Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Proposal: 4D Chess

Self-killed. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 25 Mar 2021 15:41:43 UTC

In “Readiness”, replace “If a Player is not currently a Player in an Active Game, they may change their Readiness at any time.” with:-

If a Player is not currently a Player in an Active Game, or if all of their Active Games started more than 96 hours ago, they may change their Readiness at any time.

For each Player who included the phrase “I’m ready” in their EVC on this proposal, and whose name is either Darknight or Brendan, set that Player’s Readiness to Yes.

As suggested in comments on L’Orologio: an alternative to timeouts, allowing a player in a stale game to simply start playing another one alongside it.

posted by Kevan at 24 Mar 2021 18:28:00 UTC Comments (6)

Comments

Josh: Observer he/they

24-03-2021 18:35:12 UTC

for

Clucky: he/him

24-03-2021 18:39:08 UTC

for

Brendan: he/him

24-03-2021 19:05:54 UTC

against I’m ready, but this doesn’t address the match deficit. There are two outcomes here:

1) Game 5 concludes before this proposal passes, so “I’m Ready” does nothing, and I end up playing against either Darknight (and falling further behind) or against a player who will get three games to my two.
2) Game 5 has not concluded before this proposal passes, so “I’m Ready” makes me ready to play another game… against either Darknight or another player who will get three games to my two.

If Magistrelli were the only ranking system then it’d be easy to make up for a deficit by getting matched against a high-ranking player, but pegs make it much less straightforward.

Raven1207: he/they

24-03-2021 19:26:53 UTC

imperial

Bucky:

24-03-2021 21:18:33 UTC

against Broken as written because it doesn’t adequately separate the gamestate of the two Tables. For example, a player can play cards from the old game’s Hand into the new game, as those cards were “in their Hand when the Game began”.

Kevan: he/him

25-03-2021 09:56:57 UTC

against Good point from Bucky, self-kill.