Editing Round 9/History (section)

=== Updates to Scouting ===

Since Proposal Duckscouts, there had been a few modifications to the mechanism of scouting. The first came with a proposal that would add additional incentive to scouting, other than quacks (teod, Proposal Duckscoutier, 17 Jan 2021). The second came in response to some players having very high thresholds to get through if they wanted to retrieve their ducks (Klink, Proposal Cutting losses but this time you can't create infinite ducks, 1 Feb 2021).

{{Proposal Box
|name=Duckscoutier
|text=
Amend the text in Scouting from the existing text
:Upon return, the potential quacks are added to the returning duck's total quacks, benefits and costs the duck provides to the player are unpaused. 
to
:Upon return, the potential quacks are added to the returning duck's total quacks, benefits and costs the duck provides to the player are unpaused,  and the owner of the duck will obtain a new duck along with their existing duck.
}}

{{Proposal Box
|name=Cutting losses but this time you can't create infinite ducks
|text=
Amend rule Ducks subrule Scouting by:

Adding the following:
:If a player's duck's potential quacks exceeds 9, the player may choose to cut their losses by posting their intent in #game-actions . The duck's potential quacks become 1, and the duck returns without requiring a retrieval roll.
before sentence
:A player can only attempt to retrieve each scouting duck once per voting period.

Amend the following:
:the owner of the duck will obtain a new duck along with their existing duck.
To
:as long as they have not cut their losses, the owner of the duck will obtain a new duck along with their existing duck.
}}

The first players to use these features were moonroof<ref>https://discord.com/channels/515560801394753537/795369457340907561/801483649828651059</ref> and Wotton<ref>https://discord.com/channels/515560801394753537/795369457340907561/803370661912510505</ref>. By February, Wotton had four ducks and moonroof had three<ref>https://infinitenomic.miraheze.org/w/index.php?title=Round_9/Gamestate&oldid=651</ref>.