Thursday, February 13, 2025

Proposal: Live Kittens

Unpopular, 2-5. Failed by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 14 Feb 2025 18:19:52 UTC

Append the following paragraph after the cattacking Turn Action in the Island of Kittens Local Rules:

As a Phase 4 Turn Action, a Meeple may change the colours of the squares in the Island of Kittens by interpreting the Island of Kittens as a 10x10 wraparound Conway’s Game of Life grid with the purple squares as live cells and the non-purple squares as dead cells, stepping forward one generation, and setting the colours of the squares corresponding to all dead cells that were born to purple and the colours of the squares corresponding to all live cells that died to white.

Per the discussion on Discord. I don’t expect this to pass because no one is actually gonna bother to do this and it’s completely unnecessary, but it is really funny

Comments

Raven1207: Monarchple he/they

13-02-2025 21:07:28 UTC

As a math person, this would be entertaining to see how it used lol

ais523:

13-02-2025 21:49:41 UTC

It will delete our green square on 27, which might have a major strategic effect? So it isn’t entirely useless.

It does seem that when we get more purple squares, it will be quite difficult to do correctly, though.

JonathanDark: he/him

13-02-2025 23:11:18 UTC

It’s possible to plug in the purple squares into a Game of Life simulator like this one: https://playgameoflife.com/

That said, I agree with ais that this is more work than most people will want to do. The counter-argument is, “well, you don’t have to do it,” to which the counter-counter-argument is, “if I don’t do it, I’m ceding potential strategic advantage to those that are willing to do it.”

JonathanDark: he/him

13-02-2025 23:12:08 UTC

It’s a funny idea, but against

ais523:

13-02-2025 23:26:50 UTC

against This is probably more powerful than it looks, which is not a good fit for something that most players won’t want to do.

Darknight: he/him

14-02-2025 03:47:17 UTC

against

Desertfrog:

14-02-2025 07:58:53 UTC

against

Raven1207: Monarchple he/they

14-02-2025 12:12:24 UTC

for

Snisbo: she/they

14-02-2025 15:52:32 UTC

against I wish I could vote FOR because this is very funny, but also no. Maybe in another dynasty…