Thursday, December 05, 2024

Proposal: Hopslug

Timed out and failed, 1-2. Josh

Adminned at 07 Dec 2024 20:01:26 UTC

Change the text of the Leapsnail move to read as follows:

If one exists, randomly select a non-Slug Snail other than yourself, whose current position is before the Finish Line but no more than 20cm greater than your own, and whose Moves are within 2 of yours. Set your Position to be 1 greater than the selected Snail’s. Optionally, you may add to the random selection Snails who have been directly eligible Leapsnail targets for you at some time in the past 24 hours of this Ongoing Race.

Comments

Habanero:

05-12-2024 18:42:49 UTC

for

JonathanDark: he/him

05-12-2024 18:44:30 UTC

This still doesn’t limit the distance of Leapsnail if you simply wait 24 hours, because a Snail that is at the Finish Line 100+ cm from you now was sometime in the past 24 hours within 20cm of you and thus an eligible target.

As I mentioned before, this devolves into everyone playing “just wait for some other sucker to Move to the Finish Line first”. Not very exciting.

against

Habanero:

05-12-2024 19:10:31 UTC

I misunderstood this proposal (thought the 20cm even limited the extended targeting), CoV against for similar reasons to JD

Josh: he/they

05-12-2024 19:17:00 UTC

Mm, increasingly of the opinion that the 24hr part of leapsnail is just more trouble than it’s worth.

JonathanDark: he/him

05-12-2024 19:17:40 UTC

That said, if someone wants to re-propose this with the 20cm limit properly applying to the *current* position of the target relative to the player, I’d be happy to agree to it.

Habanero:

05-12-2024 19:18:53 UTC

I might just agree with you there, I thought it’d be a clever idea when I proposed it but it’s just a headache to keep track of. Surely there are other better ways to accomplish its stated goal of reducing the “first to react” bias.

Habanero:

05-12-2024 19:19:16 UTC

That comment was directed at Josh btw