Saturday, November 23, 2024

Proposal: One Step at a Time

Withdrawn. Failed by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 25 Nov 2024 20:05:00 UTC

If there is a rule named “Moving”, in that rule, after the text “unambigously specifying one of the actions listed below”, add the following text:

, as long as that Snail has not mentioned that action in a comment in that Ongoing Race in the last 4 hours or since that Ongoing Race was posted.

We could all just spam the same action a bunch of times within a short time space every time a race starts, leading to a “whoever gets an average higher result with fewer rolls in the Dice Roller” winning each Race. That doesn’t seem very interesting.

I’m open to changing the time interval.

Comments

Clucky: he/him

23-11-2024 22:41:34 UTC

I feel like the rules already account for that

Sure, you can spam crawls at the start of the race. Great you finish in 22 moves. Now the bar has been set and everyone else still gets 22 moves to finish.

Clucky: he/him

24-11-2024 08:15:05 UTC

against

a race will take ~20 moves to complete. So this could make a single race take 20+ days to complete, even if everyone checks in once per day and does everything they can

JonathanDark: he/him

24-11-2024 09:21:01 UTC

That’s a good point. Withdrawn.

against

Kevan: he/him

24-11-2024 14:38:53 UTC

The “all just spam the same action a bunch of times” paradigm is all we’ve got right now, but it will end as soon as we have other actions available.