Proposal: Tighter secrecy
Reached quorum 7 votes to 0 with an Imperial DEF. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 12 Apr 2025 09:41:33 UTC
If “Skillful Applications” failed, do nothing. Otherwise:
Retitle “Showing the Patrols” to “Assessing the Patrols”, and change its text to:
To “Leak” a particular Route is to communicate the fourth and ninth Spots in that route.
If every Guard has a non-blank Route and there are no Civilians, then the Concierge may perform the Patrol Assessment atomic action, which has the following steps:
# Leak the Routes of all Guards with a Flaw of Noisy publicly in a blog post.
# Leak the Routes of all Guards without a Flaw of Noisy privately to every Burglar with the Observant Skill.
# Set the current Phase to Planning the Break-In.Guards cannot set their Flaw to Noisy if the current Phase is Planning the Break-In.
In the rule “Effects”, replace the Effect of Noisy with:
Additional information about this Agent’s actions is disclosed to other Agents, as described in “Assessing the Patrols” and “The Break-In”.
and replace the Effect of Observant with:
This Agent learns additional information about other Agents’ actions, as described in “Assessing the Patrols” and “The Break-In”.
In “The Break-In”, change “minus 4 (to a minimum of 0)” to “minus 2 (to a minimum of 0)”.
It doesn’t make sense to leak the entirety of the Guards’ information if there’s even a single Observant Burglar, as that undermines the entire idea behind the dynasty – this proposal reduces the information, while hopefully still giving the Burglars enough to work with to be able to come up with a reasonable plan.
Because this proposal hides the locations of Camera Traps, it also makes them less powerful to compensate.
SingularByte: he/him