Proposal: Slipperier Streams
Reached quorum, 4-0. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 05 Jan 2025 20:33:26 UTC
In “Plays”, change
Slipstream: If the most recent Play in the Ongoing Race was from a Snail other than you, change your Position by the same amount that Snail’s Position changed in their most recent Play.
to
Slipstream: Choose a Play made by a Snail other than you in the previous 24 hours, and change your Position as described in “Slipstream Distance” below.
Add a subrule to “Plays”, “Slipstream Distance”:
When a Gastropod Slipstreams a Play, the distance moved is based on the distance between the current Position of the Gastropod, and the Position from which the Play was made, as follows:
- The Play was made from exactly 1cm in front of the Gastropod’s current position: twice the distance that the Play moved (and in the same direction)
- The Play was made from 2-10cm in front of the Gastropod’s current position: the distance that the Play moved (and in the same direction)
- The Play was otherwise made from within 20cm of the Gastropod’s current position: half the distance that the Play moved, rounded up (and in the same direction)
- Other cases: one third the distance that the Play moved, rounded to the nearest integer (and in the same direction).
Slipstreaming is currently rife with timing scams – if you get to move directly after another Snail, you can get hugely powerful boosts, if you don’t it’s useless, so it gives a huge advantage to players who can be online constantly (and Waking Hour doesn’t really help with that, because for optimal Slipstreaming you want to set your Waking Hour to match someone else’s and Slipstream them mid-action). This is an attempt to a) make it less timing-critical and b) rebalance it so that you can’t get a large boost from a Snail at the other end of the track (with the largest boost coming from slipstreaming someone directly in front of you).
ais523:
Note to resolving admin: looks like I took about 10 minutes writing this one, so the entry date is around 10 minutes too early.