Friday, September 13, 2024

Proposal: Collection Plate

Passes 5-0—Clucky

Adminned at 14 Sep 2024 18:10:08 UTC

Add a subrule to “The Game Board” called “Collecting Cells” and give it the following text

Collecting a Cell is an atomic action with the following steps that can be performed by a Puzzler, but only as elsewhere allowed by the ruleset:

- If the cell is a Bonus cell and its contents are Lemon, Orange, Kiwi, Grape, Cherry or Star, increase the Puzzler’s corresponding stat for the content of that cell by 1
- Set the contents of the cell to be empty
- If the cell is a Bonus cell, it ceases to be a bonus cell

If “Cellular Plains” was enacted, instead set the “Collecting a Cell” atomic action to be the following

- If the cell is a Bonus cell and its contents are Lemon, Orange, Kiwi, Grape, Cherry or Star, increase the Puzzler’s corresponding stat for the content of that cell by 1
- If the cell is a Trap cell and its contents are Lemon, Orange, Kiwi, Grape, Cherry or Star, decrease the Puzzler’s corresponding stat for the content of that cell by 3 (to a minimum of 0)
- Set the contents of the cell to be empty
- Make the cell a plain cell

Set the “collect match” atomic action to be

* Select one Group of Cells that is considered a Match
* If any of the cells in the currently selected group are part of a Match with another cell that is not in the currently selected group, also select the cells in that Match
* Collect all selected cells, collecting cells with the lowest column first and then for those with the same column the highest row first.
* Add 1 to that Puzzler’s Matches
* Increase that Puzzler’s Multi Match Bonus by (X-5) * (X-4) / 2, where X is the total number of different cells that were selected during this specific instance of the atomic action

Trying to standardize the steps around collecting cells so we can add other ways of collecting cells

Comments

Benbot: he/him

13-09-2024 18:26:40 UTC

Wait doesn’t this Nuke Frozen Cells?

Clucky: Puzzle Master he/him

13-09-2024 18:57:00 UTC

I don’t think so? Nothing about frozen cells as anything to do with collections, so it should all be good

Lukas:

13-09-2024 19:07:25 UTC

Why is the rule for collecting Stars different depending on whether Cellular Plains is enacted (i.e. first version doesn’t require it to be in a Bonus Cell)?

Clucky: Puzzle Master he/him

13-09-2024 19:10:10 UTC

um because I was orginally going to change the star collection rule to make stars rarer but easier to collect and then I decided not to over complicate things as the whole “what happens if you collect trapped stars” was confusing but then I forgot to update the original “cellular plains fails” approach

Lukas:

13-09-2024 19:31:30 UTC

Not new to this proposal, but just pointing out that collecting multi-matches works differently than I thought: first, it’s not optional (e.g. if you have 6-in-a-row, you can’t just select 5 - you have to select all 6; similar if you have two orthogonal lines of 5 that intersect); and second I don’t think it chains: you only select the multi-matches that branch off of your original selection, not the ones that branch off of the branches.

I think making it optional would be better, because I think it’s inevitable that people are going to overlook multi-matches that they are required to make, forcing us to undo incorrectly executed turns.

JonathanDark: he/him

13-09-2024 19:42:22 UTC

Seconding what Lukas said

Clucky: Puzzle Master he/him

13-09-2024 20:11:37 UTC

This doesn’t change how multi-match selection works. If you’re worried about that I’d suggest fixing it in a different proposal

Lukas:

13-09-2024 20:39:38 UTC

Done

JonathanDark: he/him

13-09-2024 21:46:59 UTC

for

Lukas:

13-09-2024 22:31:46 UTC

for

Benbot: he/him

13-09-2024 23:23:06 UTC

for

Desertfrog:

14-09-2024 08:36:09 UTC

for