All right, I'm incorporating suggestions into the next full cards draft.
Meanwhile, please comment on the following outline/proto for card types
and gameplay balance (relative frequency etc.). Also suggest other card
types, but I'm not inclined to have # of types explode in first
implementation.
Card System Outline
1. Cards are dealt from an infinite deck (with set probabilities) and
destroyed when played. Reason: the reason cards broke so often in the
past version was because with a finite deck, everyone's play stopped
every time there was controversy about where even a single card was
(e.g. you wouldn't play poker if you knew the Ace of Spades was on the
floor).
2. Play Speed/salary: Get 3 cards per month minimum salary
+ 1 per week (weekly office)
+ 1 per month (monthly office)
+ one per week if a timely Judge
+ 1 * II per adopted proposal
3. Encourage play: 1 card per month destroyed at random from each hand.
Further, if hand > N at end of month (suggest 10),
another hand-N cards destroyed at random.
Card suggestions
(Frequency) is relative frequency of cards dealt out of 1000
BASIC ACTION CARDS
A player can spend two cards of any type to perform the same
action as on a single BASIC ACTION card e names when doin so.
* Distrib-u-Matic - Make a Proposal distributable. (300)
* Absolv-o-Matic - Remove a Rest from a Player. (150)
* Roll Call - Increase player's Vote Power on
one indicated Ordinary Proposal
except in last 24 hours of voting
period. (75)
PROPOSAL CARDS
* Debate-o-Matic - Make a Proposal Democratic. (75)
* Committee - Make a Proposal Undistributable. (50)
* Arm-twist - Decrease player's Vote Power on one
indicated Ordinary Proposal. (50)
* On the Nod - Rubberstamp a Proposal. (25)
* Kill Bill - Veto a Proposal. (25)
LONGER-TERM POWER CARDS
* Lobbyist - Increase the caste of a player you name in your (75)
party, other than yourself, by one.
* Local Election - Decrease the caste of a player you name by one. (50)
* No Confidence - Initiate an election for an office; if an (25)
election for the office is in progress it is
canceled and re-started.
CARD CARDS
* Title: Your Turn (30)
Exploit: Indicate a player. That player must play or
discard a card in the next 72 hours; if e does not,
you MAY act on eir behalf to discard one.
* Title: Discard Picking (30)
Exploit: Indicate a card that was played or discarded in the
past 72 hours. It is transferred to your hand.
* Title: Drop your Weapon (20)
Exploit: Indicate an entity and a card held by that entity.
Discard that card from that entity's hand.
* Title: Presto! (10)
Exploit: Indicate an entity and a card held by that entity.
Transfer that card to your hand.
* Not Your Turn (10):
cancel a card play that occured in the last 24 hours;
HOWEVER; if this would lead at any time in the 24 hours after
playing to a paradox which would prevent its play, its play is
null.
-G.
