Overall seems like a fun idea. Comments below.
On 11/2/2017 7:05 PM, Alexis Hunt wrote:
Here is a silly minigame that I would like feedback on:
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The Clork (pronounced ‘clark’) tracks everything in this proposal and
additionally names politicians (puns are encouraged).
Yay offices, and yay puns.
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Have Politicians, each of whom has a Party.
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5 Parties (in order):
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Platonic Isolationists
This might be my party of choice.
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New Punchbowl Reformers
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Costume Conservatives
This would be my other party of choice.
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Substance Use Liberals
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Official Raving Monster Looney Party
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There are always 20 Politicians; when there are not enough, new Politicians
are created by the Clork. If any Party has fewer than 3 Politicians, new
Politicians go to the Party with the fewest; no Party can have greater than 5.
Parties are chosen randomly within these parameters.
Seems kind of strange to me that Politicians are just created out of thin air. Maybe
players can "elect" Politicians by submitting names to some sort of pool, and
the Clork chooses eir favorite when new ones are needed?
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Each Party has a Policy, which changes monthly as described below (in
order):
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Justice: want to see justice served.
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Efficiency: want to see official duties carried out
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Legislation: want to see proposals passed
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Participation: want to see votes cast
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Economy: want to see economic activity
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After adoption, 20 Politicians are created, 4 from each Party, and randomly
assigned to Posts. Each then suffers Stress from their office twice. Policies
are randomly assigned, but must maintain cyclic order (e.g. if CCs are Justice,
SULs are Efficiency and so on).
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Players obtain Favours in a Party by doing things which match its Policy.
Favours are tied to the Party, not the Policy, once created. Generally,
recordkeepors of relevant information award Favours as all awards are
pragmatic. Also, some Posts award Favour.
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Offices award between 1 and 3 Efficiency Favours per week, depending on
office, given by the ADoP. Initial values will be set by proposal, modifiable
by the ADoP with Agoran Consent.
As ADoP, I give this an official ADoP Stamp of Approval.
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Author of adopted proposals receives Legislation Favours equal to AI,
rounded up, given by the Assessor.
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Everyone who voted in a given week gets 2 Participation Favours, given
by the Assessor.
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Everyone who judges a CFJ gets 3 Justice Favours, given by the Arbitor.
Only thing about this is that a lot of players don't usually get to judge CFJs,
so some might completely miss out on getting Justice favours. However, the fact
that policies cycle every month kind of counteracts that.
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When the Referee awards a Card, e awards 1 Justice Favour to the Finger
Pointer, or emself for Summary Judgment.
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Players can pay the 1/10th of the FV, rounded up, to buy an Economy
Favour.
yay something to do with shinies...?
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Some Posts award 3 extra Favours each week in a given Party, given by
the Clork.
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Favours can be transferred to other players, but 1/3 (rounded up) is lost.
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Favours can be traded 2:1 for other parties.
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Politicians can occupy Posts in Echelons:
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1 Post in the Chamber of Power (Rank 5)
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Host
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4 Posts in the Upper Echelon (Rank 3)
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Planner
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Enforcer
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Organizer
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Creep
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7 Posts in the Row Echelon (Rank 1)
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Schmoozer
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Decorator
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Loner
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Hat Rack
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Wild One
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Drunk
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Mystery
I like the different names of these.
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Politicians without Posts are in the Row-Reduced Echelon
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Every Politician may have an Advisor, default none.
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Players can spend Favours to gain Influence over a Politican per the
following ratios:
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2:1 for politicians in the Row-Reduced Echelon
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3:2 for politicians in the Row Echelon
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1:1 for politicians in the Upper Echelon
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1:2 for politicians in the Host
This seems a little awkwardly stated. I think something better would be to have
either the influence gained stay constant and the favours spent change for the
different Echelons (or vice-versa) and also make them not stated as ratios.
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If a player has more Influence than any other over a Politician, they can
become their Advisor, effective at the start of the next week.
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When a power is assigned to a Post, the occupant’s Advisor can perform it.
If it’s a duty and the Post is vacant or the occupant has no Advisor, then the
Clork can perform it within the deadline and must do so. Either way, after the
deadline, any player can perform it.
What kind of powers might there be?
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At the start of the above week (after the above takes effect), each
politician awards Balloons to their Advisor based on Rank. The Decorator awards
an extra Balloon.
balloons!
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Balloons can be used on any Agoran Decision for an extra vote, but expire
in two weeks so they cannot be accumulated. They cannot be traded.
Seems interesting, and I think after a while, everybody will probably regularly
be able to get more votes, making Agoran Decisions more interesting.
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A player can spend a number of Balloons equal to one more than the total
Rank of all Posts to win the game. Doing so resets all eir Influence to 0.
Sounds like a reasonable win condition.
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Politicians have a Stress Level, initially 0. At the start of each week, a
Politician gains Stress equal to the rank of their Post, regardless of whether
they have an Advisor.
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If a Politician has 20+ Stress after the above, they announce retirement.
At the end of the week, they retire and are destroyed.
rip politician
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When a Post becomes vacant, an election occurs. All eligible Politicians
(as defined below) cast their votes for the Successor by announcement; they can
be changed.
Is this a power granted to politicians? If not, how do they vote?
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Only Politicians in the highest non-empty Echelon lower than that of
the Post are eligible (eligibility can change during an election).
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For the Host, politicians vote with power equal to the Rank of their
post.
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For the Upper Echelon, the Host has 4 votes, Upper Echelon politicians
have 2.
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For the Row Echelon, the Host has 3 votes, Upper Echelon has 2, and Row
Echelon have 1 each.
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The Organizer can cast 1 extra vote.
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Politicians can cast votes in advance of an election; they must be for a
specific Politician and Post though. They are cleared after each election for a
given Post.
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An election can be concluded by announcement if four days have passed since
the vacancy or announcement of retirement, or if the votes of undecided
Politicians can no longer create a plurality. Any player may resolve by
announcement if there is no tie an; otherwise, only the Host can do so and they
must break the tie. This must be done within seven days of the vacancy, or
eleven days of the announcement of retirement, whichever is first. If it is
not, anyone can break the tie.
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At the start of each month, the Planner must rotate the Policy<->Party
assignment within one week. They cannot pick a rotation used in either of the
previous two months.
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Posts have the following powers (some duplication with the above).
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The Host’s Advisor qualifies for a Rainbow Ribbon.
It's a pink fluffy host dancing on rainbow ribbons!
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The Enforcer can, once per week, remove a Row Echelon Politician from
eir Post. E must have the support of at least one other Politician not in the
Row-Reduced Echelon. The Enforcer and supporter each gain 1 stress; in the
event of multiple supporters, the Enforcer chooses one.
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The Creep can, once per week, give emself 1 Stress to give another
Politician 2 Stress.
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The Schmoozer can, once per week, rotate a Politician into the next
Party in the list. This gives em 1 Stress.
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The following Posts award 3 extra Favours to the respective party at
the start of each week.
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Loner: Platonic Isolationists
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Drunk: New Punchbowl Reformers
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Mystery: Costume Conservatives
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Wild One: Substance Use Liberals
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Hat Rack: Official Raving Monster Looney Party
Also, you don't seem to have used Spivak pronouns in most of this. I assume
it's just because this is just a rough outline, and not a real draft proposal.
Also sorry for the weird formatting in this reply, it got messed up because of
the list and the fact that I've set my client to only use plain text and I was
too lazy to switch it back for this reply.
