Tuesday, August 05, 2025

Proposal: Musical Chairs

In the rule “Pitches”, insert the text “(Today Only:)” at the beginning of the first paragraph of that rule, and then add the following as new paragraphs to that rule:

(From Tomorrow:) Each Truck has a publicly tracked Pitch, which is either empty or a number between 1 and 20 inclusive, defaulting to empty. A Truck who has a non-empty Pitch is said to Occupy that Pitch. A Pitch’s Multiplier is a number rounded down to two decimal places and is calculated as follows: Pitch Multiplier = 0.84 + (Pitch / 64). As a Virtual Prep action, an Open Truck may Request a Pitch.

(From Tomorrow:) Pitch Assignment is an atomic action with the following steps, in which every random selection made by the Yard is performed in a secretly random manner:
* Set the Pitch of all Trucks to empty.
* Collect the set of Trucks that made a Request for a Pitch, known as the Requesting Trucks.
* For each Requesting Truck (in a random order), resolve that Truck’s “Request a Pitch” as follows: if that Pitch is not Occupied by any other Truck, assign that Pitch to that Truck, otherwise remove that Truck from the Requesting Trucks.
* For each Truck not in the Requesting Trucks (in a random order), randomly select from all Pitches not Occupied by any Truck and assign the selected Pitch to that Truck.

In the rule “The Night”, insert the following as the first step in the Night action:

* (From Tomorrow:) Set up: Perform a Pitch Assignment.

and in the same rule, insert the text “(Today Only:)” in front of the text “Go home: Set the Occupants of all Pitches to blank.”

 

Similar to my other Proposal, only this time using the suggestions made in the comments to allow all Open trucks to request Pitches and to make the Multipliers fixed based on Pitch number.

Comments

arthexis: he/him

05-08-2025 16:04:51 UTC

against

JonathanDark: he/him

05-08-2025 16:34:38 UTC

@arthexis: what’s the main objection? I’m just curious if we should keep trying to do something with Pitches or give up on the idea.

eternalservererror:

05-08-2025 16:51:19 UTC

for

Clucky: he/him

05-08-2025 17:47:55 UTC

for I would change it so that at the end, rather than getting random pitches you randomly pick a truck and give them the best remaining pitch. But this feels like a fine start

Bucky:

05-08-2025 20:36:41 UTC

But what if there are more than 20 Trucks?

JonathanDark: he/him

05-08-2025 20:56:03 UTC

If we get to that point, we’ll patch the rules accordingly. There’s no sense in planning for that sort of hypothetical prematurely.

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