BlogNomic is weird

A hard-ish lock is a little sloppy, but I still respect the scam.

Oh, just to be safe: I’m performing an Inspection.

Hang on, thinking about this some more

CoV

an Engineer who has at least as many Safety Checks as there are Gaps, or at least as many Safety Checks as the current Building Number

“or” being the key word that will let Engineers perform a Build up to a certain point, some more than others. While it’s not practical to catch up to Josh in Safety Checks, dynastic actions are in fact not prevented.

Also I think your Inspection may have added too many Safety Checks (if that even matters anymore). There is only 1 Gap in the Building, not 3. So you add 1+1=2 Safety Checks, not 1+3=4. (I think)

So I guess you should also re-roll the Stability decrement?

I think you folks are missing the point somewhat; the question here isn’t “is the game hard-locked”, it’s “can it be progressed in a way that isn’t essentially resetting the dynasty and making most of its resources, mechanics and progress to date irrelevant in the process”. If this fails, then what?

It has never been outside of your capability to unjam the gamestate - if it was I’d arguably have the much larger problem of the fair play prohibition on “do[ing] any action meant to make the game unplayable”. The argument here is essentially one of practicality.

@Taiga Quite right re safety checks, thanks. Have corrected.

The game can obviously also proceed by proposing or CfJing to change one line in the ruleset and to rewind the wiki gamestate page a couple of steps, which is what we’d do if we hit this situation by accident. “if we’re resetting the game then we should use the existing mechanism for dynastic resets” is an idea we’ve floated before, but the current ruleset doesn’t say anything like that.

There’s also no victory condition in the ruleset at present. An argument of “given enough time, only I could win from this point” might hold a little water, but “given enough time and a majority voting through a victory condition where Safety Checks count towards victory, only I could win” holds none. (I didn’t understand this argument during Habanero I either.)

  it would be quite hypocritical of me to oppose this.