On Thursday, May 21, 2020 11:41:02 AM CDT Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > On 5/21/2020 9:32 AM, nch via agora-discussion wrote: > > Sometimes I think it'd be interesting if we more often did gamestate > > changing proposals with little to no rule changes in them. For instance > > we could do things like: > > > > "Destroy all coins in every players possession. For each player, e earns > > 100 coins." > > The newspaper just called me out for telling lots of old stories, but > can't resist mentioning that a currency-destroying proposal like this was > the opening move (or properly speaking, opportunity window) in the scam > that created the town fountain. > > In the last few years we've done this with Black Ribbons a couple times. > > -G.
In retrospect those aren't the best examples, because we do use this pretty frequently for scams and releveling economies (there's even such a provision in the Sets proposal to give everyone cards). I didn't think about the restrictions Aris mentioned, but I bet there's still clever things we could do here that we haven't explored yet. -- nch
