Also if I can move to my base from any of the places I conquered can I still move to another place from my base?
Free move.
And I update my profile with the new stats right?
Yes.
Do I use the new power, sanity, and age when conquering a new thread and determining if it's more sane/older than I am?
Yes. That's how the game works.
Do the views get added or do I just use my base thread's views?
Use ONLY the Views of the world you launch the attack from.
This may be a dumb question, but is something more sane when it has more sanity points? or is it more insane?
More SANE. The less time a thread has spent in the Vault, the less banaynays the world has become.
It seems to be that it doesn't matter if you create one or not, you still end up with the same amount of power, just some of it condensed into one attack.
I see your point.
But your wording says that I can only increase sanity/age if the thread is saner/older than me. That means the max power is the upper limit of your chart, because I can't increase the score further if I am at that upper limit.
Also, +1 is a really slow increase, regardless of the potential. Especially because of the conditions to increase the values.
Yeah, I gotcha. The alternative would be to take San from OTHER PLAYERS once you reach the top limit... but that would be another raft of rules.
Not really, with the insta-top sanity/age potion, I'd have more incentive to make sanity attack/free heal absolutes, cuz I can easily restock to a manageable degree by capturing and making absolute the next world.
Fair point.
Kinda imbalanced if you make multiple age absolutes, dontcha think?
Correct again.
What I'd suggest is having it be so if you conquer a world with higher Age/Sanity you gain 3-5 of the stat, but you still always gain 1 if the stats are lower.
That way they are both infinitely scaleable but slow down noticeably once you hit the 'soft-cap' as it were.
That could be a solution...
Also what if Age absolutes could act as a block. Ie: you can use them as a free action in your turn to block that amount of damage from hitting you? (I'm assuming of course that since Age/age absolutes act as heals you always take the damage first and then get it back) This would act as a once per fight last ditch death-prevention. Though they probably wouldn't work against sanity absolutes?
That's like the original rules I made for Age.
Age Attack: Limit the amount of power they can wield per round. 1st round = -10% per year difference. 2nd round = an additional -5% per Month difference, 3rd round = -10% per Day difference. You can split this between opponents.
It was used to DISPERSE enemy attacks - to scatter and reduce an opponent's power. You had the choice of raising a Shield of Days, a Shield of Months or a Shield of Years - depending how drawn out a campaign you wanted. But then Diana swatted me for being too complicated and asking members to do percentages.
I kinda like your idea for Sanity absolutes but i think it might encourage people to never ally with weaker members.. :x
Yus...
The original Sanity rules were these:
Sanity Attack: You can choose a post in your opponent's thread and DISREGARD all posts that came after it for duration of battle - effectively REDUCING their Power. 1st round = Any DAY on your Sanity's Month and Year. 2nd round = Any MONTH on the Day and YEAR of your Sanity. 3rd Round = Any YEAR on the Day and Month of your Sanity. And if your Sanity displays as X weeks ago, you can choose any week.
This meant that Sanity was VERY effective against older threads, since they had so many more posts with times that they could be reduced to.
But again, that got Diana-splatted, cos it would force the Newbies to look at a calendar.
Having Age as the opposite of Power, and Sanity as an armour-piercer, was the most newbie-friendly idea I could think of.
But that has now proven to be balls, and we can all blame Diana for this. >:[
What do people think about ditching the conversion of Dates to Stats and instead using the original format? For example, on the first round you can use your DAYS in some way, then on the next round use your MONTHS, then on the next round your YEARS.
We'd then need to rethink the Absolutes... since Hunter's point is valid.
So....er....
THAT'S ALL THE RULES THAT NEED CHANGING! YAAAAAAAAAAAY FOR PLAYTESTING!!!!!!
*loses 90% of his players to ragequit*
T___T