Proposal: Trophies
Timed out, 2-1. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 04 Aug 2024 17:16:52 UTC
Create a subrule of “The Big One” entitled “Trophies” that contains the following text:
Each Fishing Contestant has a number of Trophies, which is a publicly tracked integer that defaults to zero. If a Fishing Contestant submits a string as part of a Fish Identification that exactly matches the Big One, then as an atomic action the Elder Judge should take the following steps:
* Increase that Fishing Contestant’s Trophies by 1.
* Change the Fish Function
* Change the Big One and update the Length of the Big One
* Clear the list of Found Fish
* Make a Story Post on the blog announcing that a Trophy has been claimed.
This atomic action should take place before any other Fish Identifications are resolved.
In the rule “The Big One”, replace
how many consecutive characters of the string (starting from the beginning) exactly match the corresponding characters in the Big One.
with
whether the string comes before or after the Big One in dictionary order.
With the implication that Trophies should be connected in some way to the eventual victory condition.
SingularByte: he/him
The main thing I’d say we need to be aware of here is that currently the Big One is very hard to actually score. If we have this, we’ll need some way to get more information about it.
e.g. brute forcing it will take on average 13 attempts per letter