Monday, December 19, 2022

Proposal: Light Rendering Update 2.0

Quorums 9-0. — Quirck

Adminned at 20 Dec 2022 11:24:03 UTC

In the rule Rooms, remove “A Room is said to be Dark if this list is empty, or Lit otherwise.”

Create a subrule of Rooms called Lighting:

A Room is said to be Dark if either its list of light sources is empty, or if all light sources within the list begin with “Unlit “. Otherwise it is Lit. Adding or removing the Unlit prefix is referred to as lighting or unlighting it respectively, and a light source can only have at most one instance of the Unlit prefix.

In all rooms that exist at the time of submitting this proposal except the Corvid Aviary, add “Unlit Lightbulb” to their light sources list. In the Foyer room, remove Sconces from its light sources.

Make Electrical Panel a subrule of Lighting, and replace its bullet points with:

* If the Circuit Breaker value for that Room was “Off” at the beginning of the Mansion Phase, change it to “On” and light all lightbulbs in that Room.
* If the Circuit Breaker value for that Room was “On” at the beginning of the Mansion Phase, change it to “Off” and unlight all lightbulbs in the Room.

In the rule Flashlight, replace “the Explorer can use it” with:

the Explorer holding the flashlight can use it

Comments

quirck: he/him

19-12-2022 10:19:47 UTC

It seems like the definition of Lit room is lost

SingularByte: he/him

19-12-2022 10:28:25 UTC

Fixed

Kevan: he/him

19-12-2022 15:08:23 UTC

Outside the edit window, alas, but isn’t “Adding or removing the Unlit prefix is referred to as lighting or unlighting it respectively” backwards?

SingularByte: he/him

19-12-2022 15:18:06 UTC

Yep, that’s backwards. Do you think it’s small enough to count as a typo fix?

Kevan: he/him

19-12-2022 15:28:54 UTC

I think if the mistyped version makes sense as a rule, it’s not a mere typo. “Surprise, the lights are defined in a way that means they don’t work!” would be a good loophole (as something you could have intended, or that an opponent could have spotted, supported and kept quiet about for later), “Surprise, that thing you’re using isn’t a Circiut Breaker so it doesn’t work!” less so.

A bit academic since nobody’s voted yet, but I’d put it on that side of the line all the same.

JonathanDark: he/him

19-12-2022 15:50:35 UTC

Probably best to withdraw it and try again.

Kevan: he/him

19-12-2022 15:52:17 UTC

for Seems patchable enough, and the queue is more or less empty right now.

JonathanDark: he/him

19-12-2022 16:18:50 UTC

That would be my argument for withdrawing it. The slot will free up quickly for another Proposal.

I suppose the alternative is posting another Proposal to patch this up right on the heels of this one.

SingularByte: he/him

19-12-2022 16:19:45 UTC

Okay, that’s a fix proposed now.

Brendan: he/him

19-12-2022 17:04:22 UTC

for

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

19-12-2022 21:17:58 UTC

for

JonathanDark: he/him

20-12-2022 00:50:16 UTC

for

quirck: he/him

20-12-2022 08:43:24 UTC

for

Josh: Observer he/they

20-12-2022 09:19:23 UTC

for

Darknight: he/him

20-12-2022 09:30:00 UTC

for

Habanero:

20-12-2022 11:09:26 UTC

for