The Bribe subgame is much less interesting if we can see everyone else’s bid: you only ever have to set a Bribe if you’re currently the target. I could live with simplifying the Corsair to remove the Bribe aspect entirely, though.

(Also, “A Settler may, at any time, privately communicate the Onlooker to adjust their Bribe” still works mechanically here, but there’s no reason for us to message the Onlooker if it’s now public.)

Completely take your point about the bribe mechanic losing its teeth, here; didn’t want to bite off more than I could chew with also reforming it. Think that needs to be a follow up proposal.

I’m overall fine with this. I’m sorry about the weekend I had to be out of town kind of slowing down the game further, but whatever.

No worries - would have been good to know but delays do happen. This would mean that we could turn off dynastic distance if you wanted, though

We had a warning in advance on Discord that a Production action would be unlikely this weekend. I’d be fine with the “most recent” tracker flipped to “next due” with some room for the Onlooker to bump it forward at their discretion, if they’re generally expecting to be able to maintain the 36-hour clock, with occasional and predictable exceptions.

The new hot-potato Bribe game doesn’t sound much fun, and I’d rather keep the door open for some other secret-instruction mechanics, if Trapdoorspyder feels generally able to process them.

EAV

@Josh: Just for my education, what does EAV mean, “edited author vote”? I’m assuming from context that since you’re the author of the Proposal, it’s changing your automatic green tick vote into a def vote, but I couldn’t work out the acronym.

Also,  from me

Explicit Author Vote; exactly right, is signals to the enacting admin that it overrides the implicit authoral FOR. NB that it doesn’t withdraw the proposal if the Emperor votes AGAINST; Withdrawing only happens if my own vote is AGAINST, it doesn’t transfer through.

I am 100% okay and perhaps even support anyone being able to perform a production of resources, but bribing has no teeth as an open game, which is rather unfortunate. I should be pretty consistent from this point on either way,