Monday, August 27, 2012

Proposal: Sometimes I’ve Got to Run Away

Quorums 5-0. — Quirck

Adminned at 29 Aug 2012 03:23:16 UTC

Add “Far Away” to the list of valid Locations in the rule “Locations”.

Replace the last paragraph of the rule “Locations” with the following:

A Baker with at least one Warp pie may spend a Warp pie (i.e., reduce their number of Warp pies by exactly one) to take one of the following actions:

Change their current Location to any other valid Location, provided neither the starting nor ending location is Far Away
Change their Location from Foyer to Far Away
Change their Location from Far Away to Foyer

Only one of the above actions may be chosen per Warp Pie spent, and the action chosen may be executed only once per Warp Pie spent.

This gives us a pseudo-“hideout” location that is a little harder to get to, plus lends a little “geography” to the Locations.  Not prohibitively far away by any means, but that’s intentional.  This also gives non-new Bakers some reason to hang out in the Foyer, as it is a hub of sorts.

posted by GreyWithAnE at 27 Aug 2012 22:49:15 UTC Comments (7)

Comments

Clucky: he/him

28-08-2012 00:08:55 UTC

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Though I think it would be even better if it took like, two pies to get ‘far away’ so its even harder to reach you. you could even add some defense mechanic where you can go to “N Far Away” by spending N pies.

GreyWithAnE:

28-08-2012 02:37:38 UTC

Definitely good thoughts, Mr. Simon.  I thought about complicating it further, but I’ve decided to work a little more incrementally going forward.  If we want “Farther Away,” I’m sure we’ll make it happen eventually =).

quirck: he/him

28-08-2012 10:13:39 UTC

imperial
btw, “spend” is defined in the glossary

Spice:

28-08-2012 17:47:48 UTC

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If we were to extend it as Clucky suggested, would movement through the N’s be bi-directional, or only getting farther away?

GreyWithAnE:

28-08-2012 17:56:26 UTC

Bi-directional, I would think, although in practice I don’t think bi- versus uni-directional would make much of a difference.

The other question would be: if we implement “N Far Away,” should it be reachable by Portal Pies?

Spice:

28-08-2012 21:27:01 UTC

If two people were at 7 and 8, it would make a huge difference.

My thought for implementation is to add “Far Away” as a location, and add a GNDT column to track each person’s N. If someone’s location is Far Away, they can then spend warp pies to change their N.

Bucky:

29-08-2012 02:06:33 UTC

imperial