not sure this meshes well with how the decrement action works

True, just realized this makes it look like every Decrement would in effect be a top-right removal. Adjusted to keep (0,0) as the smallest position while still knocking off players on the left and bottom when necessary.

This still doesn’t really work, because it only moves players. So if decrement moves the top row, it won’t change players positions and thus they would for all intents and purposes move which cell them are on

Would it not? Remove top, coordinates stay the same, and the top row players are bumped down in the second paragraph. Same with right, as this bases it off the unchanged lower left. The shifts are needed for the other two positions as they change where (0,0) is. Each direction seems symmetric now. Not entirely sure who “they” is referring to.

oh. missed the paragraph cause stuff doesn’t get appended to the end of a paragraph unless explicitly stated so. but that just means you’ve got a problem if someone’s cell is say (0, 5) and you can’t reduce the 0 so now you can’t reduce the grid.

anyways, even if fixed i’m still not a huge fan of the idea in general so

Because I’m unsure what “the sum of the absolute value of the difference” means. What are you summing?

It might be better to just define a players’ Position simply being a cell on the grid instead of a coordinate pair, because the wiki page is merely a representation of the gamestate so that gives us freedom to track players positions in a way that is least confusing and has the least room for error while still being accurate. You would then only have to account for what happens to someone’s position when they cell they are on gets removed.

@SupernovaStarbright “the sum of the absolute value of the difference between their first coordinates and the sum of the absolute value of the difference between their second coordinates” ostensibly means means

( |x2 - x1| ) + ( |y2 - y1| )

…but there is an extra “the sum of” in there that makes it not make sense.