Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Proposal: One-Shot Comeback Attempt

Timed out and enacted, 8-2. Josh

Adminned at 25 Nov 2011 11:44:14 UTC

Add a new subrule to the rule “Routes”.  Call it “Tailgate” and give it the following text:

A Tailgate Route has a Scouting Cost of 7.  When a Driver drives a Tailgate Route, he gains 1 Cash and chooses another Driver to follow.  That Tailgate Route becomes a copy of that Driver’s DICENth non-Blocked Route in that Driver’s Route List (where N is the number of non-Blocked Routes that Driver has) and becomes Blocked.

Note that Tailgate routes are slower to mature than random scouting, because they are effectively a Downtown Route until driven once.

posted by Bucky at 23 Nov 2011 18:50:13 UTC Comments (10)

Comments

Prince Anduril:

24-11-2011 13:36:11 UTC

for An interesting dynamic. Though as far as I can see it at the moment, most routes aren’t worth scouting.

ChronosPhaenon:

24-11-2011 14:30:00 UTC

imperial

Cpt_Koen:

24-11-2011 14:38:07 UTC

for Don’t we need a new Tag for “shapeshifting” Routes like Jam and Tailgate?

@Prince Anduril: You need to Request Assignment in order to Drive your Routes. Requesting Assignment makes you lose all the CASH you haven’t spent yet. The only way to spend your CASH is Scouting.
The only reason I see why a Route wouldn’t be worth Scouting is if that Route would spoil your pool (e.g. if my pool was AiAiAiAiAi, it couldn’t get more profit-making). And since we don’t have any Victory condition yet, in my opinion it’s best to keep a more “versatile” pool.

Soviet Brendon:

24-11-2011 18:11:27 UTC

against If we get to a stage where there are lots (say fifteen) of different types of route then this will be to powerful compared to randomy scouting. (Note that random scouting currently costs most drivers 7 and one driver 8)

I would have it with a variable cost for example Random scouting plus 1

Darknight: he/him

24-11-2011 18:36:54 UTC

imperial

Clucky: he/him

24-11-2011 21:51:13 UTC

for

scshunt:

25-11-2011 00:52:48 UTC

for

Pavitra:

25-11-2011 04:34:51 UTC

against meh.

Spitemaster:

25-11-2011 04:36:36 UTC

for

Bucky:

25-11-2011 15:35:45 UTC

@Soviet Brendon: Random Scouting gives you access to your route one Assignment before Tailgate does.