Friday, September 18, 2020

Proposal: What’s New Ararat?

Timed out and passed, 7-1. Josh

Adminned at 20 Sep 2020 14:08:51 UTC

In “Turns”, replace “If it is Round 8, set the values of all tracked gamestate information for all Islands to their new-player default values, then remove this bullet point from the ruleset.” with:-

If it is Round 8, set the values of all tracked gamestate information (except Topology) for all Islands to their new-player default values, then Erode all Islands, then remove this bullet point from the ruleset.

To “Topology”, add a paragraph:-

To Erode an Island is to reduce the value of each of its Levels by 1 (to a minimum of zero), then to remove all zero-value Levels from its Topology which have only zero-value Levels or no Levels above them.

Proposing that basic Island shape continues (a little eroded) after the Flood. Taking game actions feels a bit pointless at the moment when there’s a “reset all progress” wave on the distant horizon.

Comments

Josh: Observer he/they

18-09-2020 10:29:33 UTC

Remember that Schwingrasen means that resetting to new players values isn’t necessarily the same as resetting to zero, and the parameters of that are up for grabs with player actions.

That said, I do like this so for

Kevan: he/him

18-09-2020 10:42:44 UTC

It’s still a reset: apart from crafting a loophole to use later, I can’t see that there’s any way for a clever or attentive player to get ahead of a careless (or even idle) one.

Josh: Observer he/they

18-09-2020 10:45:49 UTC

Manipulating dice faces, should a version of that make it into the books, and moving dice away from Schwingrasen stands out as one route to me

Kevan: he/him

18-09-2020 10:48:28 UTC

We all start Act 2 with the same dice, though, don’t we? And we can’t manipulate Schwingrasen’s dice to be better suited to ourselves than to rivals (eg. adding lots of lava faces which are good for a volcanic island and bad for others), because the reset makes us all identical again.

Raven1207: he/they

18-09-2020 14:46:07 UTC

for

derrick: he/him

18-09-2020 14:49:28 UTC

for

Bais:

18-09-2020 15:27:40 UTC

for

Brendan: he/him

18-09-2020 15:30:56 UTC

imperial

Clucky: he/him

18-09-2020 17:51:15 UTC

for

derrick: he/him

18-09-2020 18:54:45 UTC

against  cov.  not strong enough.

Raven1207: he/they

18-09-2020 20:46:16 UTC

imperial

Kevan: he/him

18-09-2020 21:45:08 UTC

[Derrick] In which direction - it’s allowing too much gamestate to survive the Flood, or not enough?