Re: [s-d] [s-b] Proposal: The Plague

["Jamie Dallaire" <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:02 AM, Taral <taralx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Jamie Dallaire
> <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The 10 more is to insure a baseline supply of plague. Otherwise, we could
> > just pay to off the initial plague reservoirs and completely eradicate
> the
> > problem in the first nweek.
>
> 10 is much higher than necessary. Specify something like if less than
> 10 Plagued Objects exist, enough Objects become Plagued to it to 10.


Good idea. Below I've changed 10 to the number of active players (incentive
to deactivate people), also making it so that these only gain the plagued
property if there are already not many plagued Game Objects, as subjected by
Taral. Price to remove the property dropped from m50 to m25, and I switched
default Virulence to 1 rather than 2, since that was what I had wanted to do
before anyway. Also fixed the Physician's responsibilities so that e can't
make random selections in private.

I revise the Proposal entitled "The Plague" to read:

{There exists a Ministry known as the Ministry of Health. The Minister of
Public Health, also known as the Physician, or as Bones, is responsible for
maintaining a Public Display of all Plagued Game Objects and for making all
random selections called for in this Rule by having nomic.net's dice server
send the results to the Public Forum.

Plagued is a Property with a Scope of all Game Objects and a default value
of False. Game Objects with the Plagued Property may be said to be Plagued.

Virulence is an Attribute with a Scope of all Plagued Game Objects, a Range
of all positive integers, and a default value of 1.

At the start of nday 1, each Plagued Game Object has a percent probability
of being destroyed (ie ceasing to exist) equal to the square of (its
Virulence + 2).

Then, a number of randomly selected non-Plagued Game Objects, equal to the
sum of the squares of all Plagued Game Objects' Virulences, become Plagued.
Then, the Virulence of every Game Object is increased by one. Then, if there
exist less Plagued Game Objects than Active Players, randomly selected Game
Objects gain the Plagued Property until there are exactly as many Plagued
Game Objects as Active Players.

At any time, any Player may remove any specified Game Object's Plagued
Property by destroying 25 of his own macks.
}

Billy Pilgrim
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