Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Proposal: Match Makers

Reached quorum, 3-0. Enacted by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 11 Sep 2024 15:07:35 UTC

If the proposals “Turn Down For What” and “Build A Board Workshop” are not both Enacted, this proposal does nothing.

Add a dynastic rule named “Matches” with the following text:

Each Puzzler has a publicly tracked number of Matches, defaulting to 0.

A Group is a set of 3 Cells where the set of Cells in the Group form an unbroken sequence of Adjacent Cells all in the same Row or all in the same Column, and none of those Cells in that Group are Empty. If a Group of Cells all have the same Content, this is considered a Match. For the purposes of determining a Match, a Cell in a Group where that Cell has the Content of Star is considered to have the same Content as any other Cell in that same Group.

If the proposals “Turn Down For What” and “Build A Board Workshop” are not both Enacted, this proposal does nothing.

Add a dynastic rule named “Matches” with the following text:

Each Puzzler has a publicly tracked number of Matches, defaulting to 0.

A Group is a set of 3 Cells where the set of Cells in the Group form an unbroken sequence of Adjacent Cells all in the same Row or all in the same Column, and none of those Cells in that Group are Empty. If a Group of Cells all have the same Content, this is considered a Match. For the purposes of determining a Match, a Cell in a Group where that Cell has the Content of Star is considered to have the same Content as any other Cell in that same Group.

In the rule “Turns”, add the following text:

Any time during a Puzzler’s Turn, if the Game Board is not Out of Date, that Puzzler may perform Collect Match, and may perform it multiple times during their Turn. Collect Match is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Select one Group of Cells that is considered a Match
* Set the Content of those Cells to Empty
* Add 1 to that Puzzler’s Matches

In the rule “The Game Board”, replace the paragraph starting with the text “These dice rolls may be made in advance” with the following text:

These dice rolls may be made in advance when performing Filling a Cell for multiple Empty Cells, but the results of those rolls must be used in order by ascending Row and then by ascending Column (e.g. if the Empty Cells are Row 2 Column 1, Row 1 Column 2, and Row 1 Column 1, the dice rolls to fill those Empty Cells must fill them in the order Row 1 Column 1, Row 2 Column 1, Row 1 Column 2).

Comments

Clucky: Puzzle Master he/him

10-09-2024 20:49:46 UTC

My preference would be that you first take your moves and then you just score all the matches you’ve made (plus maybe bonus chain matches)

Forcing you to pay a coin to score a match makes combos a lot less attractive as you’re really just setting up the next player for a big turn

JonathanDark: he/him

10-09-2024 21:09:15 UTC

Yeah, I was going back and forth in my head about that. There’s pros and cons either way. I’ll change it to allow the Puzzler to collect all of the Matches at any time during their Turn.

Clucky: Puzzle Master he/him

10-09-2024 21:53:15 UTC

Would “collect all matches at the end” or “collect matches at any time” be better?

at any time makes things a bit more complex but it does also open the door for bigger combo moves.

I think there is a certain simplicity in just making your moves and evaluating the matches at that point.

JonathanDark: he/him

10-09-2024 22:05:52 UTC

There’s a downside, though, in making a move, having one or more Matches available, and losing them by being forced to perform more moves until you’re out of moves.  Maybe that’s the way we want it to work, but it requires some thought before we go that route.

It’s simpler in that there’s less back-and-forth of actions to be taken in a Turn, but it’s not simpler in that a lot more thought has to go into the moves themselves to avoid putting yourself in a worse position.

Lukas:

10-09-2024 22:09:31 UTC

I kind of like the flexibility of being able to collect matches at any time, but either way is fine with me. (No, brain, collect catches was last dynasty.)

JonathanDark: he/him

10-09-2024 22:10:09 UTC

Catches, Matches, what else… Thatches?

JonathanDark: he/him

10-09-2024 22:12:36 UTC

Anyway, I like the idea of bigger combo moves, even if it does make the Turn more complex. I think that will make Turns more interesting: Collect Match, Fill Cells, discover more Matches, Collect Match, etc. Cascading the combos is part of the fun.

If it turns out to be more hassle than fun, we can scale it back.

JonathanDark: he/him

11-09-2024 05:15:01 UTC

As darknight pointed out in Discord, in one of my edits I accidentally duplicated the text of the first part of this Proposal. If enacted, the admin who enacts may skip instructions that can’t be carried out, so worst case the second instance of adding the rule “Matches” could be skipped since a rule named “Matches” would already exist thus a second “Matches” could not be added.

Desertfrog:

11-09-2024 06:23:43 UTC

for

Lukas:

11-09-2024 11:43:38 UTC

for