Proposal: Tree Stump
Timed out / quorumed 4 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 13 Aug 2023 17:23:18 UTC
In “Innovation”, replace “There exist a number of Innovations, all of which are recorded in the table below. Each Innovation has an Innovation type, a name, an Ingenuity cost, zero or more prerequisites, and an effect which is applied to every District who has learned it. If a District has learned an Innovation multiple times, its effect applies an equal number of times (if possible). The Innovations that a District has learned are tracked in a public list; if an Innovation has been learned more than once by a District, its name is marked with a multiplicative suffix (e.g. “x2” or “x3”) in that list to indicate the number of times learned.” with:
There exist a number of Innovations, all of which are recorded in the table below. Each Innovation has an Innovation type, a name, an Ingenuity cost, zero or more prerequisites, and an effect which is applied to every District who understands it. (If a Prerequisite is the name of another Innovation, it requires that the District must understand that Innovation.) The Innovations that a District understands are tracked in a public list.
In the next paragraph, replace “and then learn it” with “and then understand it”.
Remove “May not have already been learned by this District” from the Prerequisites of Shared Wisdom.
In “Upsides and Downsides”, replace “lose your lowest-cost learned Innovation” with “lose your lowest-cost understood Innovation”.
Set each District to understand all Innovations that they had learned at any earlier point in the dynasty.
Wondering if we’d benefit from simplifying Innovation. We’d have more of an actual tech tree going on if we replaced a single stackable tech with an equivalent branch of “Indoor Gardens → Hothouses → Hydroponics” that each did the same thing. Innovations might also be easier to write and balance if we removed the implicit default that most Innovations should, with rare exceptions, all be infinitely stackable.
(This proposal also changes the past tense “has learned” to a present tense “understands”, to make it clear that the rules only care what Innovations you have right now, not which ones you had and lost in the past. It also specifies that if we want to write a simple “must have other Innovation X” prerequisite, we can just put its name in the box.)
lendunistus: he/him
FYI this doesn’t carry over already-learned innovations unless I’m understanding it wrong