I have to reinforce that I continue to hold reservations, even in the aftermath of the updated voting specs, that this will be the case. I really wish there were a way to more randomize the increases and decreases, with the 'focus' at least always improving and the least-voted on metric always decreasing. From there, if things were a bit more in flux, with unvoted things sometimes improving and weakly voted things sometimes decreasing, and maybe more preference given to a Seneschal who can capably direct different people to different focuses -- ie, managing resources, rather than just convinving people to staticly dump into 3 to get the guaranteed upgrades -- would give the role of 'Seneschal' more interest (I rather like Zeita's suggestion of making the title be Alderman, as Seneschal to me implies a more 'Hostess' position; ie, the person in charge of entertaining dignitaries in the Palace.BattleJenkins wrote:One thing I worry about is that the choice of which metric support is always going to be fairly obvious - that is, whichever one needs the most attention - and that, generally speaking, the levels will be kept in more or less ideal equilibrium, with any imbalance only ever coming from deliberate troublemakers, or from major plots / events - which is the major cause of their shifting already. I do think that a crucial component of this system should be that choosing which metric to focus on should be, at least some of the time, a difficult choice.
Right now, while most active nobles are members of the Court, not all are. Also, the Court encompasses many non-noble positions, such as, currently, the Royal Historian and Chamberlain. In theory, the Court compromises both the nobles who take an active interest in the well-being and running of Lithmore as well as the select Gentry who are able to impress the nobility enough to receive Royal appointment. The City Council, in contrast, would be a thematic grouping of those people who have the most ability to impact change.Applesauce wrote:What is Court right now, if not "all active nobles"?
I'd actually only be a fan of this if there was a very limited impact it could have; maybe have a certain number of votes (two or three?) which could be purchased by non-noble, non-GL in a given session, with those votes going to the highest IP bidder? I don't like the idea of anyone being able to buy any number of votes because I feel it'll dilute the theme of the Council a bit too much. In my opinion, those without the social positions of power to effect change could be doing much the same by finding a noble who they can pay off, or by convincing a GL to go with a certain focus.Kinaed wrote:With regards to non-GL and non-nobles, I raised that potentially they could purchase a vote with IP. One person responded positively to it as a side topic to their main post. What does everyone else think?
I worry this would just get a bit messy, in my head at least. What about a vote from a Guild counting twice (as I think any Guild, even the Bards, would have more influence and capacity than any single noble), but the vote could be submitted by either GL or second GL -- there'd have to be some collusion on that, sure, but that will probably only be a good thing and allow the main GL to be absent sometimes from the game without removing them from the Council.Zeita wrote:With regards to guildleaders, would it be a vote per guild, or one each for the primary and secondary leaders? I'd lean towards the latter.