As a note, the line

“If that mortal has submitted one or more DoVs this dynasty, consider their DoVs submitted this dynasty to have failed with no against votes.”

affects neither the gamestate nor the ruleset, and so has no effect. Interestingly, cuddlebeam would have won, he just wouldn’t be able to submit a valid DoV for a bit, and we’d probably CfJ that.

DoV and their states including what are considered valid votes for them are gamestate. unless I’m missing something I don’t see how it does not affect the gamstate. besides it’s only relevant if Cuddlebeam wins the roll.

This is great. There should be an entire dynasty devoted to competing random methods of choosing who wins the dynasty.

Handing victories to players who join or unidle after the CfJ is made seems risky for making this a popularity contest - asking idle players or passing friends to join the game and pass the mantle if they win.

Isn’t blognomic always something of a popularity contest?

anyways.

I won the roll (again)

[Kevan] popularity contest? this is a die roll resolution. the instances of known people getting others to join in order to conspire with them within the last year has been limited to 2-4 people brought over from AgoraNomic by Cuddlebeam. I really doubt something like that is going to happen in this instance.

[card] Even without new people joining, a die roll resolution is always something of a popularity contest - if the win lands in the lap of a player who didn’t want it and has no plan for it, being charming or having other forms of social standing within the game puts you in a strong position for having the mantle passed to you.

I think full-blown conspiracies are rare because we’re generally slightly cautious about trading rules, and we tend to lock things down a bit towards endgame, which is the only point at which a conspiracy really makes sense (if you stage one too early in the dynasty, it’ll just get voted apart). But this is a straight multiply-your-win-chance-by-accomplices option at the very, very end of a dynasty.

Let’s see what happens.

Just to note that I didn’t deliberately bring them over lol, I just talk fairly often about Blognomic on Agora, which I suspect acted as advertisement. Comparisons about the pros/cons of each style of nomic, etc.

I “conspire” pretty often at the endgame. A lot of us do, it’s pretty normal apparently, given the Dynasty Histories.

CoV.

CoV