Shared Penalties

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Using the pattern

Can Modulate

Alliances, Mutual Goals, Social Organizations

Can Be Instantiated By

Collaborative Actions, Factions, Team Elimination, Tied Results

Can Be Modulated By

Negotiation, Player-Decided Distributions, Shared Resources

Possible Closure Effects

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Potentially Conflicting With

Altruistic Actions, Exaggerated Perception of Influence, Individual Penalties, Tiebreakers

Consequences

Can Instantiate

Shared Penalties can be used for several purposes. One is to give players the Mutual Goals of avoiding them and also is to use them as one part of creating Teams (the other being Shared Rewards). If Shared Penalties can be the result of failing Collaborative Actions, the combination makes players have Committed Goals.

Shared Penalties are obviously Penalties. Experiencing them together with other can give these people the sense of Togetherness.

Social Dilemmas, Social Roles,

Relations

Can Instantiate

Mutual Goals, Penalties, Social Dilemmas, Social Roles, Teams, Togetherness

with Collaborative Actions

Committed Goals

Can Modulate

Alliances, Mutual Goals, Social Organizations

Can Be Instantiated By

Collaborative Actions, Factions, Team Elimination, Tied Results

Can Be Modulated By

Negotiation, Player-Decided Distributions, Shared Resources

Possible Closure Effects

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Potentially Conflicting With

Altruistic Actions, Exaggerated Perception of Influence, Individual Penalties, Tiebreakers

History

An updated version of the pattern Shared Penalties that was part of the original collection in the book Patterns in Game Design.

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