Friday, May 23, 2025

Proposal: To The Letter

In “Drafts and Plans”, replace “that contains a summary of the gameplay for a hypothetical future dynasty, together with at least two hypothetical dynastic rules that might exist in the early stages of that dynasty.” with:-

that either:
* if written before the 25th of May 2025, contains a summary of the gameplay for a hypothetical future dynasty, together with at least two hypothetical dynastic rules that might exist in the early stages of that dynasty
* contains an Ascension Address for a hypothetical future dynasty, and the first two proposals that its Emperor might make.

And add a paragraph break after “might make.”

It seems like we might be settling on a Draft basically being the opening Address-and-operational-starting-rules posts from an Emperor, in terms of how precise it should be and how much design space it should leave to that dynasty’s future players. Is that right?

posted by Kevan at 23 May 2025 10:40:00 UTC Comments (3)

Comments

Josh: he/they

23-05-2025 14:22:01 UTC

imperial I don’t agree that that’s where we are. I’m agnostic about whether it’s where we should be.

JonathanDark: he/him

23-05-2025 16:02:12 UTC

I’ll go further and say that each Drafter might be more Guided in their approach to their hypothetical dynasty, thus extra rules are needed to show the direction in which that Drafter would nudge their dynasty if it were to be chosen.

If a Drafter wants to leave it open, so be it, but often the first two Proposals aren’t enough to indicate the hypothetical Emperor’s desire to shape it.

That said, I’d support simply adding the following text after “the early stages of that dynasty”

, and contains a description of how much and in what areas that Drafter would try to control the direction of that hypothetical dynasty if they were the Emperor of it.

That should satisfy the design space issues.

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ais523: Supervisor

23-05-2025 17:33:14 UTC

arrow per JonathanDark, and also because, thinking about it, this sort of thing could reasonably be expressed as a Mandate.

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