Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Proposal: Car Park, Out Back, Ten Minutes

Withdrawn and failed -SingularByte

Adminned at 21 Jul 2022 13:39:32 UTC

Add a new rule called Exhibition Bouts:

Two Operators whose Readiness is Workshop may privately arrange to hold an Exhibition Bout. When they do so they should each privately inform the Announcer of that decision; at the first opportunity after receiving those messages when the two Operators both a Readiness of Workshop, the Announcer should change their Readiness to Staging, and, once both Operators have a Readiness of Set, run an Exhibition Bout with them, as usual, with the following changes:

* The Announcer does not need to make an Announcement for an Exhibition Bout
* There is no Configuration for the Arena in an Exhibition Bout
* An Exhibition Bout may not end by Domination and there is no Sudden Death; it can only end by TKO
* If an Exhibition Bout runs to 60 turns or more then it is inconclusive and has no winners
* If there is a winner in an Exhibition Bout then the Winner gains ₩4,000 minus difference between the Bot Values of the winner and loser (this difference may not hold negative value; if the Winner’s Bot has a lower Bot Value than the loser’s Bot then the difference is considered to be zero and the prize pool is unaffected).
* If there is no winner in an Exhibition Bout then all participants lose ₩1,000
* Viewership is not calculated for an Exhibition Bout

If Proposal: Your Name In Lights was enacted then add the following to the bulleted list added above:

* Winning an Exhibition Bout does not count as winning a Bout for the purposes of the LED Banner

A high-risk, high-reward way of running side pools

Comments

lendunistus: he/him

19-07-2022 16:41:09 UTC

I don’t like this, it just allows for extremely easy pooling (build the cheapest bot possible, participate in exhibition bout, lose, repeat)

lendunistus: he/him

19-07-2022 16:42:15 UTC

also, Exhibition Match in the second clause should he changed to Exhibition Bout; bouts and matches are different things

Josh: Observer he/they

19-07-2022 16:56:50 UTC

Thanks, have corrected.

I’m not sure that it would be cost-efficient to pool here? Maybe the values should get some adjustment, what do you think?

lendunistus: he/him

19-07-2022 17:10:00 UTC

spending 54 dollars to give someone else 4000 dollars seems too OP

maybe make it so that the value of the competitors’ bots have to be within 10% of each other or something like that?

Josh: Observer he/they

19-07-2022 18:01:23 UTC

Have adjusted the prize pool to be affected by the difference in Bot Values.

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

19-07-2022 18:43:42 UTC

Seems good now

Lulu: she/her

19-07-2022 19:36:44 UTC

against

Darknight: he/him

19-07-2022 20:37:20 UTC

imperial

lendunistus: he/him

19-07-2022 21:01:31 UTC

still allows you to transfer money at an almost 1:1 ratio, doubly so if the recipient creates a bot just for the transfer and then sells it

i’ll mull over it

lendunistus: he/him

19-07-2022 21:02:05 UTC

okay maybe not “doubly so” but still a 1:1 ratio

SingularByte: he/him

20-07-2022 05:05:58 UTC

It’s definitely possible to farm this by trading ring-outs - whoever starts first just leaves the map and takes minimal damage.

lendunistus: he/him

20-07-2022 06:36:38 UTC

@SB “An Exhibition Bout may not end by Domination and there is no Sudden Death; it can only end by TKO”
a bit poorly worded, but ring-outs aren’t possible, especially since there’s no configuration

Darknight: he/him

20-07-2022 16:28:18 UTC

against cov

Brendan: he/him

20-07-2022 17:37:34 UTC

against I demand fewer rules.

Josh: Observer he/they

20-07-2022 17:38:41 UTC

Noted

Josh: Observer he/they

20-07-2022 17:39:13 UTC

Actually, withdrawn against - I’m going to take a pass at thinning the ruleset with my next slot

Raven1207: he/they

20-07-2022 18:15:04 UTC

against