Cycle 16

Cycle 16 began at 23:00 on Sunday, July 7th. This immediately caused no issues whatsoever :)

It concluded at 00:00 on Thursday, September 19th. I'm sure this also went without a hitch.

Links

• Ruleset
• Gamestate

Ruleset Submission Process

• Ruleset Submissions
• Initial Ruleset Draft

Significant Events

• 7th of July 2024:
  1. Phase 1 Begins. And then ends an hour later.
  2. A persistent mistake in the wording of phases caused the phase number to become desynced from the number of phases since starting the cycle. This was promptly remedied, characterising phases as 'rest' and 'battle' of some week.
• 10th of July 2024: Magnitech obtained the first Holographic card.
• 13th of July 2024: The first battle begins, lasting until the 28th. This game had the greatest player count of the cycle (before everyone realised Xenon was a bad game designer 😭). Google was victorious, helped by a deal with Ash. This game took place entirely within the #game-actions channel being interrupted by other game actions.
• 15th of July 2024: Holographic cards were given a use, granting their player 1 vertebra.
• 18th of July 2024: The first new cards were added, Credit Cards and Go to jail monopoly cards. Players were split on whether they should focus on adding modifiers to existing cards or creating new cards.
• 21st of July 2024: Although various attempts were made over the course of the game, players were selfish and did not want to gift cards to each other. For this reason, Ash devised an ingenious scheme. Using the trading system, Ash offered mutual card gifting as a trade.
• 25th of July 2024: 'Colour Wheel' passed, adding 7 new colours in opposing pairs.
• 1st of August 2024:
  1. Special cards were changed to have the same playing conditions as non-special. This started a back and forth of tweaking to these cards trying to find a balance.
  2. Exploration was added, fulfilling Xenon's promise to expand on the lore of the Gilded Hall (badly).
• 9th of August 2024: It was discovered that Duels were instantly winnable. No one had engaged in a duel until this point.
• 2nd of September 2024: The victory condition was reduced by over half in an attempt to encourage more activity.
• 5th of September 2024: Diamonds did not inflate.
• 16th of September 2024: Knucklebones was added, an alternate game to Exoptosis where players could similarly challenge each other to Battles and Duels.
• 18th of September 2024: At 23:59, Xenon challenge themself to 886 games of Knucklebones.
• 19th of September 2024:
  1. Diamonds did inflate. But in the far future.
  2. Xenon forfeited all 886 games of Knucklebones, causing the second player Xenons to win, granting them 886 Chips and a legal dispute. This was contentious as the rules were somewhat ambiguous on whether or not this move was permitted.
• 23rd of September 2024: s4 requested justice on Xenon's actions. However, the judge at the time, 4st, was unresponsive.
• 1st of October 2024: 4st resigns as judge, starting an election of three parties, of various biases:
  1. s4 - interested in continuing the game and believed Xenon's actions illegal.
  2. Xenon - Probably like the villain of this story or something, wanted to win for "orange" reasons.
  3. Lime - A neutral and well liked candidate who had ruled previously on many matters in this cycle.
  4. The Croupier - Not actually a candidate and summoned by Xenon's impassioned rallying cry. HE tied with the most votes.
• 7th of October 2024: The election results were in. The bell tolled as Xenon took to the podium. "I judge this to be true. Xenon has won and Cycle 16 is over." was all they spoke, leaving a mind exploding shock petrified upon the faces of the crowd.