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* [https://blognomic.com/archive/reform_the_coinage Reform the Coinage] introduced the concept of weightings, making Power more valuable the less it was used. Rejected on the first attempt, but later successfully re-implemented by [https://blognomic.com/archive/simplified_weights Simplified Weights], this was modified by [https://blognomic.com/archive/flex_those_muscles Flex those muscles] and [https://blognomic.com/archive/counterbalance Counterbalance].
 
* [https://blognomic.com/archive/reform_the_coinage Reform the Coinage] introduced the concept of weightings, making Power more valuable the less it was used. Rejected on the first attempt, but later successfully re-implemented by [https://blognomic.com/archive/simplified_weights Simplified Weights], this was modified by [https://blognomic.com/archive/flex_those_muscles Flex those muscles] and [https://blognomic.com/archive/counterbalance Counterbalance].
 
* There were, of course, several attempts to game the auction system. These were limited by a [https://blognomic.com/archive/im_honestly_more_disappointed_in_those_of_you_who_havent_started_trying_to CfJ to restrict bids to a single message] and [https://blognomic.com/archive/i_have_other_strengths a proposal to ensure that bids were expressed as numbers].
 
* There were, of course, several attempts to game the auction system. These were limited by a [https://blognomic.com/archive/im_honestly_more_disappointed_in_those_of_you_who_havent_started_trying_to CfJ to restrict bids to a single message] and [https://blognomic.com/archive/i_have_other_strengths a proposal to ensure that bids were expressed as numbers].
* Defining the consequences of excess spending was a recurrent theme in the dynasty. [https://blognomic.com/archive/greater_profligacy Greater Profligacy] extended the initial penalty for overspending, [https://blognomic.com/archive/how_the_other_half_live How the other half live] extended them further, while [https://blognomic.com/archive/je_regrette_tout Je Regrette Tout] offered Dissolute Noblemen a way back into the game.  
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* Defining the consequences of excess spending was a recurrent theme in the dynasty. [https://blognomic.com/archive/greater_profligacy Greater Profligacy] extended the initial penalty for overspending (the single player with the highest Debt couldn't win), [https://blognomic.com/archive/how_the_other_half_live How the Other Half Live] extended them further (nobody with a Debt above the median could win), while [https://blognomic.com/archive/je_regrette_tout Je Regrette Tout] offered Dissolute high-Debt Noblemen a way back into the game.  
 
* The work of generating Items and Auctions mostly fell to Louis XIV. There were a few mechanics put in place to defray this responsibility: [https://blognomic.com/archive/interior_design Interior Design] created locations where Noblemen could add their own Items to a queue, but after they slowed the game down significantly they were [https://blognomic.com/archive/centralised_power repealed], with the item generation queue then being [https://blognomic.com/archive/putting_the_art_in_artifice reinstated and made optional].  
 
* The work of generating Items and Auctions mostly fell to Louis XIV. There were a few mechanics put in place to defray this responsibility: [https://blognomic.com/archive/interior_design Interior Design] created locations where Noblemen could add their own Items to a queue, but after they slowed the game down significantly they were [https://blognomic.com/archive/centralised_power repealed], with the item generation queue then being [https://blognomic.com/archive/putting_the_art_in_artifice reinstated and made optional].  
 
* [https://blognomic.com/archive/crime_and_constitution Crime and Constitution] allowed Noblemen to steal Items from each other. Became important in the endgame.
 
* [https://blognomic.com/archive/crime_and_constitution Crime and Constitution] allowed Noblemen to steal Items from each other. Became important in the endgame.
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==Ascension==
 
==Ascension==
  
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Clucky [https://blognomic.com/archive/request_an_audience_with_the_king_take_two sought an audience with Louis XIV] after gaining a victory score twice higher than everyone else, and was confirmed not to be in too much Debt. They [https://blognomic.com/archive/let_them_eat_cake declared Victory].
  
 
==Commentary==
 
==Commentary==
  
 
{{Dynastic Histories}}
 
{{Dynastic Histories}}

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Ascension Address

The Final Argument of Kings:

Imagine, if you will, a palace.

Sweep through the graceful envelope to the grand chateau, designed and supervised by master architect Louis Le Vau. The interior is baroque; note the stucco, the gilding, the trompe-l’oeil. See how the flow of the rooms is broken up by courtyards, dappled with sun through the leaves of the climbing ivy.

Once this was a mere hunting lodge. Now it is the seat of untrammelled and uncontested power in the Realm. It is not a building. It is propaganda.

The king’s chamber is in the precise centre of the building. The palace as a whole is designed to give the illusion of perfect symmetry, to give the impression that the Realm is secure and the King is solidly situated at its centre. As you enter through Arms Square the arms of the building reach around you in a constricting embrace. It is vaster, much more expansive than you.

The gardens, designed by the legendary André Le Nôtre, are an unfurling wonderland, one miracle after another - fountains, statues, canals, geometric orchards and concealed grottos. Its purpose was to inspire but also to disorient, to bewilder, to stultify. A man could spend a lifetime in the gardens of Versailles and never leave.

The entertainments are ceaseless - torchlit feasts on boats on the waterways, quiet interludes between lovers in secluded glades, and feasts that never cease.

Louis XIV, the Sun King, has mandated that all of the nobles of France spend their every waking hour and their every last coin at Versailles. This is because Versailles is his prison. While the nobles are at Versailles then they are not at their homes, in their castles, where their armies and their cannons are. When they are at Versailles, he can find them, and he can find their wives, and he can read their letters, and he can make sure that their wives find their mistresses.

Ultima Ratio Regum.

Players

The following players were active at the start of the Dynasty:

Brendan*, Cuddlebeam*, Darknight*, The Duke of Waltham, Farsight, Josh*, Jumble, Kevan*, naught, pokes*, Tantusar*

The following players were active at the end of the Dynasty:

tbd

Final Ruleset

Gamestate

Posts of Interest

(This list of significant dynastic events is currently incomplete.)

Auctions

Bids

Name 1 1.5 2 3 4 Sp.1 5 6 7 8 9 Sp.2 10 11
Brendan
card
Clucky
Cuddlebeam
Darknight
Farsight
JimothyFromTLTT
Jumble
Kevan
naught
Ninja
pencilgame
pokes
Tantusar
The Duke of Waltham
TyGuy6
     (WINNER) The Nobleman won this Item.
     (DISSOLUTE) The Nobleman's bid was disregarded because they were Dissolute.
     (IDLE) The Nobleman was idle or not yet active during this Auction.
     (BLOCKED) The Nobleman's bid was blocked as a result of Palace Guard Instructions.

Ascension

Clucky sought an audience with Louis XIV after gaining a victory score twice higher than everyone else, and was confirmed not to be in too much Debt. They declared Victory.

Commentary

Dynastic Histories

Round One - Myke I - Lyndse I - Myke II - Kevan I - Anthony I - Est I - Kevan II - Damanor I - Kevan III - Cayvie I - Josh I - Keitalia I - SatyrEyes I - Metadynasty I - Cayvie II - Brendan I - Kevan IV - Knightking I - Chronos Phaenon I - TrumanCapote I - Knightking II - Quazie I - Simon I - AngryGrasshopper I - Rodney I - Aaron I - Josh II - Metadynasty II - Chronos Phaenon II - Excalabur I - Excalabur II - 75th Trombone I - Elias IX I - Metadynasty III - Angry Grasshopper II - Hix I - Thelonious I - Elias IX II - Rodney II - Clucky I - Doremi I - Chronos Phaenon III - Amnistar I - Clucky II - Amnistar II - Bucky I - Clucky III - Josh III - Kevan V - Hix II - Spikebrennan I - Jack I - Purplebeard I - Rodlen I - Yoda I - Amnistar III - Darknight I - Bucky II - Yoda II - Metadynasty IV - Arthexis I - Amnistar IV - Devenger I - Ais523 I - Ienpw III I - Qwazukee I - Klisz I - Metadynasty V - Bucky III - Wakukee I - Kevan VI - Ais523 II - Josh IV - Purplebeard II - Ais523 III - Ienpw III II - Klisz II - Lilomar I - Coppro I - Ais523 IV - Kevan VII - Brendan II - Alecto I - Josh V - Clucky IV - Purplebeard III - Kevan VIII - Ais523 V - Purplebeard IV - Yoda III - Bucky IV - Kevan IX - Bateleur I - Metadynasty VI - Coppro II - Ais523 VI - Cpt Koen I - Southpointingchariot I - Josh VI - Scshunt III - Quirck I - Clucky V - Bucky V - Kevan X - Josh VII - Kevan XI - Scshunt IV - RaichuKFM I - Larrytheturtle I - Skju I - Metadynasty VII - Purplebeard V - Spitemaster I - Josh VIII - RaichuKFM II - The Alien I - Benzene I - RaichuKFM III - Purplebeard VI - Kevan XII - Ayesdeeef I - Bucky VI - Kevan XIII - Josh IX - Mideg I - Kevan XIV - Brendan III - Kevan XV - Tantusar I - Josh X - Kevan XVI - Thrawn I - Brendan IV - Kevan XVII - Moonroof I - RaichuKFM IV - Larrytheturtle II - Brendan V - Kevan XVIII - Brendan VI - RaichuKFM V - Kevan XIX - Brendan VII - Kevan XX - Viv I - Pokes I - Sphinx I - Madrid I - Pokes II - Madrid II - Metadynasty VIII - Axemabaro I - Diabecko I - Kevan XXI - Diabecko & Card I - Kevan XXII - Derrick I - Card I - Madrid III - Card II - Kevan XXIII - Pokes III - Kevan XXIV - Trigon I - Derrick II - Kevan XXV - Derrick III - Farsight I - TyGuy6 I - Pokes IV - Madrid IV - TyGuy6 II - Kevan XXVI - The Duke of Waltham I - Josh XI - Clucky VI - Naught I - Metadynasty IX - Kevan XXVII - Josh XII - Clucky VII - Josh XIII - Bucky VII - Josh XIV - Kevan XXVIII - Lemonfanta I - Clucky VIII - Josh XV - Misty I - ais523 VII - Josh XVI - Kevan XXIX - Trapdoorspyder I - Metadynasty X - Brendan VIII - Brendan IX - Zack I - Misty II - Josh XVII - MadisonSilver I - Josh XVIII - Kevan XXX - Lendunistus I - Josh XIX - SingularByte I - Trapdoorspyder II - Bucky XIII - JonathanDark I - Trapdoorspyder III - Habanero I - JonathanDark II - Misty III - Metadynasty XI - Josh XX - Lemon II - Kevan XXXI - Josh XXI - Clucky IX - Vovix I - JonathanDark III - Zack II - JonathanDark IV - Josh XXII