Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Proposal: Bucket List

Reached quorum 6 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan. Clucky, Lendunistus and Raven1207 are moved to the Bucket.

Adminned at 28 Nov 2024 10:07:44 UTC

In “Position”, replace “Each Snail has a publicly tracked Position, which is an integer and defaults to zero. Position is measured in centimeters.” with:-

Each Snail has a publicly tracked Position, which is either in the Bucket, on the Bench, or an integer number of centimeters (known as being “on the Track”). A Snail’s position defaults to the Bucket; when a Snail unidles it is moved to the Bucket.

A Snail in the Bucket or on the Bench does not count as a Snail for the purposes of dynastic rules other than this one (except where those rules refer specifically to Snails who are in the Bucket or on the Bench).

A Snail may move themselves to the Bench or to the Bucket at any time.

In “Races”, change “Set the Position of all Snails to zero” to:-

Set the Position of all Snails who are on the Track or on the Bench to zero

For each non-Slug Snail who didn’t include the word “Ready” in a comment on this proposal, and who has taken no Moves in any Race, move them to the Bucket.

Should we make the races opt-in? Dynasties with wait-for-everyone mechanics can struggle at the start when one or two players aren’t sure if they want to take part, and just make a few polite, late, arbitrary moves, slowing things down without adding much to the gameplay. Perhaps some people prefer to watch the dynastic game for a while before joining it.

We may also be overthinking how to handle inactive players, when we could just say that they don’t have to be in the race.

So: Snails all start in the Bucket, where they don’t count for dynastic gameplay, and can move to the Bench if they want to be in the next race.

Comments

JonathanDark: he/him

27-11-2024 00:41:56 UTC

I’m not opposed to this, but given your prior reluctance to play a dynasty that only has 2-3 truly active players, is this enough for you to keep playing if the rest of the active-but-not-active players remain in the Bucket?

I’m asking because if it becomes a problem, you might as well also idle Snails that have been in the Bucket a successive amount of Races and trigger Dormancy.

Habanero:

27-11-2024 07:13:46 UTC

for

Habanero:

27-11-2024 07:23:05 UTC

Ready

Kevan: he/him

27-11-2024 09:08:24 UTC

I am Ready.

[Jonathan] Hard to say. It’d depend how much the Bucket players were otherwise engaging with the game.

Darknight: he/him

27-11-2024 10:58:55 UTC

for ready

Desertfrog: Jury

27-11-2024 12:31:31 UTC

for

JonathanDark: he/him

27-11-2024 14:53:19 UTC

for

Ready

Raven1207: he/they

27-11-2024 23:34:34 UTC

for