Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Proposal: Teamwork

Cannot be enacted w/o CoV, 1-10 -Darth

Adminned at 13 Jan 2011 08:10:41 UTC

In the rule “Trails” replace

Each trail entry must detail a Name, Type, Size and a Distance from the colony

with

Each trail entry must detail a Name, Type, Size, a Distance, and a list of ants currently following the trail from the colony

A ant on the list of ants currently following the trail is said to be following the trail. An ant may only follow one trail at any one time. If an
ant stops following a trail, their name is removed from the list of ants currently following the trail.


In the rule Carrying, replace

As a daily action, an Ant who is above ground may Follow a Trail by spending food equal to that Trail’s Distance. An Ant who Follows a Plant trail may reduce its Size by one to start carrying a Leaf or a Twig. An Ant who Follows a Filling Trail may reduce its Size by one to start carrying a Crumb. An Ant who Follows a Tasty Trail may reduce its Size by 1 to start carrying Sugar, and/or reduce its Size by 1 to increase their Food to 5.

with

As a daily action, an Ant who is above ground and not following a trail may Follow a Trail by spending food equal to that Trail’s Distance. The ant then adds his name to the list of following ants for that trail.

An ant may only follow a plant trail if number of ants currently following the trail is fewer than the size of the trail. If the number of ants currently following a plant trail is equal to the size of the trail, any ant following that trail may cause each ant following that trail to start carrying a leaf or a crumb and reduce the size of the trail to zero.

An Ant who is following a filling trail may reduce its Size by one to start carrying a Crumb and stop following the trail.

An Ant who is following a tasty trail may stop following the trail and reduce the trail’s size by 1 to start carrying Sugar, and/or stop following the trail and reduce the trail’s size by 1 to increase their Food to 5 (note that a trail’s size is not allowed to go negative in this manner)

An ant may stop following a trail at any time.

Want to get the ball rolling on some teamwork here.

Comments

Winner:

12-01-2011 22:19:53 UTC

for

Bucky:

12-01-2011 23:02:30 UTC

imperial

Klisz:

12-01-2011 23:16:04 UTC

imperial

Roujo: he/him

12-01-2011 23:19:23 UTC

I’ll wait for further analysis before voting, since I’m on the fence about this. =P

Winner:

12-01-2011 23:47:37 UTC

imperial CoV

William:

13-01-2011 00:33:11 UTC

against seems like excessive wiki maintenance for something which, so far, seems pretty ephemeral. Maybe that’s just that I’m green - I’ll reconsider if someone can give me a good reason this shouldn’t just be tracked in the gndt.

I also don’t like that the only way one can get anything from a plant trail is to have it fill up with ants, and that ‘any ant’ (probably only ever the last ant) once the trail is full can make all other ants following the trail start carrying things.

You’ve also removed the twig from trails, so there would be currently no reason not to give every ant in a plant trail food when you trigger it, which seems counter-intuitive to me.

Darknight: he/him

13-01-2011 03:11:42 UTC

imperial

Purplebeard:

13-01-2011 08:48:35 UTC

against per William.

Maybe it would work better if there were special trails created by the Sandbox Master that require a certain amount of ants to follow and return a specific resource, like a raid of a rival colony for eggs, or a tasty caterpillar that needs to be overwhelmed and killed before it can be harvested.

Josh: Observer he/they

13-01-2011 08:57:24 UTC

against I’m also not keen on the passive voice - “their name is removed from the list of ants currently following the trail” - who does this?

Ely:

13-01-2011 09:05:34 UTC

I really don’t know, I’d prefer easy peasy rules, anyway it looks quite interesting. So…
imperial

Kevan: he/him

13-01-2011 09:17:42 UTC

against Might be easier just to use the Location field to track each ant’s currently-followed trail.

Winner:

13-01-2011 13:07:35 UTC

against per Kevan, CoV

Roujo: he/him

13-01-2011 14:20:13 UTC

against Per you guys up there with the AGAINST votes