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== ~~Understanding~~ (25 Feb 2021 - ???) ==

== The Epoch of Fragility (25 Feb 2021 - ???) ==

After the first Break Age, we began to understand the true nature of the ducks. During this period we realized how ~~broken~~ the entire ruleset was. We started joking about how much we'd ruined the game and about how rarely we actually had a good picture of what the gamestate had become. We had to accept this fate that we'd built for ourselves as we persevered.

After the first Break Age, we began to understand the true nature of the ducks. During this period we realized how fragile the entire ruleset was. As far as I know, the ruleset never broke during this time period but we had quite a few near misses. We started joking about how much we'd ruined the game and about how rarely we actually had a good picture of what the gamestate had become. We had to accept this fate that we'd built for ourselves as we persevered. A hallmark of this period's legislation was patching to fix small perceived ruleset issues rather than broad new mechanics.

A hallmark of this period's legislation was patching to fix small perceived ruleset issues rather than broad new mechanics.

=== Cannibalism to Prevent Thievery ===

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When only part of finsook's fruit proposal passed back in January, one section that stayed in was "[o]nce per voting period, a player may feed another player’s duck by announcing which duck they with to feed in #game-actions, and optionally adding one valid fruit<ref>https://discord.com/channels/515560801394753537/518856008605499402/816446637512589402</ref>." Nyhilo took inspiration from this and began work on a proposal called "Duck Loot" which would give fruits to ducks returning from Scouting Missions. Seeds would act as a granular currency, while grapes, blood oranges and watermelon slices would allow players to perform various game actions on unintended targets or with a modified variable somewhere in the mix. After a few revisions, the proposal was officially created on 3 March 2021.

=== The Dice Disaster ===

Since Wotton had been accumulating ducks, he had been using the Dice Maiden bot's multiple die roll functionality to generate potential quack numbers for scouting missions en masse. Problem is that, given the input {{Mono|!roll 11d12}}, the bot would return a sorted list of results, for example {{Mono|Wotton Roll: [10, 8, 8, 8, 8, 7, 5, 5, 4, 3, 1] Result: 67}}. finsook was the first to bring this up<ref>https://discord.com/channels/515560801394753537/518856008605499402/817060272077406230</ref> and a judge ruling confirmed our suspicions<ref>Round 9/Rulings#Ruling 7</ref>. It was determined that no dice rolls made by this method (of which there had been many) had worked. This thrust the gamestate into uncertainty and we decided to resolve that uncertainty by ratifying the gamestate to a specific state (Wotton, Proposal I give up, 4 Mar 2021).

=== Targeting the Rich Again ===

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-== Understanding (25 Feb 2021 - ???) ==
+== The Epoch of Fragility (25 Feb 2021 - ???) ==
-After the first Break Age, we began to understand the true nature of the ducks. During this period we realized how broken the entire ruleset was. We started joking about how much we'd ruined the game and about how rarely we actually had a good picture of what the gamestate had become. We had to accept this fate that we'd built for ourselves as we persevered.
+After the first Break Age, we began to understand the true nature of the ducks. During this period we realized how fragile the entire ruleset was. As far as I know, the ruleset never broke during this time period but we had quite a few near misses. We started joking about how much we'd ruined the game and about how rarely we actually had a good picture of what the gamestate had become. We had to accept this fate that we'd built for ourselves as we persevered. A hallmark of this period's legislation was patching to fix small perceived ruleset issues rather than broad new mechanics.
-A hallmark of this period's legislation was patching to fix small perceived ruleset issues rather than broad new mechanics.
 === Cannibalism to Prevent Thievery ===
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 When only part of finsook's fruit proposal passed back in January, one section that stayed in was "[o]nce per voting period, a player may feed another player’s duck by announcing which duck they with to feed in #game-actions, and optionally adding one valid fruit<ref>https://discord.com/channels/515560801394753537/518856008605499402/816446637512589402</ref>." Nyhilo took inspiration from this and began work on a proposal called "Duck Loot" which would give fruits to ducks returning from Scouting Missions. Seeds would act as a granular currency, while grapes, blood oranges and watermelon slices would allow players to perform various game actions on unintended targets or with a modified variable somewhere in the mix. After a few revisions, the proposal was officially created on 3 March 2021.
+=== The Dice Disaster ===
+Since Wotton had been accumulating ducks, he had been using the Dice Maiden bot's multiple die roll functionality to generate potential quack numbers for scouting missions en masse. Problem is that, given the input {{Mono|!roll 11d12}}, the bot would return a sorted list of results, for example {{Mono|Wotton Roll: [10, 8, 8, 8, 8, 7, 5, 5, 4, 3, 1] Result: 67}}. finsook was the first to bring this up<ref>https://discord.com/channels/515560801394753537/518856008605499402/817060272077406230</ref> and a judge ruling confirmed our suspicions<ref>Round 9/Rulings#Ruling 7</ref>. It was determined that no dice rolls made by this method (of which there had been many) had worked. This thrust the gamestate into uncertainty and we decided to resolve that uncertainty by ratifying the gamestate to a specific state (Wotton, Proposal I give up, 4 Mar 2021).
 === Targeting the Rich Again ===