Proposal: Moving is the Key to Victory
Invalid proposal, posted while the game was still in Interregnum. Flagged by Kevan.
Adminned at 23 Nov 2024 14:19:08 UTC
In the rule “Position”, replace “publicly tracked” with “privately tracked”.
Add the following new rule, titled “Moving”:
At any time, a Snail may Move, which is an action with the following steps:
* make a comment on the Ongoing Race (If there is one), specifying a verb, written with capital letters, and the Snail(s) the verb applies to. (different Snails may be related to the verb differently)
* if the verb has not been used in this Race, privately tell the Jury what specific action the verb they have used corresponds to.The actions defined in Moves must not have any effects other than the following:
* Changing the Position of one or more SnailsMoreover, the actions may not refer to Snails by name or any property that does not depend only on the comments on the Ongoing Race. Note however that this doesn’t apply to the actual comments, only the actions defined.
Some examples:
“JUMP” could mean “move the jumping Snail 10 cm forward”, and “I JUMP” or “The leading Snail JUMPS” would be valid Moves.
“ZWURBLE” could mean “The zwurbling Snail is moved to the Zwurbled Snail”, and “I ZWURBLE [some player’s name]” or “Everyone Zwurbles themselves” would be valid Moves.
Add the following new rule, titled “Items”:
Each player has a list of Items, defaulting to an empty list.
Add the following new rule, titled “Banning”:
At any time, a player may Bribe the Jury by performing the following atomic action:
* Remove one of their Items
* Make a comment on the Ongoing Race in which they unambiguously describe a type of Moves they are BanningSuch a comment is considered illegal if any of the following is true:
* There exists a hypothetical but game mechanically possible situation in which one or more players are unable to Move
* It is logically impossible for one or more Snails to ever reach the Finish Line
Add the following to “Races”:
The Jury should Check Everything every now and then, especially whenever they think it might result in a Snail crossing the Finish Line. Checking Everything is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Set the Position of all Snails to zero
* Go through the Moves on the Ongoing Race, from first to last, and do the following for each of them:
* Check whether the Move is Banned by a legal comment on the Ongoing Race
* If not, perform the corresponding action
* If a Snail’s Position is after the Finish Line, cease performing this action and perform the Award Ceremony
I do see potential problems in this direction.
After (or during) the first Race(s), if it looks like this won’t really work, don’t be afraid to propose repealing some or all of the things in this proposal.
Josh: he/they
I don’t think I can bring myself to be on board with positions being secret information.
What’s to stop everyone from doing “I BLOINGLE” and then defeining Bloingling as teleporting to the finish line?