Friday, November 18, 2011

Proposal: Hijacking Routes

Self-killed. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 21 Nov 2011 01:27:09 UTC

Create a new subrule to “Routes”, titled “Hijacking Route”:

A Hijacking Route has a scouting cost of 10.  When a Driver Drives a Hijacking Route, that Driver rolls DICEN, where N is the number of Drivers, and Drives the first Route in the Nth Driver’s pool, alphabetically.  Instead of Driving that Route, the Driver may pay 1 Cash and repeat the process.
Tags: AGGRESSIVE

Note that driving a Route puts it at the end of the pool.  This doesn’t allow people to steal routes, just borrow them.

posted by Spitemaster at 18 Nov 2011 19:33:08 UTC Comments (8)

Comments

Winner:

18-11-2011 20:21:46 UTC

for

Darknight: he/him

18-11-2011 21:02:34 UTC

imperial

Clucky: he/him

18-11-2011 22:00:41 UTC

against Because it creates time windows. If I have a shiny route on top, I need to make sure I drive it ASAP to prevent someone from driving it before I can.

Clucky: he/him

18-11-2011 22:01:02 UTC

Also, if AA to ZZ fails this will create namespace collision with Highway

Spitemaster:

18-11-2011 23:32:45 UTC

Actually, it does either way. :/ against Going to have to repropose.

Soviet Brendon:

19-11-2011 08:41:35 UTC

against

Prince Anduril:

19-11-2011 10:21:38 UTC

against

Cpt_Koen:

20-11-2011 19:33:49 UTC

There is a problem with the formulation.
“that Driver rolls DICEN, where N is the number of Drivers, and Drives the first Route in the Nth Driver’s pool, alphabetically”
should be instead “and Drives the first Route in the Kth Driver’s pool, alphabetically, where K is the result of the roll”.

As for the namespace collision, why not assign a specific code for each route directly in that route subrule, instead of taking the first two letters?
This way Hijacking Routes could be coded Hj, or Highway Routes could be coded Hw, for instance.