Friday, August 08, 2025

Proposal: First Impressions

Reached quorum 10 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 09 Aug 2025 16:39:20 UTC

In “The Night”, replace the “They look around” step of the Sale action with:-

* (Today Only:) They look around: If any Dishes with identical ingredients as the Choice are available with a lower price on another Open Truck’s Menu, the Yard selects one of those other Dishes at random and this becomes the Active Customer’s Choice instead
* (From Tomorrow:) They look around: If any Dishes with identical ingredients as the Choice are available with a lower price on another Open Truck’s Menu, the Yard selects the Dish on whichever of those Trucks has the lowest Pitch number, and this becomes the Active Customer’s Choice instead

Also replace “For each Open Truck (in a random order)” with:-

For each Open Truck (in increasing order of Pitch)

Using lower Pitch positions to resolve the currently random choice when multiple, cheaper equivalent Dishes are on offer.

(Also using the Pitch sequence for choosing an order in which to process Sales, although I don’t think this will currently change anything in practice.)

Comments

aria: she/they

08-08-2025 11:06:50 UTC

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JonathanDark: he/him

08-08-2025 11:13:11 UTC

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eternalservererror:

08-08-2025 13:33:21 UTC

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DoomedIdeas: he/him

08-08-2025 16:39:01 UTC

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Kevan: Yard he/him

08-08-2025 17:09:14 UTC

Ah, this is taking a backwards view on whether a high Pitch is a good or a bad thing, I misread the Multiplier equation.

Vovix: he/him

08-08-2025 18:43:45 UTC

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JonathanDark: he/him

08-08-2025 19:43:10 UTC

I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I’m actually thinking that the Multiplier is going to go unused.

I had written up (but never posted) a Proposal to use the Multiplier as an “Effective Price” comparison similar to what is being proposed here, and in my version, a lower Multiplier (from a lower-numbered Pitch) was more favorable. My version was more complicated, and I prefer the simplicity of this one.

Nolemeldo:

08-08-2025 19:44:48 UTC

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aria: she/they

08-08-2025 20:27:22 UTC

[Kevan] Ah, this is taking a backwards view on whether a high Pitch is a good or a bad thing, I misread the Multiplier equation.

I don’t think it matters. Even if we do use Multiplier, it just makes it so that having a low pitch isn’t uniformly horrible (which imo is interesting).

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

08-08-2025 20:57:39 UTC

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Darknight: he/him

08-08-2025 22:07:32 UTC

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Chiiika: she/her

09-08-2025 12:41:51 UTC

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