Friday, September 08, 2023

Proposal: The ₩1m Question

Enacted 5-0. Josh

Adminned at 11 Sep 2023 15:40:59 UTC

Add a new subrule to the rule Form Sheet, called Blogbots:

* Potential Participants: The Dark Lord, Hard Hat, CarolAIna Reaper, B.A.D., Credit Score: F, Bad Door, The Killing Joke, Ducktank
* Required Participants: 2
* Potential Outcomes: X Participant Wins, X Participant Wins in Sudden Death, All Participants Trashed
* Public Quality: Scores for Chassis, Melee and Ranged, each of which must be between 1 and 6; a special weapon, which may be one of Flipper, Taser, Ram, or blank, initially being set to to blank.
* Private Quality: A Botscript, made up of six orders, each of which must be one of: “move forward one space”, “use melee weapon”, “use ranged weapon”, or “use special weapon”.
* Resolution Method: The Sporting Event takes place on a linear track of 19 spaces, numbers from 1 on the left to 19 on the right. One Participant is allocated the 4 space (the ‘left bot’), the other is allocated the 16 space (the ‘right bot’). The Bookie then resolves the Sporting Event as follows: they put into effect the BotScript of each Participant, starting with the first line of the BotScript of the left bot, continuing to the first line of the right bot, then moving to the second line of the Botscript of the left bot, and carrying on in that fashion, looping back to the first line of the respective BotScripts after the sixth. If at any point a Participant has a Chassis of 0, that Bot is Trashed; if one Participant in a Blogbots Sporting Event is not Trashed then they have won.

The effects of different BotScript lines are as follows:

{| class="wikitable"
|+ BotScript
|-
! Command !! Effect
|-
| Move forward one space || The acting Participant moves one space towards the other Participant. If this would move them into the same space as the other Participant, it instead does not, and takes Scratch Damage (0 chassis damage by default).
|-
| Use melee weapon || If the acting Participant is within three spaces of the other Participant, the other Participant takes 1 Chassis damage; otherwise nothing happens.
|-
| Use ranged weapon || If the acting Participant is between five and eight spaces of the other Participant, the other Participant takes 1 Chassis damage; otherwise nothing happens.
|-
| Use special weapon || If the acting Participant has a value of 'blank' for Special Weapon, nothing happens; otherwise a status is set to the other Participant, as follows:
* Flipper: Flipped: A Participant with Flipped has a 25% chance of each of its BotScript lines having no effect.
* Taser: Shocked: A Participant with Shocked has their BotScript replaced with a random BotScript.
* Ram: Dented: A Participant with Dented takes 1 Chassis Damage whenever they received Scratch Damage.
|}

* Meddling (Funding): The named Participant gains a random Special Weapon.
* Meddling (House Bots): All Participants in the next Bout have a 10% chance of taking 1 Chassis damage every time one of their BotScript lines is resolved.

Comments

Kevan: City he/him

09-09-2023 10:26:59 UTC

imperial

Lulu: she/her

09-09-2023 18:07:09 UTC

for

JonathanDark: he/him

09-09-2023 18:07:11 UTC

for

Darknight: he/him

10-09-2023 10:04:55 UTC

for