Friday, June 22, 2012

Proposal: Actually a Proposal This Time

Timed out 4 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 25 Jun 2012 03:07:44 UTC

Append the following to the end of the rule The Factory Floor:

Unless otherwise specified, The Distance between two Machines is defined to be the shortest number of orthogonal unit steps needed to move from one Machine to the other on The Factory Floor.

Also replace

Unless otherwise specified, two Machines are adjacent if they are orthogonally or diagonally adjacent on the Factory Floor.

with

Two Machines are Adjacent if the Distance between them is one.

Append the following to the end of “Power Links”

If the Distance between the two Machines in a Power Link is ever more than five, the Power Link is removed and the Machine the Link was from becomes Broken. This happens before any Machines become Jammed due to sharing a Link with another Jammed Machine.

posted by Clucky at 22 Jun 2012 19:44:43 UTC Comments (9)

Comments

Henri:

23-06-2012 01:18:16 UTC

against Scshunt’s Proposal states that the Forklift has a strength of 8 which means it can establish a Power Link between two machines up to 8 unit steps apart. What is the point of having a Forklift if a Power Link cannot be established between two machines that are more than 5 unit steps apart?

Clucky: he/him

23-06-2012 01:42:06 UTC

First off, moving by 8 is the same as moving in the other direction by 2.

More importantly, maybe you don’t want to establish links? Or maybe you want a link between 2 and 20, but they are too far apart so you need to use the Forklift to move it closer. This takes the movement idea and makes it more interesting.

Henri:

23-06-2012 01:59:32 UTC

Huh? How is moving 8 the same as moving in the other direction by 2?

scshunt:

23-06-2012 02:00:40 UTC

for

Clucky: he/him

23-06-2012 02:12:14 UTC

Its all a cycle. If you shift a row 8 to the right, its the same as shifting in 2 to the left.

Henri:

23-06-2012 02:14:34 UTC

Ohh, because the ends are connected. Ok. CoV for

Kevan: he/him

23-06-2012 14:27:38 UTC

A good idea, but a bit risky having this as an automatic “is removed” - if nobody spotted it at the time and we carried on, we’d move into an illegal gamestate.

Clucky: he/him

23-06-2012 16:43:02 UTC

We already have that in place for links between Jammed machines…

Kevan: he/him

24-06-2012 18:12:59 UTC

Ah, oh dear. for