Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Proposal: Unique Ability, a start

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-Amni

Adminned at 05 Apr 2007 19:33:11 UTC

This is kind of a sister proposal to Hunting, but I suppose it is conceptually distinct enough to warrant its own proposal.  I know that neither this nor Hunting seems particularly powerful on its own, and that Brain Size is still missing, but I intend to propose the final piece of the puzzle if these go through.

Replace the following text in Evolutionary Currency:

Occasionally, every lifeform may increase eir DNA Points by 0.05 * Z, rounded down, where Z is the number of DNA points currently possessed by said lifeform. No lifeform may receive more than 50 DNA points per week this way.

with

Occasionally, every Lifeform may Reproduce.  This results in the Lifeform gaining 0.01*the Lifeform’s Unique Ability*Z, rounded down, where Z is the number of DNA points currently possessed by the Lifeform.  No Lifeform may receive more than 10*the Lifeform’s Unique Ability DNA points per week this way.

Comments

Clucky: he/him

04-04-2007 13:41:42 UTC

I really do not see how this makes UA’s worth it. It increases you weekly interest by at most 10 DNA per week. At the upper levels, that means it would take 30 weeks to pay off.  against

Axeling:

05-04-2007 03:52:53 UTC

I agree.  I didn’t want to make it too powerful to start out with.  I would support increasing the power a bit (perhaps double it?).  But, in any case, the third proposal will hopefully make it more worth it (as well as Brains, and Foraging).

ChronosPhaenon:

05-04-2007 13:13:07 UTC

against