Friday, March 03, 2023

Proposal: A Whole New World

Reached quorum 7 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 04 Mar 2023 19:25:35 UTC

Add a new subrule to “The Lines”, titled “Features”:

There are certain Features which change the way that a new Grid is generated. When the Gridmaster adds a Feature to the Grid, they carry out the instructions in that Feature, performing any random selections secretly randomly. The list of all Features is as follows:
**Energized**: Randomly select 5 Cells and set their Value to Battery.
**High-Security**: Select 3 random columns or rows in the Grid, and set the Value of all their Cells to Firewall. Then, select two random Cells from each of the rows or columns selected in the previous step and set their Values to “-”.
**Warped**: Set the Location of all Live Runners to a random Cell, and inform each of them of their new Location.
**Database**: Repeat the following 5 times: Select a Disk at random and add a new instance of it to the Heap in a random cell.

Append two new bullet points to the Initialise atomic action in “The Lines”:

*Repeat the following DICE4 times: Select a random Feature and add it to the Grid.
*Post a blog entry announcing the new Grid’s Features

In the rule “Running”, replace “unless there is not a Cell in that direction from that Runner’s Location” with “unless there is not a Cell in that direction from that Runner’s Location or the Cell in that direction has a Value of Firewall”.

If the Proposal “I’m afraid it’s terminal” was enacted, add a new Feature to the list in “Features”:

**Access Point**: Set the Value of the Cells in the corners of the Grid to Terminal. Then, randomly select 3 Cells and set their Value to Terminal.

 

Adding some variety to the Grids. It’s intentional that the same Feature can be selected twice.

Comments

JonathanDark: he/him

03-03-2023 22:40:06 UTC

**Database**: Select a Disk at random and add a new instance of it to the Heap in a random cell 5 times.

Can you clarify what is to be repeated 5 times for Database? Maybe change the end to “Repeat these instructions 4 more times” to get the desired effect, if it is to execute the whole thing 5 times.

 

 

JonathanDark: he/him

03-03-2023 22:42:11 UTC

Select a random Feature and add it to the Grid DICE4 times

Same thing with this one. Add the same Feature that was chosen randomly, DICE4 times, or repeat the whole thing DICE4 times?

Habanero:

04-03-2023 00:33:39 UTC

Thanks; I’ve clarified this.

JonathanDark: he/him

04-03-2023 01:20:24 UTC

Thanks! So if I randomly select Database and roll 3, I add Database 3 times, each Database selecting a Disk and random and adding it to the Heap 5 times, for a total of 15 random Disks added to the Heap.

SingularByte: he/him

04-03-2023 06:20:01 UTC

for

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

04-03-2023 06:51:32 UTC

for

lendunistus: he/him

04-03-2023 10:49:05 UTC

firewall has the potential to just straight up box you in or softlock you, plus there’s nothing in place to prevent cells from overwriting each other

for i’ll propose some fixes later ig

Kevan: he/him

04-03-2023 11:59:09 UTC

imperial A bit random if this is all being generated around us, advantaging some positions over others.

Does Warped put us all in the same cell?

Josh: Observer he/they

04-03-2023 14:16:00 UTC

imperial

JonathanDark: he/him

04-03-2023 16:26:05 UTC

for