Times out 3-4 and fails -SingularByte
Adminned at 11 Mar 2023 06:52:11 UTC
Append the following paragraph to the rule “Disks”:
If they have not done so since the last Tick, a Runner may select a Disk in their Stack and pay Power equal to that Disk’s Index to Activate it.
It’s a little boring to have to be at a Terminal to actually use your Disks. We should be able to use them once per Tick instead to make things more interesting.
I don’t think this would make Terminals useless. Being at a Terminal lets you activate twice per tick as the two ways of activating a disk are separate actions. Additionally, activating a disk is cheaper with a Terminal (half the index rounded down as opposed to the full index value, allowing you to access the top two indices of your stack for free instead of just the top one).
Going for the terminal represents an opportunity cost though. If you’re going towards a terminal, you’re likely giving up the chance to grab batteries that are off your normal path so the decreased power cost is massively offset by the reduced gain of power through the turn.
I do concede that your version gives double activations though.
1 power is a lot of power, seeing as I can’t see myself or anyone else getting an average of more than one or two batteries per stratum. Without even considering the slots deeper in your stack, being able to activate that second slot for 0 power instead of 1 is a significant difference, especially if you can do so repeatedly by staying on the Terminal! I think it more than makes up for the opportunity cost of travelling to the Terminal, especially in the latter half of the Stratum when most of the batteries have been eaten up already and only Terminals remain.
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in favor of the other one
Doesn’t seem like a huge trade off to me.
SingularByte: he/him
This would leave terminals extremely situational to the point of uselessness, so I’ve proposed a much weakened version of it.
Also it has the quirk that you can activate un-Executable disks with it, but the way they’re worded should mean that they just do nothing anyway.