Re: [s-d] Proto-Prop: Card cleaning, new cards

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 6, 2004, at 4.14 AM, Glotmorf wrote:

> On 6 Aug 2004 at 2:09, Daniel Lepage wrote:
>
> > [[Fix existing Card texts]]
> >
> > Amend the definition of Looting the Corpse to change "on Forced Leave"
> > to "in The Vat".
>
> While I see this as logical, given the reason for The Vat (and
> I'm all for the "go through his pockets and look for change"
> approach), I must wonder if this will then be a telephone-like
> reward: the first person to see that a player has been
> inactive, pays three points and plays the card gets to loot
> the corpse.
>
> Is this desirable?  Or do you feel that that is a sufficiently
> uncommon set of circumstances?

We need some incentive for people to put players in the Vat, and 
Looting the Corpse provides this incentive. It's not all that 
telephonical because it costs points to do it, and the competition to 
get there first is only among the small set of players who a) are 
active, b) have Looting the Corpse, and c) haven't drawn yet that 
nweek.

So Yes it is desirable and Yes it will be a reasonably uncommon set of 
circumstances.

The other thing I'm considering is proposing a cards-specific state of 
inactivity. You'd get put in it when somebody targeted you with a card 
like YSHTMF that requires you to do something, and you failed to do it 
in a timely manner. Then cards like Looting would target the 
cardwise-inactive, even if they're not the same players as the 
gamewise-inactive.

--
Wonko

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm 
not sure about the former.
      -Albert Einstein

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