Friday, April 11, 2025

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.

Comments

SingularByte: he/him

11-04-2025 13:48:21 UTC

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JonathanDark: he/him

11-04-2025 13:51:30 UTC

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Darknight: he/him

11-04-2025 14:35:18 UTC

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Kevan: Concierge he/him

11-04-2025 17:03:00 UTC

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Trapdoorspyder: he/him

11-04-2025 17:21:11 UTC

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Raven1207: he/they

11-04-2025 18:58:35 UTC

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DoomedIdeas: he/him

11-04-2025 20:58:07 UTC

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