Sunday, December 11, 2011

Proposal: Drive Smarter, Not Harder

Times out and fails 2-6. -Bucky

Adminned at 13 Dec 2011 17:12:57 UTC

Add a new subrule to the rule “Routes”.  Call it “Upgrade” and give it the following text:

An Upgrade Route has a scouting cost of 5.  When a Driver drives an Upgrade Route, they may remove one of their other Active routes from their Route List and add an Inactive Route to the same spot in their Route List.  The added Route’s Scouting Cost cannot be more than 2 plus the removed Route’s Scouting Cost.  Highway Routes and Dump Routes cannot be removed this way.

 

The added Routes are Inactive rather than Blocked because they have been transmuted to rather than added.  The scouting cost is low because using it consumes another of your active routes.

posted by Bucky at 11 Dec 2011 14:11:56 UTC Comments (9)

Comments

Murphy:

11-12-2011 15:05:11 UTC

for

Prince Anduril:

11-12-2011 15:29:46 UTC

against Too much power

Soviet Brendon:

11-12-2011 17:12:21 UTC

against Removes scrubbing routes

Bucky:

11-12-2011 17:31:57 UTC

Scrubbing routes remove scrubbing routes.  So what?

Pavitra:

11-12-2011 18:38:21 UTC

against It’s too much better than scrubbing routes: lower scouting cost, and you get a new better route back without having to scout it. The only disadvantage is taking up an extra active route, and that’s not enough to offset the scouting cost of the replacement route.

ais523:

11-12-2011 19:25:10 UTC

against I’m less concerned at “removes scrubbing routes” than I am at “changes scrubbing routes into airport routes”. But both are concerning.

Cpt_Koen:

11-12-2011 20:45:49 UTC

against I thought the whole point of this dynasty was that scouting for new routes “diluted” our pool.

Cpt_Koen:

11-12-2011 20:46:49 UTC

(Note that I like the idea, and that I would probably have voted for it, had it been proposed at the start of the dynasty.)

Clucky: he/him

11-12-2011 22:55:48 UTC

against per AIS