Thursday, November 17, 2011

Proposal: Aa to ZZ

Proposal enacted 7-2-3 - Prince Anduril

Adminned at 20 Nov 2011 05:18:55 UTC

If the ruleset contains the text

A Driver’s Routes are listed in order in their GNDT column ‘Routes’, with each Route represented by the first letter of its name and an optional punctuation mark.

replace it with

A Driver’s Routes are listed in order in their GNDT column ‘Routes’, with each Route represented by the first two letters of its name and and optionally one or more punctuation marks.

After the text “Each Route must be of a kind detailed in a subrule to this rule. ” in the rule “Routes”

The subrules must be ordered alphabetically by name.

Reorder the subrules of Routes to be sorted alphabetically be name.

The letter restriction already was a problem with waning a “Fake Sick” and “Flying” route. Its only going to get worse.

The one or more puncuation markers I think will create more flexibility as well.

The sorting is just a nice semanic thing for coming up with new routes.

posted by Clucky at 17 Nov 2011 01:20:54 UTC Comments (17)

Comments

Ornithopter:

17-11-2011 01:49:05 UTC

for Sorting is also nice since scouting via luck gives you the Kth route alphabetically.

scshunt:

17-11-2011 02:45:49 UTC

for

Bucky:

17-11-2011 03:29:55 UTC

imperial

PBURNS:

17-11-2011 03:52:05 UTC

for

Spitemaster:

17-11-2011 04:21:30 UTC

for

SingularByte: he/him

17-11-2011 07:12:21 UTC

for

Prince Anduril:

17-11-2011 08:27:18 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

17-11-2011 10:49:23 UTC

against We are clever people, we can think up synonyms.

ChronosPhaenon:

17-11-2011 12:35:43 UTC

imperial

Kevan: he/him

17-11-2011 13:31:49 UTC

Everything else here is good, but doubling the width of the GNDT field just to save us from having to occasionally think up a different word beginning with “F” seems a bit much.

ais523:

17-11-2011 13:59:49 UTC

against per Kevan. The game will be more playable with easier-to-see route lists.

Clucky: he/him

17-11-2011 17:27:47 UTC

Route lists are already too long to view in the GNDT if they are bigger than the starting list so its already a pproblem. I don’t think this would make it *that* much worse. (Although I guess there is nothing that enforces you list your route as DoDoDoAiAi instead of DODODOAIAI which might be a little confusing)

lazerchik:

18-11-2011 03:30:59 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

18-11-2011 09:31:31 UTC

[Clucky] Currently the longest pool takes up about half the GNDT sidebar box (I assume by “too long to view” you mean “too long to view all GNDT variables and name in one go”?) - you can see a player’s pool and cash, and a truncated version of their name. Making the pools even longer will just truncate the name even more.

Clucky: he/him

18-11-2011 19:49:12 UTC

I was thinking “without scrolling the GNDT box at all”

Kevan: he/him

18-11-2011 19:57:41 UTC

Ah. Well, if you scroll it to the right you can still work out who “hadowclaw” and “pointingchariot” are - if we make all the route fields a third longer, we’ll start losing the centred shorter names entirely.

I’m as much in favour of the constraint of trying to use up the entire alphabet, as being against stretching the GNDT, anyway. Game design thrives on constraints.

Soviet Brendon:

19-11-2011 18:53:48 UTC

against