Re: [s-d] [s-b] Proposal: Devices, hey!

["Mike McGann" <nomic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Basically, this is the same as:

For 3-12:
* Remove the distinction between uniqueness and non-uniqueness.
* Rename DOO to Deviceholder.
* Remove the "device owner" attribute and simply have a device owner.
* Allow a Player to refuse a transfer of a device. This is an
important addition because there doesn't seem to be a way to refuse a
transfer or a way to destroy or dispose of an unwanted device. Could
lead to a very interesting hot potato situation if the current rule
isn't amended.
* Add the mechanic for <cost>:<effect> and the term Sacrifice. This
could just be added using the existing framework of "effect",
"conditions", and "triggers" and defined in addition to the current
rules.
* Remove the "power has no effect" rule if ambiguous.

Other comments:
Current reading of Sacrifice seems that a Player may destroy the
object but is not required to do so since the wording says "implicitly
permits the deviceholder to do so"

For 3-14:
* Remove distinction between uniqueness and non-uniqueness.
* Remove the ability of the Artisan to change the price of a blueprint.
* Add that the price can be in any combination of currencies.
* Add a rule precedence

Other comments:
Current amendment seems to use the term "price" and "cost"
interchangeably when they shouldn't be. The phrase: "the Ministry
immediately instantiates that blueprint and gives a copy to that
player" is confusing. A copy of the blueprint or the device? Nothing
is copied. A device is simply created from the blueprint.

Some of it I'm neutral on, some of it I don't think should change. I
think the "power has no effect" rule if ambiguous is important and I
kind of like what is already in the rules.

- Hose

On 10/10/07, Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Amend rule 3-12 to read:
> {{
> Devices are game objects. A Deviceholder is any object that is allowed
> to possess devices; the deviceholder possessing a given device is its
> Owner, and a device that isn't held by a deviceholder has no owner.
> All players are deviceholders.
>
> Each Device has a set of powers, which may be empty. Powers may
> specify events that happen under certain circumstances or in certain
> conditions. In the text describing a power of a device, the word "you"
> always means the owner of the device, and any string of the form
> "<cost>:<effect>" is shorthand for "if you are able to pay <cost>,
> then you may do so to cause <effect>". If <cost> is "0", it means that
> the owner may activate this ability without any prerequisites. If
> <cost> includes "sacrifice", this is shorthand for "destroy this
> device", and implicitly permits the deviceholder to do so when
> activating that power.
>
> Any deviceholder may offer a device e holds to another deviceholder;
> the other deviceholder may accept the offer, which causes the device
> to move from the original owner to the new one. A deviceholder may
> reject a device offered to em, or may rescind an offer e has made if
> it hasn't been accepted.
>
> A Blueprint is a body of text that describes a type of Device. To
> "Instantiate" a blueprint is to create a Device matching the
> description in a Blueprint.
> }}
>
> Amend rule 3-14 to read:
> {{
> There exists a ministry known as the Ministry of Goods. The Minister
> of Goods, also known as the Artisan, is responsible for maintaining a
> Public Display of all devices, their properties, and their owners. In
> addition, the Artisan must maintain a Public Display of all currently
> existing blueprints.
>
> The Artisan may create a blueprint once per nweek and without 2
> objections in 2 ndays. E may only do this before nday 4 of each nweek.
>
> Each blueprint owned by the Ministry of Goods has a cost, in any
> combination of known currencies, set by the Artisan when the blueprint
> is created. Any player with sufficient currency may pay the price of a
> blueprint to the Ministry of Goods; the Ministry immediately
> instantiates that blueprint and gives a copy to that player.
>
> Blueprints and device powers may contradict the rules; when such
> conflicts occur, blueprints and devices take precedence. [[ For
> example, if a blueprint says it cannot be instantiated more than once,
> then nobody can buy more copies of it even though this rule says they
> can]].
> }}
>
> Create the following blueprints in the Ministry of Goods' possession:
> ===
> Name: Stun Gun
> Cost: 50m
> Powers:
> 0:Target player cannot vote on target proposal this nweek. Use this
> power at most once per nweek.
> ===
> Name: Inverter Capsule
> Cost: 50m
> Powers:
> Sacrifice: Reverse target player's vote on target proposal. You may
> not use more than two Inverter Capsules in an nweek.
> ===
> Name: Mental Duplicator
> Cost: 40m
> Powers:
> Sacrifice: Cast an extra vote on any open proposal you have already
> voted on. The extra vote must be the same as your normal vote, and any
> modifier that changes or nullifies your normal vote has the same
> effect on your normal vote. You may not use two Mental Duplicators on
> the same proposal.
> ===
> Name: Tinfoil Hat
> Cost: 60m
> Powers:
> You cannot be targeted by Stun Guns or Inverter Capsules, nor may you
> use Mental Duplicators.
> ===
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