Monday, March 20, 2023

Proposal: Locked In

Times out 5-0 and is enacted -SingularByte

Adminned at 22 Mar 2023 17:33:06 UTC

Create a rule called The Exit:

The Exit consists of all cells with a value of “Exit”, and all cells with that value have a colour of Purple. Once a cell’s value is set to the value of “Exit”, that cell can never have its value changed, nor its colour changed.

Each Runner has a non-negative integer called Number-Crunches which is privately tracked by the Gridmaster. A Runner can spend any positive amount of Power to increase their Number-Crunches by that amount, though if that runner is in a non-empty cell, this increase is divided by four (rounded down to the nearest integer).

In the rule Running, add a new bullet point to the start of the list of bullet points describing a Tick:

* If the number of runners in the Exit has been at least 1 for the entirety of the last three ticks, and if one of those runners has the highest non-zero Number-Crunches out of all Runners in the Exit, that Runner has achieved victory. (If the Grue achieves victory in this way, the Gridmaster should create a Blogpost to confirm that the Grue has escaped. The Grue’s location should be blanked, and it can never have its location set to a value again, but otherwise its victory is ignored.)

Create a bullet point in the list in the rule Features with the following text:

* Passcoded Egress: If this is exactly the second time that the Passcoded Egress feature is being added to the Grid, set the cells D4, D5, E4 and E5 to have the value of Exit.

Here’s a version of the victory condition that should minimize RNG to a tolerable level. Now you know where the exit will appear, so being at the edges to use terminals has a whole risk/reward aspect to it even if you don’t know exactly when the Egress will arrive. Also, you can’t easily spend power to increase charge when you’re in a filled cell since it’s more interesting if you have to work out how much to keep back for disk activations once you’re at the exit.

Comments

JonathanDark: he/him

20-03-2023 16:46:11 UTC

This phrase might be confusing, since a Cell does not change its own value:

a cell can never change its value nor change its colour.

Maybe reword it like this?

a cell’s value or colour can never be changed

Also, you probably want to change Charge to be defined as a privately-tracked number. I feel like that was your intention, but you didn’t state that it was private, nor that it was a number:

Each Runner has a number privately tracked by the Gridmaster called Charge

SingularByte: he/him

20-03-2023 16:52:14 UTC

Fixed

SingularByte: he/him

20-03-2023 16:59:00 UTC

Also, I’ve decided to change the flavour since maybe charge and power being separate stats was weird. Now you’re spending power to update how much number crunching your wrist computer can do on the door.

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

21-03-2023 15:55:38 UTC

for

Lulu: she/her

21-03-2023 16:54:03 UTC

for

lendunistus: he/him

21-03-2023 17:06:47 UTC

for

Habanero:

22-03-2023 13:07:45 UTC

for