01-2022 18:14:56 UTC

that’s what we’ll do*

Brendan: he/him

31-01-2022 18:21:42 UTC

for