Sunday, March 05, 2023

Proposal: Showboating?

Withdrawn. - Misty

Adminned at 06 Mar 2023 19:54:48 UTC

Add a new subrule to “The Grid” named “The Battleship”:

The Battleship is comprised of cells D3, D4, D5, D6, E3, E4, E5 and E6.

In “Running”, change

Set the Value of all Cells to -

to

Set the Value of all Cells to -, except for those on The Battleship

and change

Post a blog entry announcing the new Watch Number

to

Post a blog entry announcing the new Watch Number, and any Runners who are on The Battleship.

Add the following Disks to the table of Disks in the rule Disks:

| -
| mem.c || 1 || If you are on The Battleship, gain 3 capacity, then remove this Disk.
|-
| write.c || 2 || If you are on The Battleship, you may add one dat.c disk to any Runner’s Stack in any position except the first.
|-
| dat.c || 2 || No effect.

In the subrule “Features”, change

Database: Repeat the following 5 times: Select a Disk at random and add a new instance of it to the Heap in a random cell.

to

Database: Repeat the following 5 times: Select a Disk other than dat.c at random and add a new instance of it to the Heap in a random cell.

(It’s a metaphor.  Probably.)

Comments

Josh: he/they

05-03-2023 02:39:21 UTC

This is going to cause a problem if Subjective Reality passes. Not a legal problem, perhaps; just a confusion one.

Lulu: she/her

05-03-2023 02:59:49 UTC

It’s a sailboat now.

JonathanDark: he/him

05-03-2023 03:46:44 UTC

You sunk my battleship!

Lulu: she/her

05-03-2023 03:50:03 UTC

Oh that’s even better flavor!

JonathanDark: he/him

05-03-2023 04:02:34 UTC

I’m actually surprised it didn’t come up sooner.

SingularByte: he/him

05-03-2023 06:54:24 UTC

I like the mechanics of it, but I’m not sold on the boat side of it. Still,  for

SingularByte: he/him

05-03-2023 07:16:42 UTC

Just to ask though, what happens if you write to an already filled position? Do you push the disks leftwards, or do you overwrite? It’s not specified.

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

05-03-2023 07:27:16 UTC

imperial

Lulu: she/her

05-03-2023 13:28:19 UTC

@singularbyte i was intending push.

Habanero:

06-03-2023 03:36:05 UTC

imperial

Raven1207: he/they

06-03-2023 07:29:56 UTC

against

Kevan: Concierge he/him

06-03-2023 09:59:20 UTC

for

JonathanDark: he/him

06-03-2023 14:24:02 UTC

I’m wavering on this one. For this dynasty, I don’t want to push it in any one direction, but this also doesn’t feel like a directional push so much as an insertion of something incongruous with the theme. Then again, if people like a little silliness in their dynasty, should I really vote it down?

I was holding my vote to see how the trend was going, but it seems to be split. I’ll wait just a little longer to see if anyone wants to weigh in on why or why not allow it.

Lulu: she/her

06-03-2023 14:28:19 UTC

Hot take but I think putting a battleship in the dynasty isn’t actually incongruous with the theme

Lulu: she/her

06-03-2023 14:37:20 UTC

Look, there has to be obstacles if you want a proper Hide and Seek game.  And what better way to use the unreality of cyberspace than to start inserting models of familiar things in weird and eerie positions?  This isn’t quite what I’m thinking, but I imagine the Grid looks something like this: https://twitter.com/Liminal_Places/status/1493587051475869696?s=20

Kevan: Concierge he/him

06-03-2023 14:37:22 UTC

Thematically I’m just reading it as a slang term for a particular region of the grid, one that happens to make our wristwatch disk launchers activate in a slightly different way.

SingularByte: he/him

06-03-2023 15:14:35 UTC

Just to point out a flaw I noticed while making my own version of this proposal: changes to the ship are permanent. If a firewall cuts through the battleship, that wall will stay there until it’s overwritten by another feature.

JonathanDark: he/him

06-03-2023 17:47:23 UTC

Alrighty, then

for

Lulu: she/her

06-03-2023 19:54:08 UTC

against Withdrawn