Thursday, July 07, 2022

Proposal: What We Owe To Each Other

Timed out and enacted, 6-0. Josh

Adminned at 09 Jul 2022 11:58:04 UTC

Repeal the rule And They Shall Hunt and the rule And They Shall be Consumed.

Add a new rule to the ruleset, called Debate:

As a Beat Action, a Demiurge may Debate any Non-Player Character.

Debating has a different effect depending on the target. If the target is a Phalanx that is owned by themselves then Debating is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Increase their own Health by twice the Health of the target Phalanx
* Destroy the target Phalanx

If the target is a Phalanx that is now owned by them then Debating is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Reduce their Health by half the Health of the target Phalanx
* Make themselves the Owner of the target Phalanx

If the target is any other Non-Player Character then Debating is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Set x to the health of the Demiurge carrying out this Debating action and set y to be the Health of the target
* If y is greater than x then reduce the target’s Health by x and then increase the Health of the performing Demiurge by x/10 (rounded down).
* If y is less than x then set the Health of the target to 1 and increase the Health of the performing Demiurge by (y-1)*2.

Expanding the mechanic to include a mechanism for slowly whittling down the Guardian, while making sure that it doesn’t allow for the Guardian to be killed just yet.

Comments

lendunistus: he/him

07-07-2022 12:55:42 UTC

attacking other NPCs shouldn’t heal you in my opinion. seems like scam bait to me

aside from that, “And They Shall Hunt” should be repealed too since hunting makes debating phalanxes not owned by you pointless

Josh: Observer he/they

07-07-2022 13:51:02 UTC

I think there has to be some sort of health scaling; a lot of the ruleset is currently inert because Health is so important but also so inflexible. I’ve made it *very* slow in this proposal; x*1.1 will result in a maximum of 161 health right now if someone uses all 5 of their beat actions on it immediately, and would take 18 beat actions to get a single performer to a place where they could Conquer three locations. (A cabal of 4 could get up to 584 total Health but would then not have enough beats to make Phalanxes and consume them for another week and a half or so.)

Good point on Hunt; added in.

lendunistus: he/him

07-07-2022 15:59:59 UTC

i’m slightly concerned about “is an atomic action” possibly overriding “as a beat action” but that fear is probably unfounded

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Trapdoorspyder: he/him

07-07-2022 16:56:04 UTC

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Kevan: he/him

07-07-2022 17:18:41 UTC

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Darknight: he/him

08-07-2022 14:02:17 UTC

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Brendan: he/him

08-07-2022 20:42:37 UTC

imperial