Monday, October 30, 2023

Proposal: Top of the Class

Timed out, 4-0. Enacted by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 01 Nov 2023 06:50:44 UTC

Add a new rule named “Achievements” and give it the following text:

Each Wizard has a publicly-tracked Achievements, which is a list of Achievement names that defaults to empty. The possible names in the list of Achievements are defined in the table below along with the criteria required for each Achievement. The criteria for an Achievement must be met between the moment just before the first Spell is cast during a Duel and the moment just after the last Spell’s Effects are applied during that same Duel.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Criteria
|-
| - || -
|}

If a Wizard has at least 3 Achievements, that Wizard is considered to be an Archmage. While there is no Duel that is Pending, a Wizard achieves victory based on meeting one of the following criteria:
* If a Wizard is the only Archmage out of all Wizards, they achieve victory.
* If a Wizard is an Archmage and their Stars exceed all other Archmages’ Stars, they achieve victory.

In the rule “Commencing a Duel”, after the bullet point beginning with “Reply to the duel post”, add this bullet point:

* If it is on or after November 15 2023, for each Achievement, add it to the list of Achievements for each Wizard who met the criteria for that Achievement during this Duel if that Wizard does not have that Achievement in their list already.

 

This time, I’m just introducing the core mechanic for Achievements without defining any Achievements first, and I tightened up some of the language of when Achievement criteria apply. Achievements won’t even start to be acquired until 2 weeks from now, which gives us plenty of time to come up with a list and tweak anything that was added.

Comments

Bucky:

30-10-2023 21:35:46 UTC

Why not just have the obvious most-stars win condition?

Zack: he/him

30-10-2023 23:38:32 UTC

@Bucky Because this is a nomic and no one has proposed it?

JonathanDark: he/him

31-10-2023 01:00:16 UTC

The obvious isn’t quite as interesting.

However, this doesn’t prevent a most-stars win at all. Just make it an Achievement. Note that there’s nothing preventing there being multiple Achievements with different names but the same criteria. You could have Achievements named “X”, “Y”, “Z” each with the criteria of “This Wizard has the most Stars”.

Kevan: he/him

31-10-2023 08:47:09 UTC

for

Clucky: he/him

31-10-2023 16:19:28 UTC

I’m confused what the “* If it is on or after November 15 2023, for each Achievement, add it to the list of Achievements for each Wizard who met the criteria for that Achievement during this Duel if that Wizard does not have that Achievement in their list already.” bit is supposed to do. Yo ucan only earn achievements after nov 15th??

JonathanDark: he/him

31-10-2023 16:36:49 UTC

That’s correct. It gives us time to build up a list of Achievements and tweak any issues. Otherwise, people could sneak in scams, and if they earned Achievements right away, might jump to a victory early.

JonathanDark: he/him

31-10-2023 16:37:14 UTC

We can always change the date

Snisbo: she/they

31-10-2023 16:48:38 UTC

for

Raven1207: he/they

31-10-2023 16:53:41 UTC

for