Wednesday, May 08, 2013

Proposal: Tournament

Timed Out. Fails 4-3—Clucky

Adminned at 10 May 2013 14:26:41 UTC

Create a new wiki page entitled “Tournament”, and blank that page.

Enact a rule entitled “Tournament”:

Once per time advancement, any noble may start a tournament if one is not already in progress. In order to host a tournament, a noble must make a Story Post with “Tournament” included in the title, must update the “Tournament” wiki to reflect the new tournament, and must spend N*20 wealth, where N is any non-zero, non-negative, integer. Once a tournament has begun, any noble may decide to join the tournament by posting in the comments to the tournament page their intent to join and how many knights they are sending to the tournament (K), they must deduct K from their total number of knights, and they must add themselves to the proper location in the “Tournament” wiki along with the number of knights. The tournament automatically ends once time advances, and the noble who advances should reflect the tournament as “Closed”. At any time, any noble may resolve a tournament and then change the status of the tournament to be “Resolved”.

Resolving a tournament:
The noble who resolves the tournament rolls S = 1 DICEK for every noble who joined the tournament, where K is the total amount of knights pledged. The noble who gets the highest score S is awarded N*10 wealth and 5 dignity, the noble with the second highest score is awarded N*5 wealth and 3 dignity, and the player with the the third highest score is awarded N*2 wealth and 2 dignity. (The remaining wealth is used to pay the cost of the tournament) Additionally, any player attending the tournament gains 1 dignity. The player hosting the tournament gains N*5 dignity.

A noble may not participate in a tournament they host.

This idea has sort of been floating around in my head for a while. I know people don’t like dice, but I wanted a way to ensure that the people with the most wealth wouldn’t be ensured to win all the time (also b/c tournaments do have a bit of luck involved). Also, I wanted a mechanic to gain dignity back.

posted by kikar at 08 May 2013 14:24:39 UTC Comments (10)

Comments

kikar:

08-05-2013 14:55:46 UTC

e-mails!

kikar:

08-05-2013 14:58:45 UTC

.... And I forgot to deal with the issues of what happens if nobles tie or no nobles join the tournament. The latter is implicit, but the former means that this proposal needs a revision. I’m still interested in feedback though.

Henri:

08-05-2013 17:22:21 UTC

for

Clucky: he/him

08-05-2013 19:43:52 UTC

eehhhh. not really sold on the dice mechanics. Seems too luck based against

QuinnR:

08-05-2013 20:49:46 UTC

for I don’t mind the randomness, and you can sway things a bit by pledging more knights if you want..or just not participate.

Rationality:

08-05-2013 21:20:02 UTC

Seems like people with no money and knights would get left behind quickly in wealth.

kikar:

08-05-2013 21:59:03 UTC

Although, it gives an incentive to the wealthier players to give up some of their wealth, so that’s possibly a good thing.

RaichuKFM: she/her

09-05-2013 00:37:05 UTC

against I like the idea, but too many problems for me to agree to patch after Passing. “At any time, any noble may resolve a tournament and then change the status of the tournament to be “Resolved”” allows whoever enters first to auto-win; I assume it was meant to be a closed Tournament that can be resolved. “noble who advances” should be “noble who advances time”, though that is a petty error. “and the player with the the third highest score” should have “Noble”, not player. I also dislike the amount of Wealth it takes to host a tournament; it doesn’t seem advantageous to do so.

Larrytheturtle:

09-05-2013 01:15:26 UTC

against Per Raichu. I definitely like the idea but they is enough wrong to warrant this being re-proposed verse pass and fix

Skju:

10-05-2013 01:25:42 UTC

against