Monday, March 31, 2025

Proposal: Three Discs Per Week

Found unpopular with 1-6 and fails -SingularByte

Adminned at 01 Apr 2025 05:50:21 UTC

Change the text of “Discs and Jokers” to read as follows:

Each Nomicer has a number of white perspex Discs, and a number of red perspex Jokers. These are publicly tracked and both default to 3.

As a weekly communal action named Disc Refresh, any Nomicer or the Imperator may set every Nomicer’s Discs to 3. Actions that spend or reduce a Nomicer’s Discs cannot be performed unless a Disc Refresh has happened earlier in the same week.

Change the history of the gamestate such that the first action (other than tracker corrections) performed this week that increased any Nomicer’s Discs is considered to have been a Disc Refresh action.

An alternative to “Trouble at Mill” and “Set your Watch” – this ensures that the Disc Refresh must be performed before Discs can be spent, effectively making it automatically happen at midnight, and restoring the original intention of the “three days a week” mechanic.

Comments

Kevan: he/him

31-03-2025 17:55:49 UTC

against Per my comments on Trouble at Mill. This still incentivises players to take some actions at exactly 00:00:00 on Monday, in the way that you tried and failed to do last night. Sniper duels to update a wiki page where an action can be invalidated because someone’s system clock was a few seconds out, or their browser took a few extra seconds to load the page, really don’t appeal to me.

DoomedIdeas: he/him

31-03-2025 18:25:38 UTC

against

JonathanDark: he/him

31-03-2025 18:29:22 UTC

against Per Kevan

Josh: Imperator he/they

31-03-2025 19:31:22 UTC

against

ais523:

31-03-2025 21:26:45 UTC

@Kevan: I don’t see how it incentivises that – you would have to do a Disc Refresh first, and then you get no advantage from performing the action early.

Darknight: he/him

01-04-2025 02:18:36 UTC

against

SingularByte: he/him

01-04-2025 04:05:21 UTC

against