Goonhub
12-04-2024, 05:17 PM
It's a point, you could counter it by having some kind of "The borgs can see the law but also see it's inactive" to let it sit and be absorbed, but I'd discounted the idea out of hand for two reasons: metagame pre-preparing for or against the law, and that it's not intuitive to laws in general: If its in your rules, its to be followed as best possible.
You could soft-start it with a "in one minute" kind of premise but well, similar problem with the non-standard potential confusion, though I err on the players being smart enough eggs to work it out, given law interpretation requires and oft awards non-lateral thinking.
As for "you can do X with tools available" absolutely, but you can get through a door with the right ID but we provide multiple methods, so I figured I'd take a shot as workshopping it. It's tricky though, what we have right now is a pretty powerful toolset.
There's also the basic fact that laws can make or break a round by intention or mistake. I've had rounds on both sides of the fence that have vastly shifted the pace of the round beyond expectation, a classic example being a minor law change that gives the AI/borgs some agency to defend it turning the upload into a terrifying fortress, security ending up on a protracted assault taking their eyes off things. That can be fun don't get me wrong either, just that adding new things to it probably needs to consider that there's already a considerable amount going on with laws.
But fun idea.
You could soft-start it with a "in one minute" kind of premise but well, similar problem with the non-standard potential confusion, though I err on the players being smart enough eggs to work it out, given law interpretation requires and oft awards non-lateral thinking.
As for "you can do X with tools available" absolutely, but you can get through a door with the right ID but we provide multiple methods, so I figured I'd take a shot as workshopping it. It's tricky though, what we have right now is a pretty powerful toolset.
There's also the basic fact that laws can make or break a round by intention or mistake. I've had rounds on both sides of the fence that have vastly shifted the pace of the round beyond expectation, a classic example being a minor law change that gives the AI/borgs some agency to defend it turning the upload into a terrifying fortress, security ending up on a protracted assault taking their eyes off things. That can be fun don't get me wrong either, just that adding new things to it probably needs to consider that there's already a considerable amount going on with laws.
But fun idea.