Call for Judgment: Ervasive Games
Edited while Chiiika was voting. Marked illegal by Brendan.
Adminned at 27 Jul 2022 17:08:19 UTC
Reword the first paragraph of the rule “Evasion” as follows:
When a Bot evades, it moves out of the direct line of attack, requiring its opponent to compensate. Until the start of its next Turn, a Bot using an evade Reaction is an evading bot; that evading Bot is not considered to be present in its space for the purposes of checking for whether another Bot can move into or through its space, and when checking for whether a Melee System or Taser can be used against the evading Bot, the number of spaces checked is reduced by 1.
Change the Readiness of all Operators who are Set to Staging.
There’s a very boring open exploit in the evade rules right now. Let’s say a bout has no configuration, and one bot has this script:
1. If the current round is 65, move backward 3 times.
2. If the current round is 78, move forward 3 times.
3. If the current round is 1 or more, evade.
Then that bot cannot be attacked for the duration of the bout, except for exactly two rounds, which are unknown to the other bot—they could also be “if 64, move backward, if 77, move forward,” or whatever. The opponent cannot trigger off of anything to use weapons; it can’t even try to move around randomly and then use weapons, since the only thing it can trigger off of at all is the round number.
So either Sudden Death gets the other bot, or nothing does. The only viable defense against the above script is to use the exact same script oneself… and if that happens, both bots dodge the Sudden Death explosions, which head off into infinity, leaving the arena unperturbed, and the bout continues until the heat death of the universe.
I think this makes evades literally game-breaking, and they should be nerfed. I also think there should be more contingency triggers (if a coin flip comes up heads/tails, if round number is odd/even, etc) but this should be patched first.
Chiiika: she/her