Proposal: Time Waits For No One
Withdrawn. Failed by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 20 Aug 2024 06:32:03 UTC
In the rule “The Big One”, add a subrule named “Last Catch” with the following text:
There is a publicly-tracked Last Catch which contains a date and time, defaulting to the current date and time rounded down to the nearest hour.
If it has been 168 hours (7 days) or more since the date and time in the Last Catch, at their earliest convenience the Elder Judge should perform the Last Call, which is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Resolve all pending Fish Identifications in the order they were received
* If the Big One Caught atomic action was performed as a result of the previous step, skip all remaining steps of this atomic action and consider it completed
* If the Found Fish list is empty, subtract 1 from each Fishing Contestant’s Trophies, to a minimum of 0
* If the Found Fish list is not empty, if there is only one Fishing Contestant whose name appears in the most entries in the Found Fish list, mark that Fishing Contestant as the Hero
* If the Found Fish list is not empty, if there is more than one Fishing Contestant whose name appears in the most entries in the Found Fish list, among those Fishing Contestants mark the Fishing Contestant whose name appears first in the Found Fish list as the Hero
* If a Fishing Contestant was marked as the Hero in this instance of this atomic action, perform the Big One Caught atomic action
* Set the Last Catch to the current date and time, rounded down to the nearest hour
In the subrule “Trophies”, add the following step just before the last step in the atomic action Big One Caught:
* Set the Last Catch to the current date and time, rounded down to the nearest hour
Lukas made a good point in an earlier comment, which is that if everyone optimizes their strategy to wait for a higher Level before submitting Fish Identifications and catching The Big One, no one will wind up doing anything, which will make the dynasty take forever to finish. This proposal aims to add in a weekly timer such that, if no one catches The Big One, the trophy instead goes to the Fishing Contestant who found the most fish during that time, to at least reward the player who achieved the most successful identifications in that time period. If no one does anything at all after a week, then everyone gets penalized, which should incentivize players to try to get some successful finds.
withdraw this one.
JonathanDark: he/him
Just to be clear, the reason this is different from Lukas’ proposal is that it still incentivizes players to work towards Fish Identification and catching The Big One, as opposed to performing alternative dynastic actions to gain trophies. Even more so, each player has to decide whether to wait to submit Fish Identifications and for how long, and the timer makes that decision more critical as it gets closer to timing out.